Northrop expands Global Hawk work with Air Force win

Northrop Grumman’s Aerospace Systems sector has won a $35.7 million contract modification with the Air Force for Global Hawk engineering and manufacturing development.

This modification is to a contract that is valued at $2.3 billion.

Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk is an unmanned aerial vehicle that provides a broad overview and systematic surveillance using a high-resolution radar and electro-optical and infrared sensors.

Cloud computing, health IT go hand-in-hand

According to the cloud computing consulting firm CoreMatrix, the health care industry is in an era of transformation, and cloud computing has proved useful as the industry has been adopting cloud solutions to help meet many new information technology challenges that it faces, Marketwired reported.

Lockheed Martin nabs $217M contract to deliver joint information environment

Lockheed Martin has won a $217 million contract to deliver information technology support services to the Defense Department Chief Information Office in order to better allow warfighters to share secure information.

The company will provide IT equipment, software development tools and other services necessary to support the office in matters related to IT, information assurance and information management, the company said in a release.

Lockheed expects delays to drive sequestration cuts

The quarterly reports for many defense and IT contractors will be coming out over the next couple of weeks, and we’re sure to get some more insights into the market and to the impact of sequestration.

One of the interesting things about quarterly reports is that they simultaneously give you a look back and a look forward.

Merger-born Novetta promptly grows by M&A

In March 2012, the private equity firm Arlington Capital Partners, which had become a major investor in White Oak Technologies Inc. acquired FGM Inc. and merged the two companies to create Novetta Solutions, a provider of national security technology services.

Within its first six months Novetta completed two acquisitions with Arlington’s backing – White Cliffs Consulting LLC (WCC) in August and International Biometric Group LLC (IBG) in September 2012, to expand its offerings.

Which trends should you be on the lookout for?

At Deltek’s Clarity event last week, the market research firm gave an overview of its annual survey, highlighting trends that will be present in the coming year.

The purpose of the survey, which is called Clarity, “is really to provide a back-base baseline for industry,” said Warren M. Linscott Jr., vice president, Deltek GovCon Product Strategy & Management.

Cyber gets a $1B boost in 2014 defense budget

By increasing its budget for cyber-warfare, the U.S. military is expanding its offensive cyber capabilities, including the ability to blind an enemy’s radar or shut down its command systems in the event of war, according to USA Today. The cyber-operations budget rose from $3.9 billion to $4.7 billion in the proposed 2014 defense budget that came out last week.

Pragmatics wins $2M ENCORE II order to support defense spectrum organization

Pragmatics has won a $2 million task order with the Defense Information Systems Agency for systems engineering and other services in support of its defense spectrum organization.

This task order was awarded under the ENCORE II task order contract.

Pragmatics will support the agency’s Defense Spectrum Organization – Command and Control requirement for a spectrum requirements and reallocation analysis.

Boeing wins $17.7 contract mod for precision laser guidance sets

Boeing Co. has won a $17.7 million contract modification to produce 1,496 precision laser guidance sets for the Navy, Air Force, and the governments of Saudi Arabia and Japan.

This contract combines purchases by the Navy and Air Force with purchases by Saudi Arabia and Japan under the Foreign Military Sales program, the Defense Department said in an announcement.

Rockwell Collins wins $85M contract to augment Army helicopters

Rockwell Collins has won a $85 million contract to provide eight types of spare part items for radio receiving sets, low-frequency automatic direction finders and tactical navigation systems for Army helicopters.

Work is expected to be completed by April 18, 2016, and will take place in Iowa, according to the Defense Department announcement.