A Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) division has secured two contracts worth $930.9M combined to build the 10th and 11th National Security Cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard. HII™s Ingalls Shipbuilding business will develop NSC 10 under the $468.75M fixed-price-incentive contract and NSC 11 under the $462.13M contract, the ...
A General Atomics business unit has received a one-year, $291.3M contract from the U.S. Air Force to help the service branch operate and maintain MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial systems. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will support UAS program and configuration management, logistics, flight operations and depot repair and field maint...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has landed a potential five-year, $307.5M delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide integrated product support for F/A-18 aircraft variants operated by the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. The sole-source order falls under a basic ordering agreement and contains one base year alo...
James Mattis will leave the Department of Defense on Feb. 28 after two years of service as DoD’s top civilian leader. œMy views on treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues, Mattis wrote...
A joint venture between Boeing (NYSE:BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has received a potential three-year, $1.10B contract to provide logistics and repair services for components of the Osprey joint service multirole combat aircraft fleet. Bell Boeing Joint Project Office will support 225 parts in MV-...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $357.8M contract to help the U.S. Navy produce and integrate air and missile defense radar systems. Work includes combat system integration and test, depot-level maintenance field engineering and spare parts procurement efforts for the AN/SPY-6(V) radar technology, the Department of Defense said Wednesda...
Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL) will support production efforts at the U.S. Air Force™s Kessel Run Experimentation Lab under a one-year, $100.1M other transaction agreement. The company will provide prototyping methods, software and services for the military branch’s enterprise architectures, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. W...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a $141.4M contract option to manufacture a fifth batch of air-launched, precision-strike glide bombs. Raytheon’s missile systems business will produce 1.2K Small Diameter Bomb II munitions, 389 single-weapon containers and 344 dual-weapon containers, the Dep...
Imaging satellite operator Planet has agreed to buy geospatial data management software vendor Boundless Spatial for an undisclosed sum to expand the former’s business in the public sector and commercial agriculture markets. San Francisco-based Planet said Tuesday it aims to increase utilization of its imager...
President Donald Trump is expected this week to order the creation of a new combatant command that would focus on space, CNN reported Monday. Vice President Mike Pence is set to visit Tuesday the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Pentagon this week to talk about the administration™s plan for a new space force....
