Posts from GovConWire for 04/26/2016

Navy Awards 12 Spots on $800M Multifunction RF Systems IDIQ

The U.S. Navy has awarded positions to 12 companies on a five-year, $800 million contract to prototype radio frequency components for electronic warfare, communications, radar and information operations…

Defense News: Rep. Mac Thornberry Adds Prototype Funding Language in Defense Bill

Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) has proposed a budget flexibility measure that would allow the Defense Department to prototype, experiment and field new technologies outside major DoD acquisition programs, Defense News reported Monday…

Orbital ATK Secures $121M Navy Contract Modification for HARM Missile Conversion

The U.S. Navy has awarded an Orbital ATK (NYSE: OA) business unit a $121.4 million contract modification to exercise an option to convert AGM-88B High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles into 145 Lot 5 full-rate production, anti-radiation guided missile all-up-rounds…

General Dynamics Receives Navy Common Aviation C2 System Contract Modification

General Dynamics has received a $9.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce five Common Aviation Command and Control System. The company will provide limited deployment units of the aviation command-and-control system, with work performed in Arizona, Maryland, Alabama and California through September 2017, the Defense Department said Monday…

GSA Taps Trane US for $114M NY Federal Building Energy Conservation Support Contract

Trane U.S., an Ingersoll Rand subsidiary, has received a potential $114 million contract from the General Services Administration to provide energy conservation support and implement related measures at 10 federal facilities in New York…

Vencore to Offer Software Dev’t Services Through GSA 18F Agile BPA Vehicle; Mac Curtis Comments

Vencore will work to provide software development services to government agencies under the potential $25 million Agile Delivery Services blanket purchase agreement of the General Services Administration‘s 18F digital services agency…

Lockheed Martin Nabs Navy Contract for CASS Logistics Maintenance, Support Services

A Lockheed Martin business unit has landed a $21.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy for logistics maintenance and support services for as many as 400 Consolidated Automated Support System stations…

Air Force Orders $90M in Raytheon Targeting System Turrets, Spares

Raytheon (NYSE:RTN) has received a two-year, $90.1 million contract to supply 39 Multi-Spectral Targeting System turrets to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Monday the company will also provide associated MTS data, spares and production support services under the fixed-price-incentive-firm contract…

SRI International to Help Navy Develop Sensors, Aviation Platforms

SRI International has been awarded a one-year, $7.8 million contract by the U.S. Navy to research methods for the development of surveillance, tracking, security and access control systems. The company aims to help develop a modular and open architecture approach for the military service to build sensors and aviation platform systems, the Defense Department said Monday…

Report: New U.S. Cyber Campaign to Target Islamic State Militants

The Defense Department has formed “national mission teams” to conduct offensive cyber-based operations against the Islamic State militant organization as part of a wider effort to disrupt the group’s communication activities, The New York Times reported Sunday…

April 25 Market Close: GovCon Index, US Stocks Weighed By Oil Declines & Earnings Worries

The GovCon Index followed the larger market forces of oil declines and concerns over corporate earnings reports Monday with a decline of 0.401 points to 75.968 on the first day of April 2016’s last trading week…