The State Department has approved a potential $350 million foreign military sale of equipment and services to refurbish Bahrain’s AH-1W attack helicopter fleet. Bell, a subsidiary of Textron (NYSE: TXT), will serve as the principal contractor on the proposed deal covering the refurbishment of 24 AH-1W excess defense articles, a full-motion tra...
The U.S. Navy has awarded 10 companies positions on a potential five-year, $249.8 million contract to provide equipment and support services for the military branch’s test and training range instrumentation systems. The vendors will provide remote ground stations, data processing and display systems, data collection systems, testing and troublesho...
Technology industry executive Laura Fritzlen has been named vice president of public sector alliances and channels at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), GovCon Wire has learned. She will be responsible for expanding strategic partner relationships and alliances with public sector organizations to help strengthen collaboration and drive growth at the cloud securi...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue to manufacture AN/SPY-6(V) radar systems for the U.S. Navy under a $619 million contract option. The award will enable the service branch to install the air and missile defense radar technology on initial Arleigh Burke-class Flight IIA destroyer ships, the company said Wednesday. SPY-6 is designed to h...
Strategic Analysis has secured a potential five-year, $109 million contract from the Washington Headquarters Services to provide the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering with operations support. The initial task order award is valued at $17 million and calls for administrative, analytical, financial, technical and sp...
CRDF Global has unveiled its South East Asia regional hub office in the Philippines to support the nonprofit cybersecurity organization’s programs related to global health and economic development, international security cooperation and international exchanges. Regional Director Mike Byfield will oversee the Manila-based office, which will be part...
Jamie Landers, former director of business development for advanced programs at Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has joined Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) as vice president of business development. She announced her new role at the satellite imagery provider in a LinkedIn post Tuesday. Landers led BD functions for Lockheed’s Advanced Program Deve...
European company SES and U.S.-based Intelsat are in talks about a “possible combination” of the two satellite service industry players, the Luxembourg-headquartered satellite telecommunications provider confirmed Wednesday amid reports of the potential multi-billion transaction. According to Bloomberg News, the companies are nearing a de...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) received separate contracts worth $116 million combined to design carrier-based, air-launched hypersonic missile systems for the U.S. Navy. Both companies have been tasked with conducting technical maturation and development efforts under the Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive An...
Parsons (NYSE: PSN) has booked a potential five-year, $94 million contract to help the U.S. Cyber Command develop command, control, communications and computer systems. The cost-plus-fixed-fee award covers capabilities development support to CYBERCOM’s J6 C4 Systems and Chief Information Officer Directorate, Parsons said Tuesday. CYBERCOM prev...
