The U.S. Navy has released a solicitation for a follow-on effort to an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract for its combat instrumentation platforms used at training and test and evaluation ranges. According to a SAM.gov notice, Naval Air Warfare Center is seeking proposals to support and sustain the said equipment under t...
The U.S. Navy has selected Communications & Power Industries and Stellant Systems to repair crossed-field amplifiers for the AEGIS Combat System under a five-year, $90.8 million contract. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will involve fixing double-duty, water-cooled vane and single-duty CFA electron tubes, the...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary will supply tritonal bomb components to the U.S. Army under a $133.2 million contract. The service branch is procuring MK-80 series general purpose bombs from General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. GD-OTS manufactures bomb bodies in sizes of 500, 1000 and 200...
The U.S. Army has awarded two separate firm-fixed-price contracts to Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) ordnance and tactical systems business for the procurement of 120 mm tank training rounds. The ammunition will be supplied to the service branch through Sept. 30, 2026, under a $66.7 million contract with Northrop ...
Six companies have won positions on an eight-year, $784.3 million contract to design, build and maintain mission systems for Air Combat Command. The ACC Acquisition Management and Integration Center received 17 offers for the Squadron Operations Center-Enterprise Program through a small business and 8(a) set-aside competition, the Department of Defe...
On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity. In the year since the executive order’s release, the federal government has implemented a host of cybersecurity initiatives, standards and policy measures to protect agencies and their industry partners against the increasing threat of cyber ...
Blue Air Training and Top Aces have completed a business combination process and aim to create a turnkey air combat training service for military customers. The two companies intend to maintain independent operations and names at their respective Las Vegas, Nevada, and Mesa, Arizona, headquarters. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and B...
American Systems has received a $42.1 million contract to develop technology for the evaluation of U.S. Navy combat systems in training environments. The Naval Air Warfare Center’s training systems division sought a Combat Systems Integrated Product to help service personnel carry out weapon assessments and predict a system’s ability to ...
The Office of Management and Budget is soliciting feedback through a set of questions to inform the implementation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s guidance detailing best practices to improve the security of the software supply chain in accordance with a cybersecurity executive order signed in May 2021. On Feb. 4, NIST rele...
Gibbs & Cox, a Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) subsidiary, has secured a potential five-year, $318.7 million contract to help the U.S. Navy design surface combat ships, with an initial focus on the next-generation guided missile destroyer. Contract work supports the development of future combatant platforms and will initially drive design, technology integr...
