Pentagon Awards $583.4 Million in Defense Contracts

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The Department of Defense awarded 13 defense contracts in its Monday evening announcement of contract awards. The total value of contracts awarded was $583.4 million.

Among the publicly traded companies winning contracts:

Roche Holdings (NASDAQOTH: RHHBY) subsidiary Genentech USA was awarded the first of seven possible one-year-long option periods on a fixed-price with economic-price-adjustment, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply various pharmaceutical products to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. This option exercise extends Roche’s contract through at least May 19, 2015, and increases the underlying contract’s value by as much as $56.6 million.

Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) subsidiary Campbell-Ewald was awarded a $55.4 million contract modification funding additional advertising and marketing services in support of U.S. Navy recruiting efforts at the Navy Recruiting Command, Millington, Tenn. This contract extends the underlying contract through at least January 2015, and envisions as many as four subsequent, one-month-long option periods. If exercised, these options could extend the contract’s duration into May 2015 and increase its total value to as much as $85 million.

Jacobs Engineering (NYSE: JEC) won a $21.5 million sole-source, cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost-reimbursable contract to perform engineering and technology acquisition support services for the U.S. Air Force at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts, Lackland AFB in Texas, Maxwell AFB in Alabama, and Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. This work should be completed by Dec. 31.

BAE Systems‘ (NASDAQOTH: BAESY) Norfolk Ship Repair subsidiary was awarded a $12.4 million contract modification funding maintenance and upgrades work on the guided missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) through October.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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