Posts from GovConWire for 06/01/2016

Lockheed Secures FAA Contract for Air Traffic Radar System Technical Support

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a five-year, $28.3 million contract to Lockheed Martin to provide technical support for air traffic control radar systems. Lockheed said Tuesday it will perform analysis, design, development and test services for the Microprocessor-En Route Automated Radar Tracking System as part of the contract…

Boeing Secures $3.2B AF Contract Modification to Supply Bomb-Guidance Kits

A Boeing (NYSE: BA) subsidiary has landed a potential $3.2 billion contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for Joint Direct Attack Munition tailkits. Boeing’s defense space and security business will supply JDAM strap-on inertial guidance tailkits designed to receive GPS guidance updates for conventional inventory bombs, the Defense Department said Tuesday…

Raytheon Wins $250M Marine Corps Ground Equipment Logistics Contract

Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) has won a potential five-year, $249.99 million contract to provide logistics integration services for the U.S. Marine Corps‘ ground equipment. The Marine Corps Logistics Command will use the logistics support to overhaul, repair and evaluate ground equipment secondary reparable items, the Defense Department said Tuesday…

ULA Lands $139M Modification on Atlas V Production Services Contract with USAF

United Launch Alliance has been awarded a $138.7 million contract modification by the U.S. Air Force to support production of the Atlas V 541 launch vehicle system. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification covers launch vehicle configuration and mission specific items for the service branch’s four previously ordered missions…

General Dynamics NASSCO Gets $106M Contract to Engineer Expeditionary Mobile Base Ship for Navy

General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary has received a potential $106.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to procure long-lead materials and provide engineering services for a follow-on Expeditionary Mobile Base vessel…

Sikorsky Receives $85M FMS Contract Modification From Army for Black Hawk Retrofitting

Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has received an $85 million modification to a foreign military sale contract from the U.S. Army to restore Mexico’s UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to full operations…

Ephesoft Gets In-Q-Tel Investment to Offer Doc Analytics Platform to Intelligence Community

Ephesoft and In-Q-Tel have formed a strategic alliance to offer a document analysis platform to the U.S. intelligence community. IQT invested in Ephesoft for the deployment of Ephesoft Universe, which is designed to help organizations utilize unstructured data using the open source Apache Spark data loading technology and Hadoop to cluster multiple PCs, Ephesoft said Tuesday…

Boeing’s Insitu to Produce 5th Batch of Navy Blackjack UAS Under $72M Deal

Boeing subsidiary Insitu has received a $71.6 million contract to manufacture a fifth batch of RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft systems for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Insitu will produce six Blackjack air vehicles, ground control stations, launch-and-recovery systems and shipboard equipment kits under the low-rate initial production contract…

Navy Eyes Multisourcing Approach for Follow-On Enterprise Network Services Procurement

The U.S. Navy is considering changing its procurement strategy for the Next Generation Enterprise Network program from a sole-source method to a multiple-award contracting model, SIGNAL Magazine reported Wednesday…

DoD Proposes New Records System to Facilitate Insider Threat Data Management

The Defense Department has proposed to develop a new records system to help DoD insider threat management and analysis center and military components manage their insider threat information and related programs…

GSA to Host Workshop on Cybersecurity National Action Plan

The General Services Administration plans to conduct a workshop on the Cybersecurity National Action Plan at GSA’s headquarters in Washington on June 13. GSA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it will discuss at the event the continuous diagnostics and mitigation/continuous monitoring-as-a-service program, acquisition strategy in support of CNAP as well as the results of the request for information on cybersecurity services…

May 31 Market Close: GCI Declines, Ends 4th Straight Month in Positive as New Tanker Delay Drags Boeing Shares

The GovCon Index posted a decline of 0.398 points to 78.106 Tuesday on losses by Boeing (NYSE: BA) and other large defense prime contractors but ended at a gain for May to record its fourth straight month of positive movement…