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TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 3, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has added Frank Kendall, former undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics at the Defense Department, to the company’s board of directors where he will contribute to corporate management, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Chairman and CEO Roger Krone, an inductee ...

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential $5.2 billion contract to build H-60 Black Hawk helicopters for the U.S. Army and foreign military sales customers. The contract has an initial value of $3.8 billion and covers the production of 257 units of the UH-60M utility and HH-60M medical evacuation variants, ...

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has won a spot on a potential seven-year, $409 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support a U.S. Air Force program that seeks to research and develop thermal, power and control technologies for air platforms. The Defense Department said Friday the Next Generation Thermal, Power, and Cont...

United Technologies Corp.˜s (NYSE: UTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has received a three-year, $339.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide initial spares for the F-35 propulsion system. The Defense Department said Friday Pratt & Whitney will supply initial spare modules, parts and engines in support of th...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a potential four-year, $93 million contract to help the U.S. Marine Corps develop and maintain software for a command and control personal computer system. The company will also provide software development and maintenance support for a tactical service oriented architecture under the indefinite-deliver...

The House Armed Services Committee voted down an amendment that would have halted the creation of a U.S. Space Corps and instead moved forward with the provision as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which passed late Wednesday night. The provision creates a separate military branch for space operations. The U.S. Air Force...

United Launch Alliance has won a potential $191.1 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force send into orbit a new satellite designed for space test missions. The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-Boeing (NYSE: BA) joint venture will produce a launch vehicle and support mission integration, spaceflight worthiness and launch operations of the Sp...

The State Department has approved Taiwan™s request to buy missiles, torpedoes and related components as well as operations and maintenance support for the East Asian state™s surveillance radar program under seven foreign military agreements worth approximately $1.36 billion combined. Taiwan requested to purchase follow-on sustainment servi...

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $179 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to provide hardware and support for large aircraft infrared countermeasures systems, or LAIRCM. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will perform work under the modification in Rolling Meadows, Illinois through April 30, 2...