L3Harris Technologies has secured a five-year, $93 million contract to help the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority upgrade its public safety communications network system. The company said Friday it will build a new platform compliant with the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials Project 25 standards to enhance response times and collaboration among conductors, station personnel […] More

Boeing will produce two more CH-47F Block II Chinook aircraft for the U.S. Army under a $63 million fixed-price-incentive contract.  The Block II Chinook helicopters will include enhanced features such as redesigned fuel tank, sustained fuselage and drivetrain improvements, the aerospace company said Monday.  Funding and work locations for Boeing, the sole bidder for the […] More

Lockheed Martin’s space business has won a $62.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract from the U.S. Air Force for flight-qualified vector research and development activities. The Department of Defense said Thursday Lockheed Martin Space will perform R&D, design, demonstration, testing, integration and delivery of software and payload hardware over a three-year period. The company will perform work in […] More

ECS announced on Thursday that the company has secured a five-year, $53 million recompete contract in support of the U.S. Transportation Command’s Global Air Transportation Execution System.  “It’s a privilege to continue to support GATES, providing the cargo and passenger management capabilities necessary for USTRANSCOM to project and sustain the Joint Force,” said John Heneghan, president […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has secured a potential $163 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide design, development, modernization, sustainment, lifecycle and integration support to naval enterprise networks. SAIC said Thursday it will support shore networks, related components and network service platforms of the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific Shore Networks Branch in San […] More

The U.S. Navy has tapped V2X, the newly-merged entity of Vertex Company and Vectrus, to maintain and oversee three KC-130J aircraft for the Kuwait government under a $62.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Under the five-year contract, V2X will provide aircraft maintenance at an organizational and transitional capacity, logistics support, as well as minimal equipment repair services […] More

Leidos has secured a potential 66-month, $53 million task order from the U.S. Navy to study warfighters’ performance in air, water and special warfare settings and help increase their survivability in the mentioned environments. The company said Wednesday it will collect and analyze data, perform statistical analysis as well as provide computer programming and scientific reporting […] More

South Korea’s defense acquisition program agency has signed a $133 million contract with Textron’s Bell subsidiary to procure as many as 40 helicopters for military pilot training use, Yonhap News reported Monday. The Fort Worth, Texas-based aircraft builder said Tuesday it will aim to deliver Bell 505 trainers to the South Korean army and navy […] More

Arctos Technology Solutions has been awarded a $63 million contract to advance structural materials technologies addressing industrial base gaps and requirements of the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. Under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase III award, the Dayton, Ohio-based company will be tasked to provide the data analysis and visualization framework needed to […] More

The State Department has approved a potential $73 million foreign military sale, through which Argentina intends to purchase sustainment services and related equipment for the T-6 Texan II trainer aircraft. Kansas-based Textron would provide software and hardware modifications for the aircraft’s airframe and avionics to support the integration of external fuel tanks and training munitions, […] More

Dell Technologies‘ federal systems business has secured a $93.03 million U.S. Army contract to maintain the service branch’s software used for operating virtual computers. The firm-fixed-price contract provides for software maintenance to support the VMWare virtualization licenses already purchased by the Army, the Department of Defense said Friday. Dell Federal Systems, the only bidder to […] More

Amentum has secured a $73.03 million contract to support the overseas operations of the U.S. Navy in the Philippines potentially until April 2027. The cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for support services covers a base period, four optional periods, a demobilization phase and a six-month service extension, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Fiscal 2022 Navy operation and […] More