Austal USA, Epsilon Systems Solutions and Continental Maritime of San Diego have secured positions on a 19-month, $344.7 million contract to sustain littoral combat ships for the U.S. Navy. The three shipyard operators will compete for delivery orders to perform sustainment work on LCS vessels homeported in San Diego, the Department of Defense said ...
The U.S. Navy has selected nine companies for a potential eight-year, $249.7 million contract to design, produce, install and test unmanned hardware and software platforms. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide the military branch a range of technical support services for unmanned waterborne and underwater mine countermeasures systems,...
A Bloomberg Government report says the federal government’s total contract spending reached $682 billion in fiscal year 2020, a 14 percent increase from FY 2019 spending of $599 billion. BGOV said Thursday FY 2020 marks the fifth consecutive year of increase in contract spending and federal agencies primarily used $1.6 trillion in enacted FY 2020...
Andy Green, executive vice president and president of Technical Solutions at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), was presented his third Wash100 Award by Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the Wash100 Award, during a recent visit to HII headquarters. For his 2021 Wash100 Award win, Green was recognized by Executive Mosaic for hi...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has received a potential $2.42 billion contract modification from the U.S. Navy to build one Block V Virginia-class submarine equipped with Virginia Payload Module. Electric Boat will continue to work with Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ (NYSE: HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division on th...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 11 companies positions on a potential six-year, $778.9 million contract to provide engineering and technical services in support of the modernization of the service’s hull, mechanical and electrical systems. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division received 11 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delive...
A new McAleese & Associates report noted the fourth quarter 2020 financial performance of large prime defense contractors Boeing (NYSE: BA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT). Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX). Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese &am...
Five former government officials with military and intelligence leadership experience have joined the 2021 class of advisory board members at Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial analytics company HawkEye 360. HawkEye 360 said Tuesday its newly appointed advisers are Kevin Chilton, a retired U.S. Air Force general; Scott Swift, a retired U.S. Navy adm...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 11 companies positions on a potential five-year, $249.7 million contract to provide technical services in support of the service branch’s cybersecurity operations, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems and ISR activities. The Department of Defense said Thursday the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific ...
The U.S. Army has issued three firm-fixed-price contracts worth $570 million combined for dry-dock and fleet maintenance services at designated locations in support of the military branch’s watercraft vessels. Fourteen companies landed spots on a $235 million contract for fleet modifications, on-condition routine maintenance, repairs and dry-dock ...
