The Department of Defense awarded 11 defense contracts in its Wednesday evening announcement of contract awards. The total value of contracts awarded was $447.2 million.
The day's biggest award, accounting for two-thirds of the funds on offer, was split among several recipients. The $300 million contract to supply materials and services to meet the Armament, Research, Development, and Engineering Center's mission requirements through July 9, 2019, was awarded to:
- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK)
- Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH 1.88%)
- General Dynamics (GD 1.17%)
- Leidos (LDOS 0.93%)
- Privately held Concurrent Technologies
- The Battelle Memorial Institute
Separately, the Pentagon awarded contracts to:
- BAE Systems (BAES.Y 0.15%): a $15.9 million contract modification to perform maintenance work and upgrades on the guided-missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73) while it's in dry dock in San Diego through February 2015.
- Boeing (BA -0.24%): a $10.1 million contract modification extending through July 9, 2016, the period during which the U.S. Air Force may order repairs on 23 B-1B Aircraft Secondary Structural Components.
- Kaman (KAMN 0.26%): an $8.5 million contract modification to supply 3,069 state-of-the-art fuze systems to the U.S. Air Force, and also to the governments of Morocco and Singapore by September 2016.
- Lockheed Martin (LMT 1.71%): an $8.1 million contract modification funding repair work under the C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-Engining Program, to be completed by Sept. 15, 2015.
