The U.S. Air Force has awarded 92 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $900 million contract to come up with innovative approaches to advance the development of multidomain systems. The Air Force Life Cycle Management at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is the contracting activity and received 94 proposals for the indefinite-delivery/i...
The State Department has approved Poland’s request to buy from the U.S. government M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks, other vehicles and related equipment through a potential $3.75 billion foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday there will be 12 prime contractors on the proposed FMS transaction, which inc...
A new McAleese & Associates report shows defense prime contractors recorded a 3 percent increase in sales during the third quarter of 2022 and sector operating margin of 11 percent. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, offered an analysis of the Q3 financial performance of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT...
General Electric (NYSE: GE), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Textron (NYSE: TXT) and Veritas Capital are among the companies that have expressed interest in acquiring Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD), which has an estimated market valuation of $4 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday. Citing unnamed sources, Reuters noted the El Segundo, California-...
The U.S. Navy has awarded approximately $385.3 million in two indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for engineering and logistics services in support of KC-130J aerial refueling aircraft systems. Rolls-Royce will sustain and support the tanker’s propulsion system under a $228.1 million firm-fixed-price contract while General Electr...
Matt Veldhuis, a 22-year veteran of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has joined Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) as director of business development within the intelligence and space unit. He will oversee requirements and capabilities related to space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance in his new position, according to a LinkedIn post publis...
Chris Montferret, a more than two-decade veteran at General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) mission systems business, was elevated to the role of vice president of strategy and business development for the maritime and strategic systems unit. In a LinkedIn post, he announced his executive move within General Dynamics Mission Systems and welcomed the oppo...
Jon Rucker, formerly a senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has been appointed president and CEO of Ultra‘s intelligence and communications business unit. He will take over from Dan Verwiel, who has served as acting CEO of Ultra Intelligence & Communications since September and will return t...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) other transaction prototype agreement modifications to continue the development and refinement of the companies’ respective concepts of the Glide Phase Interceptor. Both contractors will work to polish their prototypes for the â€...
The State Department has cleared a potential $700 million sale of up to 72 modernized Patriot missile systems and associated equipment to the Swiss government. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed foreign military sales agreement that will include trainers, skid kits, canister consumables, launcher stati...
