Amentum has secured a potential eight-year, $818 million contract to modernize and maintain F-16 fighter jets used in U.S. Navy air combat training. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award includes work to help the branch’s Viper Maintenance Group expand the adversary training fleet, the company said Wednesday. “Navy F-16 Vipers pl...
HII’s (NYSE: HII) Mission Technologies division will provide emerging intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies for the National Security Innovation Network and its mission partners under a potential five-year, $1.4 billion task order awarded under the General Services Administration’s ASTRO contract vehicle. The Joint Network E...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) will provide updated seeker, navigation and GPS receiver technologies to the U.S. Navy for integration into Tomahawk missile systems under two contract modifications and a task order worth $165.4 million combined. The Navy allocated $124.3 million to buy 42 Maritime Strike Tomahawk Seeker suites for low-rate production three of the s...
T-Rex Solutions has acquired Cyber Cloud Technologies for an undisclosed sum to broaden its presence within the Intelligence Community and expand its information technology service offerings for customers in the national security market. Cyber Cloud Technologies has been providing cybersecurity, cloud and other enterprise IT services for federal gov...
Anthony Robbins, vice president of NVIDIA’s federal business, accepted his sixth Wash100 prize from Jim Garrettson, CEO and founder of Executive Mosaic and the award itself, in a convivial meeting at NVIDIA’s Herndon, Virginia office in July. The Wash100 Award is determined by EM’s discerning voting committee on an annual b...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a pair of contract modifications worth $1.06 billion combined from the U.S. Army to produce air-to-ground and guided air-and-missile defense systems. The Bethesda, Maryland-headquartered defense contractor will manufacture and deliver Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missiles under a $556.1 million contract modif...
Archer Aviation (NYSE: ACHR) will build and deliver electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to the U.S. Air Force under new contracts worth $142 million combined, expanding a partnership that started through the AFWERX technology program in 2021. The contracts mark the execution phase for the delivery of up to six Archer-built Midnight eVTOL ...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has officially added a business segment upon the completion of the Melbourne, Florida-based aerospace and defense contractor’s $4.7 billion cash purchase of propulsion system builder Aerojet Rocketdyne. Both parties first announced the $58-a-share deal in December 2022, with the acquirer aiming to grow its bus...
The board of directors of Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) has approved a plan to buy back another $400 million in shares through Dec. 31, 2025. Iridium said Thursday the plan marks its third and largest stock buyback authorization and increases the satellite communications company’s total repurchase program to $1 billion, the company sai...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) posted $9.6 billion in sales for the second quarter of 2023, up 9 percent from the prior-year period’s figure of $8.8 billion, and ended the quarter with a total backlog of $78.8 billion. The Falls Church, Virginia-based aerospace and defense contractor said Thursday its Q2 2023 net awards totaled $10.9 billion...
