The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Pratt and Whitney a $4.38 billion contract modification to manufacture engines for the U.S. military’s 15th and 16th F-35 production lots. The Raytheon Technologies-owned (NYSE: RTX) engine builder will provide a total of 152 F135-PW-100 turbofans to the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the Depar...
C4 Planning Solutions, a Georgia-based managed information technology services provider, has won a potential $249 million contract to provide tactical systems support to the U.S. Marine Corps. The TSS-3 contract covers engineering services for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence platforms that U.S. forces have deployed acros...
A consortium that comprises Thales, Leonardo, Indra Sistemas and Hensoldt will provide tactical data link communication systems to U.S. and European military customers under a five-year, $338.8 million contract. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command in California awarded the contract to Paris-based Euromids as part of the Multifunctional Informa...
The federal government gives away hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts each year. In fact, government spending on contracts amounted to $682 billion in 2020, which is the highest one recorded in the last five years. However, spending data is hard to find, and it isn’t easy to get an accurate picture of where...
Over the last year, the U.S. government has cracked down on cybersecurity. Following the May 2021 issuance of the White House’s executive order on improving the country’s cybersecurity, federal agencies and their commercial service providers have been focused on complying with more stringent security standards while protecting themselves fr...
In today’s era of rapid space democratization, the biggest challenge the United States faces is being able to leverage industry partnerships at a quick enough rate to outpace its strategic competitors, according to federal space leaders. Historically, the U.S. has enjoyed a healthy lead over other countries in space; in the Apollo era, the country...
Brent Wildasin, a retired U.S. Army veteran, and Dawn Legere, a two-decade defense industry veteran, will assume the roles of CEO and chief operating officer, respectively, at systems integration firm PD Systems starting on June 1. Wildasin will succeed Martin Ried, who will move to a new role on PD Systems’ board of directors, and...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a two-year, $632.1 million contract from Naval Air Systems Command to create software builds and conduct developmental flight tests for the F-35 program. The company’s aeronautics segment will provide logistics, maintenance, engineering and material services to U.S. and international military customers,...
Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $397.7 million contract modification to obtain initial spares for lot 16 F-35 Lightning II aircraft. The award is for deliveries of global spares pool and afloat and deployment spares packages to the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, non-Department of Defense agencies and foreign...
Consulting firm McAleese & Associates has released a report outlining key takeaways from the speech of Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks on fiscal year 2023 budget request and the National Defense Strategy at the Reagan Institute. Hicks, a 2022 Wash100 awardee, noted that the Department of Defense’s $773 billion budget proposal for FY 20...
