Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been awarded a $2.35B contract modification by the U.S. Navy to provide research, development and engineering services to Department of Defense programs. This award increases the maximum ceiling amount of APL’s indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to $7.11B, the Pentagon said ...
The U.S. Army has awarded a Dynetics-led industry team a potential $130M contract to build and demonstrate a 100-kilowatt-class laser weapons system. Dynetics said Wednesday its partners for the High Energy Laser Tactical Vehicle Demonstrator program are Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Rolls-Royce and MZA Associates. “High energy laser weapo...
Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) has secured a position on a 10-year, $982M contract to help the U.S. Army build and field cyber electronic warfare technology platforms. The company said Wednesday it aims to produce non-kinetic systems to support the military branch™s cyber-electromagnetic activities and apply deep signals intelligence, big data and wire...
A new McAleese & Associates report says Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) saw its sales rise 22 percent to $8.2B in the first quarter of 2019 and recorded a sector operating profit growth of 27 percent. Jim McAleese, founder and principal of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote the Falls Church, Va.-based def...
Gentex has won a potential five-year, $95M contract to provide tactical headborne systems to the U.S. Special Operations Command. SOCOM received two offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract via a full and open competition and obligated $150K at the time of award. The command is procuring ballistic and no...
CGI‘s (NYSE: GIB) federal arm has won a potential 10-year, $222.9M contract to build an electronic procurement system for the Department of the Navy. The Department of Defense said Wednesday CGI Federal will provide the ePS contract writing platform for the DON to manage contracting requirements for supplies, grants, services and construc...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 21, 2019 ” Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) unveiled plans to apply a four-tiered strategy in support of the company’s effort to build a competitive edge in the hypersonic defense market, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Defense News reported Tuesday that Northrop is moving to pursue opportunities in hypersonic defens...
McAleese and Associates, a consulting firm, released a report on key takeaways from a discussion hosted by the Center for a New American Security with Army Undersecretary Ryan McCarthy and Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley of Army Futures Command on the service™s multidomain operations concept and modernization plans. Wesley discussed the development of the...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 28, 2019 ” Cubic (NYSE: CUB) has been scheduled to take part in the Avalon 2019 aerospace and defense exposition in Australia this week, where it will present its technologies in training and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday. The ...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report on key takeaways from a Center for Strategic and International Studies-hosted discussion held Friday with the secretaries of military branches about the state of their services and priorities. Army Secretary Mark Esper said the service works to build up readiness recovery...
