A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says the Navy and the Marine Corps requested a total budget of $206B for fiscal year 2020. The Navy™s FY 2020 budget request includes $20.4B in research, development, test and evaluation funds for several programs: unmanned surface vessels and unmanned underwater vehicles; dir...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) secured a potential 10-year, $250M contract to provide Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kit services to domestic and international defense customers. The company’s defense, space and security business will perform JDAM/Laser JDAM sustainment, aircraft integration and technical support, the Department of Defense said Mond...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a potential $1.13B contract to manufacture lot 14 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems and associated equipment for the U.S. Army and foreign military sales customers. The company said Thursday it will produce 9.5K unitary and alternative warhead rockets and more than 300 reduced-range practice rockets as well as provide...
DynCorp International has received a pair of task order extensions worth $111.4M combined to continue providing support services to U.S. Army facilities at Fort Irwin in California and Kwajalein Atoll on the Marshall Islands. The company said Thursday it will continue to support missions at the U.S. Army National Training Center through September un...
The Institute for Defense Analyses, which currently operates three federally funded research and development centers, has received a potential $950.6M contract to provide various support services to the Department of Defense. Washington Headquarters Services awarded the contract covering research, analyses, test and evaluation support to the Office ...
The combined company formed through the merger of E3 Federal Solutions and The Sentinel Company in November has completed the novation of Pool 1 and Pool 3 unrestricted portions of the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle. McLean, Va.-based E3/Sentinel said Wednesday it assumed all...
A report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says the total U.S. Army budget request for fiscal year 2020 is approximately $182B. The service™s proposed FY 2020 budget includes $12.4B in research, development, test and evaluation funds, reflecting the service™s focus on eight Army Future Command™s cross functional t...
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...
