The aviation unit of General Electric (NYSE: GE) has secured a potential five-year, $1.65 billion contract to repair, update or replace engine components for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 aircraft fleet. GE Aviation will support 17 F414 turbofan engine parts under the performance-based logistics contract from Naval Supply Systems Command, the Departm...
An MRM Construction Services and Sundt Construction joint venture, R.C. Construction, Southwest Concrete Paving, and Acme Construction Supply-RHB JV will compete for task orders under the U.S. Army’s airfield paving contract. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the firm-fixed-price contract for paving work is potentially worth $400 millio...
BlackSky Holdings, a Herndon, Virginia-based geospatial intelligence provider, has received an equity investment from Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) to enable it to meet the customers’ demand for global monitoring services and further expand its capabilities. BlackSky said Wednesday it will also broaden the delivery of deep analytics and high-...
Government Executive Media Group has acquired 1105 Media’s Public Sector 360 group for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of decision-support tools and insights to defense, federal, state and local government markets. Troy Schneider, general manager of Public Sector 360, will join GovExec as GM of government technology b...
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and three-time Wash100 winner, estimates 4 percent to 7 percent growth in overall second quarter sales among defense primes. His analysis of contractor Q2 results covered Boeing (NYSE: BA), BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII), L3Harris Technologies (NY...
David Joyce, an an aerospace industry veteran, has joined the board of directors of Boeing (NYSE: BA). Joyce will serve on aerospace safety and compensation committees as a member of Boeing’s board, the company said Tuesday. His four-decade career at General Electric (NYSE: GE) included time as vice chair, president and CEO of GE Aviation...
Analogic has secured a $198.4 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration for the procurement of mid-size computed tomography systems that the agency needs to increase aviation threat detection capabilities. According to a SAM notice posted Thursday, the firm-fixed-price order was awarded under a basic ordering agreement in supp...
An MWH Constructors business was awarded a potential $93.8 million contract for fabrication and installation of multiple enclosures at the U.S. Navy’s Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine. Under the firm-fixed-price contract, Methuen Construction will build the PNS Dry Dock Two complex that will have both permanent and relocatable enclo...
Kate Mercer, a vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton, will lead an expert panel to highlight the role of U.S. military branches and companies in efforts to make the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control vision a reality. Mercer oversees Booz Allen’s next-generation data services practice for worldwide defense and a...
Joseph Bryan, senior adviser for climate at the Department of Defense, and Ecological Futures Group founder Rod Schoonover will participate in Sept. 14 event hosted by the Potomac Officers Club to discuss climate change issues affecting national security initiatives. Bryan is a former senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center an...
