Good morning. Here's your federal-contracting briefing for July 21, 2026 — 7 new items from across the market.

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DOJ Marshals Service Awards $24 Million IT Security Contract to WOSB-Certified Saliense Consulting
The U.S. Marshals Service has obligated $24,006,240 to Saliense Consulting LLC, a woman-owned small business, for IT security support services. The time-and-materials task order was awarded through full and open competition against a GSA Federal Acquisition Service schedule contract.

VA Awards $31 Million SDVOSB Set-Aside Contract to Renovate Fayetteville Hospital Sterile Processing
The Department of Veterans Affairs has obligated $30,995,241 to Blue Cord Design and Construction, LLC to renovate Sterile Processing Services at its Fayetteville, Arkansas facility. The firm-fixed-price contract was set aside for service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses and drew a single offer.

Forest Service Awards 10 Tanker Air Carrier $33.2 Million Firefighting Task Order
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service has obligated $33,191,884 to 10 Tanker Air Carrier, LLC for exclusive-use airtanker services under its wildfire aviation program. The firm-fixed-price task order was competed among five offerors.

NASA Awards Caltech $85.3 Million for GRACE-FO Follow-On Mission Work at JPL
NASA has obligated $85,316,136 to the California Institute of Technology under a sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract supporting the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment-Follow On (GRACE-FO) mission. The award is managed through Caltech's operation of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

KBR's $1.06 Billion NASA Mission Operations Contract Ends July 31 as Ascend JV Takes Over Under COSMOS
KBR Wyle Services' Mission Systems Operations Contract at NASA's Johnson Space Center, which has obligated $1.06 billion since 2017, reaches its period-of-performance end date on July 31, 2026, following a GAO-upheld recompete loss to the Ascend joint venture of Amentum and Aerodyne Industries.

Northrop Grumman's NASA NextSTEP Habitation Contract Tops $1.61 Billion in Cumulative Obligations
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation's NASA NextSTEP contract has obligated a cumulative $1.61 billion since 2015, USAspending.gov records show, funding Cygnus-derived exploration habitation concepts under an award that remains active through 2029.

Leidos Biomedical Research's NIH Cancer Lab Contract Has Obligated $4.81 Billion Since 2008
USAspending.gov records show Leidos Biomedical Research Inc.'s non-competed NIH contract to run the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research has obligated a cumulative $4.81 billion since 2008. The lab's operation is also the subject of a still-unresolved recompete fight.

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