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  • Austal USA Hosts Christening of Navy's 10th Expeditionary Fast Transport Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA Hosts Christening of Navy’s 10th Expeditionary Fast Transport Ship

    The 10th expeditionary fast transport ship Austal USA is constructing for the U.S. Navy was christened Saturday at the company’s shipbuilding facility in Alabama. Austal said Saturday the future USNS Burlington is part of a 12-ship contract worth potentially $1.9 billion. The EPF 10 christening ceremony featured Rear Adm. Dee Mewbourne, commander of the Military Sealift Command, as well as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Space Tech R&D Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Space Tech R&D Proposals

    The U.S. Air Force has requested proposals from small businesses that can research and develop technologies to optimize the U.S. military’s space systems. The Air Force said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that the Spacecraft Object Tracking and Characterization program will cover space systems such as launch platforms, payload adapters, on-orbit systems, communications links, ground systems and […] More

  • Report: New Lockheed Missile Aims to Target UAVs, Mortars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: New Lockheed Missile Aims to Target UAVs, Mortars

    Lockheed Martin has begun to develop a new missile designed to target and destroy incoming projectiles through the use of a radar system and kinetic energy, the New York Post reported Friday. The company has recently tested in New Mexico the Miniature Hit to Kill Missile platform, which is based on the technology used in the […] More

  • Microsoft’s Paul Nicholas: National Cyber Agency Could Help Harmonize Security Policies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Paul Nicholas: National Cyber Agency Could Help Harmonize Security Policies

    Paul Nicholas, senior director of trustworthy computing at Microsoft, has said he believes the establishment of a national cybersecurity agency would help the government prioritize and coordinate cyber policies as well as address cyber threats. Nicholas wrote in a blog post published Feb. 19 the company’s new whitepaper calls on governments to equip the national cyber […] More

  • Mayvin Wins SOCOM Special Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mayvin Wins SOCOM Special Program Support Contract

    The U.S. Army has awarded Mayvin Consulting Group a potential five-year, $47.5 million contract to provide scientific, engineering and technical assistance services to the U.S. Special Operations Command. Mayvin will support USSOCOM’s manager for special programs through the company’s program, business and project management, logistics and engineering services, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD expects the company to […] More

  • Navy Taps Cubic, Lockheed to Develop Combined Arms Evaluation Methods - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Cubic, Lockheed to Develop Combined Arms Evaluation Methods

    The U.S. Navy has awarded potential three-year contracts to business units of Cubic and Lockheed Martin to develop quantitative methods to assess and explore combined arms concepts for urban military operations. Cubic’s defense applications business and Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems unit are two of the five selected contractors for a project that will revolve around human capacities, systems, plans, software […] More

  • Thales Gets Navy Helicopter Module, Helmet Repair Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Gets Navy Helicopter Module, Helmet Repair Order

    Thales‘ defense and security business has received a one-year, $7.2 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to repair five items related to H-1 helicopter program. The sole-source order will include repair work on H-1 modules and helmets, the Defense Department said Friday. The Navy will obligate $3.5 million at the time of award from its fiscal […] More

  • General Dynamics Wins $54M IDIQ to Support Joint Staff J6 Directorate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Wins $54M IDIQ to Support Joint Staff J6 Directorate

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has won a potential $53.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide support services to help address command and control requirements within the Joint Staff J6 Directorate. GDIT will provide research, development, technical, engineering and analytical support services to the J6 organization’s command, control, communications and computers assessments division, the Defense […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Deliver Ruggedized Memory Devices for Airborne Military Computing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems to Deliver Ruggedized Memory Devices for Airborne Military Computing System

    Mercury Systems has received a $3.2 million order to deliver ruggedized memory devices to a prime defense contractor for an effort to develop an advanced airborne military computing system. The company said Thursday the computing system will be equipped with the BuiltSECURE products that include high density secure memory hardware and military-grade solid-state drives. The product suite also consists of selective […] More

  • Vencore Analytics Director Patrick Biltgen Gets INSA Achievement Award; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Analytics Director Patrick Biltgen Gets INSA Achievement Award; Mac Curtis Comments

    Patrick Biltgen, technical director of analytics at Vencore, received recognition at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance’s Achievement Awards ceremony held Thursday in Washington, D.C. INSA presented Biltgen with its Edwin H. Land Industry Award to acknowledge his professional efforts in the intelligence field, Vencore said Friday. Vencore President and CEO Mac Curtis said the company’s  employees aim […] More

  • Raytheon, L3 Vet Mike Gallagher Named Strategy Director for Northrop's Australian Arm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, L3 Vet Mike Gallagher Named Strategy Director for Northrop’s Australian Arm

    Mike Gallagher, a 22-year veteran of the Australian navy and former managing director at L3 Technologies‘ Oceania business, has been named strategy director at Northrop Grumman‘s Australian arm. He will work closely with Ian Irving, chief executive of Northrop Grumman Australia, and will manage the subsidiary’s expansion strategy in his new position, the company said Friday. Gallagher […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilder Nears Completion of Future JFK Aircraft Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilder Nears Completion of Future JFK Aircraft Carrier

    A shipbuilding business of Huntington Ingalls Industries has reached a 70-percent completion milestone on the structural work for a future Ford-class aircraft carrier. Newport News Shipbuilding has assembled 317 lifts for the USS John F. Kennedy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier since the keel laying in August 2015, HII said Thursday. The company expects a total of 447 lifts to […] More