The U.S. Army has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a potential three-year, $163.3 million contract to provide training services related to the Patriot air and missile defense system to Qatar through a foreign military sales agreement. The firm-fixed-price contract covers pre-Patriot military occupational training, Patriot training classes and ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 3, 2017 ” The U.S. Navy‘s General Dynamics-built (NYSE: GD) USS Rafael Peralta guided-missile destroyer has finished its two-day acceptance trials off the coast of Maine in an effort to evaluate the ship and its crew, Executive Gov reported Friday. The Navy said Wednesday its Board of Inspection and ...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded M1 Support Services a one-year, $90.4 million contract modification to provide backshop, flight maintenance services for 140 aircraft at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. M1 will also support various aircraft systems such as egress, fuel system, hydraulics, aerospace ground equipment, armament avionics, electronic warfa...
Leonardo, then Finmeccanica, has purchased the remaining 60 percent of shares in Pisa, Italy-based Sistemi Dinamici from systems engineering firm IDS for an undisclosed sum in a strategy to expand Leonardo™s portfolio of unmanned systems. The transaction includes the acquisition of Sistemi™s SD-150 Hero unmanned helicop...
Ameresco has won a potential 25-year, $210.6 million task order to help the U.S. Navy implement energy improvement and conservation measures at Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Island, South Carolina. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will provide a new combined heat and power plant, solar carport and gr...
President-elect Donald Trump has asked Boeing (NYSE: BA) to quote a competing price for its F-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft citing cost overruns in the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-35 jet, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Anthony Capaccio and Alex Wayne write Trump made the announcement in a Twitter post Thursday a day after he ...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a five-year, $140 million contract to support the U.S. Fleet Forces Command™s naval logistics and training program. The company will provide analysis, system administration, financial management, on-site assistance, training, implementation and program management services to Fleet Forces Command...
Our Roundup of 2016 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson Calendar year 2016 in the government contracting sector seemed to constantly give us a changing landscape to evaluate and try to forecast the short- and long-term effects of each significant development. Of course, 20...
Cyber risk management services provider Coalfire has purchased Veris Group for an undisclosed amount in a push to grow cybersecurity offerings for the government and commercial sectors. The transaction will result in the creation of a combined firm that will work to provide security engineering support, consulting and assessment ...
Facility and logistics services provider Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) will continue to prioritize information technology and network communications as areas of pursuit for potential growth as the company looks ahead to 2017, its newly-appointed CEO has told GovCon Wire. Colorado Springs-based government services contractor Vectrus has $1.5 billion in bi...
