A new McAleese & Associates report says Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) saw its sales rise 22 percent to $8.2B in the first quarter of 2019 and recorded a sector operating profit growth of 27 percent. Jim McAleese, founder and principal of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote the Falls Church, Va.-based def...
The General Services Administration issued Friday a request for proposals for a potential 10-year, $8B contract to provide an enterprise cloud computing service for the Department of Defense, Nextgov reported Tuesday. The Defense Enterprise Office Solutions contract seeks cloud-based applications and services designed to provide communication, ...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a $419M contract modification to produce AIM-9X Sidewinder all up rounds for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force as well as 24 countries under the foreign military sales program. The modification exercises an option under a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm contract and covers lot 19 production of Block II ...
The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a five-year, $200.2M contract to supply M982A1 Excalibur Ib containerized shells that are designed to engage land targets in a combat environment. Army Contracting Command received one bid for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The service b...
La™Naia Jones, deputy chief information officer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will be featured as the keynote speaker during the Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Cybersecurity Summit on May 8th. You can register for the event right here. At the event GovCon leaders from the public and private sector will discuss cybe...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) received a potential two-year, $132.3M contract to help integrate counter-missile systems onto aircraft for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army as well as the governments of Norway and U.K. under the foreign military sales program. The undefinitized contract action covers the procurement of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure...
Four companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $124.5M contract to provide close air support to the specialized and proven aircraft program office within Naval Air Systems Command. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide and operate geographically distributed regional aviation training platforms to support air operations, the De...
Assured Information Security has won a potential seven-year, $93.6M contract to develop software baselines for the U.S. Air Force’s Virtualized Intelligence Platform Engineering and Research program. AIS will help the Air Force Research Laboratory prototype, integrate, test, demonstrate, update, deploy and sustain VIPER tools as part of the in...
Gulf Island Shipyards has been awarded $128.5M in contract options to build two towing, salvage and rescue ships for the U.S. Navy. Naval Sea Systems Command will use fiscal 2016, 2018 and 2019 shipbuilding funds to cover the full obligated amount for the shipbuilding projects, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The company aims to...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential 10-year, $5.70B contract to help the U.S. Air Force address combat capability requirements for the KC-46 Pegasus tanker. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers a range of post-production air vehicle requirements directed by KC-46 operators and mandated by the Federal Aviation Administra...
