Timken Gears and Services has received a $147.4M U.S. Navy contract modification to provide main reduction gear shipsets for Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. The gear is designed to transfer power from a pair of main gas turbine engines to propulsion shafts of the vessels, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Naval Sea Systems Com...
Seventeen large and small contractors won spots on a potential five-year, $248.9M contract to provide sustainment equipment to U.S. Navy Fleet Readiness Centers. Contractors may compete for each order under 14 functional areas covering ancillary, measurement, sustainment, protection and testing platforms, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The ...
Betty Sapp, former director of the National Reconnaissance Office, has joined Ball (NYSE: BLL) as a member of the board of directors. John Hayes, chairman, president and CEO of Ball, said in a statement published Tuesday Sapp will complement Ball™s leadership team and board as the company continues efforts to meet its Drive for 10...
A Leonardo DRS subsidiary has won a potential eight-year, $977M blanket purchase agreement to help the U.S. Special Operations Command manage a satellite and terrestrial telecommunications program for deployed operations. The Defense Information Systems Agency received one quotation out of 39 quotes sought via the General Services Administratio...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a four-year, $234.6M contract to begin the low-rate initial production of GPS-equipped systems designed to guide military aircraft onto carriers or amphibious assault ships. The company will manufacture 23 Joint Precision Approach and Landing Systems along with three upgrade kits, associated data and engineering cha...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential three-year, $151.4M contract to sustain AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force as well as 20 international countries. The company will perform repairs and integrated logistics support for the Block II and II+ versions of the multimission missile system built for air-to-air, surfac...
A McAleese & Associates report says the House Appropriations Committee passed a spending bill that would authorize $690B in fiscal 2020 funds for the Department of Defense, reflecting a 2.3 percent increase from DoD’s current budget. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote in t...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) received a potential $275M contract from the Defense Microelectronics Activity to help secure the supply chain that provides semiconductor products and services to the military. The Department of Defense said Tuesday IBM will work to establish manufacturing flows at contractor fabrication facilities as part of the Trusted Foundry Acc...
Alfab has won a potential five-year, $127.8M U.S. Navy contract to provide airfield matting services to Naval Air Systems Command. The company will deliver land, heavy duty and spacer mat packages under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The service branch received two offe...
S.J. Amoroso Construction has won a $122.5M firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a community living center on the Veteran Long Beach System’s main campus. USACE received two bids for the project and obligated the full contract amount from fiscal 2019 interagency agreement funds, the Department of Defense sai...
