Posts from GovCon Wire for 12/30/2015

Raytheon Awarded $467M to Produce Satcom Terminals for US, UK Naval Ships

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command has awarded Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) a potential seven-year, $466.6 million contract to provide multiband satellite communications terminals to the U.S. and British naval forces…

Serco Inc. Wins $131M NAVFAC Lifecycle Sustainment Support Contract

The U.S. Navy has awarded Serco Inc. a potential six-year, $131.5 million contract to provide lifecycle sustainment support for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s access control and command, physical security, computers, communications and intelligence systems…

NBC News: Iranian Navy Test-Fires Rockets Near USS Harry S. Truman

Two U.S. military officials have said the Iranian navy conducted a live-fire test of its rockets approximately 1,500 yards from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz Saturday, NBC News reported Tuesday…

Thales-Raytheon JV Lands Army Sentinel Lifecycle Contract

A joint venture of Thales and Raytheon has been awarded a $17.04 million contract to provide sentinel lifecycle contractor support to the U.S. Army from 2016 to 2018. Thales Raytheon Systems will perform depot maintenance, overhaul, contingency operations, repair, transportation, procurement, software and firmware sustainment and technical data package maintenance, the Defense Department said Tuesday…

Air Force Adds Black & Veatch to $500M Architect-Engineering Services IDIQ

Black & Veatch Special Projects Corp. has won a position on a potential eight-year, $500 million contract to provide architect-engineering environmental services for the U.S. Air Force. The company is the latest addition to a list of awardees that will compete for environmental restoration, operations and maintenance, compliance, military family housing, closures and base realignment support orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday…

Mercury Systems Eyes National Security Sector With Newly Acquired Electronics Firm

Mercury Systems (Nasdaq: MRCY) has acquired privately held electronics company Lewis Innovative Technologies in efforts to expand Mercury’s embedded secure processing technology portfolio for the national security sector…

Report: 2016 Funding Bill Includes Security Clearance Reform Provision

A proposed fiscal 2016 omnibus spending bill contains a provision that would require federal agencies to use government, commercial and publicly available information sources to re-evaluate security clearance holders, Federal News Radio reported Monday…

December 29 Market Close: GovCon Index Rebounds, On Course for 10% Yearly Gain

The GovCon Index recovered ground with the larger U.S. financial market Tuesday with a gain of 0.590 points to 78.263 and remains on track for a year-to-date gain of 10 percent with one-and-a-half trading days left in 2015…