
United Technologies Corp.'s Pratt and Whitney has secured a $3.24B contract modification to produce 233 propulsion systems for the F-35 program. Pratt and Whitney will provide 56 F135 propulsion systems to the U.S. Air Force, 10 to the Navy, 24 to the U.S. Marine Corps and 143 to non-defense and foreign military sales customers, the Departmen...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has secured a potential three-year, $151.4M contract to sustain AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force as well as 20 international countries. The company will perform repairs and integrated logistics support for the Block II and II+ versions of the multimission missile system built for air-to-air, surfac...
A McAleese & Associates report says the House Appropriations Committee passed a spending bill that would authorize $690B in fiscal 2020 funds for the Department of Defense, reflecting a 2.3 percent increase from DoD’s current budget. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote in t...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary will build and deliver a total of 12 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters to the U.S. Navy under a $1.13B contract modification. This award is for low-rate initial production lots 2 and 3 including logistics support and aircraft system spares, the Department of Defense said Friday. The Navy will ob...
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been awarded a $2.35B contract modification by the U.S. Navy to provide research, development and engineering services to Department of Defense programs. This award increases the maximum ceiling amount of APL’s indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to $7.11B, the Pentagon said ...
James LaCroix, a more than 35-year veteran of the U.S. Navy’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center, has joined Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) as corporate director in charge of advanced technologies. He will report to John Donnelly, vice president of the advanced technologies office at HII, and oversee its work with NUWC Newport Division a...
LiteFighter System has won a potential four-year, $200M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide commercial-off-the-shelf shelters and tents to the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. The service-disabled veteran-owned company will perform work at various locations in Kentucky, Mississippi and Georgia over a one-year base perio...
Point Blank Enterprises has received a one-year, $92.9M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply four U.S. service branches with updated small arms protective inserts. Work under the sole-source firm-fixed-price, indefinite-quantity contract will take place in Florida through March 2021, the Department of Defense said Monday. The company...