The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Parker Hannifin Corp. a potential 10-year, $444.4 million contract to help maintain actuators for five military aircraft platforms currently in service with the U.S. Air Force. Parker will support motion hardware used on the service branch’s A-10, E-3, F-15, F-16 and KC-135 fleets, the Department of Def...
A BAE Systems division has won a potential $12 billion contract to integrate and engineer intercontinental ballistic missiles for the U.S. Air Force. The company’s technology solutions and services unit will continue to serve as the lead systems integrator and provide professional services for the ICBM program at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, t...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has received a three-year, $55.9 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army for the procurement of armored heavy platform vehicles. The Department of Defense said Friday the Armored Ground Mobility System acquisition contract requires General Dynamics Land Systems to perform work in ...
U.S. Transportation Command has awarded contract modifications to FedEx (NYSE: FDX), United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS) and Polar Air Cargo Worldwide to provide domestic and international small package delivery services. The Department of Defense said Friday the command’s directorate of acquisition at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois expects work t...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have received contract modifications worth at least $41 million each from the Missile Defense Agency to further develop their Glide Phase Interceptor designs for MDA’s regional hypersonic missile defense program. MDA exercised options on other transaction agreements awarded in Nove...
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $581.6 million contract to engineer legacy and modernized Global Positioning System satellites operating in orbit. Lockheed will collect data, resolve anomalies and perform cybersecurity work to support the Block IIR, IIRM, III and IIIF variants of the GPS constellation, the Department o...
The U.S. Navy has released a solicitation for a follow-on effort to an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract for its combat instrumentation platforms used at training and test and evaluation ranges. According to a SAM.gov notice, Naval Air Warfare Center is seeking proposals to support and sustain the said equipment under t...
The U.S. Navy has selected Communications & Power Industries and Stellant Systems to repair crossed-field amplifiers for the AEGIS Combat System under a five-year, $90.8 million contract. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will involve fixing double-duty, water-cooled vane and single-duty CFA electron tubes, the...
The Department of Defense has released a document providing a roadmap on how DOD will advance the responsible use of artificial intelligence. The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Implementation Pathway lists proposed actions to promote responsible AI use across the department based on six foundational tenets: RAI governance; warfight...
James Myers, a retired U.S. Army colonel, has joined Applied Research Associates as vice president of program innovation and growth. In this capacity, he will seek defense-related opportunities and programs to enable ARA to deliver novel platforms for national security applications, the company said Tuesday. Myers “is the right person at the right...
