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  • Cubic Receives $52M Joint Readiness Training Center Support Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Receives $52M Joint Readiness Training Center Support Contract Modification

    Cubic‘s global defense business segment has received a new $52 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to support rotational and pre-deployment training exercise at the service branch’s Joint Readiness Training Center. The company said Monday it will continue to assist JRTC’s integration with U.S. and allied forces on training exercises through action-based and theater-specific operational environment scenarios […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Proposals for Biological Building Materials Development Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Proposals for Biological Building Materials Development Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit proposals for a program that aims to create new materials that exhibit the characteristics of living systems as well as the structural attributes of building materials. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement published Friday on FedBizOpps the Engineered Living Materials program seeks to develop […] More

  • Boeing Gets $61M Contract Modification for Navy P-8A Aircraft Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Gets $61M Contract Modification for Navy P-8A Aircraft Design Review

    Boeing has secured a $60.8 million delivery order modification to perform preliminary and critical design reviews intended to help mature the Increment 3 Block 2 update of the U.S. Navy‘s P-8A Poseidon maritime aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday Boeing will review P-8A wideband satellite communications, computing and security architecture, automated digital network system, common data link, anti-surface […] More

  • Implant Sciences Eyes Zapata Industries Acquisition to Offer Hoverboard Tech for Defense Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Implant Sciences Eyes Zapata Industries Acquisition to Offer Hoverboard Tech for Defense Clients

    Implant Sciences is working to acquire France-based Zapata Industries to distribute the latter’s personal flight system to the defense, security and commercial markets, Defense News reported Thursday. Jen Judson writes Zapata Industries has passed a proof-of-concept milestone for its Flyboard Air system that seeks to bring an envisioned hoverboard concept into reality for possible military applications such as […] More

  • Sikorsky's Colombia Facility to Support Black Hawk Operators in Mexico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky’s Colombia Facility to Support Black Hawk Operators in Mexico

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary will provide maintenance, repair and pilot simulator training support to Mexico’s UH-60 Black Hawk operators through Sikorsky’s facility in Colombia. Lockheed said Thursday Black Hawk operators in Mexico can go to the helicopter flight simulator center at the Colombian Air Force Base in Melgar to utilize its five-axis flight simulator as well as the depot repair facility at Tolemaida […] More

  • Lockheed Rebrands Mission Systems & Training Business Area; Dale Bennett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Rebrands Mission Systems & Training Business Area; Dale Bennett Comments

    Lockheed Martin has changed the name of its mission systems and training business area in an effort to demonstrate the company’s expanded portfolio after it completed the acquisition of Sikorsky Aircraft from United Technologies Corp. for approximately $9 billion in November. The business area will start to operate as Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems business segment […] More

  • Insight Technology Solutions Purchases Bara Infoware's GSA OASIS SB Spot - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insight Technology Solutions Purchases Bara Infoware’s GSA OASIS SB Spot

    Insight Technology Solutions has acquired Bara Infoware‘s spot under the small business portion of the General Services Administration‘s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle. Bowie, Maryland-based professional services company Insight said July 22 GSA approved the novation to facilitate the transition of Bara’s contract obligations. Work under OASIS includes program management, management consulting, financial, logistics, engineering and scientific professional […] More

  • Orbital ATK Ships Initial Iridium NEXT Satellites to Vandenberg AF Base; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Ships Initial Iridium NEXT Satellites to Vandenberg AF Base; Matt Desch Comments

    Orbital ATK has transported the first two next-generation Iridium satellites to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as part of preparations for the scheduled liftoff on Sept. 19, Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday. Stephen Clark writes the satellites were shipped via truck from an Orbital ATK-run manufacturing facility near Phoenix to Vandenberg, where eight additional message transmission […] More

  • Moon Express Obtains Federal Govt Approval for Robotic Lunar Exploration Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Moon Express Obtains Federal Govt Approval for Robotic Lunar Exploration Mission

    Moon Express has obtained permission from the U.S. government to launch a company-built robotic spacecraft on a mission to explore the Moon’s surface. The company submitted its 2017 lunar mission plan to the Federal Aviation Administration in April and received authorization after discussions with FAA, the White House, NASA, the State Department and other federal agencies, Moon Express said Wednesday. “The Moon Express 2017 mission approval […] More

  • L-3 Receives 1st Task Order Under AF Warfighter Readiness, Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Receives 1st Task Order Under AF Warfighter Readiness, Training Support Contract

    An L-3 Communications division has received an initial $23.5 million task order to provide training systems to the U.S. Air Force as part of a potential seven-year, $200 million contract awarded in April. L-3 said Wednesday its link simulation and training division will act as prime contractor on the Air Force’s Warfighter Readiness & Training program that seeks advanced tools for the military branch to train and […] More

  • Lockheed Eyes Potential $15B India-Based F-16 Production Line; George Standridge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Eyes Potential $15B India-Based F-16 Production Line; George Standridge Comments

    Lockheed Martin has proposed to transfer all production of the company’s F-16 fighter jet from its Fort Worth, Texas aeronautics facility to India in an effort to fulfill up to $15 billion in exports, Economic Times reported Thursday. Manu Pubby writes the U.S. government supports the Lockheed proposal to set up the F-16 line in India under a technology transfer agreement to […] More

  • Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities

    A joint venture of Cardno and Amec Foster Wheeler has landed a five-year, $30 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to evaluate the state of U.S. Marine Corps-operated buildings. The Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV will use the Defense Department‘s BUILDER Sustainment Management System to conduct building condition assessments on USMC facilities worldwide, Cardno said Wednesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Construction […] More