A United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) business unit has secured a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion contract to provide aviation-related spare parts and services to all U.S. military branches. UTC Aerospace Systems will perform work at various facilities in nine states through April 30, 2028, the Defense Department said Wednesday...
The State Department has approved a potential $100 million foreign military sale of Kvichak-built fast patrol boats to Kuwait. Washington-based Kvichak is a subsidiary of Vigor Industrial and will serve as the prime contractor under the 15-boat FMS deal, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday. Kuwait also ordered 30...
The State Department has approved the Dutch government™s request to procure from the U.S. government equipment and services to support upgrades to AH-64D Block II Apache attack helicopters under a potential $1.2 billion foreign military sales agreement. Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will serve as principal con...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 20, 2018 ” Mitre has named five people from industry, academia and the public sector as fellows to help the nonprofit organization address challenges in the areas of national defense, cybersecurity and health, GovCon Executive reported Friday. The Visiting Fellows Program now includes Ashton Carter, board member of ...
General Dynamics˜ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has secured a potential $137.9 million contract to support a U.S. Navy research and development program aimed at formulating submarine concepts. Electric Boat will provide engineering and technical design services to the Navy and a foreign military sales customer under the cost-plu...
Knight Point Systems will continue to provide communication infrastructure services to the Defense Information Systems Agency under a potential 10-year, $902 million contract. The Communications Capacity Services II contract covers the provision of routers, monitoring equipment, appliances, switches, monitoring and reporting software and s...
Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has received a potential $1.43 billion contract modification to design and build the U.S. Navy‘s 13th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch will obligate $1.25 billion in fiscal 2017 shipbuilding and conversion funds at th...
The U.S. Navy has awarded five companies separate contracts to provide a conceptual design of the service™s future guided missile frigate. The Naval Sea Systems Command received six proposals for the firm-fixed-price contracts as part of the FFG(X) ship program, the Defense Department said Friday. NAVSEA selected Austal‘s U.S. subsid...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has secured a $148.9 million contract modification to supply parts for the U.S. Army‘s Stryker ground combat vehicles. The Defense Department said Friday that GDLS will perform work under the modified contract through Feb. 28, 2019. Stryker medium-weight vehicles...
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has named eight executives to the strategic government leadership team that will work to support federal agencies, educational institutions, national and regional public consortiums and defense companies. The company said Thursday the executives will directly report to David Young, regional vice president of strategic governm...
