A Textron (NYSE: TXT) business segment has secured a potential five-year, $607 million contract to engineer and convert the U.S. Army’s Shadow RQ-7B unmanned aircraft system to an updated configuration. Textron Systems said Thursday it will perform technical and logistics work in addition to installing Block III features into the company-built tac...
KBR (NYSE: KBR) has reported $102.4 million in contract and task order awards to help the U.S. Navy operate facilities in the United Arab Emirates and provide power generation services to U.S. Air Force personnel operating at a military air base located in Saudi Arabia. Work under a potential eight-year, $67.4 million deal with Naval...
A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) business segment has received a one-year, $93.2 million contract modification to help the U.S. Navy maintain combat management technology used on Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships. The award covers sustainment work on the LCS Component-Based Total Ship System – 21st Century and related elements of the combat archite...
The White House intends to nominate Bill Nelson, a former senator from Florida, to serve as NASA administrator, SpaceNews reported Thursday. Sources said the Biden administration is expected to announce Nelson’s nomination as early as Friday, March 19. Nelson, a Democrat who served three terms in the Senate, was ranking member of the Senate Commer...
A joint venture between Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron’s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has been awarded a four-year, $182.2 million contract modification to repair MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft as part of the U.S. Navy’s common configuration readiness and modernization efforts. Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will also manufacture two u...
Seven companies have won spots on a potential seven-year, $125 million contract to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Kansas City District carry out projects. The agency received 24 bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via an online solicitation and expects contractor support work to conclude March 17, 2028, the Department of Defense said Th...
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have teamed up on a program to advance the domestic production of structured application specific integrated circuit platforms for defense electronic systems. Intel said Thursday it will collaborate with the University of Florida, Texas A&M University and University of Maryla...
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....
