BAE Systems has obtained Defense Department approval for a transponder intended to help the military identify both allies and enemies during combat operations. The AN/DPX-7 Identification Friend or Foe system weighs half the existing identification friend or foe system and enables pilots to track, plan and dispatch flights, BAE said Thursday. With this... 

The U.S. Navy has selected 30 companies to compete for task orders to provide logistics support services to the Marine Corps under contracts potentially worth $854,625,075 combined. Task orders for the initial base year are worth up to $170,925,015 combined for work through May 2014 and options would continue services through May 2018 or until the value... 

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received approval from the Defense Acquisition Board to enter full-rate production of the company’s Standard Missile-6 for the U.S. Navy. This step comes three months after the company delivered the first SM-6 from its production facility at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., Raytheon said Tuesday. Raytheon also assembles... 

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has directed the Pentagon to hold a full and open competitionWith respect to a contract action, "full and open" competition means that all responsible sources are permitted to compete. for the core architecture in its electronic health records system, Federal News Radio reports. Michael O’Connell writes Hagel sent a... 

Three companies have won positions on a potential $99 million contract to design and install hardware and software for the U.S. Navy‘s anti-terrorism force protection programs. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform work during the one-year base period and two option years if they are exercised, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Sixteen... 

Bechtel‘s plant machinery division has won a $296,442,784 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 CO, directing that the contractor to make a change authorized byBudget Year the "changes"... 

Dave Tarbell Dave Tarbell, a former defense deputy under secretary for technology security policy, has joined EADS North America as chief compliance officer and vice president of trade and security. The 20-year Defense Department veteran will oversee the company’s trade and security compliance functions including ethics, EADS North America said... 

Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates, recently caught up with Executive Mosaic, parent company of the Potomac Officers Club (P.O.C) and publisher of GovCon Wire, to provide some detailed insight and perspective into the 2013 sequester. McAleese will be speaking on May 14 at the P.O.C’s Post-Sequestration Summit with... 

Ron Mason Ron Mason, a former program executive officer for the U.S. Air Force, joined ASRC Federal as senior vice president for the C4ISR solutions group (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance). The former Senior Executive Service official will be responsible for developing business strategies and... 

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a $7 million delivery order to update electronic attack systems used on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of EA-16G Growler jets, built byBudget Year Boeing (NYSE: BA). The order is a ceiling-priced award under a basic ordering agreement, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur in Elkridge, Md. through May...