Officials from the U.S. Air Force and Space Force are scheduled to deliver keynote addresses at GovCon Wire’s Space Acquisition Forum on Jan. 19 to give their perspectives on the importance of technology investments for the military to maintain dominance in the space domain. Brig. Gen. Steve Whitney One of the speakers is Brig. Gen....
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a one-year, $492.7 million contract modification to provide logistics support for F-35 aircraft systems that have been delivered to U.S. military and foreign military sales customers. The award to Lockheed’s aeronautics segment covers work to operate and maintain an automatic logistics information syste...
President Joe Biden on Monday signed into law a $770 billion defense policy bill for fiscal year 2022, Reuters reported. The FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act reflects a 5 percent increase from the previous fiscal year’s defense policy measure and includes a 2.7 percent pay raise for service members and more naval ship and...
Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $211.2 million contract modification to obtain ancillary mission equipment for lots 15 and 16 of the F-35 aircraft. The award expands the scope of F-35 equipping support for the U.S. Air Force, non-Department of Defense entities and foreign military sales customers, DOD said Wednesd...
Peraton has received a potential five-year, $120.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to conduct research and develop prototypes of spacecraft electronics and airborne electronic systems. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract has a base value of $23.5 million and contract work will occur in Washington, D.C., through Dec. 16, 2026, the Department of Defe...
Arlington, Virginia-based nonprofit organization CNA has received a potential 10-year, $1.22 billion contract to run a federally funded research and development center that will focus on conducting key issues that affect the Department of the Navy and other defense agencies. CNA will support operates at the Navy Studies and Analysis FFRDC under the ...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $397.9 million sole-source contract to move into the second phase of an airborne warning and control system aircraft modernization program for Saudi Arabia’s air force. The company will provide production, training, installation and checkout services to ensure interoperability of the Saudi E-3 AWACS fleet with ...
President Joe Biden intends to nominate Frank Calvelli, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), to be assistant secretary of the Air Force for space acquisition. Calvelli has 34 years of intelligence community experience that includes service at the National Reconnaissance Office, the White House said Wednesday. He worked as NRO&...
Sigma Defense Systems has won a five-year, $250 million contract from the General Services Administration to help the Department of Defense process and distribute sensor data across site-level installations. The company said Thursday it will assist DOD in efforts to install data centers and ground entry points and gateways used to collect data from ...
An ASRC Federal subsidiary has won a potential nine-year, $225.5 million contract to perform mission assurance support work for a U.S. Space Force program that provides full launch service capability to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. ASRC Federal Space & Defense will help the military branch engineer, integrate, verify and...
