The U.S. government has arrived at a seemingly widespread acceptance of the importance of maintaining and evolving its cybersecurity protections, particularly within the Intelligence Community. Without these measures, classified information could be at risk from both state-based and independent bad actors from across the globe looking to exploit vul...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will help military customers activate F-35 sites and conduct initial aircraft sustainment efforts under a two-year, $765.1 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command. The award covers the provision of pilot flight equipment, post-ejection survival training...
Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) will compete to supply equipment for military construction projects under a Defense Logistics Agency contract worth potentially $1.28 billion over five years. DLA received three responses to a competitive acquisition process for the economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery requirements type contract, the Defense Departm...
The space business of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will produce submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles and support deployed systems for both the U.S. and U.K. navies under a potential $1.2 billion contract modification. This award for Trident II D5 support services has a face value of $581.2 million, with the U.S. Navy obligating $147.1 million ...
An MBDA-Diehl joint venture has received a firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to deliver updated Rolling Airframe Missile system and spare replacement components to the German navy. The award to RAM-System will support the recertification of the RAM Block 2 variant under a cooperative memorandum of understanding between the two countries, ...
Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, and other DOD leaders hosted the Defense Innovation Board’s meeting on Monday and joined DIB Chair Michael Bloomberg in welcoming the seven newly named board members. Established in 2016, DIB provides department leaders with independent expert advice on how DOD c...
An AAR‘ (NYSE: AIR) government services subsidiary and Boeing (NYSE: BA) have received contract modifications worth a combined $199 million to respectively maintain P-8A planes and engines for the U.S. Navy, Australia and other unnamed international clients. AAR (NYSE: AIR) Government Services and Boeing (NYSE: BA) will deliver ...
Four companies have each won two-year contracts from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply retail electricity and ancillary or incidental services to multiple U.S. federal departments and military branches. DLA‘s energy organization received six offers for the procurement effort through a competitive bidding process, the Department of ...
Three companies have secured contract modifications worth up to $5.1 billion combined over a five-year period for sonobuoy production and delivery services to the U.S. Navy. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Sparton and Sonobuoy Systems, formerly Ultra USSI, can pursue individual orders through exercised options under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
Don Chaney, vice president of federal sales at Forcepoint, published his first feature as a member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Friday to highlight the significant challenges that the federal government is facing as its different agencies all adapt to the latest cybersecurity standards and find innovative solutions for ...
