Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE: LLY) has received a pair of firm-fixed-price contracts worth $2.73 billion combined from the U.S. Army Contracting Command to produce monoclonal antibody drugs for COVID-19. The first contract, valued at $2.52 billion over nine months, covers the supply of coronavirus treatment that combines two neutralizing antibodies, LY-C...
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has received a $207.5 million contract to provide the U.S. Navy with a new boost guidance system that will be equipped into the service branch’s submarine-launched Trident II (D5) fleet ballistic missiles. The Department of Defense said Friday the cost-plus-incentive fee contract covers the Trident II (D5) Strat...
THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES View Weekly Contract Awards Transforming Perspecta Into a $7.1B Company; The Journey of Mac Curtis Perspecta announced in January that it will be acquired by Veritas Capital for $7.1 billion in cash, or $29.35 per share. Veritas Capital, which holds approximately 14.5 percent of Perspecta’s outstandi...
Carahsoft Technology has received a blanket purchase agreement under the Department of Defense’s Enterprise Software Initiative to provide government, defense and intelligence community customers with access to key software and information technology offerings. Carahsoft said Thursday the BPA comes as part of the company’s Federal Supply Sch...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a potential five-year, $146.3 million to help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain a relocatable over-the-horizon radar system that supports the U.S. government’s counter narco-terrorism operations. The company’s intelligence and space business will perform ROTHR operation and maintenance work ...
Cubic (NYSE: CUB) will design, develop and test training materials for the U.S. Navy’s Relevant Ready Learning program under a potential four-year, $92.4 million contract. The company will also help the service branch prepare course pilot and train-the-trainer programs as part of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Depart...
Seventeen companies have won one-year contracts from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide various fuel types at designated locations across the U.S. DLA’s energy division received 28 bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award through a competitive acquisition process and will obligate fiscal 2021 through 2022 defense working cap...
AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV) has acquired the intelligent systems group of Progeny Systems through a $30 million cash transaction as part of efforts to drive autonomy and artificial intelligence technology development work and expand robotic systems engineering support for defense and commercial clients. AeroVironment said Wednesday it will merge IS...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 25, 2021 — KBR (NYSE: KBR) has secured a five-year, $92.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy for engineering, integration and sustainment services to the service branch’s counter-unmanned air systems supporting homeland security and air defense missions, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 16. Byron Bright, president of K...
Rich Wilkinson, director of solutions engineering for Unanet and a GovCon Expert, has published his latest article as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Wednesday to present an inside look at the earned value management (EVM) approach to projects, how to apply it and the benefits it can bring to a government contracting b...
