The U.S. Navy awarded contract modifications worth a combined $113.2M to seven companies to continue supporting maintenance efforts for surface combatant and amphibious vessels that are visiting or stationed at Naval Base San Diego. Contractors will help the service branch maintain, repair or modernize destroyers, cruisers, dock landing ships, amphi...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has issued a report on key takeaways from the testimonies of Department of Defense and Air Force officials at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing held Thursday. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 recipient, wrote in the report that the Senate hearin...
Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has secured a three-year, $201.9M contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long lead parts and materials needed to produce lot 14 propulsion systems for the F-35 aircraft. The modification combines orders from the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, non-U.S. Department ...
The U.S. Army has selected four companies to compete for military logistics support task orders under a potential $82B contract vehicle over 10 years. Army Contracting Command received six bids for the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V through an online-based solicitation process, the Department of Defense said Friday. LOGCAP V has an initial o...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a potential 10-year, $14.31B contract to modernize weapons systems used on the U.S. Air Force’s B-1 Lancer and B-52 Stratofortress bomber platforms. The company will also modify, engineer, test and sustain the aircraft weapons in an effort to increase system lethality, responsiveness, supportabilit...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a five-year, $93.6M delivery order to produce, test and install eight wideband satellite communication kits in the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon aircraft fleet. The company will also support the integration and qualification of the satcom kits under the cost-plus-fixed-fee order, the Department of Defense said Thursd...
KBR™s (NYSE: KBR) government services arm has received two task orders worth $96.5M combined from the U.S. Air Force to provide technical support for the service™s F-35 program and other aircraft platforms. KBRwyle will provide the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center with research, product assistance, analysis, engineering, airworthines...
American Electronic Warfare Associates has won a potential five-year, $99.7M contract to develop, integrate and maintain battlespace simulation tools for the U.S. Navy. AMEWAS will help the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division create warfare scenarios, and battlespace entity models as well as provide customer support for delivered products, th...
On Wednesday, April 10th, GovCon leaders from public and private sectors gathered at the 2941 Restaurant in Falls Church, Va. for Potomac Officers Club™s 2019 Data Management Forum. The forum featured a panel discussion about augmented data management, and Michael Conlin, chief data officer for the U.S. Department of Defense, opened the forum w...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential $3.2B contract modification to manufacture lots 7 to 11 of early warning aircraft for the U.S. Navy. The company will deliver 24 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye units through the modification, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The Navy definitized a $99.7M contract action issued last year for lot...
