Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a potential $2.7 billion contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and deliver 35 more CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopters. The contract includes the development of 12 units of Lot 7 CH-53Ks and 15 Lot 8 aircraft for the U.S. Marine Corps and eight helicopters for Israel’...
The U.S. Navy has exercised an option under a five-year shipbuilding deal with HII (NYSE: HII) to procure an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in fiscal year 2023. HII will provide DDG 51 construction, engineering change proposals, design budgeting and post-delivery services to the service branch, the Department of Defense said Friday. Th...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has secured a potential five-year, $383 million contract to help the U.S. Navy’s Surface Combat Systems Training Command facilitate classroom learning and instructional simulation for approximately 100,000 sailors. GDIT will develop a curriculum and aids that can assist trainee...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks is a top voice in cybersecurity and government technology usage at large. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University focusing on risk management, homeland security technologies and, of course, cybersecurity and has won a number of distinctions over the years. Brooks recently interviewed Kelley Kiernan, t...
BAE Systems has secured a $294.7 million U.S. Navy award for the maintenance and modernization of the amphibious USS Kearsarge assault ship. Beginning in June, the ship will be drydocked for almost a year at BAE Systems’ Norfolk shipyard for the contract’s tasks to be executed, the U.K.-based company announced from Norfolk, Virginia on...
The Vertex Company, which recently merged with Vectrus to form V2X (NYSE: VVX), has won a potential $280 million contract to help the U.S. Navy maintain training aircraft for service aviators and flight officers. The seven-year contract will include intermediate-level maintenance support for the T-6 Texan, T-44 Pegasus, T-45 Goshawk, TH-57 Sea Range...
The Vertex Company, which recently merged with Vectrus to form V2X (NYSE: VVX), will provide logistics support to the Department of the Navy’s C-12 Huron cargo and passenger airlift fleet under a potential five-year, $230 million contract from Naval Air Systems Command. Vertex said Tuesday it will maintain aircraft and engines at the depot lev...
The U.S. Navy has selected the Remus 300 unmanned underwater vehicle from Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as the military service’s next generation small UUV program of record. HII photo The branch made the selection after a rapid prototyping initiative that ran for two years and will move the Lionfish SUUV program forward with UUV...
Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a contract from the U.S. Navy to produce nine more CH-53K King Stallion helicopters for the U.S. Marine Corps. Lockheed said Thursday the nine helicopters are part of the Marine Corps’ 200 program of record aircraft and are expected to be delivered starting in 2025. CH-53K King...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) will continue manufacturing air and missile defense radar systems for installation on U.S. Navy ships under a potential $781 million contract modification. This award for AN/SPY-6(V) integration and production support services has a $67.7 million face value and will reach the ceiling amount if the military branch ex...
