The U.S. Navy has awarded eight companies positions on a potential 10-year, $4.1 billion follow-on contract to provide production units, software, laboratory equipment, spares and system components for surface, shore and submarine platforms in support of the service branch’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program. CANES is th...
Aeyon will provide NASA with financial management consulting services in support of financial operation consolidation efforts at seven of its ten centers during a contracting period of up to eight years. Work is under a potential $516.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract NASA awarded to MM Technologies, a joint venture between ...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has won a $334 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the development of a larger class air-breathing hypersonic system that will employ a standardized payload interface to carry out multiple missions. A Leidos-led team will aim to design a vehicle powered by a scramjet engine and capable of traveling...
Boston-based Advent International has agreed to purchase Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR) in an all-cash transaction worth approximately $6.4 billion, including debt, that will take the satellite imagery contractor private, the two companies said Friday. The $53-a-share price of the deal is a premium of 129 percent to Maxar’s Thursday closing o...
The General Services Administration has begun seeking proposals from companies with commercial online platforms that could provide business-to-business e-commerce support for federal buyers of commercial off-the-shelf items using government purchase cards. GSA plans to award multiple contracts to vendors that own, manage and operate commercial onlin...
The Department of Commerce has cleared a joint NASA-National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration program to acquire spacecraft that will follow the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R Series. The agencies can now start the contracting process to build a Geostationary Extended Observations system and associated instruments, NOAA...
The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Raytheon Technologies-owned (NYSE: RTX) engine builder Pratt and Whitney a $619 million contract modification to procure lot 17 F-35 propulsion components and produce additional systems for the 15th and 16th batches of the fighter aircraft. Pratt & Whitney will use a portion of the funds t...
Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense business will continue assisting the U.S. Army in its deployment of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Family of Vehicles as part of a $543.5 million contract modification. The award requires Oshkosh Defense to perform JLTV fielding support work at its Wisconsin location until July 31, 2024, the Department of Defens...
Metron will provide undersea mission autonomy software development and applied research investigation support services for the U.S. Navy under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The company said Thursday the contract with the Office of Naval Research covers mission simulation, algorithm research and development, objective planning, system-level perform...
The $858 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023 is now headed to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature after the Senate voted 83-11 to pass the defense policy bill, The Hill reported Thursday. The NDAA reflects a $45 billion increase from the president’s budget request and seeks to authorize $817...
