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    HII Subsidiary Awarded Navy Logistics Support Contract

    A subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries will provide integrated logistics support to the U.S. Navy under a potential five-year, $36.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Huntington Ingalls said Thursday AMSEC will support the Navy’s work to develop, maintain and manage hull, mechanical and electrical technical data. The contract also covers electronic publishing support, systems engineering, supply support, training and curriculum development work. AMSEC will perform work in California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania, […] More

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    Cubic Lands Air Force Combat Training Tool Contract; Bill Toti Comments

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has been awarded a contract to build a live, virtual and constructive tool for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing. Cubic said Thursday it will perform contract work on the LVC system intended for airborne combat training under the Secure LVC Advanced Training Environment Advanced Technology Demonstration program. AFRL’s […] More

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    Afghan Military Orders Additional Textron-Built Personnel Carriers

    A Textron subsidiary has been awarded a $56.2 million contract to build and deliver 55 more armored personnel carriers to Afghanistan through the U.S. Army‘s foreign military sales program. Textron Systems Marine & Land Systems is scheduled to deliver Commando Select APC vehicles for the Afghan National Army through February 2016. The contract covers production […] More

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    Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch: Air Force Bomber Contract Delayed for ‘Couple of Months’

    The U.S. Air Force has moved its schedule for the award of a contract on the Long-Range Strike Bomber aircraft toward the fall, DoD Buzz reported Tuesday. Brendan McGarry writes that Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, estimated that the delay will be a “couple […] More

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    ICF Lands Study, Database Support Contracts with HUD, HHS; John Boyle, Jon Moriarty Comment

    ICF International has won two contracts worth $36 million combined from the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services to provide database management support and continue work on a study. One potential four-year, $31.2 million recompete contract calls on ICF to continue its provide data collection, training and data analysis for the HUD Policy Development […] More

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    Thales-Raytheon JV Lands Sentinel Radar Supply Contract in Latvia

    A joint venture of Thales Group and Raytheon has been awarded a contract to supply mobile radar systems to Latvia’s armed forces. ThalesRaytheonSystems said Wednesday it will deliver four Improved Sentinel AN/MPQ-64 F1 radars to Latvia. Sentinel is a mobile, three-dimensional radar system intended for missile system coordination, infrastructure protection and airborne surveillance operations. The phased-array […] More

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    AECOM Awarded Selective Catalytic Reduction EPC Contract for New Mexico Power Plant; Michael Burke Comments

    AECOM will perform engineering, procurement and construction work on selective catalytic reduction components for a coal-fired power plant in New Mexico under a contract with Arizona Public Service. The contract covers the installation of SCR retrofits and related balance of plant systems and equipment at units 4 and 5 that APS operates at the New […] More

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    BWX Unit Secures Navy Nuclear Reactor Production Contracts

    A business unit of BWX Technologies has been awarded $34.5 million in contracts to produce nuclear reactors and related components for the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers and submarines. BWXT‘s nuclear operations group will perform majority of the contract work at its facilities in Virginia, Ohio and Indiana in the next two years, BWX Technologies said Monday. […] More

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    Nextgov: Advanced Onion Lands DISA Contract to Help Track OPM Breach Victims

    Advanced Onion has secured a $1.8 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to help find 21.5 million people whose personal data was compromised in a data breach at the Office of Personnel Management, Nextgov reported Monday. The technology company will work to build a system designed to log the reason for breach notification letters that […] More

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    Exelis to Help Navy Build, Test EW Decoys

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Exelis a potential three-year, $53.5 million contract to perform engineering and technical support work on decoy architecture payloads for electronic warfare. Exelis will help the Naval Research Laboratory’s tactical EW unit to develop and test the payloads under the sole-source contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The company will work […] More

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    Boeing to Produce Bomber Comm System Upgrade Kits for Air Force

    Boeing has been awarded a $46.7 million contract to provide tools for the U.S. Air Force to modernize a communications technology on its fleet of B-52 strategic bombers, Intelligent Aerospace reported Monday. John Keller writes the contract is for full-rate production of seven B-52 Combat Network Communication Technology upgrade kits. Boeing’s defense, space and security […] More

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    Leidos Awarded Air Force High-Frequency Emitter R&D Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Leidos a potential three-year, $18.7 million contract to perform research and develop new techniques in an effort to identify and locate high-frequency emitters through geolocation techniques. The Air Force received seven proposals for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Phase two of this contract covers the development of a hardware system and […] More