News

A team composed of Battelle, Huntington Ingalls Industries, Northrop Grumman and Riptide will collaborate with the Naval Surface Warfare Center to demonstrate multi-platform technologies during a U.S. Navy-hosted exercise. The team will showcase autonomy, communications and mission awareness platforms designed to aid battlespace missions in a contested environment on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the Advanced Naval Technology Exercise, Battelle […] More

BAE Systems‘ land and armaments business has received a potential $16.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce two MK 110 Mod 0 gun mounts along with associated hardware. The Defense Department said Monday each gun mount will include a 57mm medium caliber gun; a barrel-mounted television camera; an ammunition hoist; a muzzle velocity […] More

NASA has asked industry to submit concept studies on solar electric propulsion vehicle platforms designed to support future deep space exploration missions. A draft broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps says the agency seeks study proposals to support the development of concepts and approaches related to the power and propulsion element under the Next Space Technologies […] More

General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic has said the company is on schedule to complete design and development work on the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. Novakovic said Wednesday at the Jefferies 2017 Industrials Conference in New York City the Falls Church, Virginia-based defense contractor expects to record $75 billion in revenue […] More

Raytheon will expand its existing 103,000-square-foot facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and add 60 manufacturing jobs in the next six years, Albuquerque Business First reported Friday. New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez’s office announced the company’s expansion plan that will receive $850,000 in funds from the state’s economic development agency through the Local Economic Development Act and […] More

An L3 Technologies subsidiary has received a $48.8 million contract to inspect, test and update U.S. Army and Marine Corps AN/TSC-156 tactical satellite communications terminals. The Defense Department said Friday that L3’s Communication Systems West business in Salt Lake City, Utah, will support AN/TSC-156B/D and AN/TSC-156C terminals under the contract. Work is scheduled to occur through through Aug. 10, 2022. The Army Contracting Command is […] More

PCX Aerostructures has received a five-year, $7.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide additional right connecting links for the U.S. Army‘s Apache AH-64 weapon systems. The Defense Department said Friday that DLA will use fiscal 2017 through fiscal 2022 Army working capital funds to procure the equipment. DLA also awarded PCX a […] More