WASHINGTON — Two $500 million increases to Army Corps of Engineers emergency-response contracts led the Pentagon’s contract announcements this week, part of 29 awards and modifications worth about $2.41 billion in announced value across four daily releases from Nov. 6 through Nov. 12.
The two Corps actions alone account for about 41% of the week’s total. Announced values are ceilings, face values or maximums that can stretch over several years; they are not money spent. Where the Department of War said how much it was obligating at award, this roundup reports that figure separately. The department posted no contract list on Nov. 11, the Veterans Day holiday.
| Release | Actions | Announced value | Largest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov. 6 | 9 | $1.608 billion | Ashbritt and ECC Constructors, $500 million each (Army Corps) |
| Nov. 9 | 4 | $69.8 million | Air Space Intelligence Federal, $26.0 million (Air Force) |
| Nov. 10 | 10 | $534.8 million | Burlington Industries, $224.4 million maximum (DLA) |
| Nov. 12 | 6 | $199.1 million | Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, $88.2 million (Navy) |
| Total | 29 | $2.412 billion |
The top 10 actions
| Company | Announced value | What it buys | Competition, as stated | Obligated at award |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashbritt Inc. (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) | $500.0M modification | Extends ordering period and adds capacity for emergency response (W912EK-22-D-0002) | Original bids: 9 received | Set per order |
| ECC Constructors (Burlingame, Calif.) | $500.0M modification | Same, under W912EK-22-D-0004 | Original bids: 9 received | Set per order |
| Burlington Industries (Charlotte, N.C.) | $224.4M maximum | Uniform cloth for the Air Force and Space Force, five years | Competitive, 1 response | Not stated |
| Vigor Marine (Portland, Ore.) | $222.5M | USS Gridley (DDG 101) depot modernization period, Seattle | Industrial mobilization authority, 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(3) | $222.5M in FY2026–27 funds |
| Watterson Construction (Anchorage) | $123.8M | 320-soldier barracks, Fort Wainwright, Alaska | 4 bids | $123.8M |
| MSM Group North America (St. Petersburg, Fla.) | $105.8M modification | Iowa Army Ammunition Plant 155mm line; face value now $741.0M | Not stated | $42.9M |
| Lockheed Martin RMS (Manassas, Va.) | $88.2M modification | Systems engineering and integration on Navy submarines | Not stated | $13.2M |
| BAE Systems TS&S (Rockville, Md.) | $62.9M maximum | Fuel-system automation and tank-gauging support, five years | Competitive, 4 responses | Not stated |
| BAE Systems Maritime Solutions (San Diego) | $56.6M | USS Cincinnati (LCS 20) docking availability | Full and open, 2 offers | $56.6M |
| General Dynamics IT (Falls Church, Va.) | $56.0M ceiling increase | Navy help-desk consolidation, ceiling now $154.5M | Follow-on to OTA prototype, 10 U.S.C. 4022(f) | Not stated |
Two of the week’s actions were covered in detail earlier: the Iowa artillery shell plant modification and the Navy help desk ceiling increase.
Disaster contracts get more room
The Army Corps’ Rock Island District awarded the two emergency-response contracts in November 2021 after nine bids. This week’s modifications extend the ordering period to Feb. 17, 2027, and raise the capacity by $500 million each. The releases say work locations and funding “will be determined with each order,” so no money was obligated with the change.
According to AwardTape, an independent tracker that matches the announcements to USAspending records, the government had obligated $1.77 billion on 33 orders under Ashbritt’s contract against a $2.25 billion ceiling before this week, and $575.2 million on 15 orders under ECC’s contract against a $584.0 million ceiling.
Ships, uniforms and microchips
The Navy’s biggest award of the week went to Vigor Marine for maintenance and modernization of the destroyer USS Gridley in Seattle, with work expected to finish by December 2028. The Navy said it used the industrial mobilization exception in 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(3), which covers buying from a source in order “to maintain a facility, producer, manufacturer, or other supplier available for furnishing property or services in case of a national emergency or to achieve industrial mobilization,” as the Navy’s Honeywell announcement put it. Austal USA (four offers, $43.4 million) and BAE Systems ($56.6 million, two offers) won competed repair availabilities for the littoral combat ships Canberra and Cincinnati in San Diego.
The Defense Logistics Agency awarded Burlington Industries a five-year contract worth up to $224.4 million for uniform cloth after receiving one response to a competitive solicitation. DLA also picked Hardwick Tactical of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, the lone bidder, for up to $20.2 million in flame-resistant jackets, and Federal Prison Industries, from eight responses, for up to $18.5 million in maternity physical-training shirts.
On Nov. 12, the Navy issued Honeywell a $23.2 million sole-source job order for factory equipment to make strategic radiation-hardened microelectronics in Plymouth, Minn., also under the industrial mobilization authority, paid with fiscal 2025 Title III funds.
Smaller awards touched artificial intelligence and space. The Air Force bought $26.0 million in Flyways AI software licenses for the 618th Air Operations Center at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., sole-source, with $5 million obligated; the purchase order was signed Sept. 28 and announced Nov. 9. The Space Development Agency awarded SpaceX $9.9 million, with options up to $12.7 million, for a risk-reduction study of its “Plug and Play Laser.”
Featured photo: The destroyer USS Gridley (DDG 101) in the Pacific Ocean, June 6, 2008. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Scott, public domain; cropped)
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