Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured an approximately $50 million contract to help the U.S. Navy’s Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory to study the health and performance of undersea warfighters. The contract was competitively procured and not fixed price due to the nature of the work, according to an award notice posted Wednesday on SAM.go...
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE: LHX) has booked a potential five-year, $141.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture common data link terminals for installation on surface combatant ships. The service branch obligated $16 million at the time of award to procure Hawklink AN/SRQ-4 radio terminal sets, the Department of Defense said Friday. Un...
Guam-based Black Micro Corp. has booked a potential $225.7 million contract to conduct four construction activities at Tinian International Airport in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, with the U.S. Air Force obligating $221.7 million at the time of award. The projects involve building a cargo pad with taxiway extension, fuel t...
Raytheon Technologies‘ (NYSE: RTX) missiles and defense business will engineer the combat system of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers under a one-year, $308.5 million contract option. The funds will also cover miscellaneous items and travel activities that support work on the fleet’s mission systems and equipm...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has received a $313.4 million contract modification to perform additional support services for the U.S. Navy’s Super Hornet service life extension program. The company will perform engineering work to extend the F/A-18 E/F’s active life by 4,000 flight hours to 10,000 and equip the aircraft with Block III avionics confi...
Michael Brasseur, a 26-year U.S. Navy veteran and a maritime robotics specialist, has joined the U.S. subsidiary of Swedish defense contractor Saab as vice president and chief strategy officer. The retired captain will be responsible for helping Saab Inc. address its strategic goals and customer requirements through collaboration with the government...
GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks is a top voice in cybersecurity and government technology usage at large. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University focusing on risk management, homeland security technologies and, of course, cybersecurity and has won a number of distinctions over the years. Brooks recently interviewed Kelley Kiernan, t...
Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) aeronautics business will move to boost the production capacity for F-35 Block 4 jets after the Naval Air Systems Command awarded a $172.1 million order modification under a basic ordering agreement. The company will use the money to obtain special test and tooling equipment and kits to support Next Gen Distribute...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) will supply updated Harpoon tactical missile systems to foreign military sales customers under a $1.17 billion order modification from the U.S. Navy. The award covers 400 Harpoon Block II Update missiles, containers, blast test vehicles, joint common test sets, equipment, spare parts, technical documentation, logistics support and ...
Leonardo DRS (Nasdaq: DRS) has reported more than $1 billion in contract awards to manufacture electric propulsion hardware for the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines. The defense technology supplier said Monday production efforts will occur at various facilities in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Missouri. Will...
