Boeing (NYSE: BA) and AAR‘s (NYSE: AIR) government services subsidiary were awarded contract modifications worth $182.8 million combined to help repair, replace and maintain maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft engines for domestic and international military customers. Both contractors will deliver P-8A Poseidon aircraft depot-level mai...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking industry comments on a draft program announcement for the first and second phases of a program to establish a U.S.-based center for research, development and manufacturing of 3D heterogeneously integrated microsystems. A notice posted Monday on SAM.gov states that the Next-Generation Microelec...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat subsidiary has secured a potential $216.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide long-lead-time materials in support of construction work on two Virginia-class submarines. Work on SSN 814 and SSN 815 fast-attack submarines will occur in Minnesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, M...
The U.S. Army has posted a draft request for proposal for a follow-on multiple award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that will be used to procure research and development capabilities in support of Space and Missile Defense Command missions. According to the SAM.gov posting, the Design, Development, Demonstration and Integration II ...
The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific has awarded five companies a $98 million contract modification to continue providing the U.S. military with incidental construction and other global contingency services. AECOM (NYSE: ACM), Fluor (NYSE: FLR), KBR (NYSE: KBR), IAP and ECC joint venture and V2X (NYSE: VVX) will provide short-ter...
The U.S. Air Force has announced its intent to increase the potential maximum value of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that provides information technology products and support services for Strategic Command. A notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov states that the Air Force plans to increase the Information Technology Capabilities Con...
By Chuck Brooks, President of Brooks Consulting International With its broad national security role, the DOD has been a pioneer in the development of numerous innovative cybersecurity solutions. This makes sense given its lengthy history and the quantity and caliber of resources devoted to both research and development and the acquisition of technol...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded six companies spots on a potential five-year, $1.25 billion contract for technical, advisory and analytical support services. DARPA received 12 offers for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which will provide services for all of the agency’s technical and ...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has secured a potential three-year, $178 million contract from the U.S. Navy to expand the Naval Industrial Reserve Ordnance Plant at the Allegany Ballistic Laboratory in West Virginia. Work on the firm-fixed-price undefinitized contract action will occur in Rocket Center, West Virginia, through September 2026, the Depar...
Vincent DiFronzo, senior vice president of SAIC’s Air Force, Combatant Command and Department of Defense Agency unit, has been appointed chair of Executive Mosaic’s 4×24 DOD Group. The 4×24 leadership series is the government contracting industry’s premier executive networking program. Designed to promote the sharing of ide...
