BAE Systems and Leonardo-Finmeccanica have entered into an estimated $664 million arrangement to provide avionics support for the U.K.’s Typhoon fleet. Leonardo-Finmeccanica said Wednesday its airborne and space systems segment will work with BAE under the Joint Avionics Solution agreement to support Typhoon’s avionic...
July 11 – July 15 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson   One of the world’s two largest airplane manufacturers is mulling acquisitions in the defense services arena that would continue a trend among prime contractors toward capability-based dea...
Linda Miller, formerly assistant director of forensic audits and investigative service at the Government Accountability Office, has been named a director at Grant Thornton‘s public sector fraud risk assessment practice. She will work with government clients that aim to assess the risk of fraud in their organizations&nb...
The U.S. Navy has released a request for proposals on a potential five-year contract for information technology support services. The Naval Supply Systems Command said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will be a set-aside program for service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses and that it...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index held positive throughout Wednesday trade as U.S. stocks traded in narrow range on a fall in crude oil prices with second quarter earnings season on the horizon. The GovCon Index gained 0.229 points to a new record of 81.751 with eight of the GCI’s 11 S&P 500 stocks in green as the U...
BAE Systems will sign a potential 10-year, $2.8 billion agreement with the U.K.’s ministry of defense to support the country’s Typhoon fleet in partnership with the U.K. air force and Leonardo-Finmeccanica. BAE Systems said Tuesday the formal Typhoon Total Availability Enterprise agreement will establish a single prog...
Information Innovators Inc. has secured a potential five-year, $100 million contract from the Food and Drug Administration to provide web content management system support services. Triple-i said Tuesday the new blanket purchase agreement seeks to expand the services the company provided under a previous contract, ...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has received a potential $169.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to produce Hydra-70 unguided rocket systems for seven U.S. allies under the foreign military sales program. The Defense Department said Monday the company will supply Hydra rockets with various war...
AECOM (NYSE:ACM) has been awarded a five-year, $100 million contract to provide program and construction management services for a number of projects at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport that include work on federally- and non-federally-funded airfield and landside sites. The company said Monday that it will support&nbs...
The U.K. government and Boeing (NYSE:BA) have announced a set of defense-related pacts that cover sales of maritime patrol aircraft and attack helicopters to the country’s military, added research-and-development spending and initiatives to create new aerospace jobs in Britain. In a series of statements Monday, the U.K.’s defen...
