The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded three separate Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) contracts totaling up to $4.4 billion over 10 years. Under the contracts, the companies will perform work that will demonstrate NextGen procedures in real time on a large scale within the current air traffic system.
“NextGen is an economic opportunity that will [...]
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Boeing, General Dynamics and ITT: $4.4 Bn for NextGen Engineering Contracts
Boeing, General Dynamics and ITT: Up To $4.4 Bn for NextGen Engineering Contracts
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today awarded three separate Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) contracts totaling up to $4.4 billion over 10 years. Under the contracts, the companies will perform work that will demonstrate NextGen procedures in real time on a large scale within the current air traffic system.
“NextGen is an economic opportunity that [...]
US NAVY LCS: life-cycle cost is a major problem
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said yesterday the service is keeping a mid-April deadline for industry bids on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), amid concerns about the losing shipbuilder protesting the contract award and a call from one side to delay the schedule.
Some observers predict the loser of the two-way contest between Lockheed Martin and General [...]
Northrop Considers Bid for U.S. Navy’s LCS
Northrop Grumman is examining both competing Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) designs with an eye to possibly bidding as a second-source shipyard to build the small, fast warships for the U.S. Navy, the company’s top shipbuilder said Wednesday.
“We’re interested, we’re looking at both programs,” Mike Petters, head of Northrop Grumman shipbuilding, told Congress towards the end [...]
GD and Austal Split Up To Bid on LCS
Shipbuilding partners Austal USA and General Dynamics have agreed to revoke their teaming arrangement on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program – a move that positions Austal to bid as a prime contractor on this year’s bid for 10 LCS ships for the U.S. Navy, and allows GD to go after another five ships to [...]
Cost is critical factor in LCS competition-US Navy
* Navy aims to move away from system integrators
* Could stage competition for combat systems later
Cost will be the critical factor the U.S. Navy uses to judge competing designs from General Dynamics Corp and Lockheed Martin Corp for a new class of fast, flexible, shallow-water warships, a top admiral said.
Rear Admiral William Landay, program executive officer for [...]
GD Awarded 387 M$ Training Support Contract by US Army
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a contract for Constructive Training Systems support by the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). The total potential value of this single-award, five-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract is $387 million if all options are exercised. [...]