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HII taps former DOD chief of staff as EVP
Eric Chewning, who was chief of staff for two acting defense secretaries in the Trump White House, became Newport News-based Fortune 500 shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.’s executive vice president of strategy and development on Monday. Chewning will guide corporate strategy and identify opportunities for growth, cross-division collaboration and potential investment. He reports [...]
Reston contractor lands $235M extension for Iraq base support
A subsidiary of Reston-based federal contractor Acuity International LLC won a $235.6 million U.S. Air Force contract modification to provide base support and security services for the Iraq F-16 program, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. The modification adds 12 months to the previously awarded contract, bringing the cumulative value of the contract to $360.78 million. The […]
Navy awards Boeing subsidiary $463M contract
Fairfax-based Argon ST Inc. has received a $463 million Navy contract to procure and produce sensor components for fielding in manned and unmanned aircraft, the Pentagon announced Friday. Argon ST is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arlington-based aerospace contractor Boeing Co. Under the contract, Argon ST will procure various Multi-Intelligence Sensor Development (MISD) Sensor Suite […]
HII lands $2.4B contract for Navy’s next amphibious warship
Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.’s Mississippi-based Ingalls Shipbuilding has received a $2.4 billion contract modification for the construction of the Navy‘s fourth American-class amphibious assault ship (LHA 9), according to the Department of Defense. The fixed-price incentive contract includes options that could bring the cumulative value of the contract to $3.2 billion if exercis[...]
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 […]
Peraton lands $850M Pentagon contract
Herndon-based technology contractor Peraton will provide the Department of Defense with agile analytic platforms and data management solutions under a five year, $850 million contract, the company announced Wednesday. “Peraton is proud to continue our longstanding relationship with the DoD supporting the modernization of its data management capabilities,” Tom Afferton, president of PeratonR[...]
HII receives $826M defense contract
Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries will provide technology and other support to the Department of Defense under a $826 million contract. According to a news release, HII’s McLean-based mission technologies division will also provide threat analysis and analytics support as well as operations integration and operational effects support. The work will support Defense Department s[...]
Northrop Grumman lands $338M helicopter avionics contract
Northrop Grumman has received a $338 million contract from the Navy for continued integration and development of the Marine Corps’ H-1 helicopter fleet’s avionics systems and weapons. Under the contract, the Falls Church-based Fortune 500 aerospace, defense and technology contractor will research alternatives to and investigate and document new capabilities and anomalies of H-1 avionic[...]
Northrop Grumman division lands $458M Navy contract
A division of Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $458 million contract to support the Navy‘s Columbia and Dreadnought Fleet Ballistic Missile Program, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Friday. Under the cost-plus-incentive-fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, Northrop Grumman’s Marine Systems in Sunnyvale, California, will provide fiscal 2022 through 2026 shipyard [...]
Va. Tech to lead cybersecurity workforce initiative
Virginia Tech has received a $1.5 million award to lead an initiative that could help close a gap in the cybersecurity workforce. The award, announced April 5, comes from the nonprofit Griffiss Institute, a New York-based STEM and defense technology incubator that runs the Department of Defense‘s Virtual Institutes for Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Research […]
CACI receives $258M task order to continue DOD work
Reston-based Fortune 500 contractor CACI International Inc. has received a $258 million task order for expansion and continued modernization of the Department of Defenses’ business systems, according to a news release. The award falls under a Defense Logistics Agency’s J6 Enterprise Technology Services indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract and continues CACI’s enter[...]
GDIT wins $171M Army contract
Falls Church-based General Dynamics Information Technology has received a five-year $171 million contract to support the Army’s biomedical research grant applications. The Biomedical Research Application Evaluation and Support contract supports the Army’s Medical Research Development Command and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP), according to a news release[...]
