Contract Awards

The F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office plans to award multiple contract actions to RTX business Pratt & Whitney to continue the work started under the F135 Engine Enhancement Program, now called F135 Engine Core Upgrade. Pratt & Whitney had been working on the EEP as the sole-source awardee of the Engine Enhancement Preliminary Design contract, which was issued in 2022 and is set to conclude by February 2024, according to a notice posted Monday on SAM.gov.

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Northrop Grumman has received a potential $265 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue providing engineering and logistics support services for a U.S. Marine Corps multimission radar system designed to detect and track remotely piloted vehicles, cruise missiles and other airborne threats. The modification increases the ceiling value of a previously awarded basic ordering agreement to $514.3 million, the Department of Defense said Monday.

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Rigetti Computing has received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to proceed with the second phase of the Quantum Benchmarking Program. Under the potential $1.5 million award, the company said Tuesday it will collaborate with the University of Technology Sydney, Aalto University and the University of Southern California to develop benchmarks for quantum application performance.

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RENK Systems, an Indiana-based industrial test systems developer, has won a $49 million contract to develop three test stands for the CH-53K King Stallion helicopters of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps. The Department of Defense said Friday the company will work through November 2025 to conduct testing on various gearbox assemblies and deliver corresponding logistics, calibration, maintenance and sustainment support.

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The U.S. Army awarded Ultra Defense Corp. a position on a potential $490 million contract to supply special ammunition and weapon systems to the service branch. The award was announced in a notice posted Tuesday on SAM.gov, three weeks after the Army revealed the three other companies that landed spots on the five-year project.

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