Weekly Roundup December 25 – December 29, 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson For this week™s round-up we™re counting down the 17 most popular articles published across our three newsletters from this year. The following 17 articles were reviewed and a...
Thomas Liguori, formerly chief financial officer of semiconductor manufacturing company Advanced Energy Industries, has been named CFO of electronic components distributor Avnet in a move slated to take effect Jan. 29. He will succeed Ken Jacobson, who has served as Avnet’s CFO on an interim basis since August, and will rep...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a one-year, $148.5 million contract modification for depot-level maintenance support and sustainment work on F/A-18 A/B/C/D multirole combat jets. The modification exercises an option under a previously awarded contract and includes high flight hour and HFH recurring inspections, modification and...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $634.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles to the service branch and 10 foreign military sales customers. The fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract is for lot 31 of AMRAAM systems composed of missiles, spares and telemetry kits...
A joint venture of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will refurbish fire control radars of the U.K. under a potential $103.1 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army. Longbow will work with the International Apache Attack Helicopter Project Office at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama through U.K....
A Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Nasdaq: KTOS) subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $93 million contract to supply unmanned target aircraft along with launchers, ground equipment and spare parts to the U.S. Army. Composite Engineering Inc. will produce Advanced Subscale Aerial Platform systems under t...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a four-year, $255.3 million modification under a U.S. Navy contract to produce a third batch of MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems. The company will provide three low-rate initial production MQ-4Cs to the service branch under the modification, the Defense Department said Thursda...
General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation unit has received a potential five-year, $380 million to provide technical, engineering and technical support services for the U.S. Army‘s T700 turbine engine recapitalization effort. GE Aviation will also overhaul, convert and repair the engine along with modules and identified component...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded 20 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $17.5 billion contract vehicle for information technology products and services for IT modernization efforts at the Defense Department and other federal agencies. DISA received 72 bids for the full and open track of the Encore III indefinite-d...
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) has agreed to merge its U.S. public sector business with Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions to establish a “top five” independent, publicly traded contractor within the government information technology services sector. All three companies expect to complete the merger by the end of March ...
