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  • Leonardo Delivers 1st AW101 Helicopter to Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Delivers 1st AW101 Helicopter to Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security

    Leonardo has delivered the first of 16 all-weather search and rescue helicopters to Norway’s ministry of justice and public security. The company said Monday the AW101 helicopter deployed from the Leonardo facility in Yeovil on Friday to the Sola Air Base in Norway where it will undergo an operational test and evaluation phase prior to […] More

  • Boeing Taps Germany-Based Supplier to Manufacture Parts for Global Chinook Helicopter Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Taps Germany-Based Supplier to Manufacture Parts for Global Chinook Helicopter Fleet

    Boeing has awarded Aircraft Philipp Group GmbH a five-year contract to produce machine parts for the global H-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopter fleet as part of the former’s Germany-based supplier base. Boeing said Friday it also launched a training workshop in May to familiarize members of the German industry with the company’s source selection and bid […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Build 4th E-2D Training System for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Build 4th E-2D Training System for Navy

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Rockwell Collins a $34.5 million initial contract to provide a fourth tactics trainer for the military branch’s E-2D Hawkeye Integrated Training Systems III program. Rockwell Collins said Monday it aims to complete production of a new E-2D tactics trainer designed to support live, virtual and constructive training high-fidelity training by August 2020. Nick Gibbs, vice president […] More

  • Navy Tests Northrop-Made Submarine Flank Array Sonar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests Northrop-Made Submarine Flank Array Sonar

    The U.S. Navy has tested an underwater acoustic technology Northrop Grumman  designed to help address the service branch’s flank array requirements for submarines as part of a Work for Private Parties agreement. Northrop said Nov. 14 the Advanced Flank Array sonar works to integrate with the service branch’s Virginia-class fast attack and Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. The company invested more than $3 million to […] More

  • Orbital ATK Backs Delta II Rocket Launch With Solid Rocket Motors, Payload Fairing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Backs Delta II Rocket Launch With Solid Rocket Motors, Payload Fairing

    Orbital ATK supplied a composite fairing component and nine graphite epoxy motors – GEM 40 – for a United Launch Alliance-built Delta II rocket that took off Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The first Joint Polar Satellite System that NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration developed through a collaborative effort launched aboard the Delta […] More

  • Harris-NASA Team Completes Thermal Vacuum Test on James Webb Space Telescope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris-NASA Team Completes Thermal Vacuum Test on James Webb Space Telescope

    NASA and Harris have conducted thermal vacuum tests on the future James Webb Space Telescope to evaluate the system’s capacity to operate within the space environment. Harris said Monday the telescope is designed to function as a space observatory over the next decade and conduct studies on star, planet and galaxy formations. The telescope will be shipped to […] More

  • DSA Subsidiary Lands DOJ Victim Notification Tool Upgrade Contract; Paul Strasser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSA Subsidiary Lands DOJ Victim Notification Tool Upgrade Contract; Paul Strasser Comments

    Project Performance Co., a Data Systems Analysts subsidiary, has received a potential $6 million contract to upgrade the Justice Department’s Victim Notification System. PPC said it will update the VNS application that works to send automated notifications to federal crimes victims through the use of Pegasystems’ Pega 7 platform. Pega 7 is an application development […] More

  • Tata, Terma Partner to Produce Surface Surveillance Radars for Indian Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tata, Terma Partner to Produce Surface Surveillance Radars for Indian Navy

    India-based Tata Advanced Systems has partnered Danish aerospace and defense company Terma to develop radar technology for integration onto Indian navy ships. The team will deliver, install and commission 31 radars under India’s Surface Surveillance Radar project, as well as supply simulators, establish depot facilities and provide integrated logistics services, Terma said Wednesday. Tata, the prime contractor […] More

  • Navy Taps Iridium for DoD Network Services Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Iridium for DoD Network Services Support

    Iridium has received a potential $45.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide commercial satellite-based network services support for Defense Department satellite, ground node, user equipment/terminal software and hardware development, integration and testing activities. DoD said Monday the contract will cover continued communication support services that can aid tactical, operational and strategic-level activities of […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Engines Help Send NOAA Weather Satellite Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Engines Help Send NOAA Weather Satellite Into Orbit

    Two Aerojet Rocketdyne-built engines helped power United Launch Alliance‘s  Delta II rocket that launched a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite into space. The RS-27A engine generated 237,000 pounds of thrust to lift the rocket carrying NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 and the AJ10-118K upper-stage engine produced 10,000 pounds of thrust to insert the payload into orbit, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Saturday. […] More

  • ATI to Head DARPA-Backed Consortium for Satellite Servicing Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATI to Head DARPA-Backed Consortium for Satellite Servicing Standards

    Advanced Technology International will lead a federal government-established group of satellite industry stakeholders from the public and private sectors that is intended to set the standards for satellite servicing. The Analytic Services subsidiary said Thursday that it will head the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations as the prime contractor that the Defense Advanced Research Projects […] More

  • DISA to Solicit Proposals for $96M IT Products & Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA to Solicit Proposals for $96M IT Products & Services Contract

    The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to issue a formal request for proposals later this month for a range of information technology products and services that will be delivered outside the continental U.S. DISA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday that the planned single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will be valued at $95.9 million and will include […] More