https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2gTmUpvOBg Marines with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, conduct a simulated amphibious breach in support of Steel Knight-18 at San Clemente Island, California, Dec. 6, 2017. Steel Knight-18 is a 1st Marine Division led exercise which enables Marines and Sailors to operate in a realistic environmen...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential five-year, $79.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to perform support work on multirole combat and electronic warfare aircraft platforms. The company will provide maintenance, parts manufacturing, instrumentation, modification and engineering services for F/A-18A-F and EA-18G fleets, the De...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lnjQYi0N4A PACIFIC OCEAN (Sept. 25-28, 2017) Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) are small surface combatant ships with specific, yet flexible, capabilities. The ships employ a system-of-systems approach through a series of modular mission packages, unmanned vehicles and an innovative hull design. Sailors assigned to USS Gab...
Siemens Government Technologies Inc. announced Monday that the company has received its first Euro-financed Energy Savings Performance Contract (ESPC) to help the U.S. government save energy and cut down on costs overseas. Siemens and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed the $9.4 million contract to install, maintain and operate several ener...
Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC) has concluded its approximately $3.27 billion purchase of CH2M through a cash-and-stock transaction in a move to establish a $15 billion combined firm that will provide infrastructure and professional services to government and commercial clients. Jacobs said Monday it plans to streamline its operating ...
Germany™s military has cleared a plan to start the competition for a potential $4.72 billion contract to purchase 45 to 60 heavy-lift helicopters to replace its current fleet of CH-53G aircraft, Reuters reported Friday. A source said Gen. Volker Wieker, chief of staff of the German Bundeswehr, signed Thursday a document to mark the start...
Weekly Roundup December 11 – December 15 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson For this week™s roundup we™re taking a look at the current landscape of M&A activity in the government contracting market. 2017 is coming to a close and the recent ac...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU_d0cBhiQ8 The U.S. Navy’s newest Freedom variant littoral combat ship, the future USS Little Rock – LCS 9, will join the fleet during a ceremony in Buffalo, New York. For the first time in the 242-year history of the Navy, the new ship will come to life next to another of the same name. The onl...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 12, 2017 ” A General Atomics business unit will collaborate with Advanced Technology International to provide support for a U.S. Army satellite system designed to facilitate communications and data capture capabilities, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. General Atomics said Friday its electromagnetic syst...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 11, 2017 ” ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) will provide engineering and technical support to the U.S. Navy‘s Combat Integrated and Identification Systems Division under a potential $35.9 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The Defense Department said Thursday the company’s ManT...
