Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will perform modeling and simulation work for U.S. military branches and program offices under a potential five-year, $800 million engineering and professional support services contract from Army Combat Capabilities Development Command. The company said Wednesday it will model and simulate a syst...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a pair of three-year base contracts worth $112.8 million combined to provide electronic components to U.S. and foreign military sales customers. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts include one three-year option period and an additional option to extend work by four yea...
Jim Bridenstine, who led NASA from April 2018 to January 2021 and is a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, has been appointed chairman of Voyager Space Holdings’ advisory board. He will work with a group of aerospace and defense sector veterans to guide the Denver-based company on its mission to become known as a...
The U.S. Air Force has selected a Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Collins Aerospace business to replace the wheel and brake system of 77 B-52 Stratofortress bombers as part of the branch’s fleet retrofit program. Collins said Wednesday it will use the Duracarb carbon disk technology to produce a new aircraft braking system for the bra...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney subsidiary has proposed its F100-PW-229 engine for the U.S. Air Force’s Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) F-15EX fighter aircraft. Pratt & Whitney’s proposal is for lots 2 through 9 of the service’s engine procurement schedule, the company said Wednesday. F100 has logged more than 28 milli...
VTG has been awarded a potential five-year, $188 million contract to help the U.S. Navy modernize surface fleet combat systems as part of the service branch’s Technical Insertion 16 program. The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Port Hueneme Division awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covering TI16 procurement, eng...
Stockholders of Advanced Micro Devices (Nasdaq: AMD) and Xilinx (Nasdaq: XLNX) have approved proposals for AMD to buy Xilinx in an all-stock transaction worth approximately $35 billion. The proposed combination will bring together portfolios of products, including field programmable gate arrays, central processing units, adaptive SoCs and grap...
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for the fourth time in the eight-year history of the Wash100 Award, the industry standard for excellence in the government contracting (GovCon) sector. This marks Shotwell’s fourth Wash100 win in the l...
Michael Koroluk, former chief growth officer at Firebird Analytical Solutions & Technologies, has been appointed director of business development at Noblis‘ homeland security segment. Noblis said Tuesday that Koroluk will oversee strategic efforts to expand Noblis’ portfolio and address customers’ evolving requirements in his n...
Salient CRGT has secured a potential $70 million contract to help the U.S. Navy provide technical training to Saudi Arabia’s naval forces as part of international security assistance efforts. The contract is intended to fulfill a foreign military sales requirement for training, logistics and English language instruction for Royal Saudi Naval F...
