Charles “Chuck” Harris, a nearly 35-year industry veteran, has joined the U.S. arm of engineering and professional services firm WSP as Navy program director for the federal programs business segment. He will oversee growth initiatives for the Navy program, including a $500 million contract in support of the U.S. Navy’s Shipyard Infrastructure...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) will serve as the principal contractor on a State Department-cleared $162 million foreign military sale of sustainment items and services for Australia’s fleet of MH-60R submarine hunter and anti-surface warfare helicopters. The proposed sale will add pieces of non-major defense equipment to a previously awarded FMS...
Continental Maritime of San Diego has secured a potential $204.5 million contract to help the U.S. Navy update, repair and maintain a pair of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers. The shipyard operator will conduct depot modernization efforts associated with USS Chafee for fiscal year 2023 and USS Momsen for FY 2024 under the firm-fixed-pri...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has secured a $532.9 million contract modification to continue design, development research and lead yard support services associated with the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class attack submarines. Contract work will occur at Electric Boat’s facilities in Groton, Connecticut, and Newport...
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...
Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has secured a five-year, $225.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop the next hardware and software increment for the U.S. Navy’s Sidewinder air-to-air missile system. Under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Raytheon’s missiles and defense business will perform updates as part of the AIM-9X Blo...
The concept of zero trust has been widely discussed yet enigmatic in recent years; now, as the Department of Defense moves forward with codifying zero trust and putting a strategy for implementation in place, the U.S. Navy is taking a closer look at its own transition to zero trust. Scott St. Pierre, deputy director for...
The U.S. Navy has downselected 14 companies to repair, maintain and modernize non-nuclear amphibious and surface combatant ships in Norfolk, Virginia, as part of two indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contracts. The first award worth potentially $300.2 million will provide for maintenance services for Navy aircraft landing platfo...
Seven companies have won spots on a potential eight-year, $1 billion contract managed by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command to build, fix or renovate government-owned medical treatment facilities across seven U.S. states. Projects will include hospitals, dental and medical clinics, ambulatory care centers and research laboratories, th...
Phoenix International Holdings will help the U.S. Navy conduct worldwide deep ocean search and recovery operations under a five-year, $112 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Largo, Maryland-based company will perform engineering and technical support work for the Navy’s Ocean Engineering, Supervisor of Salvage and Di...
