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Dec 20, 2024

GDIT wins $5.57B contract to upgrade military communications system

Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of Reston Fortune 100 defense contractor General Dynamics, has won a $5.57 billion contract from the Air Force Mission Partner Capabilities Office, it announced Friday. Awarded in November, the single-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a five-year base period and a five-year option, according to G[...]

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, assigned to the 122nd Fighter Wing, performs a sortie above the 122nd Fighter Wing in Fort Wayne, Indiana, May 3, 2024. The F-16, originally from Holloman Air Force Base, executed a routine flying pattern for training. Photo courtesy U.S. Air National Guard, by Airman 1st Class Halley Clark
Dec 20, 2024

Leidos lands $987M Air Force contract

Leidos has won an up to $987 million Air Force contract to provide sustainment support for F-16 Foreign Military Sales customers, the Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor announced Thursday. The F-16 Fighting Falcon is a supersonic multirole fighter aircraft used for air-to-air combat and air-to-surface attack. General Dynamics initially developed the F-16 before selling its […]

An aerial shot of Huntsville, Alabama.
Dec 12, 2024

McLean’s QinetiQ US expands to Huntsville, Alabama

QinetiQ US, a McLean security and defense contractor, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday to celebrate its expansion into Huntsville, Alabama. Known as “The Rocket City” for its role in the country’s development of space exploration, Huntsville is home to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, which is located at the Redstone Arsenal. Originally established to make [&helli[...]

A parked plane in the evening light.
Dec 5, 2024

HII division lands $6.7B Air Force contract

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries’ McLean-based Mission Technologies division a $6.7 billion contract to provide electronic warfare engineering and technical services support, according to a Thursday announcement from the defense contractor.  The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract is the largest Mission Technologies has yet landed, according to HII.[...]

Dec 4, 2024

Navy awards Raytheon potential $903.9M contract

The Navy has awarded Raytheon, a subsidiary of Arlington County Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor RTX, a contract worth up to $903.9 million, if all options are exercised, to provide support for a sensor system, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday.  The initial $34 million firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost only contract covers […[...]

USS Green Bay (LPD 20) departed San Diego for forward deployment to the Navy's 7th Fleet in 2015. Photo by U.S. Navy/MCCS Donnie W. Ryan.
Dec 3, 2024

BAE Systems wins up to $238M Navy ship repair contract

Falls Church-based federal contractor BAE Systems Inc. has won a Navy contract worth up to $238.8 million to maintain, modernize and repair a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship. The Department of Defense announced the $212 million firm-fixed-price contract award, which has options that would bring its cumulative value to $238.8 million, to the U.S. […]

USS Wasp in Norfolk Ship Repair in June 2021. Photo courtesy BAE Systems.
Nov 21, 2024

BAE Systems lands $202M in Navy ship repair contracts

Falls Church-based BAE Systems Inc.’s Norfolk Ship Repair unit has received two U.S. Navy contracts worth a combined $202 million for maintenance, modernization and repair of two vessels. The U.S. arm of British defense giant BAE Systems announced the awards Monday. Its shipyard employees and their subcontractors will begin working on the guided missile destroyer […]

a multi-beam, multi-band ground terminal on a production floor
Nov 20, 2024

AeroVironment to acquire BlueHalo for $4.1B

AeroVironment, an Arlington County defense contractor, announced this week it will purchase aerospace and defense tech firm BlueHalo for approximately $4.1 billion in an all-stock transaction. Also based in Arlington, BlueHalo is owned by private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners and works in space technologies, counter-uncrewed aircraft systems, directed energy, electronic warfare, cyber, ar[...]

Oct 30, 2024

Top Five November 2024

1   |   U.S. port strike stops cargo operations at Port of Va. About 45,000 union dockworkers walked off the job at every major port along the East and Gulf coasts until they ended the strike after reaching a tentative deal three days later. (Oct. 1) 2   |   Three Va. universities have […]

Oct 30, 2024

Defense tech startups close major funding rounds

Venture capital firms are betting big on two Northern Virginia-based defense contracting startups that are promising high-tech solutions to military challenges. In August, McLean-based Defcon AI announced it had raised $44 million in seed funding led by San Francisco investment firm Bessemer Venture Partners. The same month, Parry Labs in Alexandria raised $80 million in […]

Oct 21, 2024

Leidos wins $331M Army IT contract

The U.S. Army has awarded a $331 million IT contract to Leidos to modernize its network, the Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor announced Monday. The Army Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications and Network (PEO C3N), formerly known as the PEO C3T, awarded the contract, which has a one-year base period of performance with […]

Oct 17, 2024

Raytheon to pay $950M+ to resolve fraud, bribery charges

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that Arlington County‘s Raytheon, a subsidiary of aerospace and defense contractor RTX, has agreed to pay more than $950 million to resolve multiple allegations that include fraud and bribing a Qatari official. Under Wednesday’s settlement, Raytheon must pay the following penalties: For two counts of major fraud in […]

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