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  • General Dynamics Virginia-Class Attack Submarine Illinois Completes First Open Sea Voyage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Virginia-Class Attack Submarine Illinois Completes First Open Sea Voyage

    The Virginia-class attack submarine Illinois has completed its first voyage into open seas and has returned to a shipyard run by General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary. General Dynamics said Monday the nuclear-powered submarine submerged for the first time and underwent a number of submarine and propulsion-plant operations and high-speed runs on and below the surface to test its propulsion plant […] More

  • Catapult Learning to Provide Professional Services for DoD Education Activity's K-12 Staff - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Catapult Learning to Provide Professional Services for DoD Education Activity’s K-12 Staff

    The Department of Defense Education Activity has awarded a potential five-year contract to Catapult Learning for systemwide literacy professional learning services for DoDEA K-12 staff around the world. Catapult Learning said Tuesday 80 of its educators will lead in-person professional learning implementations for 168 schools across 11 countries and implement systemwide professional learning and literacy model units. Model […] More

  • Summit2Sea to Help Update DARPA's Financial Mgmt Tools; Bryan Eckle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Summit2Sea to Help Update DARPA’s Financial Mgmt Tools; Bryan Eckle Comments

    Summit2Sea Consulting has won a potential five-year, $28 million contract to update tools the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency uses to manage financial activities. The company said Monday it will integrate the Treasury Internet Payment Platform as well as Hyperion budget formulation and governance, risk management  and compliance applications into DARPA’s enterprise resource planning system. Summit2Sea will also provide its expertise […] More

  • Raytheon to Support Navy's Rolling Airframe Missile Weapon Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Support Navy’s Rolling Airframe Missile Weapon Modernization Effort

    Raytheon has secured a potential $36.7 million contract option from the U.S. Navy for design agent and engineering services for the military branch’s ship self-defense weapon modernization initiative. The Defense Department said Monday Raytheon’s missile systems business will support the Navy’s efforts to update the Rolling Airframe Missile MK-31 guided missile weapon system. The company will provide design, systems, software […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Australia for 1st Overseas Research Center; Raydon Gates Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Picks Australia for 1st Overseas Research Center; Raydon Gates Comments

    Lockheed Martin plans to unveil a $9.8 million research laboratory in Melbourne, Australia, to focus on the development of software platforms that will work to direct attacks against hostile targets, The Age reported Monday. Daniel Flitton writes the company will open the research center by late 2016 and expects the facility to advance technology development […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Completes Initial Hardware Tests on Dream Chaser Test Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Completes Initial Hardware Tests on Dream Chaser Test Vehicle

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has completed updates and initial hardware tests on the Dream Chaser flight test vehicle as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with NASA. The company said Thursday it will ship the test vehicle to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center to undergo a second phase of flight tests that will involve tow-tests, pre-flight ground evaluations and free-flight tests in coordination […] More

  • GSA Releases RFI to Support Federal Payroll Modernization Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Releases RFI to Support Federal Payroll Modernization Strategy

    The General Services Administration has issued a request for information on behalf of the Unified Shared Services Management organization about new systems that can help modernize the delivery of the federal payroll. GSA said Friday USSM and the Office of Personnel Management seek industry partners that can provide information on payroll delivery systems in support of the government’s ongoing ePayroll […] More

  • Lt. Gen. Jon Davis: Marine Corps Needs Optionally Piloted Helicopter for Future Vertical Lift Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lt. Gen. Jon Davis: Marine Corps Needs Optionally Piloted Helicopter for Future Vertical Lift Program

    A U.S. Marine Corps official has said he believes the service branch’s future vertical lift program should operate as an optionally piloted helicopter designed to perform some missions, Flight Global reported Friday. “Especially for a high reliability airplane, we view that airplane as a manned platform,” Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, Marine Corps deputy commandant for aviation, told […] More

  • Navy Taps 5 Small Businesses for Remedial Action Services to NAVFAC Pacific - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps 5 Small Businesses for Remedial Action Services to NAVFAC Pacific

    The U.S. Navy has selected five small businesses to provide remedial action services for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Pacific area of responsibility under a potential five-year, $40 million contract. The Defense Department said Friday Cape Environmental Management, EATC JV, Engineering/Remediation Resources Group, Insight-ESI and CKY will compete for task orders to perform remedial and removal actions, soil excavation and closure or replacement of underground or […] More

  • Report: 5 Firms Respond to Canada's CF-18 Replacement Program RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: 5 Firms Respond to Canada’s CF-18 Replacement Program RFI

    Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Dassault Aviation, Eurofighter and Saab Group have separately responded to Canada’s call for information on potential new fighter aircraft to replace the country’s aging CF-18 fleet, the Toronto Star reported Saturday. Bruce Campion-Smith writes Friday was the deadline for submission to a questionnaire about the costs and technologies of the respondents’ aircraft offerings. “Government officials are now […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Australia MH-60R Seahawk Delivery Under Navy Foreign Military Sales Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Australia MH-60R Seahawk Delivery Under Navy Foreign Military Sales Deal

    Lockheed Martin has turned over Australia’s final MH-60R “Romeo” Seahawk multimission helicopter to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony held Wednesday at a company facility in Owego, New York. The company built a total of 24 Seahawks for the Australian navy under the foreign military sales program to replace the service branch’s fleet of S-70B-2 helicopters, Lockheed said Thursday. “From aircraft […] More

  • ULA Launches NRO's National Defense Payload Aboard Atlas V Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches NRO’s National Defense Payload Aboard Atlas V Rocket

    United Launch Alliance has launched a national security payload into space Thursday as part of the National Reconnaissance Office‘s NROL-61 mission. The Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture said Thursday it launched the NROL-61 payload aboard the company-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Atlas V EELV 421 configuration was built to […] More