Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
Upcoming Event

Best Places to Work in Virginia

Hamburger Menu Hamburger Menu

Tag: contract

Boeing receives $2.3B Air Force contract for tanker aircraft

Arlington County-based Boeing has received a $2.3 billion contract to build 15 more KC-46A Pegasus tankers for the Air Force.

The Pentagon announced the award for production lot 10 of the tankers Tuesday. Boeing has 153 of the aerial refuelers under contract globally and has delivered 76 to the Air Force and two to Japan, Boeing said in a news release.

“We appreciate our partnership with the U.S. Air Force, which allows for the expansion of the capacity and capability of the KC-46A fleet,” Lynn Fox, vice president and KC-46 program manager for Boeing, said in a statement. “We understand the advantages that KC-46 capabilities give the warfighters, and in the current global environment, we continue to focus our investments on evolving the aircraft for the changing needs of the mission.”

Work will be performed in Seattle and is expected to be completed by July 31, 2027.

The KC-46A Pegasus provides capabilities including aerial refueling, cargo and passenger transportation, medical evacuation support and tactical edge data connectivity. In January, Boeing received a $2.2 billion contract to build 15 of the Pegasus tankers as part of its ninth production lot.

Boeing is the world’s third-largest defense contractor and employs more than 142,000 people globally. In May 2022, the company moved its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington County.

HII’s Mission Technologies wins $347M Navy contract

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ McLean-based Mission Technologies will build nine undersea drones for the Navy’s Lionfish System program in a deal that could grow to as many as 200 vehicles during the next five years, with a total value of more than $347 million.

Newport News-based HII announced the contract Wednesday. The system is based on HII’s Remus 300, a portable, two-person small unmanned undersea vehicle (SUUV), which has an open architecture design and versatile payload options. The Navy picked Remus 300 as its official program of record for its next-generation SUUV in March 2022.

The contract includes delivery and support of the SUUVs, as well as afloat and auxiliary support equipment and engineering services.

“Lionfish provides increased capability and interoperability that aligns with the Navy’s undersea priorities and we look forward to delivering next-generation vehicles that can readily adapt to and support a variety of mission needs,” Andy Green, HII executive vice president and Mission Technologies president, said in a statement.

Mission Technologies received a $1.3 billion task order in April to provide a large-scale network of medical, rotary and fixed-wing solutions to support U.S. Africa Command’s Warfighter Recovery Network. Also that month, the company received a $995 million contract to advise and assist the U.S. Air Forces in Europe-Air Forces Africa.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is the nation’s largest military shipbuilder. The Fortune 500 company employs more than 44,000 workers and is Virginia’s largest industrial employer. Its Newport News Shipbuilding division is the United States’ only manufacturer of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

Rocket Lab, Leidos sign contract for 4 rocket launches

California-based Rocket Lab USA has signed a contract with Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor Leidos to launch four Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) missions, the launch company announced Tuesday.

The suborbital testbed launch vehicle missions will lift off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 2 at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, located at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Accomack County. They are scheduled during 2024 and 2025.

Leidos selected Rocket Lab for hypersonic test launches under the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed (MACH-TB) contract, which the Naval Surface Warfare Center awarded to a Leidos subsidiary in October 2022. Rocket Lab launched its first HASTE rocket, derived from its Electron rocket, on June 17 for Leidos.

“Our first HASTE mission … successfully demonstrated HASTE’s ability to accelerate the cadence of hypersonic flight testing for the nation,” Brian Rogers, Rocket Lab’s senior director of global launch services, said in a statement. “We’re proud to now follow it up with a series of four additional missions for Leidos to support hypersonic technology innovation and technology maturation.”

Rocket Lab National Security, the company’s wholly owned subsidiary focused on the defense and intelligence communities, operates the HASTE program.

Founded in 2006, Rocket Lab designs and manufactures the Electron rocket and the Photon satellite platform and is developing the Neutron 13-ton payload class launch vehicle. Since its first orbital launch in January 2018, the company has delivered 171 satellites to orbit for private and public organizations. Rocket Lab has two launch pads in New Zealand in addition to its pad in Virginia.

Leidos receives $918M Homeland Security contract

Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor Leidos has received a follow-on contract valued up to $918 million to support and enhance the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s networks, the company announced Thursday.

The Homeland Enterprise Information Technology Secure Services and Support (HEITS) contract was awarded Aug. 15. The cost-plus-award-fee, single-award contract has a one-year base and six additional one-year options that bring the contract value up to $918 million if all are exercised.

Under the contract, Leidos will provide program management, operations and maintenance, systems engineering, training, information assurance and classified and unclassified cloud computing capabilities integration and services to DHS. The work is expected to enable continued evolution of the Homeland Secure Data Network and the department’s classified local area network. The company expects to also enhance or replace existing network components with newer technologies to maximize performance. Additionally, Leidos will use an AI for an IT operations platform to respond to operational anomalies and help eliminate issues before users are impacted.

The award continues Leidos’ work for DHS under the Secure Enterprise Network Systems, Services & Support (SENS3) contract. Under SENS3, Leidos helps the agency maintain a secure classified information sharing infrastructure that is interoperable across DHS and partner classified environments.

“This contract continues our strong relationship with DHS,” Leidos Intelligence Group President Roy Stevens said in a statement. “By supporting cross-agency intelligence sharing and secure collaboration for federal and civilian agencies, we’ll help DHS accomplish their mission of safeguarding the homeland. Our team will be focused on delivering capabilities like quantum resistant cryptography, artificial intelligence operations, robotic process automation and classified cloud service integration.”

After protests, CACI prevails on $5.7B Air Force IT contract

After rounds of protest from other bidders, Reston-based CACI International Inc. announced Tuesday that it will transform the Air Force’s IT service delivery for more than 800,000 airmen and Space Force guardians under a $5.7 billion contract.

Enterprise Information Technology as a Service (EITaaS) Wave 1, an Air Force initiative, includes transforming the Air Force’s and Space Force’s IT services from an in-house, base-centric model to an advanced enterprise service delivery model.

CACI initially was awarded the contract on Aug. 30, 2022,  but the contract award was protested by Arlington County-based Accenture Federal Services and two Reston-based companies, Peraton and Science Applications International Corp., all of which alleged, among other complaints, unfair advantage based on CACI’s employment of three former government officials, according to the Government Accountability Office. After taking corrective action, the service again picked CACI for the contract. Peraton filed another protest, which was denied by GAO in April.

According to the Air Force, CACI will lead a team of small business contractors that will complete the work, which will include enhanced an IT management system, IT storefront, enterprise help desk, local field services and life cycle support for end-user devices. The Air Force has said that the transformation will free up airmen to shift their focus from daily IT operations to warfighting needs. A test of Wave 1 services at eight installations worldwide resulted in faster login times and better functioning devices.

“We are honored to serve the Air Force and deliver on the department’s vision for a modern IT infrastructure,” John Mengucci, CACI President and CEO, said in a statement. “With more than 60 years of experience supporting DoD (Department of Defense) enterprise missions, CACI is well-equipped to securely standardize a wide range of users, IT configurations and global environments while consistently introducing new innovations to benefit both the Air Force and Space Force on the EITaaS program.”

On June 21, CACI announced that it had received the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command’s Spectral contract, which has a $1.2 billion ceiling over seven years. Under that contract, CACI will develop and deploy the Navy’s next-generation shipboard signals intelligence, electric warfare and information operations weapons systems.

CACI employs more than 22,000 people. It generated $6.2 billion in 2022 revenues and reported $1.7 billion in revenues for the quarter ending March 31.

BWXT wins potential $45B DOE contract

A joint venture led by BWX Technologies Inc. has won a federal contract worth up to $45 billion — its largest ever — from the U.S. Department of Energy to clean up a decommissioned nuclear production site in southeastern Washington state, the Lynchburg-based nuclear components and fuel supplier announced Monday.

The Hanford Site Tank Farms has 177 underground waste storage tanks with 54 million gallons of nuclear waste produced by plutonium production, according to a 2021 federal report. The Department of Energy awarded the 10-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity Hanford Integrated Tank Disposition Contract (ITDC) to Hanford Tank Waste Operations & Closure LLC (H2C), a joint venture led by BWXT’s Technical Services subsidiary that includes Amentum Environment & Energy Inc. and Fluor Federal Services Inc.

“This is the largest single contract award in our company’s history and is a stair-step achievement as we strengthen our leadership position in environmental restoration at highly technical projects across the nation,” BWXT President and CEO Rex Geveden said in a statement.

The federal government produced plutonium for more than 40 years, from 1943 to 1987, at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington. The DOE is repurposing the site to treat tank waste from the production period in an environmental cleanup. The site has 56 million gallons of radioactive and chemical waste stored in 159 underground tanks, according to the DOE.

Low-activity radioactive waste will be removed and treated and eventually turned into a glass product through the vitrification process, which mixes the waste with glass-forming materials and heats it to 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit so the waste bonds with the glass. Vitrification will occur at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, which contractor Bechtel National Inc. is constructing. Bechtel completed construction on the first phase of the facilities in January 2021, and the multiyear testing and commissioning period has begun.

Under the ITDC contract, H2C will operate tank farm facilities; design, construct and operate waste-receiving facilities and treatment capabilities; operate the eventual Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant; and oversee core project functions, including project management and environment, safety, health and quality functions.

Fortune 1000 company BWXT has roughly 7,000 employees and 14 major operating sites across the U.S., Canada and the U.K.

Maximus lands $6.6B Medicare call center contract

Maximus Inc. won an up to $6.6 billion contract for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for contact center operations, the Tysons-based federal contractor announced Thursday.

Under the contract, which has a one-year base period and nine one-year options, Maximus will continue supporting CMS’ contact center. The contact center operations contract handles more 35 million customer inquiries a year for CMS programs like 1-800 MEDICARE and the health insurance marketplace across a range of channels, from telephone and fax to email and web chat, according to a news release.

“This award reflects the commitment of thousands of Maximus employees who each day provide exceptional service to their fellow citizens,” Maximus President and CEO Bruce Caswell said in a statement. “Over the years, CMS has shaped this program to become the trusted source of information and assistance for Americans seeking to better understand their health care benefits. Going forward, this contract will allow our employees to continue providing the best customer experience to the American public.”

Maximus has been the prime contractor for the 1-800 MEDICARE and health insurance marketplace contact centers since 2018 and has supported CMS contact centers for more than a decade, starting as a subcontractor to Reston-based General Dynamics Corp. The company operates 84 contact centers in 28 states and employs more than 20,000 contact center agents. It handles more than 100 million contacts per year, according to a CMS news release.

Maximus has 38,000 employees. This year, employees in Virginia, Louisiana and Mississippi have protested for higher wages, but the company has said it is limited by the federal Service Contract Act.

Maximus was founded in 1975 and provides business process management and technology services to federal, state and local governments. The company reported $4.25 billion in revenue in 2021 and has employees in nine countries. Of its 38,000 employees, about 4,600 are in Virginia.

Skanska wins $223M contract for offshore wind farm prep

New York-based Skanska USA won the $223 million contract to redevelop the 72 acres of the Portsmouth Marine Terminal that Dominion Energy Inc. will use as a staging area for its $9.8 billion Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind project.

The company announced the award on Tuesday. The CVOW calls for the construction of 176 wind turbines 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach by 2026, and the State Corporation Commission approved Dominion’s application in August.

“Skanska is honored to work on an innovative and sustainable project that supports the state’s clean energy goals and reflects our value to build for a better society,” Brook Brookshire, senior vice president of Skanska civil operations, said in a statement.

Dominion Energy Inc. and the Port of Virginia signed a lease agreement for the 72 acres in August 2021. Dominion will use its portion of the 287-acre terminal as a staging and pre-assembly area for the foundations and 800-foot wind turbines that it will use in the project.

Port of Virginia Spokesperson Joe Harris said, “It’s going to be a laydown area. There’ll be some assembly there, and there’s going to be a blade finishing facility on site, so it’s a big project, and it’s going to be a great use of that terminal and it’s going to be good for the Port of Virginia, but it’s also going to be good for all of Virginia.”

Turbine installation is expected to begin in 2024. The project’s expected completion is in 2026, and which point it will power up to 660,000 homes.

As part of the contract, Skanska will improve 1,500 feet of an existing 3,540-foot wharf. The company will also build three heavy lift berths, a wind-turbine generator delivery berth, a wind-turbine generator loadout berth and the berth for the steel tube monopiles (turbine foundations).

Skanska will also dredge a channel and access area and will strengthen soils and surfaces so they can handle heavy turbine components. The company will also install lighting, stormwater collection systems, fencing and other structures.

Skanska previously worked with the Virginia Port Authority on a wharf expansion project and renovation at the Norfolk International Terminals.

The U.S. subsidiary of the Swedish parent company, Skanska USA has 30 offices across the country with 7,300 employees. Globally, Skanska has more than 30,000 employees.

General Dynamics subsidiaries land new defense contracts

Subsidiaries of Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor General Dynamics Corp. have received multiple defense contracts in recent weeks totaling more than $1.6 billion with the potential for more.

On Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the company’s San Diego-based National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. received an $890 million modification to a contract for construction of the seventh and eighth ships in the Navy’s John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oilers. The contract includes an option for a third oiler that, if exercised, would bring the contract value to more than $1.6 billion. That same day, the Pentagon announced that the shipbuilder had also received a $535 million modification to another contract for construction of Expeditionary Sea Base 8, a flexible platform that supports a range of military operations, including deployment of forces and supplies. The awards add to another $600 million previously announced by the Pentagon in June for work on both programs.

Construction of the ships is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of 2023 and continue to 2027, General Dynamics’ NASSCO said in a news release Friday.

“NASSCO is committed to working together with the Navy to deliver these much needed ships to the fleet,” Dave Carver, president of General Dynamics NASSCO, said in a statement. “As partners with the Navy, we remain dedicated to ensuring the success of both of these programs to help enhance and expand the Navy’s forward presence and warfighting capabilities while providing sustained growth for our workforce.”

On Friday, Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. announced it was awarded a $267 million contract to provide the Army National Guard with an integrated network operations center from which the contractor will operate, maintain and secure a ranging enterprise network in an unclassified and classified environment around the clock.

The network provides soldiers access to the internet and allows them to connect securely to databases and other networks, while allowing Army leadership access to tools for training, mission planning and execution. It is among the Department of Defense’s largest networks, with more than 124,000 users at 3,000 locations across the globe.

The award was made July 7 and includes a one-year base with three option years.

“This contract will advance the Army National Guard’s networking capabilities and enable its soldiers to be better connected and prepared in support of critical missions,” said Brian Sheridan, senior vice president for GDIT’s defense division. “As a long-time partner of the Army National Guard, we are looking forward to implementing innovative solutions to advance its mission readiness.”

General Dynamics Corp., an aerospace and defense contractor that employs more than 100,000 people worldwide, generated $38.5 billion in revenue in 2021.

BAE Systems lands $173M contract for Marine combat vehicles

Arlington-based BAE Systems has received a $173 million contract modification for delivery of additional amphibious combat vehicles (ACVs) to the Marine Corps, the Department of Defense announced Friday.

The modification, which exercises options to procure and produce 36 ACVs, brings the total value of the contract to more than $1.7 billion, according to the announcement. Work is expected to be complete by March 2024.

The ACV is a next-generation vehicle designed to move Marines from ship to shore and will be a primary means of tactical movement for infantry battalions at sea and ashore. BAE was chosen to deliver the first 30 ACVs in 2019 with more than 600 planned. The ACVs are intended to replace the service’s Amphibious Assault Vehicle, which entered service in 1972, according to the Congressional Research Service.