Posts from GovCon Wire for 12/18/2015

Leidos Wins Spot on $750M USSOCOM ISR Support Contract; Sam Gordy Comments

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a prime position on a potential five-year, $750 million contract to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support to the U.S. Special Operations Command…

Lockheed Gets $361M Modification on PAC-3 Price Requirements for FMS Deal

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has received a $360.7 million contract modification from the U.S. Army for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 price requirements on a foreign military sale agreement with Saudi Arabia, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates…

BAE Awarded $279M to Provide Test Range Instruments to US, Foreign Govt Clients

The U.S. Air Force has awarded BAE Systems a potential five-year, $278.5 million contract to supply radar, telemetry and optical instruments at 28 domestic and international test ranges. BAE’s technology solutions and services unit will provide serviceable test range equipment to NASA, the departments of Defense and Energy and seven U…

Ashkan Soltani to Serve as Senior Adviser to Federal CTO Megan Smith

Ashkan Soltani, former chief technologist at the Federal Trade Commission, has joined the White House’s office of science and technology policy as a senior adviser to Federal Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, FCW’s Insider blog reported Wednesday…

Boeing to Update Navy’s P-8A Trainers Under $178M Contract Modification

Boeing (NYSE: BA) will perform upgrades on the U.S. Navy‘s P-8A multimission maritime aircraft training systems, electronic classrooms and support center under a $178.1 million contract modification…

Sikorsky Gets $145M Saudi Arabia MH-60R Helicopter Contract Modification

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) unit Sikorsky will manufacture MH-60R Seahawk multimission helicopters for Saudi Arabia under a three-year, $145.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Thursday that Sikorsky will provide 10 green MH-60Rs to the Royal Saudi Navy through the U…

General Dynamics Lands $72M Army Logistics Contract Modification for Iraq’s Combat Vehicles

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) land systems business unit has secured a potential one-year, $72.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to provide training and logistics support for Iraq’s Abrams M1A1 battle tanks and M88 recovery vehicles…

December 17 Market Close: GovCon Index Follows Commodity Markets Downward

The markets closed down today on the heels of weak commodity prices. Precious metals, oil and natural gas all closed down on the day. The GovCon Index market gainers for the day were CACI International (NYSE: CACI) closing at $99…