The U.S. Navy has awarded contracts to General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) Bath Iron Works subsidiary and HII’s (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division to perform shipbuilder engineering and design analysis for the next-generation guided-missile destroyer program. The contractors will come up with design products in support of preliminary and contrac...
The U.S. Navy has issued a multiple-award delivery order contract to manufacture sonobuoys for the service, international partners and foreign military sales clients. Multiple vendors will compete for sonobuoy delivery orders under MADOC to enable the Navy to replenish its expendable sonar systems used in anti-submarine warfare operations on a daily...
The Space Development Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) prototype agreements worth $1.3 billion combined to build and deploy 28 satellites for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s tracking layer. The Tranche 1 Tracking Layer is expected to launch beginning in April 2025 ...
William LaPlante, under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, has shared that Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and the Department of Defense reached a “handshake” deal for the next lot buy of about 375 units of the F-35 fighter jet, Reuters reported Monday. While production is set to take a three-year period like the previous...
The Department of Defense has begun its search for a new executive who will succeed Michael Brown as director of the Defense Innovation Unit, which helps DOD speed up the adoption of commercial technologies to strengthen national security. Brown, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, will step down from his role as DIU director once his...
U.S. Transportation Command has awarded contract modifications to 11 companies to continue providing ocean and intermodal distribution services worldwide. The modifications exercise the option period on previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts and work is set to begin on Sept. 1 and run through Aug. 31, 2023, the Departme...
The U.S. Army plans to release in August a solicitation for a potential 10-year, $7.9 billion contract to purchase commercial information technology platforms in support of the service branch, the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. Common Hardware Systems 6th Generation is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that seeks...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) land systems business has received a potential five-year, $145.5 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide spare parts for several combat vehicles. The spare parts are intended for the U.S. Army’s Abrams main battle tanks, Stryker family of vehicles, Buffalo, Cougar, RG-31 and family of light armo...
Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $185.9 million contract option to provide engineering design and development services for the U.S. Navy’s submarine fleet. The military branch will obligate $18.4 million at the time of award using its fiscal 2022 funds for research, development, test and evaluation and shipbu...
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a potential five-year, $307.1 million contract from the U.S. Army to repair and recertify its Phased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Advanced Capability-3 missiles. U.S. Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama is the contracting activity and obligated at the time of award $150.4 mi...
