Army Picks 17 Firms for $249M Intell EW & Sensor Acquisition, Technical Support Contract Seventeen companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $248.8 million contract to support the U.S. Army‘s program executive office for intelligence electronic warfare and sensors. Contractors will vie for task orders to provide acquisition, operations, program, business and technical services to PEO IEW&S, the Defense Department said Tuesday…

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DLA Taps Honeywell for Super Hornet Brakes Delivery Order Honeywell International has received a potential three-year, $18.3 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply brakes for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft…

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Boeing to Supply Air Force With B-52 Combat Network Comm Tech Spares Boeing has received a $9.6 million contract modification to provide Combat Network Communications Technology full-rate production spares as well as modify low-rate initial production spares for the U…

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Lockheed Receives Navy Delivery Order to Develop, Maintain Presidential Helicopter Avionics The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a two-year, $8.2 million delivery order to design, build and maintain avionics systems for the Presidential Helicopter Program. The order falls under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and covers avionics hardware and software development, testing, fabrication, installation and maintenance services, the Defense Department said Monday…

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Air Force Taps Raytheon to Retrofit, Maintain F-16 Center Display Units Raytheon has secured an $8.8 million contract to equip the U.S. Air Force‘s F-15 multirole fighter aircraft with center display units. The Defense Department said Tuesday Raytheon will retrofit 130 F-16 CDUs as well as provide organic depot maintenance stand-up services under the firm-fixed-price contract…

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Textron Subsidiary to Produce Universal Test Sets for Navy’s Counter-IED Program Textron subsidiary AAI Corp. has received a $7.4 million contract modification to produce universal test sets for the U.S. Navy’s Joint Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare program…

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Former Seabury Group Exec Charles Davis Named Strategy SVP for L3 Aerospace Systems Segment Charles Davis, former president and CEO of Seabury Group’s global aerospace and defense consulting division, has joined L-3 Communications (NYSE: LLL) as senior vice president of strategy at the company’s aerospace systems segment…

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Report: DoD Wants to Reprogram $100M in Funds to Address Weapons Security Issues The Defense Department plans to redirect $100 million in funds toward efforts that seek to detect cyber threats in weapon systems, Defense News reported Thursday. Joe Gould writes DoD Comptroller Mike McCord issued an Aug…

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September 6 Market Close: GovCon Index Closes Positive on Significant Move by Navistar International Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Index continued its pre Labor Day rise with another positive close to 82.015. Energy companies lead U.S. stocks higher Tuesday in hopes for an agreement among oil producing countries that could limit production and send crude prices and company profits higher…

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