Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and the U.S. Air Force have introduced the B-21 Raider long-range strike bomber plane as part of the country’s nuclear triad meant to deter potential adversaries. B-21 is a sixth-generation aircraft that is backed by a digital ecosystem and comes with stealth capabilities and open systems architecture to facilitate...
BAE Systems has tapped Curtiss-Wright and the U.S. business arms of Elbit Systems and QinetiQ to collaborate on its bid for the U.S. Army’s next generation infantry fighting vehicle development program. BAE said Wednesday it submitted a proposal for the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle program of the service branch and will aim to put forwar...
ManTech has secured a $100 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to perform engineering and technical support work for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to maintain the reliability of combat systems for training and live operations. The five-year award, won through a recompete, covers configuration management, researc...
BAE Systems’ land and armaments business will manufacture an additional 30 amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps after the service branch exercised full-rate production contract options worth $153.7 million. The options are part of a modification that will also cover the costs of fielding and support services and will put the c...
Amentum has received a five-year, $126 million contract task order to perform research, development, test and evaluation work in support of the U.S. Army combat systems modernization efforts. The award covering RDT&E services was made under a contract vehicle managed by the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center, the company said Tues...
Canada-based J.D. Irving and Systecon’s U.S. arm have partnered to help the Canadian navy accelerate digital transformation efforts for its fleet of surface combatant ships through the adoption of analytics and life cycle management platforms, GovCon Wire has learned. Under the partnership, J.D. Irving will use Systecon’s Opus Suite software to ...
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has cleared a planned merger between Arlington, Virginia-based Leonardo DRS and Israeli radar maker RADA Electronic Industries (Nasdaq: RADA). Both parties first announced their all-stock transaction in June and they now expect to complete the business combination in late November or early Dec...
BAE Systems has received a potential five-year, $143 million contract from the U.S. Navy to continue providing engineering, management, information technology and maintenance support services to the military branch’s Surface Combat Systems Center in Wallops Island, Virginia. The company said Tuesday such services to be provided under the contract ...
Air Combat Command has released its final request for proposals for a potential $5.3 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle meant to help warfighters gain information advantage as they operate in the cyber domain. Offerors have until Oct. 26 to submit bids for the Enterprise Cyber Capabilities acquisition program, which has...
The U.K. government has approved Viasat’s (Nasdaq: VSAT) proposed acquisition of Inmarsat under the National Security and Investment Act. Mark Dankberg, executive chairman and CEO of Viasat, said in a statement published Friday Viasat has been a partner of U.K. national security and defense communities for over 10 years, particularly in the delive...
