General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has secured an $82.4 million contract to convert the U.S. Army‘s M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks to the M1A2S configuration. The Defense Department said Friday contract work will occur in Lima, Ohio and in Sterling Heights, Michigan through March 29, 2019. The Army Contracti...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, and Rick Lober, a VP and general manager at Hughes Network Systems, were among the executive speakers at the Satellite Industry Association™s Defense Department Commercial SATCOM Workshop, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Cowen-...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 16, 2016 ” The U.K. air force has expressed plans to equip its General Atomics-built Certifiable Predator B unmanned aircraft systems with MBDA‘s Brimstone precision strike missiles, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. MBDA said Dec. 8 it will partner with the Defense Department, the U.K ministry of defense a...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential five-year, $459 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to begin full-rate production of cryptographic units designed to help the U.S. Air Force secure voice and data communications. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will build the devices in Indian...
A joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Bell Helicopter has received two contract modifications worth potentially $411.9 million combined to repair various parts of the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. The Bell Boeing Joint Program Office secured a $246.2 million delivery order modification that c...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has purchased a minority stake in San Diego-based semiconductor firm IQ-Analog for an undisclosed amount through the former™s venture capital arm, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Doug Cameron writes the move is part of Lockheed™s efforts to tap emerging technology firms as the Defense Depart...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business a $181.2 million contract modification to perform recurring logistics and sustainment work on F-35 fighter jets for U.S. and foreign military customers. The modification covers ground maintenance, action request resolution, depot activation, operations ...
Three companies have secured positions on a potential five-year, $99.5 million contract to help the U.S. Army load, assemble and pack 60- and 81-millimeter high-explosive mortar cartridges. American Ordnance, Day & Zimmermann and Canadian Commercial Corp. will perform services under the shared firm-fixed-price contract through&nbs...
M.C. Dean has secured a potential five-year, $163 million contract from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide integrated security services to the Pentagon Force Protection Agency. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers installation, maintenance and repair and support work on PFPA’s electronic ...
Ian Graham, formerly vice president for the federal division at information technology and services firm Qlarion, has joined Salient CRGT as VP for data analytics and business solutions. Graham will be responsible for the company™s efforts to grow its data analytics and big data portfolio as well as oversee data analytics consultant care a...
