Pentagon Awards $591 Million in Defense Contracts Friday

The Department of Defense awarded seven new defense contracts Friday, worth $591.3 million in total. One of the bigger awards handed out went to "Humvee" manufacturer AM General, which won a $48 million contract to produce High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheel Vehicle parts for the U.S. Army. Meanwhile, among publicly traded firms:

Leidos Holdings  won a $62.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for Mission Planning and Analysis Common Services, under which it wil perform software engineering, integration, technical support, and training work for the U.S. Air Force through Aug. 9, 2019.

Also, Northrop Grumman received a $33 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion job order to design and build "operational test program sets" for use in repairing AN/ALQ 240 electronic warfare equipment aboard Navy P-8A Poseidon subhunting aircraft. This contract should run through September 2019.