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A business unit of Textron has been awarded a four-year, $60.5 million contract by the U.S. Air Force for program management and sustainment engineering services to support the T-6 Joint Primary Aircraft Training System. The Defense Department said Friday that Textron’s Beechcraft Defense business will also provide field service representatives, report deficiencies, request maintenance support under the sole-source contract. Work also […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has completed initial tests on a field-deployable system that combines technologies from the Southwest Research Institute and PyroGenesis Canada to neutralize chemical warfare agents. DARPA said Friday it tested SwRI’s soil-scrubbing technology alongside PyroGenesis’ Tactical Plasma Arc Chemical Warfare Agents Destruction System that works to collect and convert toxic CWA decomposition products into non-hazardous salts. The platform […] More

A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has landed a potential five-year, $45 million contract to provide commercial payload processing services for the space agency’s missions that launch from the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NASA said Friday that Lockheed’s Astrotech Space Operations business will support pre-launch processing of spacecraft and associated launch vehicle flight hardware for  […] More

A Leonardo subsidiary has received a $10.7 million contract from the Eastern Shipbuilding Group to supply nine hybrid electric drive systems for integration into the U.S. Coast Guard‘s future Offshore Patrol Cutters. Leonardo DRS will provide motor-based Auxiliary Propulsion Systems that work to boost the mission duration capacity of ships as well as help vessels reduce emissions, the company said Thursday. The system is designed to also provide emergency take-home […] More

Boeing has updated its short-range air defense system in an effort to help the U.S. Army fire missiles such as Longbow Hellfire and AI-3 weapons as well as lasers from vehicles including Stryker and M2 Bradley platforms, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Sydney Freedberg writes Boeing and the U.S. Army integrated the Avenger turret onto a Stryker armored vehicle as the service branch aims to address a requirement for […] More

Raytheon has received a $64.6 million contract option from the U.S. Air Force to update the guidance section of a company-built air-to-air missile system. The Defense Department said Thursday Raytheon will continue to support form, fit, function and refresh efforts for the Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile‘s guidance segment. The contract includes foreign military sales to Norway, Turkey, […] More

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded ManTech International a pair of task orders worth a combined $18 million for program management and technical services to the capability development support group at DHS’ science and technology directorate. ManTech said Thursday it won the task orders through the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance II contract vehicle. The company will also assess business […] More

FedBid has secured a potential five-year contract to continue to provide reverse auction and acquisition support for the Labor Department‘s contracting offices. The company said Thursday the contract contains one base year plus four option years and will aid DoL’s acquisition strategy for commodity goods and simple services. FedBid CEO Joe Jordan said the company’s marketplace for reverse auction is […] More