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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Consolidate Additional Offices Under Competitive Improvement Program; Eileen Drake Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Consolidate Additional Offices Under Competitive Improvement Program; Eileen Drake Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne will consolidate and modernize additional facilities over the next two years under the second phase of a company-wide improvement effort. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday it aims to merge operations in California and Virginia as well as expand its presence in Alabama with the construction of a new manufacturing facility in the next two years as part of the firm’s […] More

  • General Atomics Demos Raytheon-Built Radar Warning Receiver on Predator B Drone; Claudio Pereida Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Demos Raytheon-Built Radar Warning Receiver on Predator B Drone; Claudio Pereida Comments

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has demonstrated a Raytheon-built radar warning receiver technology on a Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial system at a flight operations facility in Palmdale, California. General Atomics said Monday the ALR-59A RWR was placed in a GA-ASI standard payload pod installed on a Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper to test if the receiver could help drone operators detect potential threats in or […] More

  • MBDA Tests Sea Venom Anti-Ship Missile Onboard UK Naval Helicopter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA Tests Sea Venom Anti-Ship Missile Onboard UK Naval Helicopter

    MBDA has conducted air carriage and jettison tests of its anti-ship missile technology onboard a Westland-built naval helicopter from the U.K.’s navy. The Sea Venom/ANL missile tests evaluated the platform’s capacity for integration with the Lynx and Super Lynx helicopters, MBDA said Wednesday. MBDA developed Sea Venom to counter vessels such as fast inshore attack craft, fast attack craft and corvettes from a stand-off range as […] More

  • Lockheed, Calspan, Air Force Conduct Manned-Unmanned Teaming Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Calspan, Air Force Conduct Manned-Unmanned Teaming Demo

    Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works business, Calspan, the U.S. Air Force‘s Test Pilot School and the Air Force Research Laboratory have conducted a manned-unmanned teaming exercise in a push to help increase warfighters’ combat efficiency and effectiveness. Lockheed said Monday the Have Raider II demonstration at Edwards Air Force Base involved an experimental F-16 aircraft which acted as a surrogate […] More

  • CenturyLink Awarded GSA VoIP Service Contract; Erich Sanchack Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Awarded GSA VoIP Service Contract; Erich Sanchack Comments

    The General Services Administration has awarded CenturyLink a potential five-year, $6 million to provide a hosted contact center and voice over internet protocol service to the agency’s Federal Acquisition Service. CenturyLink said Monday it aims to help FAS manage approximately 800,000 inbound and outbound calls annually through the hosted contact center. The contract has a one-year base value of $1.3 million plus four one-year options […] More

  • Fraser Optics to Provide Camera Systems to CBP's Air and Marine Operations Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fraser Optics to Provide Camera Systems to CBP’s Air and Marine Operations Unit

    Fraser Optics has landed a firm-fixed-price contract to supply electro-optic camera systems to the air and marine operations division of the Department of Homeland Security‘s Customs and Border Protection agency. The company said Thursday AMO utilizes the Tethered Aerostat Radar System to detect low-altitude aircraft and track suspicious movements of ultralight and short landing aircraft over the southwest border. “It is an […] More

  • Leonardo Receives AW169 Helicopter Order From Argentina - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Receives AW169 Helicopter Order From Argentina

    Argentina’s national gendarmerie has ordered a twin-turbine helicopter from Leonardo  to support law enforcement and border patrol operations within the country. Leonardo said Thursday is scheduled to deliver an AgustaWestland AW169 unit in the second half of this year. Mauro Moretti, CEO and general manager of Leonardo, said the selection of the AW169 by the Argentine gendarmerie helps […] More

  • Hitachi to Resell DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery Products, Services in Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi to Resell DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery Products, Services in Japan

    Hitachi has agreed to distribute DigitalGlobe‘s satellite imagery products and services in the Japanese market under a commercial reseller agreement. DigitalGlobe said Friday Hitachi launched a satellite imagery distribution service and will offer 30-centimeter resolution images from the former’s constellation of satellites to companies, news organizations, municipal offices and government agencies in Japan. Hitachi has also appointed Japan Space Imaging as […] More

  • Air Force Taps Engility Subsidiary to Assist Space & Missile Systems Center's Engineering Directorate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Engility Subsidiary to Assist Space & Missile Systems Center’s Engineering Directorate

    An Engility subsidiary has won a potential $41 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide advisory and assistance services to the Space and Missile Systems Center’s engineering directorate. TASC will assemble an independent readiness review team to help the directorate examine related space organizations that offer technical analysis and risk assessment services for ground, launch and space systems, the […] More

  • DRT Awarded $52M to Help Labor Dept Build Cloud-Based Workers' Compensation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRT Awarded $52M to Help Labor Dept Build Cloud-Based Workers’ Compensation System

    DRT Strategies has won a seven-year, $52 million contract to build a cloud-based enterprise platform for a Labor Department office that administers disability compensation programs for certain employees and their dependents. The company said Thursday it aims to create a single platform for the department’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs to manage, distribute and review employee benefits. “We look forward to deploying our talented […] More

  • Navy OKs Revolution Lighting's LED Tube Offering for Seafaring Vessels - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy OKs Revolution Lighting’s LED Tube Offering for Seafaring Vessels

    Revolution Lighting Technologies‘ light-emitting diode tube offering has been certified by the U.S. Navy as compliant with the military standard and for use in the service branch’s fleet. The company said Thursday it received certification for its two-foot T8 LED tube after naval engineers tested and evaluated the product against Navy guidelines. T8’s light output works to increase visibility and safety […] More

  • Raytheon to Continue BMD Radar Gallium Nitride Tech Devt for MDA; Dave Gulla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Continue BMD Radar Gallium Nitride Tech Devt for MDA; Dave Gulla Comments

    Raytheon has received a $10 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue to develop hardware and software that will incorporate gallium nitride technology into a ballistic missile defense radar system. Raytheon said Thursday GaN technology will help boost the range, search and friend-or-foe determining capacity of the Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance system, or AN/TPY-2. AN/TPY-2 is designed with a […] More