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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
CDI Corp. has secured a potential five-year, $38 million task order from the U.S. Navy to deploy subject matter experts who will support the Commander of the Naval Surface Forces Pacific. The company said Monday it will assemble a readiness assistance team to provide sailor-centric engineering and combat systems training, review materials, audit programs and […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $41.8 million modification to provide lifetime support for the Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System on the Australian navy’s Hobart-class air warfare destroyers. The modification exercises a foreign military sales option under a potential $421 million contract awarded to the company last year, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Lockheed’s mission systems […] More
BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business has received $15.2 million in contract funds to modify an integration design for the U.S. Army‘s future Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle platform. The Defense Department said Monday the company will work to accommodate evolving Army network software and hardware necessary to be integrated into the AMPV design. The service branch […] More
A consortium of Polish state-owned defense companies intends to start exclusive further negotiations with Lockheed Martin on the development of a mobile artillery missile launcher system for Poland’s armed forces. The Polish Armament Group selected Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System offering as the basis of the country’s Homar program, the company said Friday. The program […] More
Orbital ATK has received a five-year, $53.6 million contract modification to supply an undisclosed number of M1156 precision guidance kits to the U.S. Army. The full obligated amount at the time of award is from the service branch’s fiscal 2017 “other” funds, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur at an Orbital ATK facility in Plymouth, […] More
Leonardo DRS has received a potential five-year, $15.7 million contract to sustain a two-way satellite communications system the U.S. Army uses to receive and transmit sensitive data. The company will implement engineering change proposals to address obsolescence and provide engineering logistics services for the service branch’s AN/URC-145A(V) Joint Tactical Terminal-Integrated Broadcast Service, the Defense Department said […] More
The U.S. Army has awarded L3 Technologies a pair of contracts worth up to $63.5 million combined to produce hardware and provide engineering technical services for remote operated video enhanced receiver technology. L3 will perform work at a company facility in Salt Lake City, Utah through June 29, 2021, the Defense Department said Friday. A ROVER device […] More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing‘s defense, space and security division a five-year, $38.4 million contract to support mid-life upgrade and in-service sustainment efforts for France’s airborne warning and control system aircraft. The Defense Department said Thursday that BDS will provide recurring and non-recurring engineering services to French E-3F Sentry AWACS fleet under the […] More
A General Atomics subsidiary has received a $27.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to address diminishing manufacturing sources for the primary data link of MQ-9 Gen 4 Predator remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will perform work under the sole-source contract in Poway, California through Nov. 29, 2019, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has secured a prime position on a potential $2.5 billion contract for information technology support services to government agencies across the state of Maryland. Bob Genter, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s federal civilian customer group, said in a statement released Tuesday the company aims to introduce advanced IT platforms […] More
Boeing has received a $48.9 million delivery order to provide retrofit kits for the F/A-18 Hornet jets of the U.S. Navy and Australia. The order will support an engineering change proposal under the combat aircraft’s trailing edge flap retrofit redesign program, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted the full obligated amount at the time of award […] More
An Apache–Logical joint venture has secured a potential $65 million contract to provide institutional support services at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA said Saturday the KISS IV indefinite-quantity/indefinite-delivery contract has 14 base months, three option years and an additional five-month option Work is scheduled to begin Aug. 1 and covers support for KSC’s […] More
