Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential five-year, $88.4M contract to update the sensors of the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 fighter jets and EA-18G electronic attack planes. The company will incorporate tactical features into the aircraft sensor system and investigate hardware and software anomalies under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-...
Three small businesses have won cost-plus-fixed fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contracts to update hull, mechanical and electrical systems of the U.S. Navy’s active and reserve fleet. The military service awarded $57.3M to Amee Bay, $63.8M to Aviation Maritime Support Services and another $63.8 to Thermcor for...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 11, 2019 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will supply a digital video surveillance system for the U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyers under a potential $33M contract in support of the service’s DDG modernization effort, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Department of Defense said Thursday the Naval Surfa...
Reginald Brothers, an executive vice president and chief technology officer of Peraton, said during a Government Matters interview aired Thursday that the pace of technology suggests that the Department of Defense needs more research-and-development funding in order to remain competitive. œThe challenge now is how fast technology is changi...
Three companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $40M contract to design and engineer various marine platforms for the U.S. Navy. The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility received five offers for the multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract via a competitive a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 8, 2019 ” A PAE business unit will provide contractor instruction, training, maintenance and operations support for the cargo offload, discharge and lighterage systems of the U.S. Navy under a potential $23M contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The Department of Defense said Wednesday PAE Aviation and Techn...
Scott Briggs, who worked at ViON as director of business development from 2011 to 2017, has returned to the company as director of Department of Defense and Intelligence Community sales. The three-decade U.S. Navy veteran will work with DoD and IC customers to determine their technology requirements for the military and information te...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a four-year, $406.3M contract to provide hardware components and support services for a radio system used to facilitate communications on U.S. Army aviation platforms. Work covers repair, logistical, engineering and technical support for the Army’s AN/ARC-231 Multiple-Mode Aviation Radio Suite, the De...
An Oshkosh Corp. (NYSE: OSK) subsidiary has received four contracts worth $232.7M combined from the U.S. Army to provide recapitalized Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks, Palletized Load System trucks and new PLS trailers. Oshkosh Defense will aim to deliver the HEMTTs between July and November of next year, the Department of Def...
The U.S. Navy has exercised the third option period on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with BAE Systems, General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) to maintain the military branch’s amphibious ships. Each contractor will have the chance to vie for complex, emergent and continuous ...
