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Kathy Warden, president and chief operating officer of Northrop Grumman, has said the company considers hypersonic missiles as a promising business line, USNI News reported Saturday. Warden, a three-time Wash100 recipient, told analysts at a conference call that Northrop’s innovation systems business, formerly Orbital ATK, expands the defense contractor’s portfolio of products into hypersonics. “We have […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $9.6 million contract to L3 Technologies and a $9.2 million contract to Boeing to supply flight training systems designed to train EA-18G pilots on tactical missions. Each company will provide two EA-18G tactical operational flight trainers and Boeing will also build one brief/debrief station for the service branch, the Defense Department said Friday. The Naval Air […] More

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon intend to separately respond to a solicitation for new active electronically scanned arrays for the U.S. Marine Corps’ fleet of legacy Hornet aircraft, Flightglobal reported Friday. The service branch issued a request for proposals in early July for advanced AESAs as part of a modernization requirement for 88 Boeing F/A-18C/Ds. Raytheon seeks to offer […] More

Dewberry has secured a position on a potential five-year, $45 million contract to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Army‘s Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Ala. Fairfax, Va.-based Dewberry said Friday it is one of three contractors who will vie for work to engineer  building automation, electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems for the  Defense Department and […] More

Honeywell has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide voice-directed systems for employees at approximately 24 distribution centers managed by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency. The company said Friday it will configure, test and implement the Vocollect technology for DLA’s warehouse staff to pick orders across U.S. military and federal supply chain activities worldwide. Vocollect comprises a headset equipped with […] More

Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy, a two-time Wash100 recipient, has said the company intends to make the Naval Strike Missile program a “multibillion-dollar franchise opportunity” by replacing the current international and local inventory of surface-to-surface missiles, Defense News reported Thursday. NSM is a joint effort of Raytheon and Norway-based Kongsberg and is an anti-ship missile that has […] More

Al Grasso, formerly president and CEO of Mitre, has been appointed to the board of directors of NetScout Systems. He joins the board as a class I director and is expected to be nominated at the Westford, Mass., company’s next annual meeting, to serve a second term that will run through 2021, NetScout said in […] More

ICF has received a contract extension to provide housing, infrastructure and economic development for New Jersey in aims to help the state recover from Superstorm Sandy. New Jersey’s Office of Community Affairs awarded the extension to support the state’s Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery program, the company said Thursday. Services under the contract support the […] More

The U.S. Army has tested the capacity of Lockheed Martin‘s PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor to counter an air-breathing threat during a test that was held at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Lockheed said Thursday the missile defense flight test showcased the missile defense system’s hit-to-kill mechanism and recorded the furthest distance that a PAC-3 MSE has intercepted […] More

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has issued a draft request for proposals for a recompete of its information technology services contract and raised the potential ceiling value of the procurement vehicle to $535 million, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. DTRA will hold a full and open competition for the Agency-Wide IT Service Design contract that covers work to design […] More