Posts from GovConWire for 05/05/2016

Booz Allen to Support Intell Community IT Enterprise Under Potential $400M DIA Contract

Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has won a potential five-year, $400 million contract to provide enterprise management services to the Defense Intelligence Agency‘s chief information officer and other components of the Defense Department and the U…

Honeywell Wins $130M DTRA Instrumentation Test Support IDIQ

Honeywell (NYSE: HON) has won a potential 10-year, $130 million contract to provide instrumentation test services for the test diagnostics branch under the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s research and development office…

FAA’s Michael Huerta Unveils New Drone Advisory Committee, Schools’ Exemption on UAS Flights

The Federal Aviation Administration will form a broad-based drone advisory committee to provide insights on unmanned aircraft system integration challenges. FAA said Wednesday that the committee serves as a long-term spinoff of the stakeholder-based and temporary UAS registration task force and micro-UAS aviation rulemaking committee…

Austal USA Gets Long-Lead Items Procurement Funds for 12th Navy EPF Vessel

Austal USA has received a $24.6 million contract to buy long-lead-time materials needed for the design and construction of a shallow-draft vessel meant to transport U.S. Navy personnel and equipment…

Rockwell Collins to Deliver 2,000 GPS Receivers for Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robots

Rockwell Collins will deliver approximately 2,000 MicroGRAM GPS receivers to Neya Systems and Northrop Grumman to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System…

L-3 Subsidiary Receives Navy Delivery Order for EO Sensor System Depot Spares

L-3 Communications subsidiary L-3 KEO has received a $9.3 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide MK 46 and MK 20 electro-optical sensor system depot spares. The Defense Department said Wednesday L-3 KEO will deliver the spares for the Navy as well as the government of South Korea under the foreign military sales program…

General Dynamics Secures Air Force Contract Modification for IFF Production

General Dynamics has landed a $20.9 million modification from the U.S. Air Force for a previously awarded KIV-78 Identification Friend or Foe system production contract. The company’s C4 systems business will deliver contract line items for the new IFF configuration and associated spares as well as an estimated 700 additional units annually for foreign military sales, the Defense Department said Wednesday…

Harris to Update US Air Force Tactical Radios; Chris Young Comments

Harris Corp. has been awarded a $12 million contract to update a tactical radio system the U.S. Air Force uses as the communication platform for Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. The company will manufacture Falcon III AN/PRC-152A wideband networking handheld radios to provide voice and high-speed networked data to Air Force troops, Harris said Wednesday…

Navy Eyes Liquid Robotics for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Engineering Contract

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific plans to award Liquid Robotics a potential five-year, $10 million contract to engineer an autonomous unmanned surface vehicle for the U.S. Navy. The Navy said April 28 in a FedBizOpps notice the contract will cover an estimated 18,668 hours of Wave Glider USV hardware design, production, assembly, integration, testing, repair, system upgrade and training support…

Exelis to Supply Precision Approach Radars to US Military

Harris Corp. subsidiary Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $70.3 million contract to provide 42 Precision Approach Radars to the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force as replacements for AN-FPN-63(V) radar systems…

May 4 Market Close: GovCon Index Down as Job Estimates Weigh on US Markets

The GovCon Index slid for a second consecutive session Wednesday by 0.498 points to 75.867 as U.S. financial markets entered sell-off mode on new data that showed a slowdown in hiring for the month of April…