The Army will spend as much as $2.3 billion on its Future Combat Systems initiative in fiscal 2008 and hundreds of millions more on initiatives designed to better integrate its forces, a top Army official said.
Griffon Corp. has won multiple contracts from Boeing Co. to deliver radio systems that will be used on the Air Force's C-17A Globemaster III strategic transport aircraft.
CACI International has won a contract from the Navy to provide technical and engineering services for the Naval Supply Systems Command's Readiness Based Sparing program.
Serco Inc. has won a contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center to continue providing engineering and installation services for C4ISR systems.
Northrop Grumman Corp. has selected Appian Corp. to provide enterprise portal technology and process-based services on a $267 million Army task order under the Air Force Network-Centric Solutions contract to develop Defense Knowledge Online.
Alion Science and Technology Corp. and AGEIA Technologies Inc., a maker of hardware-accelerated physics for computer games, have forged a partnership to pursue simulations and training opportunities with the military.
The Coast Guard will take over the role of lead systems integrator role from Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for the $24 billion Deepwater acquisition.