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Navy/USMC

Perspecta Follows GD In Protesting Leidos’ NGEN-R SMIT Win, Work Paused

Wednesday, March 11th, 2020

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This week Perspecta filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) over Leidos’ [LDOS] win of the Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network Re-compete (NGEN-R) contract. According to the GAO docket, the protest was filed on March 9 and will be decided by June 17. This follows a similar protest by General Dynamics’ [GD] Information Technology subsidiary that field a protest with the GAO on March 4 over the SMIT contract (Defense Daily, March 5). A Navy spokesperson confirmed to…

Congress

HASC Bill Would Allow Air Force To Buy More Than 267 F-15EXs

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill would allow the Air Force to buy more than 267 F-15EX fighters by Boeing [BA] and would extend the […]

Budget

Defense Bill Tries To Block Foreign Shipbuilding, Adds $1 Billion For Second DDG

The final version of the House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal year 2027 defense authorization bill included two amendments pushed by Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) that restrict procuring Navy warships […]

Congress

Replacement Munitions May Not Be One-for-One; May Include New Weapons Chemistries, Wittman Says

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Congress

HASC Approves $1.15 Trillion FY ‘27 NDAA With ‘Right To Repair’ Reform

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has approved its $1.15 trillion version of the fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with the panel moving to adopt a bipartisan […]