The U.S. Air Force has issued a solicitation for the second phase of the Launch Service Procurement program, which seeks to award fixed-price contracts to two domestic commercial service providers that can launch national security payloads through 2027. œWe must move forward now. We are answering Congress™ 2014 directive to transition off ...
A new McAleese & Associates report says Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) saw its sales rise 22 percent to $8.2B in the first quarter of 2019 and recorded a sector operating profit growth of 27 percent. Jim McAleese, founder and principal of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote the Falls Church, Va.-based def...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) received a potential two-year, $132.3M contract to help integrate counter-missile systems onto aircraft for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Army as well as the governments of Norway and U.K. under the foreign military sales program. The undefinitized contract action covers the procurement of Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasure...
Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented David Drabkin, chairman of the Section 809 Panel, with his first Wash100 Award on Tuesday. Executive Mosaic recognizes Drabkin for his role in the realignment of the Department of Defense™s acquisition process in 2018. We are ecstatic to present the most coveted award in government ...
A Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) subsidiary, booked $194M in U.S. Army orders to supply small-caliber ammunition products. Alliant Techsystems Operations will produce 5.56mm, 7.62mm and Cal. 50 cartridges at a government-owned, contractor-operated manufacturing facility located in Independence, Mo., Northrop said Tuesday. More than 18B small-caliber r...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a potential $3.2B contract modification to manufacture lots 7 to 11 of early warning aircraft for the U.S. Navy. The company will deliver 24 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye units through the modification, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The Navy definitized a $99.7M contract action issued last year for lot...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has been awarded a $104M contract to provide 503 technical refresh mission computers designed for UH-1Y, AH-1Z and UH-60V helicopters. The company will provide production, retrofit and spare units to the Defense Logistics Agency, U.S. Marine Corps and Bahrain through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, ...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) have secured contract modifications from the U.S. Army to supply new and recapitalized cartridges for 120mm tank training ammunition. The service awarded a potential $58.9M modification to General Dynamics™ ordnance and tactical systems business and a $36.8M modification to Northrop&#...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has won a potential five-year, $113.8M contract to provide computing services to the U.S. Army’s Fort Huachuca installation in Arizona. The service branch obligated $16M at the time of award from its fiscal 2019 “other” procurement funds, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Army Contracting Comman...
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has landed a spot on a potential 10-year, $980M contract vehicle to provide technology platforms in support the U.S. Army’s electronic and cyber warfare missions. The R4 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will serve as a means for the service branch to order new cyber tools as well as systems moderniza...
