Inside GovCon: Weekly Highlights ( OCT 17, 2025 - OCT 23, 2025)
NAVAL RESEARCH LAB SEEKS CONTRACTORS FOR SATELLITE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND DEVSECOPS
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October 23, 2025
SIX COMPANIES WIN $800M BPA TO MODERNIZE FEDERAL VETTING SYSTEM (NBIS)
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) awarded a $800 million BPA to six firms (including IBM and Booz Allen Hamilton) for software engineering to modernize the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS), the federal government's unified personnel vetting IT system.
NAVAL RESEARCH LAB SEEKS CONTRACTORS FOR SATELLITE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND DEVSECOPS
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) released an RFP seeking contractors to provide research and development and operations support for custom satellite mission software systems, including DevSecOps activities at NRL and the Blossom Point Tracking Facility (BPTF), with no single order exceeding $250 million.
USAF/SPACE FORCE RELEASES DRAFT RFP FOR "ANDROMEDA" SPACE DOMAIN AWARENESS CONTRACT
The U.S. Air Force (managed by Space Force's Space Systems Command) released a draft RFP for the multi-award "Andromeda" IDIQ, intending to select 5 to 15 contractors to design and build technologies for space domain awareness. Individual task or delivery orders under the contract may reach up to $999.9 million.
NAVY AWARDS LOCKHEED MARTIN $233M FOR FULLRATE PRODUCTION OF ADVANCED IRST21 BLOCK II SENSORS
Lockheed Martin secured a $233 million firm-fixed-price contract to start full-rate production of the IRST21 Block II, an advanced infrared sensor used by the Navy and Air National Guard to passively detect distant airborne threats.
OPM RELAUNCHES PLAN TO UNIFY 119 FEDERAL HR SYSTEMS INTO A SINGLE GOVERNMENTWIDE PLATFORM
The OPM released an RFP detailing a plan to centralize 119 distinct federal HR systems into a single, pan-government core human capital management (HCM) system, targeting full implementation for 2 million users by July 4, 2027.
DLA AWARDS SRI INTERNATIONAL $98.6M FOR MICROCIRCUIT EMULATION TO SUSTAIN DEFENSE SYSTEMS
SRI International secured a nearly $98.6 million Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) contract for the Advanced Microcircuit Emulation (AME) program, which researches and develops replacements for microcircuits no longer commercially available, supporting over 560 weapons systems.