Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won two contract options worth approximately $315 million combined to build two weather monitoring satellites for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Space News reports. John Leslie, an agency spokesman, told Space News the option for Geostationary-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite-T is worth... 

Wes Bush Northrop Grumman‘s (NYSE: NOC) board of directors has approved a plan to repurchase $4 billion of the company’s common stock with the goal of retiring nearly 25 percent of the company’s outstanding shares byBudget Year the end of 2015. Northrop has 235 million shares outstanding as of March 31 and will use available cash balances... 

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) has announced financial results for the first quarter of its 2014 fiscal year, reporting 10 percent higher revenue in its enterprise solutions group from the prior year period. Revenue for the quarter $3.1 billion and operating income increased 71 percent from the previous year’s quarter to $136 million. Services revenue grew... 

Jacobs Technology has won an $8,527,294 contract from the U.S. Air Force to help configure and manage data and integrate commercial offOffice Forms Facilitator-the-shelf technology, among other engineering and technology acquisition support services. The cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-reimbursable contract also includes a foreign military sales component... 

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has won a $27.5 million contract modificationTypes: Administrative Change : A unilateral contract change that does not affect the contractual rights of the parties. Change order: A written order, signed byBudget Year the COContracting Officer or Change Order, directing that the contractor to make a change authorized byBudget Year... 

John Hillen has stepped down as CEO of Sotera Defense Solutions after five years at the helm and will serve as vice chairman of the company’s advisory board. William Cave and Laurie Villano will serve as interim coContracting Officer or Change Order-chief executives and will continue to lead defense and intelligence solutions and cyber systems and... 

The Louis Berger Group has won a $100 million contract to design and engineer construction projects at embassies and consulate sites for the U.S. State Department. LBG signed the five-year task-order-based contract with the department’s bureau of overseas buildings operations in March, the company said Thursday. The company has worked with the bureau... 

DRS Technologies has won a potential $200 million contract to continue refurbishing and maintaining the U.S. Coast Guard‘s C-130 planes for at least one year. The contract includes four option years for maintenance, repair and overhaul services, DRS said Wednesday. DRS’ team has provided MRO services for the Coast Guard’s C-130 planes... 

A Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) subsidiary has won a $156.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop an agent that protects soldiers from different types of nerve gases, Nextgov reports. Bob Brewin writes DynPort Vaccine will seek Food and Drug Administration approval for the “Bioscavenger” nerve gas prophylaxis after developing... 

Science Application International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) has won a $380,962,639 contract modificationTypes: Administrative Change : A unilateral contract change that does not affect the contractual rights of the parties. Change order: A written order, signed byBudget Year the COContracting Officer or Change Order, directing that the contractor to make...