News

The Missile Defense Agency intends to award a contract to an industry team led by Boeing to help MDA engineer and integrate the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Boeing will lead five defense contractors, known collectively as National Team-Engineering, to continue the group’s BMDS engineering support work that covers system guidance, integration, development and data product delivery, according to a […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding unit has installed a 726-ton lower bow onto the John F. Kennedy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which the U.S. Navy aims to commission in late 2019. The bulbous lower bow extends CVN 79 by 122 feet and is the final component of the warship’s underwater hull structure that reaches 1,096 feet and […] More

The U.S. Air Force and Amazon have partnered on a pilot program that allows contracting officers to make small procurements on the company’s e-commerce portal through the use of government purchase cards, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. The pilot program comes as the General Services Administration works to implement its e-commerce program in accordance with the […] More

Diane Dempsey, director of small business programs at BAE Systems‘ U.S. arm, accepted the 2018 Chairman’s Award for Minority Supplier Development Leader of the Year from the Capital Region Minority Supplier Development Council at a ceremony held last week in National Harbor, Md. Dempsey said in a statement released Friday the company partners with businesses that […] More