Products & Service

Raytheon has received a one-year, $34.3 million contract option from the U.S. Navy to provide life cycle engineering and support services for the integrated shipboard electronic systems on San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships. The Defense Department said Friday the exercised option covers post-delivery planning, homeport technical support, integrated product data environment, data maintenance, equipment management, systems integration, software support and research […] More

The U.S. Navy plans to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman for the full-rate production of lots 7 to 11 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The fixed-price contract to be awarded by the Naval Air Systems Command covers 20 aircraft and contains a “variation in quantity” option that could bring the total number of planes to 40, […] More

Saab has received a contract from Sweden’s defense material administration to develop and produce torpedo integration systems for A26 submarines. The company said Wednesday it will construct, manufacture and verify integration systems for two A26 submarines the agency ordered for the Swedish navy last year. Saab will also update current systems on Visby-class corvettes and Gotland-class submarines under the contract. “With […] More

The Defense Commissary Agency has partnered with grocery distributor and retailer SpartanNash in an initiative to bring private-label products to U.S. military commissaries around the world. SpartanNash said Thursday it will support the implementation of the program and help drive future growth. The company added it will work closely with DeCA to launch the program, which agency executives hope will increase […] More

Deltek has added profiles of state, local and education organizations to the company’s market intelligence platform in a push to help government contractors identify  new business opportunities. GovWin IQ now offers data-based comparisons of more than 100,000 SLED organizations based on population, employment, expenditures and procurement activity, Deltek said Thursday. Kevin Plexico, vice president of Deltek’s information solutions business, said the company designed […] More

Prescient has released its mobile application for traveler safety on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s GEOINT app store. The company said Wednesday Defense Department and Intelligence Community personnel with common access cards can now download the Prescient Traveler app directly to approved mobile devices for free use across the globe. Prescient Traveler offers cultural information and visuals for more than 650 […] More

BAE Systems has received a $15.3 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply 242 retrofit systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s (AN/ALE)-58A countermeasure dispenser platform. The Defense Department said Thursday the (AN/ALE)-58A platform is designed to dispense countermeasure decoys such as chaffs and flares in order to disrupt radar and infrared homing threats and increase aircraft survivability. BAE’s electronic systems […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries turned over the USS John Finn guided missile destroyer to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony held on the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division signed the DD 250 document that represents the  official transfer of the ship’s custody to the military service, the company said Wednesday. “Years of working with the DDG 51 program has created a team […] More

The U.S Air Force has awarded Pelatron Technologies a potential five-year, $22 million contract to support the military branch’s F-16 aircraft-related programs. Pelatron will provide software, systems and interface design, sustainment and intelligence analyst engineering services for the F-16 systems program office, the Defense Department said Friday. The company will also conduct ground test and flight test, information assurance and cybersecurity […] More

Airbus‘ helicopters business has received a purchase order for three H215 multi-role rotorcraft from the German federal police through Germany’s federal ministry of interior. The company will deliver the helicopters in early 2019 and the German federal police will use the aircraft to perform maritime emergency and police missions, Airbus said Wednesday. The twin-engine rotorcraft is part […] More

DynCorp International has landed a $23 million task order with the U.S. Air Force to maintain the 357th Aircraft Maintenance Unit’s A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft. The company said Wednesday it will perform contract work at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona through March 2018 under the Davis-Monthan Contract Field Team task order. Mark Mirelez, DI’s aviation engineering, logistics […] More

Chile has finalized a contract to procure six S-70i Black Hawk helicopters from Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary to aid in troop transport, search-and-rescue and disaster relief missions. Sikorsky said Wednesday it aims to complete delivery of the Black Hawks to Chile’s air force in 2018 as part of the service branch’s medium-lift helicopter recapitalization program. The direct commercial sale transaction […] More