Pillar Two Expansion. A State Department Official recently said the administration sees AUKUS Pillar Two eventually expanding to others, but not yet. “I think right now what we want to do is make sure that we have a good solid basis amongst the three countries in terms of the emerging ...

Coastal Pacific Food Distributors Inc., Stockton, California, has been awarded a maximum $250,077,543 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for full-line food distribution. This is a one-year bridge contract with no option periods. Locations of performance are Japan, ...

The Air Force has awarded Boeing [BA] a $2.3 billion Lot 10 production order to build 15 more KC-46A tankers. With the latest production order, Boeing said it’s now under contract for 153 of the aerial refueling tankers globally. “We appreciate our partnership with the U.S. Air Force, which ...

Raytheon Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney Military Engines, East Hartford, Connecticut, is awarded a not-to-exceed $701,923,926 undefinitized modification (P00045) to a previously awarded cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable, fixed-price incentive (firm-target) ...

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) said this week that its information directorate in Rome, N.Y., signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) on Nov. 13 with Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Keysight Technologies, Inc. [KEYS] to explore technology development for terahertz ...

The U.S. State Department has approved a sale of up to 400 RTX [RTX] Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) to Japan for nearly $2.4 billion. The sale would include 200 RGM-109E Block IVs, 200 Block Vs, and 14 weapon control systems, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said on Nov. 17. RTX ...

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Moorestown, New Jersey, is awarded a $30,478,466 cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to previously awarded contract N00024-23-C-5123 for capability package development and fielding, system integration and fielding, and in-service sustainment in support ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded both Northrop Grumman [NOC] and RTX [RTX] another $54 million to fund further concept refinement for their hypersonic defense Glide Phase Intercept (GPI) concepts. In 2021, MDA first awarded the companies $19 million to $21 million to develop and refine GPI ...

The State Department has approved a potential $650 million deal with South Korea for the sale of 38 SM-6 Block I missiles. The new Foreign Military Sale approval arrives after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin participated in the 55th U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) Security Consultative Meeting in ...

KBR Diego Garcia LLC, Houston, Texas, is awarded $64,714,169 for a firm-fixed-price modification to exercise Option Six under previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract N62742-17-D-3600 for base operations support services at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia. Award of ...