Boeing (NYSE: BA) and a Leonardo DRS subsidiary have received contracts worth up to $192.8 million combined to install Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System hardware aboard the U.S. Navy™s DDG 51-class destroyers. The firm-fixed-price contracts also cover the provision of spare parts and checkout repair services for AN/USQ-...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) U.K. arm has received a potential $411.8 million contract from the British defense ministry to design and develop a tactical communication and information system. The award is the first contract issued under the MORPHEUS program that aims to modernize the command-and-control networks of the U.K....
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business has secured a two-year, $129.4 million delivery order modification from the U.S. Navy to perform additional work on the TR-3 integrated core processor and related subsystems for the F-35 program. The Defense Department said Wednesday work under the modif...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2017 ” Jennifer Chronis, general manager for Defense Department programs at Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN), has said DoD can leverage security as one of many benefits in the adoption of cloud platforms, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. She wrote in an article published March that other advantages to c...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index reaches new 30 day low to close at 89.908 down 0.852 percent. In spite of being up for most of the trading day the major indices all dropped for a loss in the last hour of trading. The S&P500, DJIA, and NASDAQ all reached a seven day low. The Fed’s announcement that...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2017 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has unveiled a new 861,112-square-foot logistics facility in the U.K. that will work to provide commodities and support services to the British military, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday it partnered with the U.K. defense ministry to open the $103.4 million ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2017 ” Boeing (NYSE: BA) will provide an update to the cryptographic module of the U.S. Air Force‘s combat search-and-rescue radio equipment under a $42.6 million contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Defense Department said Monday the contract covers development, certification, integ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2017 ” Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) has begun work to produce hardware for large and intermediate-class space launch vehicles as part of a U.S. Air Force effort to develop rockets that could carry sizable payloads to space, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday it completed design reviews, toolin...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 5, 2017 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will perform technology risk reduction work on the Multi-Object Kill Vehicle platform under a $59.6 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The Defense Department said Monday the company will assist MDA in efforts to build on the performan...
L3 Technologies (NYSE: LLL) has bought autonomous unmanned undersea vehicle manufacturer OceanServer Technology for an undisclosed sum, a move that Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese said marks L3’s expansion push into the UUV market. Fall River, Massachusetts-based OceanServer builds lightweight UUVs for military, commercial and int...
