Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) and Raytheon (NYSE:RTN) have been awarded contract modifications worth a combined $649.7 million to continue to build Paveway II laser-guided bombs for the U.S. Air Force. The modifications extend the work’s performance period for five years through July 27, 2023, the Defense Depart...
TYSONS CORNER, VA May 3, 2016 — Ross Wilkers, lead journalist for GovCon Wire and online editor for Executive Mosaic media properties, was interviewed for a radio segment scheduled to air Sunday morning on first quarter earnings reports from U.S. defense contractors and Wall Street’s current perceptions of the sector. Was...
Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has won a potential 10-year, $130 million contract to provide instrumentation test services for the test diagnostics branch under the Defense Threat Reduction Agency™s research and development office. DTRA received two proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that contains a base te...
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a potential $235.4 million contract to Millennium Engineering and Integration to provide advisory and technical assistance services throughout the Ballistic Missile Defense System‘s testing life cycle. Millennium will help the agency to implement, sustain and assess BMDS test plans, procedures a...
The Naval Supply Systems Command has issued a solicitation for a potential five-year, $993.5 million contract to continue to provide wireless telecommunications services to the Defense Department, Department of the Navy, Air Force, Army and other federal agencies. NAVSUP said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday the indefin...
An L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) division has landed a seven-year, $200 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to offer warfighter readiness and training research. L-3 Link Simulation and Training will research, develop, evaluate and validate training approaches, methods, tools and infrastructure, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Ai...
Harris (NYSE: HRS) subsidiary Exelis has received two contract modifications with a combined value of $73.5 million from the U.S. Air Force to provide system engineering and sustainment support for two radar systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the first modification requires mission assurance and other services for the&...
Six companies listed in Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index plus another large non-GCI government contractor reported their latest quarterly earnings statements before U.S. financial markets opened Wednesday. Of those seven total, six posted results for the first quarter of their respective fiscal years that run on a calendar basis, with one fo...
The U.S. Navy has awarded an Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) business unit a $121.4 million contract modification to exercise an option to convert AGM-88B High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles into 145 Lot 5 full-rate production, anti-radiation guided missile all-up-rounds. Orbital ATK’s defense electronic systems unit will also provid...
A Textron (NYSE: TXT) business unit has been awarded a $116.5 million contract to update a tactical unmanned aircraft system the U.S. Army operates for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions and to relay communications. Textron™s unmanned systems business will work to update 24 of the&nbs...
