Cubic Defense Applications (NYSE: CUB) has won a five-year $49 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity U.S. Army contract to provide repairs and engineering support for an airborne surveillance and control data link. The data link relays data and communications for Joint STARS, a Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) built battle management, intel...
Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) board of directors appointed former Continental Airlines CEO Lark Kellner as a new director of the board, where he will serve on the audit and finance committees. Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE: CSC) appointed Alan Weakley president of its North American public sector defense group, where he will lead strategic direction, pl...
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) may have made the biggest splashes in the acquisition market in August, announcing upcoming $12.5 billion and $11.7 billion cash purchases of Motorola Mobility and Autonomy Corp., respectively. But, government contractors were very active as well, making and announcing a steady clip of purcha...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) a $9, 340, 141 firm-fixed-price delivery order for organizational level peculiar support equipment. The company will support emerging F/A-18E/F aircraft squadron stand-ups for VFA-25, VFA-146, VFA-192, and VFA-151. Contract funds in the amount of $9, 340, 141 will expire at the end of the current fisc...
Pall (NYSE:PLL) secured an order from the Army to provide its Centrisep engine advanced protection system for 59 Boeing (NYSE: BA) CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The order carries a value of $14 million. “Pall’s filtration technology has been an integral part of the helicopter fleet for the U.S. Army as well as our allies using this...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary Argon ST, along with partner Atair, secured a $45 million ID/IQ to cover the Joint Precision Air Drop System Ultra Light Weight project from the Marine Corps System Command. JPADS-ULW is an aircraft-deployed steerable canopy system that is able to handle cargo loads of 250 to 699 pounds of rigged weight....
Following the Air Force’s decision to issue the $35 billion KC-X tanker deal to Boeing (NYSE: BA), EADS North America officials expressed disappointment over the outcome. “This is certainly a disappointing turn of events, and we look forward to discussing with the Air Force how it arrived at this conclusion, ” sEADS North America Chairman...
ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) was awarded the Space Communications Network Services (SCNS) contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center worth a maximum $1.26 billion. ITT previously won the contract in 2008, 2009 and earlier this year, but the deal had been protested by incumbent Honeywell (NYSE: HON). The firm will work to support NASA space...
According to the Department of Defense, Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) is being awarded a $9, 013, 296 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic order agreement (N00019-05-G-0008) for the procurement of a recurring effort to retrofit 26 operational test program sets (OTPS) and 33 electro-optical sensor unit shop repairable assembly ...
The treacherous economy that slowed down activity in the government contracting marketplace is now apparently swinging back. According to the Washington Post, firm and analysts are seeing the increase as the light at the end of the unstable-capital-market-in-government-contracting tunnel. Companies like CACI International and Boeing are enjoying acq...
