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    Raytheon to Build Lot 2 Small Diameter Bombs for Air Force

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a $49.2 million contract modification for the production of Lot 2 Small Diameter Bomb Increment II weapons and containers. Raytheon’s missile systems business will perform work in Tucson, Arizona through Sept. 30, 2018, the Defense Department said Thursday. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded fixed-price incentive firm contract. The Air […] More

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    FCi to Help State Dept Process Diplomatic Mails; Michael Petrucelli Comments

    The State Department has awarded FCi Federal a five-year, $25.5 million prime contract to support DOS diplomatic pouch and mail services. FCi said Thursday it will help the department incoming and outgoing mails at two government-run facilities located in Virginia under the contract. Michael Petrucelli, executive vice president of corporate development at FCi, said the company currently […] More

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    UES to Help Air Force Researchers Develop Nanoelectronic Materials

    UES has won a potential six-year, $42 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to research and develop advanced materials for electronic, magnetic and electro-optical applications. The Defense Department said Tuesday that UES will help the Air Force Research Laboratory produce materials the service branch can use to update digital, radio frequency, radar, infrared detector, opto-electronic, communications, power generation, sensing […] More

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    Alphaport Lands NASA Mission Assurance, Safety Support Contract

    Alphaport has received a potential five-year, $47.5 million contract to provide mission assurance and safety support services to NASA. The company will provide such services under the Safety and Mission Assurance Support Services III contract through risk evaluation, investigations, engineering analyses, inspections and assessment of work done by other NASA institutions and contractors, NASA said Wednesday. […] More

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    Air Force Taps Raytheon to Retrofit, Maintain F-16 Center Display Units

    Raytheon has secured an $8.8 million contract to equip the U.S. Air Force‘s F-15 multirole fighter aircraft with center display units. The Defense Department said Tuesday Raytheon will retrofit 130 F-16 CDUs as well as provide organic depot maintenance stand-up services under the firm-fixed-price contract. DoD noted the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will obligate the full contract […] More

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    Maximus to Help Run Idaho’s New Statewide Employment & Training Services Program

    Maximus has secured a contract to help Idaho’s department of health and welfare manage a new program that offers workforce services to eligible participants in the state’s Supplemental Nutritional Assistance and Temporary Assistance for Families in Idaho programs. The company said Tuesday it will work with SNAP and TAFI beneficiaries to gauge their skills and interests, build a career plan and […] More

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    Mikros to Supply Navy With Combat System Sensor Monitoring Units

    Mikros Systems has received a five-year, $48 million contract to supply Adaptive Diagnostic Electronic Portable Test Distance Support Sensor Suite units and spare parts to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also perform engineering work on ADSSS units under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Work will occur in various locations across the continental U.S. through September 2021. ADSSS is designed to integrate […] More

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    Whiting-Turner Contracting to Build Modular Clinics for Navy

    Whiting-Turner Contracting has won a $29.4 million contract to construct temporary modular medical or clinical facilities at a U.S. Navy base in Bethesda, Maryland. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will build the healthcare facilities at Naval Support Activity Bethesda to supplement space vacated by a demolition effort. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command received two offers for the […] More

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    Battelle to Extend Environmental Tech Development, Assessment Support for EPA

    The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Battelle a potential five-year, $55 million contract for the development and assessment of technologies, processes and tools designed to mitigate pollution as well as restore ecosystems. Battelle said Wednesday it will also continue to help EPA conduct tests and evaluations in an effort to address drinking water problems, aging water infrastructure and greenhouse emissions in […] More

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    Peter Smith: American Systems to Continue Support for DoD’s Developmental Test & Evaluation Office

    Washington Headquarters Services has awarded American Systems a potential five-year, $52 million contract to provide professional engineering services to the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation. American Systems said Friday its warfare area professionals will work to manage, review and evaluate approximately 150 major defense acquisition program and major automated information […] More

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    Ceres Power, Cummins to Build Data Center Fuel Cell Tech Under DOE Contract

    Cummins and Ceres Power will collaborate to develop fuel cell power generation technology for potential use in data centers under a $4.9 million contract awarded by the Energy Department. The partnership seeks to create a modular solid oxide fuel cell system in efforts to increase the efficiency of electrical systems by at least 60 percent and support distributed power applications up to 100 kilowatts, Ceres Power said Thursday. “This is […] More

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    Progeny Systems Receives $66M Navy Contract for Lightweight Torpedo Sonar Assembly Kits

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Progeny Systems a $66.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-only Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract to provide MK 54 Mod 1 lightweight torpedo sonar assembly kits and associated test equipment, spare units and engineering and hardware services. The Navy will use Progeny’s sonar assembly kits to build, test and evaluate MK 54 Mod […] More