Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) space and airborne systems business has received a potential five-year, $98.6M contract to fix 25 weapon repairable assemblies for AN/APG-79 active electronically scanned array radars used on the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 aircraft fleet. Work under the sole-source contract, which has a $57.9M initial value, is initially s...
Five companies have won contracts worth up to $350.6M combined to provide training and supplemental materials for Department of the Navy acquisition professionals. Contractors will work to help the department energize its acquisition personnel, foster teamwork, understand career path productivity and inform workforce-related decision making, accordi...
Global satellite communications firm Inmarsat has received a $3.4B takeover offer from a consortium of private equity firms and Canada-based pension funds, Bloomberg reported Monday. Apax Partners, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers™ Pension Plan Board made a $7.21-per-share bid for Inmarsat thro...
KBR™s (NYSE: KBR) government services arm has won three task orders worth a combined $95.7M to provide engineering, cybersecurity and information technology services to the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army. The USAF Installation Contracting Agency issued the awards to KBRwyle through a contract vehicle managed by the Department of Defense Inf...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a spot on the U.S. Army™s potential $982M R4 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for cyber and electronic warfare capabilities. The service will use the R4 IDIQ contract to support cyber electromagnetic activities needed to build up the force™s lethality in non-kinetic combat engagement...
Seven companies have won spots on a potential 10-year, $245M contract to hone the warfighting skills of U.S. Marine Corps personnel who will operate within a joint and merged environment. Contractors will vie for task orders to train USMC operating forces on command, control, computer, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance mi...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented John Goodman, CEO of Accenture Federal Services, with his second consecutive Wash100 Award on March 6th. Executive Mosaic recognizes Goodman for his work advancing digital technologies and intelligence distributed systems. We are happy to present the most coveted award in government cont...
Defense engineering services contractor Gryphon Technologies has purchased Schafer from Belcan, a portfolio company of private investment firm AE Industrial Partners, for an undisclosed sum. Schafer provides engineering, scientific and technical services to military and intelligence agency clients in support of their national security effo...
East Coast Repair and Fabrication has landed a potential $376.9M firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize, repair or maintain surface combatant and amphibious vessels stationed in Mayport, Fla. The IDIQ has an initial value of $212.9M and covers support for the naval warships of the service b...
McAleese & Associates has released a report on a speech by Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, at the Defense Program Conference held Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Roper said the service is accelerating work on hypersonics and noted about Lockheed Martin™s (NYSE: LMT) involvement in th...
