Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a one-year, $492.7 million contract modification to provide logistics support for F-35 aircraft systems that have been delivered to U.S. military and foreign military sales customers. The award to Lockheed’s aeronautics segment covers work to operate and maintain an automatic logistics information syste...
A $770 billion defense policy bill that President Joe Biden signed into law Monday requires the Department of Defense to come up with a digital health strategy for distributed ledgers and other emerging technology, The Block reported Tuesday. The fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act directs the DOD secretary to find ways to incorporat...
Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business has secured an $87 million contract to help the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office update information technology applications that support the agency’s trademark filing and registration process. Accenture Federal Services will assist the USPTO Office of the Chief Information Officer in efforts ...
Military radar testing company Giga-tronics has agreed to acquire Gresham Worldwide, a BitNile Holdings subsidiary that manufactures electronic systems for defense applications, as part of a share exchange agreement. Giga said Tuesday it will combine its operations with Gresham to form an independent public company that will offer radio frequency an...
Joseph Gurney, formerly a senior adviser for fiscal stewardship at the Veterans Benefits Administration, has joined B3 Group as a director for the company’s professional services business. He will oversee a portfolio of professional and infrastructure service offerings intended to support modernization projects at the Department of Veterans Af...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will continue to help the U.S. Army install turbine engines on AH-64E Apache military helicopters under a five-year, $239.6 million contract. The service branch obligated $18 million at the time of award for Apache Improved Turbine Engine Integration Phase II work using fiscal 2021 and 2022 research, development, test and evaluatio...
BAE Systems‘ land and armaments division has received a $169.3 million contract modification to manufacture an additional 33 amphibious combat vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps. USMC exercised options under the ACV production contract with a potential value of $3.35 billion, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The branch will obligate $...
A federal district court judge in Florida issued Wednesday a temporary injunction against the Biden administration’s vaccination mandate for federal contractors, The Daily Wire reported Sunday. “The extent of any absenteeism attributable to COVID-19 among contractors and subcontractors is unexplained,” Judge Steven Merryday of the U.S. Distric...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has won a potential 10-year, $304.4 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide voice internet services for U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command. The Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization received two offers for the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contr...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a five-year, $1.38 billion contract to produce a system the U.S. Army intends to use for detecting and tracking enemy missiles and other airborne threats. Army Contracting Command received two bids for the Integrated Battle Command System production contract via the internet, the Department of Defense said Thursd...
