Rolls-Royce has won a potential 17-year, $2.6 billion contract to provide replacement engines for the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) B-52H Stratofortress bombers. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received four bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which has a base period of six years worth appr...
Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has won a $237.4 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop launcher and interceptor prototypes for a ground-based weapon system intended to engage aerial threats such as subsonic cruise missiles and unmanned aircraft systems. Huntsville, Alabama-based Dynetics will provide 16 launchers and 60 inter...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business has received a $1.1 billion contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command to carry out lot 15 production of F-35 jets. This award calls for the company to deliver six units of the fifth-generation aircraft to the U.S. Marine Corps and another 10 to the U.S. Air Force, the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 27, 2021 — A Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) executive vice president has highlighted the need for the Department of Defense to have a unified, open network capable of providing the military with capabilities to enable data access, sharing and analysis and facilitate the battlefield decision-making process, ExecutiveBiz re...
Sierra Nevada Corp. has secured a $183 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command to produce an aircraft computer interface designed to enable communications between multiple contrasting systems. The company will engineer and integrate tactical mission systems in an effort to help special forces implement the system-of-systems interface, ...
OneWeb has finalized its purchase of TrustComm in a transaction that will make the latter a wholly owned subsidiary focused on delivering managed satellite communications services to government customers. The subsidiary will operate as OneWeb Technologies led by former TrustComm CEO Bob Roe and will provide satellite connectivity to the Five ...
The U.S. Navy reawarded five positions on a $151 million contract for the life cycle support of information technology systems at Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command. AttainX, Chitra Productions, SV Synergies, OSCTech and Stellar Innovations and Solutions now hold spots on the 66-month indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract after ...
Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected 10 companies to support general construction projects at two U.S. Marine Corps installations in North Carolina under a five-year, $249 million contract. Contractors can compete for task orders to design, build, renovate, modify and repair facilities at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marin...
Peraton, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, has purchased ViON’s as-a-service cloud business for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its information technology offerings and deliver greater network, storage and computing capacity to government customers. Peraton said Wednesday it will add cleared personnel, key leaders and contrac...
Accenture Federal Services conducted a global survey, capturing insights from over 6,000 businesses and executives to identify the recent emerging industry-leading trends in the federal technology sector as a result of the unprecedented challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as well the future implications for government agencies. The abrupt ons...
