Ology Bioservices has secured a pair of contracts worth $135.4M combined from the Department of Defense to develop a medical countermeasure against biological threats and a technology platform for producing nucleic acids. The Alachua, Fla.-based biopharmaceutical company said Monday it will explore the use of monoclonal antibodies as a potential tre...
Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has secured a three-year, $201.9M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long lead parts and materials needed to produce lot 14 propulsion systems for the F-35 aircraft. The modification combines orders from the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department ...
The U.S. Army has selected four companies to compete for military logistics support task orders under a potential $82B contract vehicle over 10 years. Army Contracting Command received six bids for the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V through an online-based solicitation process, the Department of Defense said Friday. LOGCAP V has an initial o...
Hexagon has wrapped up its acquisition of Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, a Virginia-based provider of geospatial, mobile and cloud computing software platforms to government and commercial clients. Thermopylae will operate under the U.S. federal business within Hexagon’s geospatial division, the Sweden-based precision measuring technolog...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential 10-year, $14.31B contract to modernize weapons systems used on the U.S. Air Force’s B-1 Lancer and B-52 Stratofortress bomber platforms. The company will also modify, engineer, test and sustain the aircraft weapons in an effort to increase system lethality, responsiveness, supportabilit...
KBR™s (NYSE: KBR) government services arm has received two task orders worth $96.5M combined from the U.S. Air Force to provide technical support for the service™s F-35 program and other aircraft platforms. KBRwyle will provide the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center with research, product assistance, analysis, engineering, airworthines...
A spokeswoman for the Department of Defense said Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) are the last two contenders for DoD’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Elissa Smith, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, said Microsoft and Amazon were...
Elbit Systems of America (Nasdaq: ESLT) agreed to acquire the night vision business of Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) for approximately $350M. Harris said Friday the transaction is conditioned upon completion of its proposed merger with L3 Technologies (LLL) and customary closing conditions that include a receipt of all regulatory approvals. Stockholders ...
Applied Insight announced on Thursday that it is moving its headquarters from Ashburn, Va. to Tysons Corner, Va. and made changes to strengthen its leadership team. Mehdi Cherqaoui will serve as chief financial officer in a company that focuses on analytics, cloud and mission IT for federal government clients. He joined the company this month...
ABS Capital Partners closed a $23 million Series A funding round for deepwatch, a leading provider of intelligence-driven managed security services. deepwatch will accelerate research and development for its machine learning security analytics platform and market expansion. œCybersecurity leaders immediately recognize deepwatch™s truly rev...
