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...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $308.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to support the engineering change proposal integration of jammer pods onto EA-18G Growler aircraft. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will provide necessary equipment for system integration laboratories; design and manufacture ...
DynCorp International has won a $106.2 million contract to maintain and provide logistics services for aircraft and support equipment for the Naval Test Wing Atlantic. The Defense Department said Thursday that DynCorp will provide organizational-level maintenance for all rotary, fixed, lighter-than-air and unmanned aircraft on-site. Work will s...
The U.S. Army has awarded Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary a one-year, $102 million firm-fixed-price contract to produce fire control systems for the service branch’s mortar and fielding activity. Elbit Systems of America will perform work through Dec. 31, 2017, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Army Contra...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index moved higher Thursday on broad gains among defense primes and services contractors as U.S. stocks closed slightly lower in a mostly quiet penultimate trading session for 2016. Investors continued their post-election focus on defense and other GovCon stocks, while the S&P 500 composite index turned ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” A teaming arrangement between Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and NLign Analytics has received the Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award from the Defense Department for the companies’ technical support for the F-35 program, GovCon Executive reported Wednesday....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” Raytheon (NYSE: RTN), CSRA (NYSE: CSRA), General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and 17 small businesses have formed a team to bid for a contract to maintain U.S. Army training devices and digital ranges across the globe, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Raytheon said Tuesday ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 29, 2016 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $17.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for system software and engineering services in support of the MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned helicopter system, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company will provide software design and system integration, qualification testing...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a contract worth approximately $600 million to update the Patriot integrated air and missile defense system of an unidentified country. The company said Thursday the direct commercial sales contract covers Configuration 3+ Post Deployment Build 8 software and hardware suite. Altogether, the 13 countri...
The U.S. Air Force has launched a full and open competition on the development of a new Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System to support airborne battle management command-and-control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations of joint and coalition forces. A request for proposal document for the JSTARS Recap...
