The Few. The Proud.(click to view full) Harper Construction in San Diego, CA won a $56.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for design and construction of a physical conditioning recruit barracks, a recruit training barracks and a sports medicine and reconditioning...
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Honeywell Gets $25.3M to Supply F-16 Circuit Card Assemblies
USAF F-16s over Iraq(click to view full) Honeywell International in Albuquerque, NM received a maximum $25.3 million firm-fixed price, sole-source, indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity contract for aircraft circuit card assemblies for the US Air Force's F-16...
Rosetta By Any Other Name: IBM Gets GALE-Related Work
The IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY won a $9.7 million cost-reimbursement contract modification to support the intelligence analyst research effort called Rosetta: An Analyst Co-Pilot. Rosetta will tightly couple speech transcription, language...
$24M to Elbit for Finnish Defense Communication System
Elbit Systems in Haifa, Israel received a contract valued at EUR 17 million ($24 million) to provide Finland's Ministry of Defence with high speed radio and data transmission communication systems to be delivered between 2010 and 2012. Finland is purchasing Elbit's...
US Army Awards $8.6M in Environmental Remediation Service Orders
The US Army awarded a total of $8.6 million in performance-based task orders for environmental remediation services at Army facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico. The Army has two environment remediation programs for active/operating Army installations - the...
Boeing to Supply Data Transfer System to Arleigh Burke Class Destroyers
Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer(click to view larger) The Boeing Company received a $14.6 million US Navy contract (N00178-09-C-2003) to produce the information transfer system that controls mission-critical capabilities on guided missile destroyers. Boeing will supply...
Boeing’s Skyhook Shot: Redefining the Aerial Heavy-Lift Market?
Skyhook concept(click to view full) In April 2006, "WALRUS Hunted to Extinction By Congress, DARPA?" dealt with the cancellation of DARPA's WALRUS ultra-heavy lift program. WALRUS aimed to develop an airship that could lift between 250-500 tons, offering capacity that...
Sysco to Provide Food Services at US Installations in Alaska
Sysco Food Services of Seattle in Kent, WA won a maximum $7.3 million firm-fixed price, indefinite quantity full-line food distribution contract modification to provide food services to US Army, US Air Force, and US Job Corps facilities in Alaska. The original...
Higher, Cheaper: RVSM Certifying the Super-Hornet
F/A-18Es over Afghanistan(click to view full) It's a seemingly small change. Allow US Navy F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets to cruise between 29,000 and 41,000 feet, where the thinner air would save the US Navy several million dollars per year in fuel costs - $250,000 for...

