RTTNews reports that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security awarded OSI Systems a contract to finish the development of a system to detect Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). This enhanced system utilizing their proprietary technology will after testing be installed on existing OSI systems to scan shipping containers and trucks at U.S. ports. This contract is worth about $2 million. The...
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Television Broadcast reports that the U.S Government’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) awarded IBM a contract to set up a call center to support the transition from analog to digital television. This is part of the government’s efforts to help people understand the transition. Despite the fact that the Government program to help consumers pay for the boxes ran out of money...
In a press release on PR Newswire Boston Scientific announces that is has won a one year contract with four option years to provide its products the the U.S Veterans Administration. The initial contract value was not announced. Boston Scientific manufactures a variety of devices to treat cardiac problems such as stents, pacemakers and defibrillators. The VA will utilize their pacemakers and...
As we have written about in the past it can be hard sometimes for a defense contractor to expand beyond the military realm. LaBarge, a St. Louis based company that manufactures wiring harnesses, is trying to do that. The Morning News in Arkansas writes about the companies attempt to move into the commercial and medical sectors as well as maintaining its defense work. LaBarge recently...
We wrote recently about the GAO denying the protest of the support contract award at the Hanford site in Washington. The GAO did say though that there was enough issues that the solicitations needed to be reviewed and possibly a new source selection held with the existing bidders. Due to this the Government extended the contract of Fluor Hanford as the Seattle Post Intelligencer reports....
The Hill reports that a variety of senators are already lobbying incoming President Obama on maintaining production of the F-22 fighter. Production is set to wind down over the next few years as currently no more aircraft have been bought. The Bush administration primed the pump by providing a contract to begin purchasing long lead materials for four more aircraft. This has an option in it...
Late last month the U.S. Air Force canceled the TSAT program with a goal of restructuring it. Now Reuters is reporting that the U.S Air Force is moving out quickly on the new, restructured program. The plan is to release a RFP around April and award a new contract by the beginning of 2010. The new contract will be for a more limited satellite program with a goal of accelerating the...
We had written in the past that NASA had awarded contracts for commercial launch services to keep the International Space Station (ISS) supplied. There had also been reports that one of the losers to Orbital and SpaceX, PlanetSpace Inc, would protest one of the contract awards. According to FloridaToday.com PlanetSpace has protested both awards. MSNBC has the press release from...
The U.S. Navy made two announcements on January 15th relative to their carrier fleet. First Reuters reports that a contract worth $374 million was awarded to Northrop Grumman for initial engineering and long lead materials for the second Gerald Ford class ship. The last Nimitz class carrier, CVN-77 was commissioned this month and named for President George H. W. Bush. The Gerald Ford,...
The U.S Department of Health and Human Services awarded a contract worth almost $500 million to Novartis to construct a vaccine plant. The cost of construction will be shared by the company and the U.S. government. Reuters reports that it will be built in Holly Springs, North Carolina. The goal is to have a facility that will be able to produce 150 million doses of flue vaccine in six months...
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