DOD awards $334 million Hawaiian solar power project  Power and Energy

Total eight defense contracts has been awarded by the Department of Defense (DoD) in its announcement meeting of contract awards on Friday. In total contracts valued $692.2 million was awarded.

A privately held Pacific Energy Solutions LLC, which states itself as the only source for Federal clients searching full-service renewable and non-renewable energy development services, PES secures the biggest award of $334.1 million project order covered by an earlier awarded solar power generation contract to supply the U.S. Navy with electricity generated from solar power generation plants that are designed, built, owned, operated and maintained by the contractor on military bases in Hawaii. The 25 year contract will run all the way through July 2040.

Boeing, among other publicly traded firms, bags a $45 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to repair 214 numerous mission system constituents overseas U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft through March 31, 2016.

While, Northrop Grumman gets three more awards:

A $198.9 million partial-foreign military sales project to design, develop, and execute software and hardware modifications to Airborne Electronic Attack systems on board U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy EA-6B Prowler and EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft. The work activity should likely to be done by July 2019.

A $62.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to deliver petroleum, oil, and lubricants, facilitate an ammunition supply point, maintain vehicles and equipment, and provide logistics assistance to the U.S. Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., through May 31, 2015.

An $11.9 million option action on an underlying Arrays at Commercial Timescales (ACT) contract, stretching Northrop's work on this contract through Jan. 9, 2016. ACT refers to a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that targets to boost developments in Defense Department radio, radar, and other electromagnetic equipment.