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  • DCNS Opens New Australia-Based Office to Support Country's Submarine Replacement Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DCNS Opens New Australia-Based Office to Support Country’s Submarine Replacement Project

    France-based naval shipbuilder DCNS has established a new headquarters for its Australian subsidiary that will design the future submarine of Australia’s navy as part of an intergovernmental agreement between the two countries. DCNS said Wednesday its Adelaide Future Submarine Facility is scheduled to begin operations in early 2017 and will support activities such as the transfer of technology from France to Australia, […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Awarded 5-Year DISA Data Link Service Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Awarded 5-Year DISA Data Link Service Contract

    Rockwell Collins has secured a potential five-year contract from the Defense Information System Agency to provide data link services to U.S. government and military aircraft. The Data Link Service Provider 4 contract covers command-and-control communications, global flight planning, flight deck safety and broadband cabin services for vehicles such as the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command Transport and Very Important Person Special […] More

  • Dennis Muilenburg: Boeing Aims to Build Next Air Force One Fleet for Less Than $4B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dennis Muilenburg: Boeing Aims to Build Next Air Force One Fleet for Less Than $4B

    Dennis Muilenburg, chairman, president and CEO of Boeing, has said the company aims to work with the incoming administration to ensure that the production cost for the next pair of presidential aircraft will not exceed $4 billion, The Hill newspaper reported Wednesday. Jessie Hillman writes Muilenberg made the remarks after he met with President-elect Donald Trump at the latter’s Mar-a-Lago […] More

  • Govini Predicts Increased Competition for IT Contracts Across Pentagon in 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govini Predicts Increased Competition for IT Contracts Across Pentagon in 2017

    A Govini report predicts competition for information technology contracts across the Defense Department and service branches to increase in 2017 as $210 billion worth of DoD contracts approach expiration in the coming year, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Frank Konkel writes the analytics firm also estimates bids for each expiring IT contract to increase to an average of […] More

  • UTC Subsidiary to Sustain Air Force F119 Engines Under $69M Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC Subsidiary to Sustain Air Force F119 Engines Under $69M Contract Modification

    A United Technologies Corp. subsidiary has been awarded a potential $68.7 contact modification for sustainment work on afterburning turbofan engines for the U.S. Air Force. Pratt and Whitney will offer necessary labor for the sustainment of F119 engines, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has obligated the full amount of the modification from fiscal […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Potential Voice Comm System Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Potential Voice Comm System Sources

    The U.S. Air Force has begun to search for potential sources of a voice communication system for the military branch’s test center at Edwards AF Base in California. The service branch seeks to replace Edwards AFB’s Federated Edwards Digital Switch with a voice over internet protocol system, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday. A selected contractor will acquire, test, integrate and install […] More

  • InfoZen Expands Headquarters in Maryland After $208M DHS Contract Win - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoZen Expands Headquarters in Maryland After $208M DHS Contract Win

    Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology services provider InfoZen will add an additional 25,000 square feet to its corporate headquarters in Montgomery County and hire up to 100 employees by the end of 2017 as part of the company’s expansion efforts. InfoZen announced the expansion three months after it received a potential $208 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security, […] More

  • Florida’s Brevard County Commission OKs Revised $1.75M Incentive Package for Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Florida’s Brevard County Commission OKs Revised $1.75M Incentive Package for Lockheed

    Brevard County commissioners in Florida on Tuesday approved the changes to a potential $1.75 million incentive package for Lockheed Martin in exchange for the creation of up to 300 jobs, Florida Today reported Tuesday. Dave Berman writes three county commissioners cleared the revised incentive deal between Lockheed and the North Brevard Economic Development Zone, while […] More

  • Lockheed to Start Environmental, Mechanical Tests on NOAA GOES-S Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Start Environmental, Mechanical Tests on NOAA GOES-S Weather Satellite

    Lockheed Martin will begin environmental and mechanical tests on a satellite that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will use to support U.S. weather observation operations. Lockheed said Tuesday the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – S weather satellite is the second of four GOES-R series geostationary weather satellites and will undergo tests that simulate launch and […] More

  • Orbital ATK's New Utah Office to Support Air Force Minuteman III Booster Sustainment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s New Utah Office to Support Air Force Minuteman III Booster Sustainment

    Orbital ATK has opened a new office at Hill Air Force Base in Utah in a move to help the military branch collaborate directly with the company to sustain Minuteman III boosters. The company said Tuesday the 7,000-square-foot office space it leased at Falcon Hill Research Park will accommodate employees that work under the company’s propulsion subsystem support contract with the Air Force […] More

  • DHS S&T Seeks New Jamming Mitigation Tools, Methods; Sridhar Kowdley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS S&T Seeks New Jamming Mitigation Tools, Methods; Sridhar Kowdley Comments

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate seeks partners from academia, industry and federally funded research-and-development centers that can provide anti-jamming technology systems that are ready for testing and evaluation. DHS said Tuesday it will hold the 2017 First Responder Electronic Jamming Exercise at Idaho National Laboratory from July 17 to 22 next year […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Proposals for Radio Transmitter Devt Program; Troy Olsson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Proposals for Radio Transmitter Devt Program; Troy Olsson Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit research proposals for a $23 million program that seeks to develop low-size, weight, and power transmitters that will work to facilitate underground and underwater radio communications. DARPA posted on FedBizOpps the broad agency announcement for the A Mechanically Based Antenna program that seeks to create transmitters designed to produce […] More