The State Department has given Australia the green light to buy small diameter bombs, military equipment and related services from the U.S. government under a potential $815 million foreign military sales agreement. Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) is listed as the principal contractor in the FMS transaction that covers GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 29, 2017 ” Chris Long, vice president of the national security systems unit at Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA), has urged the U.S. Air Force to expand space training programs to include combat skills in order to mitigate potential future threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 21. Defense Systems reported Sept. 20 that Lo...
An industry team led by Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a potential eight-year, $237 million to help the U.S. Army‘s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center develop a combat vehicle experimental prototype. SAIC will lead the group consisting of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), ...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential seven-year, $450 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to apply an integrated engineering change proposal to the Small Diameter Bomb II weapon. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract covers design, development, integration, test and production engineering to modify the ...
BAE Systems‘ information and electronic systems integration unit has received a $64.5 million contract to design, develop, manufacture and sustain an armament tester system for the U.S. Air Force‘s bomber aircraft fleet. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contractor will support the engineering and manufacturing developm...
Ten companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $644.1 million contract to provide non-complex emergent and continuous maintenance services for U.S. Navy surface combatant and amphibious ships that are visiting or stationed in Norfolk, Virginia. The Navy received 13 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefi...
The future USS Little Rock™s (LCS 9) Builder™s Trials were completed in Lake Michigan on Aug. 17. The sea trials tested the ship’s performance under a variety of conditions, including situations not likely to occur during the ship™s service life....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 11, 2017 ” A Cubic (NYSE: CUB) business unit will establish three mobile combat training centers for an Asia-Pacific customer nation under a potential $25 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Wednesday its global defense unit will deliver laser-based simulation equipment, vehicles, we...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 1, 2017 ” DLT Solutions has teamed with DataRobot to deliver a big data and analytics platform to the federal marketplace in support of government data science and machine learning efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The DLT AnalyticsStack technology utilizes DataRobot’s machine learning automation ...
The future USS Little Rock™s (LCS 9) acceptance trials were completed in Marinette, Wisconsin, Aug. 25. The five-day, U.S. Navy-led trials featured a comprehensive array of tests designed to demonstrate performance of the ship™s propulsion plant, handling and auxiliary systems. Completion of the trials marks the last major milestone before...
