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The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $150 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to seven small businesses for maintenance, repair, alteration and construction services at Little Rock AF Base in Arkansas.  Awardees can compete for task orders under the multiple-award contract to perform work on real property facilities through Nov...

Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business will continue to maintain military fighter aircraft engines for domestic and foreign military sales customers under a $447.6 million contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command. The Department of Defense said Tuesday that contract work involves recurring sustainment effor...

A By Light Professional IT Services subsidiary has won a potential eight-year, $957.74 million contract to help the U.S. Army develop and maintain a cyber training system. Cole Engineering Services Inc. will work to provide the Army a platform to train service personnel in cyber operations and provide “blue team” support under the firm-fixed-pri...

President Joe Biden has nominated William LaPlante, president and CEO of Draper Laboratory and a national security leader, to serve as undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense. LaPlante has nearly 40 years of experience in the defense industrial base, acquisition, technology and sustainment, the White House said Tu...

The U.S. Navy has awarded four five-year contracts worth $1.74 billion combined to procure maintenance, repair and modernization services for non-nuclear surface combatant and amphibious ships. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts covering lots 1 through 4 include scheduled docking and non-docking, continuous and eme...

Leaders from the Defense Information Systems Agency and the departments of the Navy and the Air Force are scheduled to discuss the military’s current technology acquisition environment at a Dec. 7 panel discussion hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire (GovCon Wire). Douglas Packard, director of DISA’s procur...

The Defense Logistics Agency has exercised an option period worth $149 million under its contract with the joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary for V-22 Osprey engineering and logistics services. Bell Boeing Joint Project Office will support the joint service tiltrotor aircraft platform for the U.S. Air ...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $124.9 million contract modification to produce 42 more Long Range Anti-Ship Missiles for the U.S. Air Force and Navy. The funds cover lot six production of LRASMs along with two dozen weapons datalinks, the Department of Defense said Monday. DOD pegged the contract’s cumulative face value at $549.7...

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has won a $99 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop capabilities for multi-spectral and multi-modal phenomenology modeling in support of the service branch’s munition research. The Weapon Engagement Simulation Technology for Advanced Research award is a five-year, indefinite-d...

Boeing (NYSE: BA) will provide six more MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters to U.S. Special Operations Command under a $212.6 million delivery order modification. The company will also provide eight spare shipsets to SOCOM for the remanufactured rotary-wing military aircraft, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. In a separate statement, Boeing ...