SpaceX and United Launch Alliance secured six new assignments each under a follow-on U.S. Space Force procurement vehicles for national security space launch services. Space Systems Command said Thursday that SpaceX will launch five missions for the Space Development Agency’s missile warning and tracking constellation and one classified USSF m...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has received a $29 million contract to design an overhead persistent infrared sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning satellite network. The company will conduct an initial one-year OPIR sensor payload design for the first increment of Space Systems Command’s medium-Earth orbit c...
Red 6 has raised $70 million in a Series B funding round meant to help the augmented reality startup to continue investing in its proprietary technology for a combat pilot training system. RedBird Capital Partners led the financing round, in which Lockheed Martin‘s venture capital arm and Boeing‘s investment partnership with A...
A new McAleese & Associates report estimates most defense prime contractors recorded a 3 percent growth in sales during the first quarter of 2023, indicating that labor availability is improving and supply chain deliveries are starting to stabilize. Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a three-time Wash100 winner, offered an an...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a $200 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead items and related services needed to maintain the timeline for F/A-18E/F full-rate production efforts. Naval Air Systems Command will use the branch’s fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement funds to cover the full obligated amount, according to ...
Thirty-seven vendors have won spots on a potential 10-year, $32.5 billion multiple-award contract for the design, development, production and sustainment of training systems. The Training Systems Acquisition IV indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers analysis, installation, integration and testing support for aircrew, maintenance and...
Blue Origin has received a potential $3.4 billion contract from NASA to develop a human landing system for the Artemis V lunar mission. The company said Friday it will work with Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Boeing (NYSE: BA), Astrobotic, Draper and Honeybee Robotics to design, develop, test and demonstrate its Blue Moon lander under the...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will help the U.S. Air Force manage landing gear spares for the C-17 Globemaster military transport aircraft under a $216 million contract modification. The award, part of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, involves foreign military sales to seven countries and the NATO Airlift Management Program Office, according...
The State Department has approved Germany’s request to buy heavy-lift cargo helicopters, manufactured by Boeing (NYSE: BA), from the U.S. government through a potential $8.5 billion government-to-government transaction. Germany is seeking to acquire 60 CH-47F Chinooks, 140 T55-GA-714A engines, 72 common missile warning systems and 284 secure r...
A partnership between Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary booked a three-year, $482.3 million contract modification to manufacture additional CMV-22B Osprey aircraft for the U.S. Navy. The fixed-price-incentive award expands the scope of Bell Boeing Joint Project Office’s existing contract to supply four more unit...
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