Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) has received a potential $3.01 billion contract modification to design and construct a Landing Helicopter Assault Replacement Flight 1 amphibious assault ship for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday work under the fixed-price-incentive will primarily occur in Mississippi, Wi...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon‘s (NYSE: RTN) missile systems business a potential $652.8 million contract to fund the full-rate production of Standard Missile-2 systems and spare parts for the service branch and its allied foreign navies in fiscal 2017. The Defense Department said Friday the contract will run through March 2...
The Department of Defense is planning to send between 3,000 to 5,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, reports CBS News. An announcement on the exact number from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected in the next few days or weeks. The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has said that he cannot counter an increasingly violent, resurgent...
Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell Helicopter subsidiary has landed a potential $146.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to repair 35 items used on the UH-1Y utility helicopter and the AH-1Z attack helicopter. The Defense Department said Thursday the firm-fixed-price contract contains a two-year base period that will run thr...
Six companies will compete for task orders under a U.S. Navy contract to provide website maintenance and software quality assurance support services for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. SSC Pacific in San Diego received nine offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that covers test and e...
ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) has won a potential five-year, $80.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy to conduct warfare analysis, software development, modeling and simulation efforts for the Naval Air Systems Command’s mission engineering and analysis department. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity co...
The U.S. Navy has awarded four companies positions on a potential five-year, $1.73 billion contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support services for land and maritime-based unmanned aerial systems. The Naval Air Systems Command received four offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that c...
Frontier Electronic Systems has received a potential five-year, $72.9 million contract to manufacture sensor and data distribution systems for the U.S. Navy as well as the governments of Japan and South Korea. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will produce AN/SPQ-14 sensor distribution systems and AN/SPQ-15 data d...
A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) subsidiary has won a potential $106 million contract from the U.S. Navy to carry out the fiscal 2017 dry-docking phased maintenance availability of the USS Makin Island amphibious assault ship. The Defense Department said Tuesday that General Dynamics’ NASSCO business will perform ship maintenance, ...
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), Solute and Geocent will compete for task orders under a U.S. Navy contract to provide systems engineering and integration support for the Defense Department™s command, control, computers, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Paci...
