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Serco to Help Air Force Acquire, Support Special Ops Weapon Systems

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Serco Inc. has won a task order with a ceiling value of $13.5 million to help the U.S. Air Force acquire and support weapon systems for special operations forces, the company has announced. The company will provide engineering, acquisition, financial and logistics management to the special operations forces, Aeronautical Systems Center and personnel recovery division. The task [...]

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Parsons Wins 3-Year Infrastructure Project Deal In Saudi City

Parsons recently announced that it has won a construction management contract from the Jeddah municipality in Saudi Arabia. The three-year contract calls for Parsons to coordinate and manage construction projects as well as additional services such as coordination, administration, inspection, materials testing, document submittals, project records and making recommendations to the city. “We are honored and [...]

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Raytheon to Supply Australian Navy with Sonar Systems

Raytheon has been awarded a share of an $80,830,000 contract modification from the Australian navy for airborne low frequency sonar systems. The company’s integrated defense systems business unit will supply the systems under a foreign military sales program. Work is expected to be completed in October 2016.

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Bloomberg: Multiple-Award Contracts Soar 33% Past GAO Estimate

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A Bloomberg Government study has found that U.S. government spending on multiple-award contracts (MACs) grew twice as fast as total contract spending between 2006 and 2010, with MAC spending increasing 49 percent to $121 billion over the period. “Multiple-award contracts are starting to become the center of the universe,” Jaime Garcia, president of Washington-based Seville Government Consulting told [...]

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Qwest Govt Services to Provide IT, Telecomm to VA

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded CenturyLink‘s subsidiary Qwest Government Services a $2.1 million contract to provide information technology services, the Washington Post reported today. IT services will include telecommunications work. The Post did not release any more contract information.

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ITT Exelis to Produce F/A-18 Control Modules on GE Aviation Contract

ITT Exelis has recently won a $5.7 million multi-year subcontract to produce 375 generator control modules for F/A-18 aircraft, the company has announced. Exelis’ electronic systems operation in North Amityville, N.Y. will complete the work, which was awarded by GE Aviation. The announcement said F/A-18 aircraft carry two modules, each of which controls one side of the [...]

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DRS to Support Installation of Army Command, Control IT Infrastructure

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DRS Technologies’ technical services subsidiary has won a $6.3 million time and materials contract with the U.S. Army Contracting Command, the Pentagon has announced. The firm will support the installation of information technology infrastructure for command and control capabilities. Support will include engineering services. The Pentagon said contract work will take place in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Israel, Korea, [...]

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