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The shipbuilding business under ST Engineering‘s VT Systems subsidiary won a potential $1.94B contract to design and build up to three heavy polar icebreakers for the U.S. Coast Guard. Pascagoula, Miss.-based VT Halter Marine will perform detail design and construction of the lead Polar Security Cutter through the fixed-price incentive-firm contract, …

The Professional Services Council has urged Congress to work on a bipartisan spending measure that will raise budget caps for fiscal years 2020 and 2021. “Such an agreement is PSC’s top priority as it is essential to timely FY20 appropriations, to full funding for all federal agencies, and to avoiding the …

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented David Drabkin, chairman of the Section 809 Panel, with his first Wash100 Award on Tuesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Drabkin for his role in the realignment of the Department of Defense’s acquisition process in 2018. We are ecstatic to present the most …

The U.S. Army has awarded other transaction agreements to five contractors to provide initial designs of the service’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft platform, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Boeing (NYSE: BA), Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, AVX Aircraft, Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary and Karem Aircraft were selected out …

Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) reported $133.7M in total revenue for the first quarter of 2019, up 12 percent from the same period last year. The company said Tuesday the total number of billable subscribers rose to 1.15M in Q1 2019, showing a year-over-year growth of 16 percent associated with the …

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) received a $117.1M delivery order modification to provide F-35 air vehicle spares to the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps. The company will deliver a deployment and afloat spares package and related consumables as part of the modification awarded by Naval Air Systems Command, the …

The Air Force Materiel Command has awarded five companies spots on five-year, $95M contract to provide a range of support services at Robins AF Base in Georgia. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform mechanical and electrical maintenance, construction and repair alteration work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department …

Jim Walker, federal chief technology officer and director of public sector marketing at UiPath, has said government agencies could use robotic process automation as an initial platform to begin investing in artificial intelligence to advance their digital transformation initiatives. Walker wrote that RPA could help agencies improve the delivery of …

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) secured a potential three-year, $362.7M contract to deliver M270A0, M270A1 and M270A2 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems to the U.S. Army. The company will also provide M270A2 flyaway package, production line spares and authorized stockage list kits as well as production line restart and proposal costs, the …

A report by McAleese & Associates says Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, is set to host Friday, April 26, an “open door” with industry on new contractor business models. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote …