Mike Thurston, formerly a senior program manager at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been promoted to vice president of the defense group at the Reston, Virginia-headquartered information technology company, G2Xchange Defense reported Wednesday. The retired U.S. Army colonel brings to the role over three decades of military leadership experience, having pre...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has received a $250 million contract from the U.S. Army to research and develop artificial intelligence and machine learning tools for U.S. military applications. Army Contracting Command is the contracting activity and will determine work locations and budget upon the issuance of each contract order, the Departmen...
The U.S. Army has exercised the second option period of its other transaction agreements with Griffon Aerospace and Texton Systems (NYSE: TXT) to continue to evaluate and demonstrate their vertical takeoff and landing system offerings. The contract covers the evaluation of the companies’ Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System designs leading...
The U.S. Army awarded Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) a $150.9 million contract for research, development and technology services delivery until September 2028. The company was chosen to perform data engineering as well as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for the military branch, the Department of Defense said Friday. The cost-p...
RTX (NYSE: RTX) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) won other transaction authority agreements with a combined value of more than $730 million to perform necessary upgrades and replacement of FIM-92 Stinger missiles for the U.S. Army. RTX is expected to complete the OTA by March 2028, while Lockheed has until June 2028 to fulfill the...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) ordnance and tactical systems unit and Norwegian defense company Nammo’s Florida-based business arm have won spots on a five-year, $488.7 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce red bag charges used for firing in Howitzers containing M185 and M199 cannon tubes. Orders under the fixed-price-incentive contr...
Redcom Laboratories will provide communications hardware and software products to the U.S. Army under a potential five-year, $100 million contract. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award offers the service branch a vehicle to procure the Sigma products suite, including the XRI-400 command-and-control platform and the C2 Console applicatio...
BAE Systems was awarded a $797 million initial order to proceed with full-rate production of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle for the U.S. Army. The service branch said Thursday the contract value could reach $1.6 billion if it exercises options to order additional units of the AMPV, which is designed to replace the M113 family of...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) will provide the U.S. Army with hardware systems, components, system management platforms and non-personal services under the potential 10-year, $7.9 billion Common Hardware Systems-6th Generation indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland received three offer...
The U.S. Army has procured more 155mm Excalibur projectiles from Raytheon, a subsidiary of RTX (NYSE: RTX), under a $276.5 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract. Raytheon secured a $200.2 million initial award in April 2019 to supply containerized M982A1 Excalibur Increment IB munition to soldiers. The Department of ...
