Engineering Research and Consulting will provide the U.S. Army with services in support of its Redstone Test Center under a $90.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. ERC was tasked to perform work at the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama-based center through April 19, 2023, the Department of Defense said Monday. RTC serves as an Army Test and Evaluation C...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a $40.6 million order to conduct a full-scale fatigue test and an effect-of-defect evaluation on the U.S. Navy’s Triton MQ-4C unmanned aircraft system. The company will additionally help the service branch examine system fatigue and damage tolerance of the autonomously operated system through post-test...
A joint venture between Strategic Alliance Business Group and BCF Solutions has won a five-year, $203.9 million contract to support the life cycle management of Missile Defense Agency facilities. The award to Strategic Alliance Solutions JV covers facility maintenance and repair oversight, real property alteration, building operations planning, spac...
Vangarde has won a $45.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide a range of information technology support services to the U.S. Air Force. The company will administer systems, engineer desktops, manage content and configuration and develop software under the IDIQ award, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Work also c...
BlueHalo has received a potential 10-year, $80 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to build a virtual range meant to support modeling and simulation activities involving directed energy weapons. AFRL said Thursday it will use the virtual range to hold directed energy concept events to train joint warfighters with DEWs, address ca...
New Hampshire-based weapons maker Sig Sauer has won a five-year, $157.3 million contract to produce Norma Magnum rifle cartridges for the U.S. Army. The service branch ordered .300 M1163 ball ammunition and .338 M1162 armor piercing rounds, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Army Contracting Command received three bids for the firm-fixed-price...
Peraton’s Perspecta Enterprise Services subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $562.9 million task order to provide digital and multimedia forensics, cyber analytics, technical platforms development and vulnerability sharing support for the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center. The General Services Administration’s Federal Systems In...
Independent proxy advisory firms Glass Lewis & Co. and Institutional Shareholder Services recommended in their respective reports that shareholders of Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) vote in favor of all proposals related to the planned combination with Vertex during a special meeting to be held on June 15. Chuck Prow, CEO of Vectrus and an eight-time Wash1...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary will supply tritonal bomb components to the U.S. Army under a $133.2 million contract. The service branch is procuring MK-80 series general purpose bombs from General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. GD-OTS manufactures bomb bodies in sizes of 500, 1000 and 200...
The U.S. Air Force is increasingly focused on surmounting big data issues as the service pursues enterprise modernization and data-driven decision making capabilities. Problems like lack of ownership over telemetry data, an inability to easily develop software using data and widespread compartmentalization are inhibiting the Air Force from being abl...
