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...
Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, surgeon general of the U.S. Navy, will keynote an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event to set the stage for a discussion of the country’s pandemic response and resilience initiatives. Gillingham was confirmed to the post in October 2019 and is dual-hatted as chief of the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery....
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...
A subsidiary of Italy-based aerospace and defense company Leonardo has been awarded $159.4 million in contract options by the U.S. Navy to manufacture 36 TH-73A Lot III trainers and initial spares. AgustaWestland Philadelphia will build the additional TH-73As in an effort to help prepare Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard student aviators for flying...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Josh Jackson, senior vice president and portfolio lead for Science Applications International Corp.’s U.S. Navy and Marine Corps business, about the company’s recent contract win and CloudScend capabilities as well as the Navy’s human resource applications and tactic...
James Geurts, former acquisition chief of the U.S. Navy and a previous Wash100 awardee, and 35-year Air Force veteran Joseph Reynes, Jr. have been named advisory board members of technology company Epirus. They joined the board as Epirus aims to introduce technologies designed to help public and private sector clients to defend against electronic an...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) Pratt & Whitney business will continue to maintain military fighter aircraft engines for domestic and foreign military sales customers under a $447.6 million contract modification from Naval Air Systems Command. The Department of Defense said Tuesday that contract work involves recurring sustainment effor...
The Defense Logistics Agency has exercised an option period worth $149 million under its contract with the joint venture of Boeing (NYSE: BA) and Textron‘s (NYSE: TXT) Bell subsidiary for V-22 Osprey engineering and logistics services. Bell Boeing Joint Project Office will support the joint service tiltrotor aircraft platform for the U.S. Air ...
Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense subsidiary has received a $591.6 million modification under the U.S. Army’s Joint Light Tactical Vehicle acquisition contract to produce additional military trucks and trailers. This award covers the delivery of 1,669 JLTV tucks, 868 trailers and associated kits and components to domestic and foreign militar...
Kevin Randall, formerly a business development director at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC), has joined World Wide Technology to serve as client director for federal systems integrators, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday. Randall brings experience leading services in support of a wide range of federal agencies and military organizati...
