Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command has selected 10 small businesses to compete for design-build construction projects within the NAVFAC’s Marianas, Guam, area of operations under an eight-year, $400 million contract. NAVFAC received 22 proposals for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and will provide a $25,000 minim...
President Joe Biden has nominated Navy Vice Adm. Frank Whitworth, director of intelligence, J-2, Joint Staff, to serve as head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Whitworth would retain the rank of vice admiral if confirmed for the NGA director position, the Department of Defense said Monday. He previously served as commander of the Join...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a $95 million bridge contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to extend the company’s facilities maintenance, repair and operations support to military branches. DLA will use the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to issue MRO task orders for the U.S. Army, Navy...
A joint venture between Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary has secured a potential four-year, $1.64 billion contract to provide hardware supply support for Osprey military tiltrotor aircraft being used by the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and the Air Force. Bell Boeing will help the three service branches manage an inventory...
ST Engineering’s shipbuilding business in Pascagoula, Mississippi, has received a $552.7 million contract modification from the Department of the Navy to design and build a second polar security cutter for the U.S. Coast Guard. The Navy exercised an option on a potential $1.94 billion contract originally awarded to VT Halter Marine in April 20...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a one-year, $492.7 million contract modification to provide logistics support for F-35 aircraft systems that have been delivered to U.S. military and foreign military sales customers. The award to Lockheed’s aeronautics segment covers work to operate and maintain an automatic logistics information syste...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $49.06 million U.S. Navy contract to design and develop an F-35 aircraft variant for an unnamed foreign military sales customer. The company will perform engineering work and other related efforts as part of the five-year project, the Department of Defense said Monday. Seventy-seven percent of contractor ac...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a $353.6 million contract modification to provide manufacture three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft for the French navy as part of a foreign military sales deal. This award comes one year after France signed a letter of offer and acceptance with the U.S. Navy to procure the modernized command and...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will deliver repairable spare items for common electronic communication equipment and parts to the U.S. Navy and Japan under a potential $53.9 million award from the Defense Logistics Agency. The Department of Defense said Friday the firm-fixed-price delivery order was awarded against a seven-year contract for defense lo...
GovCon Wire Events hosted its Defense Acquisition Priorities Forum on Tuesday, during which prominent leaders in the public and private sectors spoke on the advanced technologies, areas of interest and urgent challenges impacting procurement and acquisition strategies within the Department of Defense as well as how industry can help drive innov...
