The State Department has approved a request from the South Korean government to purchase Boeing (NYSE: BA)-made munition guidance kits and related equipment and support services through a potential $258 million foreign military sales transaction. The possible sale includes over 7,100 units of three different Joint Direct Attack Munition Guidance Kit...
The State Department has named Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) as principal contractor on a potential $350 million foreign military sale of defense services to Australia, in preparation for future orders of company-built Standard Missile systems and associated equipment. Raytheon would develop, engineer, integrate and test SM-6 Block I and SM-2 Bl...
The State Department has approved a proposed $134 million foreign military sales agreement for follow-on technical support to Japan’s destroyer ships that carry the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) Aegis Combat System. A Defense Security Cooperation Agency notice posted Wednesday says the Japanese government asked to procure Aegis Class Destr...
The State Department has approved a potential $270 million foreign military sales deal covering sustainment equipment and services for Greece’s F-16 fighter aircraft fleet. L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), Collins Aerospace, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and Atec are the principa...
The State Department’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations has announced the selection of 12 companies to provide worldwide architectural and engineering support services under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The bureau made the selection from a shortlist of 25 companies initially announced in November, the State Departmen...
The State Department has approved Israel’s request to procure 18 CH-53K heavy-lift helicopters, manufactured by Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) Sikorsky subsidiary, through a potential $3.4 billion foreign military sales transaction with the U.S. government. The possible FMS deal will include T408-GE-400 engines from General Electric (NYSE...
The State Department has announced its intent to launch a full and open competition for a potential 10-year, $2.5 billion single-award contract to field, maintain, enhance, operate and support the Integrated Logistics Management System. ILMS is a supply chain management system that supports the department’s procurement, requisition, warehousing, t...
The State Department has approved a $445 million foreign military sale of heavy tactical vehicles, manufactured by Oshkosh‘s (NYSE: OSK) defense segment, to the Kuwaiti government. The order is for 517 Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks and Heavy Equipment Transporters to support cargo transport, vehicle recovery and resupply operations b...
The State Department has approved the Philippines’ request to buy 14 Boeing-made (NYSE: BA) Harpoon Block II missiles from the U.S. under a potential $120 million foreign military sales agreement. The Philippines asked to procure 12 AGM-84L-1 air-launched missiles, two ATM-84L-1 exercise missiles, containers, parts and training equipment as th...
The State Department has cleared a potential $2.43 billion foreign military sale of F-16 Block 70/72 fighter planes, manufactured by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), to the Philippine government. This proposed FMS transaction covers the procurement of 10 F-16C jets, a pair of F-16D units and 15 F100-PW-229EEP or F110-GE-129D engines, the Defense Securit...
