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RTX’s Raytheon lands $1.15B missiles contract
Arlington County-based Raytheon, a business unit of newly rebranded aerospace and defense contractor RTX, will produce Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles for the U.S. Air Force and Navy as well as foreign militaries under a $1.15 billion contract announced by the Pentagon Tuesday. The contract includes missiles, the AMRAAM telemetry system, spares and other production […]
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 [...]
BAE Systems locks onto $117M subcontract for missile-seeking tech
Arlington-based defense contractor BAE Systems Inc. received a $117 million subcontract from Lockheed Martin Corp. to produce missile-seeker technology for long range anti-ship missiles (LRASM), it announced Monday . The seeker technology enables LRASM to detect and engage maritime targets in contested environments with less dependence on traditional navigation systems. The contract will support m[...]
Northrop Grumman lands $2.3B ICBM contract
Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp. has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contract for up to $2.3 billion to support propulsion subsystems for intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM), DOD announced on Tuesday. The 18.5-year contract provides assistance to the government in maintaining the Minuteman III weapon system. The work will be performed primarily in […]
Northrop Grumman lands $155M Missile Defense Agency contract
The Missile Defense Agency awarded a subsidiary of Falls Church-based Northrop Grumman Corp. a $155 million contract to work on space-based sensor technology for defending against hypersonic weapons, the Department of Defense announced Friday. Under the contract, Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. will perform on-orbit demonstration, launch and initial orbit testing work, according to the DOD. [&hel[...]
Va. Beach defense contractor wins $229.4M Navy contract
The U.S. Navy awarded Virginia Beach-based QED Systems Inc. a potential three-year, $229.4 million contract to help the branch develop specifications and implement an availability strategy for multiple naval ship classes, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday. QED Systems will perform support work referred to as “third party planning services” for the Navy’s guided-m[...]
Northrop Grumman secures first phase of $85B Air Force ICBM contract
The U.S. Air Force awarded the first $13.3 billion phase of an expected $85 billion Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) contract to Falls Church-based Fortune 500 defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp., the company announced Tuesday. Under the $13.3 billion engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program awarded Tuesday, Northrop [...]
