Bruce Jette, acquisition executive at the U.S. Army and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said companies that previously submitted bids for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program have expressed plans to compete again after the service restructured the acquisition strategy for the OMFV competition, Inside Defense reported Thursday....
BAE Systems Inc. has secured a potential five-year, $188.2M contract to help a U.S. Navy organization engineer, integrate and test certain systems aboard surface combatant ships. The company said Monday it will support the service branch's Aegis Technical Representative organization in engineering, integration and test work on weapons an...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary a potential $500M contract to continue low-rate initial production of new combat rescue helicopters....
Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, will step down from her role in March to join Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) commercial practice, Federal News Network reported Friday....
Leonardo DRS has won a potential $808M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency Land to supply U.S. military branches with a set of electronic devices that can link combat ground vehicles with command, control, communications, computer, combat, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems....
The Department of Defense plans to spend approximately $10.28B over four years to procure the B-21 Raider stealth bomber from Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), Bloomberg Government reported Monday....
The U.S. Army has asked companies to provide input on what requirements the service branch should incorporate into a new acquisition strategy to replace its Bradley ground combat vehicle platform. A market survey posted Friday on the beta SAM website asks industry to recommend technical requirements, evaluation criteria, timelines and other contract...
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems, Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) and General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary a one-year, $275.1M contract modification to continue maintaining surface combatant ships homeported in San Diego....
The U.S. Army plans to revise the requirements and launch another solicitation for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program, the service reported Thursday....
The U.S. Army has informed the National Advanced Mobility Consortium that it will award other transaction agreements to QinetiQ North America and Textron (NYSE: TXT) to build two variants of a robotic combat vehicle. The military service said Thursday it expects to finalize the OTAs in mid-February to procure four light RCV units from QinetiQ NA a...
