BAE Systems Inc., the British defense contractor’s U.S. subsidiary, has sold its San Francisco Ship Repair business to Tacoma, Washington-based ship repair services provider Puglia Engineering for an undisclosed sum. œWe believe this divestiture is in the best interests of the San Francisco shipyard employees and both compa...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has been awarded a $450 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to continue integration work on the F-35A air system for South Korea as part of a foreign military sales deal. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification also covers non-recurring engineering services and falls under...
Leonardo, then Finmeccanica, has purchased the remaining 60 percent of shares in Pisa, Italy-based Sistemi Dinamici from systems engineering firm IDS for an undisclosed sum in a strategy to expand Leonardo™s portfolio of unmanned systems. The transaction includes the acquisition of Sistemi™s SD-150 Hero unmanned helicop...
The U.S. Air Force has launched a full and open competition on the development of a new Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System to support airborne battle management command-and-control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations of joint and coalition forces. A request for proposal document for the JSTARS Recap...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 27, 2016 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) will host a three-day program on space exploration in an effort to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics to high school students, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. Higher Orbits’s Go For Launch! event will will be held at Orbital ATK’s Dulles headquarters ...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded 142 companies positions on a potential eight-year, $6 billion contract to compete for a range of information technology task orders in support of DLA and other Defense Department agencies. DLA awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive procurement process and will ...
Our Roundup of 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Calendar year 2016 in the government contracting sector seemed to constantly give us a changing landscape to evaluate and try to forecast the short- and long-term effects of each significant development. Of course, 20...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 21, 2016 ” BAE Systems‘ U.S. arm will help engineer and install new submarine weapon systems under a potential five-year, $368 million U.S. Navy contract awarded in October, GovCon Executive reported Thursday. The contract will also involve information technology support, engineering services and test equipmen...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a potential $398.6 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide design agent engineering and technical services for the military branch’s close-in weapon and anti-ship missile defense systems. Work covers support for Phalanx Close-in Weapon System, SeaRAM and Land-based Phalan...
General Dynamics™ (NYSE: GD) Bath Iron Works subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $126 million contract extension from the U.S. Navy to continue to provide post-delivery modernization support for Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer ships. The contract contains a six-month option and will run through December 2017, General Dynam...
