The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics segment a $584.8 million contract modification to fund system integration engineering activities related to new F-35 electronic warfare and countermeasure equipment. The award will support development work on the ASQ-239 electronic warfare suite for U.S. military customers and...
Six small businesses have won spots on a five-year, $499 million contract to support construction projects within Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command‘s Hawaii area of responsibility. NAVFAC received 14 proposals for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive bidding process on SAM.gov and wi...
Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) has agreed to acquire Planetary Systems Corp. in a cash-and-stock transaction to further build up its space systems business and end-to-end offerings across launch and space hardware markets. Rocket Lab said Monday it agreed to pay $42 million in cash and 1,720,841 in shares of common stock to buy PSC...
Lew Messing, vice president of programs at Science Applications International Corp., will lead a panel discussion at a Nov. 17 virtual event about information technology modernization efforts within the defense and intelligence sectors. In his current capacity, Messing supports U.S. intelligence community customers such as the Office of the Director...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) and Serco’s U.S. subsidiary have secured separate contracts to provide engineering support, test, product development and ship and systems integration services for the U.S. Navy’s Program Executive Office, Integrated Warfare Systems. SAIC will deliver services to PEO IWS 1.0 and 9.0 under a p...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has awarded five companies spots on a potential $8 billion contract to support military construction projects under the U.S. Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program. NAVFAC Pacific received six proposals for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and is ...
Lisa Starkweather, formerly the director of programs at Cyber Defense Technologies, has joined Virginia-based security consulting firm Avint as chief operating officer. She will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Avint’s business that aims to help federal customers secure cyber and physical systems, the company said Wednesday. Sta...
Eight small businesses have won positions on a $249 million contract to support construction projects within the eastern portion of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southeast area of operations. NAVFAC received 30 proposals via a competitive bidding process for the mutliple-award design-build/design-bid-build services contract and expect...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 9, 2021 — ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) seeks to broaden its digital engineering offerings with the $350 million acquisition of Gryphon Technologies, a Washington, D.C.-based systems engineering firm that provides a range of services to defense customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 1. “This acquisition maps dir...
Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has secured a $225 million sole-source contract to perform research, development and engineering work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. APL will receive task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help DARPA turn scientific and technical theori...
