The Army is postponing its purchase of up to 10,000 broadband radios for up to three weeks due to a congressional approval requirement on the contract solicitation, Nextgov reports. The branch said it will begin purchasing Joint Tactical Radio System’s Mid-Tier Networking Vehicular Radios in February to replace the halted $15 billion JTRS ground mobile [...]
BAE Systems has won nearly $23 million in Army delivery orders to provide thermal imagers and survivability seats for fighting vehicles. The company said it will deliver $13 million worth of its TIM 1500 thermal imaging technology. The imagers are used for target acquisition, long-range surveillance and situational awareness. The imagers are also designed to be [...]
DRS Technologies’ technical services subsidiary has won a $6.3 million time and materials contract with the U.S. Army Contracting Command, the Pentagon has announced. The firm will support the installation of information technology infrastructure for command and control capabilities. Support will include engineering services. The Pentagon said contract work will take place in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Israel, Korea, [...]
KBR has announced today it has been selected by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to provide life support, vehicle maintenance and healthcare services across Baghdad, Basra and Erbil in Iraq, and Kabul and Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan. The three-year contract requires KBR to provide such services as medical support, fleet management of armoured and [...]
For the last nine years, CH2M Hill employees have donated more than $1 million in total to the Water for People under the firm’s annual Workplace Giving Campaign. During this year’s month-long campaign alone, employees raised $223,000. The firm first hosted its Workplace Giving Campaign in 2003, raising $10,000. Employees in offices around the world, [...]
Afghan President Hamad Karzai has issued a stern decree to private security contractors, demanding that the firms cease operations in the country within four months. NATO, which relies on private contractors to secure convoys and bases, is expected to resist the move. According to Karzai’s order, contractors must disband or join the Afghan police. International [...]
Just as the Pentagon feared that the money to fund troops was about to run out, the House Appropriations Committee passed a bill yesterday that allocated almost $59 billion towards funding for war efforts in Afghanistan and other programs. The House voted 308-114 on the legislation, which dedicates nearly $37 billion to the additional 30,000 [...]
