https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x26hXsWp3uc Sixty years ago today, on October 4, 1957, there was a beeping sound “heard” round the world. It came while the United States and Soviet Union were caught in the fervor of the Cold War, but also at a time when people believed that American ingenuity and industry could overcome any technical cha...
The State Department has given Australia the green light to buy small diameter bombs, military equipment and related services from the U.S. government under a potential $815 million foreign military sales agreement. Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) is listed as the principal contractor in the FMS transaction that covers GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bo...
Metal Shark has won a potential $90 million contract to build up to 50 next-generation patrol boats for the U.S. Navy. The Navy initially ordered 11 PB(X) vessels along with with trailers, spares, training packages and technical support services, Metal Shark said Monday. The company aims to construct a welded-aluminum pilothouse ...
Enlightenment Capital has invested in CyberCore Technologies in an effort to help the Elkridge, Maryland-based information communication technology platforms and services contractor execute its growth strategy to pursue new opportunities and broaden its capabilities. Tina Kuhn, CyberCore president and CEO, said in a statement published Wednesday the...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has been awarded a $91.5 million contract modification to continue to provide management and technical support services for the U.S. Army‘s high-performance computing platforms and services. SAIC is scheduled to finish work under the modification Oct. 18, 2018, the Defense Departm...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential seven-year, $450 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to apply an integrated engineering change proposal to the Small Diameter Bomb II weapon. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract covers design, development, integration, test and production engineering to modify the ...
A joint venture led by AECOM (NYSE: ACM) has received a three-year, $928 million contract extension from the Energy Department to oversee the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. Nuclear Waste Partnership will continue to operate and manage the WIPP underground repository built to dispose of transuranic radioactive waste materia...
Ten companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $644.1 million contract to provide non-complex emergent and continuous maintenance services for U.S. Navy surface combatant and amphibious ships that are visiting or stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. The Navy received 13 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefi...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 25, 2017 ” Vencore will provide continued data integration, data repository and technical support services to the General Services Administration‘s Public Buildings Service under a potential $5 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The company said Thursday the follow-on contract exte...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $341.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering, planning yard, design agent and technical support for the service branch’s nuclear submarines. The cost-plus-fixed-fee modification awarded to General Dynamics Electric Boat se...
