The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected four joint ventures and seven independent firms to compete for general repair and construction orders through a $249 million contract vehicle. USACE received 33 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract and expects project support services to be complete by Sept. 18, 2026, the Department of Defense said Thu...
Peraton has integrated and launched Remotec as its subsidiary focused on providing mobile robotic systems for hazardous operations. John Coleman, president of global defense and security sector at Peraton, said in a statement published Thursday Peraton Remotec‘s performance in unmanned ground vehicles complements the government technolog...
Alfred Grein, acting director of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Center, said the branch received four prototypes of its Robotic Combat Vehicle-Light platform from a QinetiQ North America–Pratt Miller partnership, Defense News reported Wednesday. He told attendees at an Association of the U....
The State Department has approved the Dutch government’s request to procure pilot training and logistics support for Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook helicopters under two foreign military sales agreements worth approximately $315 million combined. The FMS deal for AH-64 helicopter pilot training support is wor...
Robert Ashley, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, has joined Deep Water Point as a principal in support of the Annapolis, Maryland-based federal management consulting firm’s defense and intelligence business. Howard Seeger, managing partner of Deep Water Point, said in a statement published Wednesday Ashley will join a team of former senior m...
Viasat will continue to provide telecommunication network services for personal use at U.S. Navy installations and lodging facilities across the globe for an additional five years as part of a contract extension awarded by Navy Exchange Service Command. The extended agreement covers Wi-Fi, voice communications and managed internet services that supp...
The U.S. Air Force has awarded AB International Services a $177.6 million contract to help operate the service branch’s calibration and metrology laboratory complex in Heath, Ohio. AB International will perform work at the Air Force Primary Standards Laboratory and will receive $45,742 at the time of award, the Department of Defense said Wedn...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected six small businesses operating in Hawaii to compete for design-bid-build construction orders under a potential seven-year, $300 million contract. USACE received 11 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation and expects work to be complete by March 16, 2028, the Department of Defens...
An Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) business segment has secured an approximately $255 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency for 50 million units of a rapid point-of-care antigen test for COVID-19. Abbott Rapid DX North America will produce and supply its BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card in support of the...
The U.S. Air Force has named Boeing (NYSE: BA), L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) to its list of sources that could support the service’s plan to rapidly prototype a stand-in attack weapon within 60 months. SiAW is an air-to-ground weapon system that c...
