A new study by RAND Corp. has found that bid protests that defense contractors filed with the Government Accountability Office do not hamper the Defense Department™s procurement process for weapons and services, Bloomberg reported Thursday. RAND™s National Defense Research Institute carried out the congressionally mandated study and f...
Boeing‘s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business has received a $193.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to manufacture additional Small Diameter Bombs for six foreign military sales customers. The modification covers the procurement of 6,000 more SDB Increment 1 all-up-rounds under the company’s basic in...
The U.S. Transportation Command has selected 14 companies to provide air cargo transportation services under a potential five-year, $227.9 million contract. The indefinite–delivery/indefinite–quantity contract contains a one-year base period with a guaranteed minimum award to each contractor, The Defense Department said Friday. Work...
ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) and Parsons‘ government services arm have won positions on a potential eight-year, $175 million contract to support the U.S. Army Research Laboratory’s computational and information sciences directorate. The Army Contracting Command received five bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract that covers ...
A subsidiary of AECOM (NYSE: ACM) will continue to provide support services for the U.S. Army‘s prepositioned stock program under a one-year, $114.5 million contract modification. URS Federal Services will deliver maintenance, supply and transportation logistics services at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait and in Doha, Qatar, the Defense Department said F...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing (NYSE: BA) a one-year, $148.5 million contract modification for depot-level maintenance support and sustainment work on F/A-18 A/B/C/D multirole combat jets. The modification exercises an option under a previously awarded contract and includes high flight hour and HFH recurring inspections, modification and...
Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has received a potential $634.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles to the service branch and 10 foreign military sales customers. The fixed-price-incentive-firm-target contract is for lot 31 of AMRAAM systems composed of missiles, spares and telemetry kits...
A joint venture of Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) will refurbish fire control radars of the U.K. under a potential $103.1 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army. Longbow will work with the International Apache Attack Helicopter Project Office at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama through U.K....
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a four-year, $255.3 million modification under a U.S. Navy contract to produce a third batch of MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft systems. The company will provide three low-rate initial production MQ-4Cs to the service branch under the modification, the Defense Department said Thursda...
General Electric‘s (NYSE: GE) aviation unit has received a potential five-year, $380 million to provide technical, engineering and technical support services for the U.S. Army‘s T700 turbine engine recapitalization effort. GE Aviation will also overhaul, convert and repair the engine along with modules and identified component...
