Tag Archives: USMC

Four companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $240M contract to perform a range of construction work at the U.S. Marine Corps’ facilities in Camp Lejeune, N.C., and surrounding areas.

Whiting-Turner Contracting has won a potential five-year, $161.2M contract covering five projects to replace hurricane-damaged facilities at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina. The company will build a 23K-square-foot security building and a 15K-square-foot headquarters squadron facility under the first project of the Hurricane Florence recovery package, the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

BAE Systems has received a $19M contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to design a wargaming center prototype that will incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analytics, modeling and simulation processes.

The U.S. Marine Corps is working with the U.S. Army to procure and deploy by fiscal year 2022 a lightweight rocket system that will increase the Marines’ lethality and allow them to fire shots from an enclosed position.

Nicholas Veasey, formerly vice president of investor relations at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH), has been named chief financial officer of Fairfax, Va.-based aviation services provider MAG Aerospace.

A joint venture comprised of AECOM (NYSE: ACM), Baker and Cardno has won a potential five-year, $95M contract from Naval Facilities Engineering Command Atlantic to help plan multiple projects on the East Coast and international locations.

Maj. Gen. Daniel Yoo, head of Marine Corps (USMC) Special Operations Command, and Lt. Gen. James Slife recently discussed the innovative ways each service branch will  experiment with emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance warfare operations. 

Duncan Greene, former vice president and general manager of the space intelligence business at BAE Systems Inc., has been appointed president of Akima's mission systems, engineering and technology group.

VSE (Nasdaq: VSEC) has received a contract from the U.S. Marine Corps and delivery orders under a foreign military sales contract from Naval Sea Systems Command, amounting to approximately $90M combined.

The National Spectrum Consortium has posted a final request for prototype proposals to inform its industry members of the opportunity to develop and demonstrate 5G-enabled technology prototypes in U.S. Marine Corps warehouse operations.