Contract Awards

HII Mission Technologies has been awarded a position on the Missile Defense Agency’s potential 10-year, $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD, contract vehicle.  SHIELD reflects a major shift in how the Pentagon acquires advanced missile defense capabilities. At the 2026 Defense R&D Summit on Jan. 29, defense leaders and top industry innovators […] More

Redhorse will continue its support for data-driven intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance decision-making across the defense intelligence and security enterprise under a $14 million sole-source technical analysis and engineering contract from the Secretary of the Air Force, Concepts, Development and Management Office, or SAF/CDM. The award, which has a one-year base and a six-month option period, […] More

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Derco, a Lockheed Martin company, the C-130 Aviation Consumables Performance Based Logistics, or ACPBL, contract. The award is intended to accelerate mission readiness and represents the first outcome-based program between DLA and Lockheed Martin under the ACPBL initiative, the global defense technology company said Thursday. “We are thrilled to be partnered with […] More

Northrop Grumman has secured a $94.3 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the development and qualification of a new 21-inch diameter second-stage solid rocket motor, or SSRM. What Is the Navy SSRM Contract? The effort supports the Navy’s extended-range missile programs and is aimed at developing a new SSRM to strengthen the service’s extended-range hypersonic […] More

Ultra Intelligence & Communications has secured a contract to supply Knox-5 processors for the U.S. Marine Corps’ MQ-9B aircraft. The award covers the procurement of nine Knox-5 processors, designed to enhance the processing of critical information and built for size-constrained unmanned systems operating in contested environments, Ultra I&C said Tuesday. What Are Knox-5 Processors? Knox-5 is […] More

The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Lawelawe Defense a position on the potential 10-year, $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense, or SHIELD, contract. John Boyle, CEO of Lawelawe Defense, announced the development on LinkedIn. The Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Defense R&D Summit, scheduled on Jan. 29, brings together defense leaders and innovators driving programs like SHIELD to […] More

The U.S. Geological Survey has awarded KBR a potential five-year, $350 million contract to provide technical support services for the agency’s Earth Resources Observation and Science, or EROS, Center in South Dakota. KBR said Monday that the service delivery aims to modernize the USGS operations using advanced technologies. Mark Kavanaugh, the president of defense, intel […] More