A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $429.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to maintain and modernize its Black Hawk multirole helicopters. Sikorsky will conduct maintenance and overhaul work in support of the service branch’s UH-60 Black Hawk utility aircraft through June 28, 2027, the Department of ...
Primus Aerospace, an aerospace and defense components manufacturer backed by Angeles Equity Partners, has acquired fabricated metal parts supplier Raloid in a push to enter the tier 1 business segment of the defense industry. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed and Angeles Equity said Tuesday the acquired small business will ...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential five-year, $4.4 billion contract from the U.S. Army to manufacture and deliver up to 255 H-60M Black Hawk helicopters to the service branch and foreign military sales customers. The agreement has a base value of $2.3 billion for 120 combat assault utility helicopters and an...
Thomas Bonina, a senior vice president at Koniag Government Services, has elevated to the role of president of health information technology operating group at the Chantilly, Virginia-based federal tech services contractor, GovCon Wire has learned. In this capacity, he oversees a team of health IT professionals focused on delivering services to the ...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received contract modifications worth at least $41 million each from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor designs for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA exercised options on other transaction agreements awarded in Nove...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Westinghouse and IX are set to receive 12-month, $5 million contracts from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to develop conceptual designs of a 40-kilowatt class fission power system for a NASA-funded lunar technology demonstration initiative. NASA said Tuesday it will collect data from industry ...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) stands at the helm of America’s science and technology efforts related to air and space. Launched in October 1958, the federal agency oversees the country’s space explorations and aeronautics research endeavors. To maintain America’s edge in space and aeronautics technologies, NASA teams...
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said the military service predicts its next manned fighter platform and associated systems to be ready by the end of the decade, The Drive reported Wednesday. Kendall, a three-time Wash100 Award winner, told an audience at a recent Heritage Foundation event that engineering and manufacturing development efforts are ...
Space Systems Command has issued five launch service task orders to United Launch Alliance and another three to SpaceX under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 contract that the U.S. Space Force awarded in August 2020. ULA, a joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), will use its Vulcan Centaur...
The State Department has approved the request of the Australian government to procure high mobility artillery rocket systems and related launcher equipment for approximately $385 million under the Foreign Military Sales program. The potential transaction includes 20 M142 HIMARS, 30 M30A2 guided multiple launch rocket systems, 10 M57 Army tactical mi...
