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  • BAE, IBC Sign Beryllium-Aluminum Components Development Pact - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, IBC Sign Beryllium-Aluminum Components Development Pact

    BAE Systems and IBC Advanced Alloys have signed a joint development agreement to produce components based on the latter company’s beryllium-aluminum alloys. IBC said Wednesday it will initially develop prototype components to demonstrate the characteristics of Beralcast casted products for specific applications at BAE under the deal. David Heinz, IBC president and CEO, said the partnership supports the company’s efforts […] More

  • BAE Receives Navy Contract for Customized EO/IR Maritime Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Receives Navy Contract for Customized EO/IR Maritime Defense System

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received a $3.9 million contract from the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to develop a custom variant of its maritime defense system to support ONR’s Combined Electro-optic/infrared Surveillance and Response System program. BAE Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will provide a variant of its Lock-on Naval Electro-optic/infrared Sensor […] More

  • Dynetics Designs New Guided Bomb With Larger Warhead for SOCOM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics Designs New Guided Bomb With Larger Warhead for SOCOM

    Dynetics has introduced a new guided bomb with a larger warhead that it will provide to the U.S. Special Operations Command under an $11.6 million contract awarded in early June to develop small glide munition, Flightglobal reported Tuesday. Stephen Trimble writes the nearly 60-pound guided bomb’s warhead case incorporates separate modules for the nose section, tail kit and wing […] More

  • BAE Unveils Small Arms Ammo Offering to Non-UK Military Customers; Jennifer Osbaldestin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unveils Small Arms Ammo Offering to Non-UK Military Customers; Jennifer Osbaldestin Comments

    BAE Systems will sell its 7.62-millimeter high performance small arms ammunition developed for U.K.’s armed forces to other approved military customers outside of Britain. BAE said Monday the ammunition was developed to help the British military meet requirements and defeat protected targets such as lightly-protected vehicles and aircraft at longer ranges compared with standard NATO rounds. Jennifer Osbaldestin, BAE Systems Land UK […] More

  • BAE to Add Laser-Guided Rockets to Air Force F-16, A-10 Planes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Add Laser-Guided Rockets to Air Force F-16, A-10 Planes

    The U.S. Air Force has started to field a BAE Systems-built laser-guided rocket technology on the service branch’s F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft to support ongoing combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. It marks the first time that BAE’s Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System has been deployed on fixed-wing Air Force aircraft, the company said Wednesday. “The APKWS fixed-wing fielding […] More

  • BAE-Led Contractor Team to Compete Under UK's Challenger 2 Tank Update - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE-Led Contractor Team to Compete Under UK’s Challenger 2 Tank Update

    BAE Systems will lead a team comprising General Dynamics‘ U.K. land systems and international mission systems subsidiaries, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Moog, QinetiQ and Safran Electronics to bid under the U.K. defense ministry’s project to update the Challenger 2 main battle tank fleet. The team will pursue a contract to update the tanks to the Challenger 2 Mark 2 design to feature thermal […] More

  • Lockheed Extends Avcorp's Composite F-35 Panels Fabrication Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Extends Avcorp’s Composite F-35 Panels Fabrication Contract

    Avcorp Industries has received a contract from Lockheed Martin to continue to manufacture composite wing skin, nacelle and body access panels for the F-35 program. The contract will extend Avcorp’s work on composite F-35 panels at a company facility in Gardenia, California, through 2020, Avcorp said Tuesday. Lockheed awarded Avcorp a firm order in mid-April to provide paint preparation and installation services […] More

  • BAE Secures $69M in Navy Ship Maintenance, Repair Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Secures $69M in Navy Ship Maintenance, Repair Contracts

    BAE Systems has received two contracts worth up to $68.6 million to help the U.S. Navy repair and maintain the USS Farragut destroyer and the USS Fort McHenry dock landing ship The company said Thursday it will drydock USS Farragut this summer and perform tank, propulsion system, ventilation and auxiliary systems repairs as well as crew habitability systems and spaces maintenance under a potential $33.7 […] More

  • Pennine to Install Digital Radio System at BAE's Submarine Production Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pennine to Install Digital Radio System at BAE’s Submarine Production Facility

    BAE Systems has awarded Pennine Telecom a contract of an undisclosed value to install a Motorola-built trunked radio system at the British defense contractor’s submarine production facility in Barrow-in-Furness, England. Pennine said Wednesday the Mototrbo Capacity Max system will work to facilitate digital two-way communications across BAE’s submarine manufacturing site. Pennine will also maintain the radio system for BAE over a three-year period. […] More

  • BAE Systems Inks Agreement With Malaysia's Cybersecurity Authority to Support Industry Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Inks Agreement With Malaysia’s Cybersecurity Authority to Support Industry Growth

    BAE Systems and CyberSecurity Malaysia have signed a memorandum of agreement to support the growth of the cybersecurity industry in the Southeast Asian country, Enterprise IT News reported Wednesday. Cat Yong writes BAE will provide a specialist staff and laboratories to CyberSecurity Malaysia to facilitate Common Criteria product certification to support the development of cyber products in […] More

  • BAE Systems' Queen Elizabeth Carrier Specialization Center in UK Nears Completion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems’ Queen Elizabeth Carrier Specialization Center in UK Nears Completion

    BAE Systems plc‘s 753,000-square-foot specialization center for Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers at Portsmouth Naval Base in the U.K. nears completion. The Queen Elizabeth Class Center of Specialization will house employees of Team Portsmouth — a partnership between the company and the U.K.’s ministry of defense, BAE said Tuesday. The team includes engineers, logisticians and waterfront staff who […] More

  • BAE, CSC Sign $600M IT Outsourcing Pact - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, CSC Sign $600M IT Outsourcing Pact

    Computer Sciences Corp. will provide a range of information technology services for BAE Systems‘ U.K. and Saudi Arabia operations under a $600 million agreement between the two companies. CSC said Tuesday the IT outsourcing deal will run through November 2021 and covers contact center, end user compute, mainframe, physical/virtual servers, storage, networking, project services and application maintenance support. “We are delighted to […] More