Germany is set to initiate a foreign military sales process with the U.S. government to buy five Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) maritime surveillance planes for approximately $1.3 billion. The German defense ministry said Thursday it chose the P-8A Poseidon aircraft platform to address a capability gap that arose following the completion of its P-3C Orion ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 2, 2021 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) received a potential five-year contract to engineer and provide technical support for NATO’s Patriot surface-to-air missile defense system, ExecutiveBiz reported June 22. Byron Bright, president of KBR’s government solutions business and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said the company ...
Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, received his 2021 Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), from Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson on Monday. With this year’s honor, Krone has received his eighth consecutive Wash100 Award, the most in the award’s highly prestigious history. As the only GovCon exe...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won Switzerland’s fighter aircraft competition to provide the F-35 platform along with training and sustainment support services to the Swiss air force. The Bethesda, Maryland-based contractor said Wednesday that Swiss companies can take part in research, development, manufacturing and maintenance efforts associ...
Technical Resources International has won a potential 10-year, $173.2 million contract from the National Institutes of Health for sponsor and regulatory management services in support of the Center for Cancer Research within the National Cancer Institute, and CCR investigators. According to an award notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov, TRI will perform...
David Streett, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Valkyrie Enterprises, has been promoted to the roles of president and COO at the Virginia Beach, Virginia-based military support contractor. Valkyrie credited Streett with helping integrate four acquired businesses into the company and grow its workforce to more than 700 employee...
Amentum has secured a potential 10-year, $952.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Army for the provision of operation and maintenance services in support of Hawthorne Army Depot in western Nevada. According to a SAM.gov notice posted Monday, Army Contracting Command-Rock Island awarded the contract, which include...
The State Department has approved the Philippines’ request to buy 14 Boeing-made (NYSE: BA) Harpoon Block II missiles from the U.S. under a potential $120 million foreign military sales agreement. The Philippines asked to procure 12 AGM-84L-1 air-launched missiles, two ATM-84L-1 exercise missiles, containers, parts and training equipment as th...
Twelve companies have won spots on a potential seven-year, $68 million contract to help the U.S. Navy engineer networks and systems that support net-centric military operations. Contractors will compete for task orders to perform engineering and technical work on the service branch’s afloat, ashore and airborne networks through the multip...
Patrick Markus, a more than two-decade government contracting industry veteran, has been appointed general manager of BlueHalo’s cyber and intelligence business sector. In his new capacity, Markus will lead strategic efforts intended to drive the sector’s growth, BlueHalo said Thursday. He previously served as a vice president at Dovel Techn...
