The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky Aircraft subsidiary two contract modifications worth a combined $187.1 million to provide UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to Taiwan and Tunisia under foreign military sales agreements. One modification has a potential $148.7 million value and calls for...
The White House has approved the requests of Kuwait and Qatar to buy up to 76 Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F-15 and F/A- 18E/F Super Hornet aircraft worth approximately $7 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes the U.S. government also cleared the sale of Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) F-16 aircraft to Bahrain un...
Serco Group™s North American subsidiary has won an $86 million contract to provide chemical management services to the Defense Logistics Agency. Serco Inc. will perform work in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida and California through Sept. 27, 2021, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The contract contains a one-year base period of perf...
Colsa has won a potential five-year, $103 million contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency for scientific computing and analytical technical services to DIA’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The company will help the agency manage MSIC analytical network, model and simulate computationally...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business and Universal Technology have won positions on a potential eight-year, $46.6 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop manufacturing technology. The Defense Department said Wednesday the two companies will provide R&D services for the Manufa...
Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index turned positive in mid-afternoon trade Wednesday along with U.S. stocks after reports surfaced that major oil producing countries reached an agreement to limit global supply with more details due in November. GovCon Index gainers outnumbered laggers at a 4-to-1 ratio and eight of its 11 S&P 500 compani...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 28, 2016 ” General Atomics has developed a mechanical arm designed to recover small unmanned aircraft systems in mid-flight, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Breaking Defense reported Monday that General Atomics created the mechanism as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agen...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 28, 2016 ” Grant Thornton‘s public sector unit has found that government information technology leaders aim to address challenges in IT infrastructure, management and processes but struggle to recruit new IT professionals, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Monday its two annual surveys...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 28, 2016 ” Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will provide technical engineering and installation support for a future command-and-control facility of the U.S. Air Force in Nebraska under a $47 million task order, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The company said Tuesday it will help the&...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Sept. 28, 2016 ” Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has tapped OGSystems to provide data processing services for the U.S. Army‘s High-Resolution 3D Geospatial Information program, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. OGSystems said its work will serve to support Leidos’ efforts to help the Army Geospatial Cent...
