For years the U.S. Navy kept an older aircraft carrier in Florida. It was used to support training of new pilots. With the retirement of all non-nuclear ships the decision was made not to do this anymore. Now the News Jacksonville.com is reporting that the Navy is considering moving one ship from Norfolk, VA to Jacksonville, FL. This has raised the ire of the Virginia Congressional...
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The U.S. Department of Defense contracted with the Government of Canada to provide helicopter support in Afghanistan. RTTNews.com reports on the deal that will have Canada providing three medium lift aircraft for up to five years. The Canadian Commercial Corporation will administer the contract. It has a value of $120 million if all the work is carried out. Helicopters have become key in...
The U.S. Army acting for the nation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) awarded Raytheon a $3.3 billion contract to provide PATRIOT air defense missile systems and support. The Huntsville Times reports that the contract award was very favorably received by Raytheon employees. The PATRIOT has been the standard ground based air defence missile system used by the Army for the last twenty-five...
As we wrote a few days ago Boeing protested the award of the new weather satellite by Boeing to Lockheed. Reuters says that the other losing bidder, Northrop, will not follow Boeing and protest. Boeing believed based on what they were told by NASA that their proposal was superior. Boeing had built the earlier generation of satellites and had based their proposal on those. Proposals have...
The GAO has reported that the U.S. Navy maintains supply stock in excess of its needs to the value of about $2 billion. This is related to a story we wrote yesterday about the Army hiring a supply chain management contract. The story in USA Today says that in an average year the Navy maintains supply stock worth almost $19 billion. Of this there is only a requirement for about $12 billion....
Hawaii BioEnergy a relatively new company that has been researching using algae to reduce Hawaii’s reliance on fossil fuels is negotiating to team with either SAIC or Bechtel to develop fuel from algae. The Honolulu Star Bulletin discusses the efforts here. Bechtel and SAIC have already received sepearte contracts from the U.S. government worth almost $40 million combined to develop...
Oceaneering International and Hamilton Sunstrand bid on the contract for NASA’s new spacesuit in support of the future Moon and Mars missions. Oceaneering won and Sunstrand protested. This protest led to a withdrawal of the original contract and a new competition. The Houston Business Journal reports that the two companies have now teamed on this new contract. Of course while this...
The U.S. Army gave a team of companies headed by Agility DGS a contract to supply repair parts for a variety of electronic systems that are serviced at Tobyhanna Depot in Pennsylvania. MarketWatch.com reports that Agility has IBM and three smaller companies on their team. The contract has 2 base years and four options. If all parts are executed it could be worth over $900 million. The goal...
The U.S. DoD buys a lot of things. They also sell a lot of things to its members. The military has two networks of stores across the globe, one run by the Army for its and the USAF bases and another by the Navy. Horizon Data Center Solutions was awarded a contract worth over $45 million to provide services to the AAFES which administers the exchanges and commissarys for the Army and Air...
We wrote a few weeks ago of Lockheed being awarded a contract to build the next generation weather satellite. Now Bloomberg reports that Boeing has protested the award. Since the number of companies able do this work in the U.S. is limited each contract is very important. The protest was filed with the GAO which is the second level of protest. The first is with the service awarding the...
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