Japan plans to purchase over 20 additional Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35A fighter jets from the U.S. in the next six years, Reuters reported Tuesday. Sources said the East Asian country may directly procure F-35A conventional takeoff and landing variant from the U.S. for approximately $100 million each through a transaction that could ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies separate contracts to provide a conceptual design of the service™s future guided missile frigate. The Naval Sea Systems Command received six proposals for the firm-fixed-price contracts as part of the FFG(X) ship program, the Defense Department said Friday. NAVSEA selected Austal‘s U.S. subsid...
Weekly Roundup February 12 – February 16, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes The Current Top 5 GovCon Executives of Consequence Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO We™re three weeks into the 5th annual Wash100 season and the voting turn out has been fantastic! The popular vote will be...
The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for proposals for the second phase of a program that seeks to procure 22 GPS III satellites. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the service will award a fixed-price-incentive contract to build the GPS III space vehicles and expects production work to begin in fiscal year 2019....
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $126.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long lead materials for the low-rate initial production of seven CH-53K King Stallion helicopters. Sikorsky will procure the items needed to manufacture the third batch of CH-53K aircraft through the...
Weekly Roundup February 5 – February 9, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes Government Executives Outpace GovCon Counterparts In Wash100 Popular Vote Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO The Wash100 voting has been open for a little over two weeks now, and the preliminary results of the popular vote are sh...
Bill Clark, chief operating officer of Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) Insitu subsidiary, has been appointed as interim CEO of the unmanned aircraft system maker, Hood River News reported Tuesday. The report said Clark succeeds Ryan Hartman, who stepped down as Insitu CEO on Feb. 1 due to “personal reasons.” As COO, Clark oversees the pro...
Karen Shields, formerly vice president of health sector at Serco Inc., has been promoted to VP of health services business unit at the British contractor™s North American arm. Shields will directly report to Chairman and CEO Dave Dacquino and oversee the development and operations of the company™s business with the Department of Healt...
Weekly Roundup January 26 – February 2, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes The GovCon “Popular Vote” is Rocked Craig Abod, Paul Smith, Stu Shea, Bill Rowan, & Larry Prior Among Early Leaders Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO Last week, Executive Mosaic announced its 5th annual list of ...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has signed a deal with Boston Properties to transfer its headquarters to a new office building in Reston Town Center in Virginia as part of plans to consolidate operations from two buildings into one facility. Leidos said Tuesday construction work on the new HQ will start by spring of 2018 and that...
