Posts from GovConWire for 01/28/2016

Executive Mosaic Unveils 2016 Wash100 Inductees: GovCon’s Most Influential Voices

The year 2015 for government contractors was one that featured major landscape shifts in its composition unlike any other since the post-Cold War drawdown in the 1990s that resulted in consolidation among the defense market’s largest companies…

Navy Awards 8 Spots on $809M NAVSUP Business Systems Center Support IDIQ

The U.S. Navy has awarded positions on a potential four-year, $809 million contract to eight companies to provide process management and data support services for the Naval Supply Systems Command Business Systems Center…

Rolls-Royce Receives $154M Air Force C-130J Spare Engines, Sustainment Contracts

Rolls-Royce has received $154 million in contracts from the U.S. Air Force to produce spare engines and sustain the propulsion system of the Lockheed Martin-built (NYSE: LMT) C-130J aircraft. Rolls-Royce will complete the production of AE 2100 engines for the Air Force and Saudi Arabia under a $77…

NIH Awards Leidos $17M Software, Tech Support Task Order

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential $17 million task order to provide software development and technical support to the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review. The company said Wednesday it will work on the maintenance of web-based, desktop and mobile-based applications, technical support for premise and remote access and as well as hardware and software development…

General Dynamics Gets $171M Army Stryker Weapon System Simulator Contract

General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) land systems business unit has won a $170.7 million contract to produce a simulator for the Raytheon-built (NYSE: RTN) weapon system onboard Stryker vehicles. The U.S. Army awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract following an Internet-based solicitation and will determine the funding with each order, the Defense Department saidWednesday…

John Nicholson Jr. Nominated for Top NATO, US Command Post in Afghanistan

U.S. Army Lt. Gen. John Nicholson Jr., commander of NATO Allied Land Command, has been nominated to succeed Gen. John Campbell as commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, DoD News reported Wednesday…

Air Force Picks 6 for $538M Battle Mgmt, C2 Systems Integration IDIQ

Six companies have won spots on a potential seven-year, $538 million contract to engineer and integrate battle management and command-and-control systems for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force received 10 offers for its Platform for Engineering and Integration of Tactical and Strategic Systems contract through a competitive process and has obligated $5,000 each to the six awardees at the time of award, the Defense Department saidWednesday…

January 27 Market Close: Boeing, Booz Allen, Textron Declines Drag GovCon Index Below 70 to 3-Month Low

The GovCon Index plunged 2.438 percent to 69.664 in its first close below the 70-point mark for the first time in almost four months to keep the 30-company listing in a correction, or at least 10 percent down from its most recent high…