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  • Lockheed Secures $80M Army Funds to Increase Hellfire Missile Production Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures $80M Army Funds to Increase Hellfire Missile Production Capacity

    Lockheed Martin‘s missiles and fire control business has received an $80.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to increase production of the AGM-114 Hellfire  missile system. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will use the funds to set up its production line, procure additional tools and test equipment and hire more suppliers necessary to manufacture up to 11,000 Hellfire units annually. […] More

  • Robert Smith: Booz Allen to Help Safeguard US Ballistic Missile Defense System Through Cybersecurity Methods - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Smith: Booz Allen to Help Safeguard US Ballistic Missile Defense System Through Cybersecurity Methods

    Booz Allen Hamilton is working with the Missile Defense Agency to strengthen the cybersecurity of U.S. ballistic missile defense system as part of a potential five-year, $91.5 million contract awarded in August 2017. Robert Smith, a senior vice president at Booz Allen, said in a statement published Tuesday the company aims to apply new cybersecurity approaches […] More

  • Draper Lab Gets $66M Modification on Navy Trident Missile Guidance Tech Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab Gets $66M Modification on Navy Trident Missile Guidance Tech Contract

    Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has received a three-year, $65.5 million contract modification to produce guidance technology for the U.S. Navy‘s submarine-launched ballistic missile systems. Draper will also conduct failure verification, test, repair and recertification of inertial measurement units, electronic assemblies and electronic modules of the Trident D5 MK 6 guidance system, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The […] More

  • Kay and Associates to Continue Kuwait F/A-18 Aircraft Maintenance Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kay and Associates to Continue Kuwait F/A-18 Aircraft Maintenance Support

    Kay and Associates has secured a $61.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue maintenance support for Kuwait’s F/A-18 C/D aircraft fleet. The award exercises an option on a previously awarded contract and extends the company’s work under the foreign military sales transaction through January 2019, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD added the modification’s […] More

  • Honeywell Gets USAF Contract Modification for Aircraft Power Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Gets USAF Contract Modification for Aircraft Power Logistics Support

    A Honeywell business unit has received a potential $42.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to provide power logistics services for two aircraft platforms. Honeywell Defense and Space will perform logistics support work on ground carts as well as auxiliary and secondary power units for B-2 and C-130 weapon systems, the Defense Department said Monday. The modification […] More

  • Decisive Analytics Wins MDA Cybersecurity Advisory, Assistance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Decisive Analytics Wins MDA Cybersecurity Advisory, Assistance Contract

    Decisive Analytics has won a potential $59.5 million contract to advise and assist the Missile Defense Agency on cybersecurity compliance and risk management initiatives. The company will provide independent verification and validation analysis and reporting services for MDA’s Ballistic Missile Defense System as well as enterprise cybersecurity controls, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD added the company will […] More

  • Navy Picks 3 Small Businesses to Support Waterfront Surface Trainers Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks 3 Small Businesses to Support Waterfront Surface Trainers Program

    Sonalysts, Systems Engineering Associates and Transtecs have won spots on a potential $49.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to build classrooms, laboratory environments and training systems. The Defense Department said Friday all three small businesses will vie for Waterfront Surface Trainers Program support orders from the Navy and the Philippine government through a foreign military […] More

  • General Atomics Receives USAF MQ-9 Software Devt Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Receives USAF MQ-9 Software Devt Order

    A General Atomics business unit has received a potential three-year, $49.3 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to develop, field and sustain the software for MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will develop the MQ-9 software for the Air Force Special Operations Command and Air Combat Command, the Defense Department said Friday. The Air Force […] More

  • Lockheed to Implement Air Force GPS Control Segment Upgrade's 3rd Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Implement Air Force GPS Control Segment Upgrade’s 3rd Phase

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $10.8 million modification under a U.S. Air Force contract to provide hardware necessary to implement the third phase of the service branch’s GPS control segment upgrades. The company will also engineer, install and test resources under phase 3 of the Combined Hardware and Software Commercial-Off-The Shelf Upgrade and Ground Antenna/Air Force Satellite Control […] More

  • GE Awarded $85M USAF Aircraft Engine Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE Awarded $85M USAF Aircraft Engine Support Contract

    A General Electric business unit has received a potential 10-year, $84.9 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide F118-101 aircraft engine support for the U.S. Air Force. GE Aviation will perform work under the sole-source contract’s base period Jan. 24, 2023 at facilities in Ohio and Kansas, the Defense Department said Thursday. The contract also contains […] More

  • Bloomberg: Pentagon's Fiscal 2017 Contract Spend Reached $331B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg: Pentagon’s Fiscal 2017 Contract Spend Reached $331B

    Bloomberg‘s government arm has analyzed the Defense Department‘s unclassified contract obligations and found that DoD awarded a total of $331 billion to contractors over the last fiscal year. Robert Levinson, a senior defense analyst at Bloomberg Government, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday that the Department of the Navy, which includes the U.S. Marine Corps, received the highest DoD […] More

  • Jacobs to Help Engineer Navy, UK Launch Test Capability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help Engineer Navy, UK Launch Test Capability

    A Jacobs Engineering Group subsidiary has received a $17.5 million contract modification to provide additional engineering services for a launch test capability of the U.S. Navy and U.K. The Defense Department said Thursday Jacobs Technology will help design, develop, test, evaluate, activate and operate the  LTC complex at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in China […] More