General Dynamics’ NASSCO business and its Electric Boat subsidiary have been awarded two ship repair contracts worth more than a total of $20 million from the U.S. Navy. NASSCO won an $8.1 million award to extensively renovate and modernize the USS Harpers Ferry. Work will be performed in San Diego and is expected to be completed […] More

General Dynamics’ Electric Boat Mississippi, submarine SSN-782, sailed through its pressure hull testing well ahead of other ships in its class. The boat reached pressure hull complete status three weeks sooner than Virginia class submarines. Work on the Mississippi is ahead of schedule, beating USS Missouri“™s record for work accomplished on radar, hatches, sonar dome […] More

This week, General Dynamics“™ (NYSE: GD) Electric Boat signed an $8.8 million deal as part of a current contract to support engineering and design services for the Ohio Replacement Program, a next-generation strategic deterrent submarine. Jacobs Engineering (NYSE: JEC) won a basic ordering agreement from the FAA for design-build services at EnRoute Facilities. The deal […] More

A Northrop Grumman–Ball Aerospace team will build infrared sensor payloads for the U.S. Space Force’s future polar-orbiting missile warning satellites. The partners will work on sensors for two Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Polar satellites that the military would use to detect and track infrared heat signatures of ballistic and hypersonic projectiles, Northrop said Tuesday. […] More

Palo Alto Networks has found that threat actors have been using a custom backdoor called SockDetour to target U.S. defense contractors. The company said Thursday SockDetour functions as a backup backdoor in the event that the first backdoor is removed and is hard to detect because it “operates filelessly and socketlessly on compromised Windows servers.” […] More

Boeing has completed the construction of the engine section for NASA“™s Space Launch System and is now slated for integration onto the spacecraft, Spaceflight.com reported Sunday.

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Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division has concluded acceptance trials for a new national security cutter for the U.S. Coast Guard. The Midgett, or WMSL 757, underwent two days of testing involving the ship's propulsion, electrical, damage control, anchor-handling, small boat operations and combat systems in the Mexican Gulf, the company said Wednesday.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Phebe Novakovic, chairman and CEO of General Dynamics, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 “” Executive Mosaic“™s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena “” for helping to secure multiple contracts and supporting organic growth at the company.

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2019 “” A Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) business unit has secured a position on a potential $40M U.S. Navy contract for design and engineering services in support of marine platforms, GovCon Wire reported Monday. The Department of Defense said Friday the contract covers architectural, civil, electrical, electronics, environmental, industrial, mechanical and […] More

General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary has completed hull, mechanical and electrical delivery of a second Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer to the U.S. Navy. The Navy said Tuesday it accepted ownership of the future USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) ship after a series of assessments and demonstrations of the vessel’s HM&E systems that include boat handling, anchoring and mooring, damage control, […] More

The sixth Huntington Ingalls Industries-built U.S. Coast Guard national security cutter Munro has completed acceptance trials at the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to validate the performance of the ship’s systems. Munro accomplished a full-power propulsion run during the two-day trial that tested its propulsion, electrical, damage control, anchor-handling, small boat operations and combat systems, HII said Friday. The U.S. Navy‘s […] More

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ sixth National Security Cutter ship for the U.S. Coast Guard has completed the three-day builder’s sea trials held at the Gulf of Mexico. Munro underwent ship propulsion, electrical systems, anchor handling, small boat operations, damage control and combat systems tests as well as a four-hour, full-power propulsion run during the trial, HII said Tuesday. Derek Murphy, HII’s […] More