TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 6, 2017 ” The Australian air force has exceeded 5,000 hours of utility aircraft simulator training since the 2014 launch of CAE‘s (NYSE: CAE) training facility in Sale, Victoria, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The center was constructed under a contract from Australia’s capability acquisition and sustainm...
The Defense Department and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) have finalized an $8.5 billion contract for the manufacturer to supply 90 lot 10 F-35s, an order that is $728 million less than the cost of the previous batch of the fighter jets, Reuters reported Friday. Mike Stone writes the latest F-35 deal lowers the price of the air...
Weekly Roundup January 30 – February 3 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Our fourth annual Wash100 list of Government Contracting™s Most Influential Figures hit the presses last week to recognize leaders in the public and private sectors and those from ma...
The State Department has given South Korea the green light to procure Raytheon-built AGM-65G-2 Maverick and AIM-9X-2 Sidewinder missiles under two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $140 million combined. South Korea requested to purchase 89 Maverick missiles, containers and related support under a potential $70 mil...
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a potential $60.6 million blanket purchase agreement to KPMG and a separate $32.6 million BPA to St. Michael’s for financial stewardship and sustainment support services to DLA. Each firm-fixed-price BPA contains one base year plus four option years and the contracts have a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_HP2lcaQAc Marines and their K-9™s with 2nd Law Enforcement Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, train to search for explosives during specialized obedience training at Camp Lejeune, N.C. The dogs and their handlers use a combined set of keen senses to spot and sniff out dangerous explosives that might otherwise go u...
Q.E.D. Systems has been awarded a potential $102.5 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy for third-party advanced planning services to support various availabilities of the military branch’s surface combatant ship classes. The Defense Department said Monday the contractor’s work will aid chief of naval o...
Rolls-Royce has secured a $73.6 million task order to sustain the propulsion systems of the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft. The company will also provide inventory control point management, repair, sustaining engineering and technical data support services under the task order, the Defense Department sa...
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Infoscitex have received contract modifications worth $75 million combined to continue to provide research and development support in the areas of human perception and cognitive technologies for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the modifications to a previously awarded indefini...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 26, 2017 ” Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has appointed Chris Devens, previously Camber‘s operations and business development director, as the new BD director at the Arlington, Virginia-based total acquisition management service provider, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday. Devens will ...
