Already the leading provider of network and VOIP services to NASA FierceVoIP reports that Verizon was awarded a contract to provide teleconferencing services. The contract was procured through the GSA’s Networx Universal contract and could be worth over $100 million if all options are exercised. The GSA contract runs through 2017 so Verizon could conceivably provide NASA service until...
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EuropeanVoice.com reports that the European Parliament has voted in support of creating one integrated defense market for its member states. Currently each nation has an internal market of suppliers and contracting. There has been very little effort for nations’ to look at other countries to supply the product. In Italy the government was penalized by the European Union for limiting...
Louis Gallois, EADS CEO, speaking at the traditional French New Year’s Address said that the company ended plans to buy a U.S. defense contractor to preserve cash. The company was not identified Business Week reported but Gallois said it had recently won a large contract from the Pentagon. EADS like many other companies is facing issues with getting credit and must retain cash to bridge...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Coast Guard had awarded a contract for new patrol boats to Bollinger. Marinette Marine protested this award in October of last year. The Navy Times reports that the GAO upheld the award to Bollinger. With the end of the protest the stop work order that is required will be lifted. An article about the original protest is here at...
The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing the C-17 manufacturer a contract to provide logistics support and management of its C-17 fleet. Reuters says that the contract is worth over $1 billion. With the possibility that the production of the aircraft is winding down this contact maintains Boeing’s involvement with the aircraft. The contract calls for parts supply and management and support to...
Not all contracts by governments are directly between it and a company for services or products some are made for more altruistic reasons. The North County Gazette reports that today the State of New York’s Power Authority (NYPA) signed a contract with ALCOA to provide cheap, hydroelectric power for thirty years. As their part of the deal ALCOA will upgrade is Massena East and West...
As part of the last round of BRAC the U.S. Armed Forces moved to consolidate all medical training at Fort Sam Houston in Texas. The U.S. Air Force’s Center for Engineering and the Environment gave a contract to ECC to build two of the new buildings required for this facility. The San Antonio Business Journal reports that the contract is worth over $100 million and the facility is to be...
The companies and employees that make up the Canadian aerospace industries are angry with the government over not getting significant portions of new aircraft contracts. The majority of these have gone to U.S firms and there has been little work shared or offset. The Calgary Herald reports that the industry is concerned that core capabilities will be eroded as more work goes to the U.S....
The Mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, was indicted on a variety of charges related to bribes, gifts and favoring her former boyfriend’s company. The Baltimore Sun reports that the accusations are when she was head of the City Council. Ms. Dixon faces up to 12 counts as part of an ongoing investigation to a variety of contracts awarded to developed Robert Lipscomb, who dated Dixon in...
We have written before about how the U.S. government intended to implement a rule on January 15th that all companies receiving defense contracts would have to use the E-Verify system to make sure no illegal immigrants were working for them. A group of organizations representing U.S. businesses announced that they would sue to stop the rule in late December. Now as reported in the St. Louis...
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