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  • General Dynamics NASSCO Delivers 2nd Expeditionary Sea Base to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics NASSCO Delivers 2nd Expeditionary Sea Base to Navy

    General Dynamics‘ NASSCO subsidiary has officially transferred a second Expeditionary Sea Base platform to the U.S. Navy. The Military Sealift Command will operate the USNS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) ship that NASSCO constructed at a San Diego shipyard, the Naval Sea Systems Command said Thursday. ESB 4 is named after a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who received the […] More

  • Polaris-ARA-Neya Team Unveils Unmanned Transport Vehicle at AUVSI Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Polaris-ARA-Neya Team Unveils Unmanned Transport Vehicle at AUVSI Conference

    Polaris has launched at the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International conference an unmanned ground vehicle the company and its partners proposed for the U.S. Army’s Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport program, Defense News reported Wednesday. Polaris partnered with Applied Research Associates and Neya Systems in September 2017 to offer the MRZR X unmanned vehicle for […] More

  • Saab Highlights Features of Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Highlights Features of Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft

    Saab has said its Swordfish maritime patrol aircraft is designed to feature reduced size, weight and power requirements than large “airliner-type” MPAs. The company said Monday Swordfish integrates Bombardier‘s Global 6000 long-range aircraft, General Dynamics‘ acoustics processor and Saab’s airborne surveillance systems. Swordfish works to operate for approximately 13 hours and provide a payload capacity of up to six torpedoes, […] More

  • Chris Marzilli: General Dynamics-Built Comms Tech Aids Coast Guard in SAR Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Marzilli: General Dynamics-Built Comms Tech Aids Coast Guard in SAR Missions

    A maritime communications technology developed by General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has supported search-and-rescue missions of the U.S. Coast Guard since 2006. The service branch used the company-built Rescue 21 Coastal system for command, control and direction-finding communications tasks in approximately 100,000 SAR operations, GDMS said Friday. Chris Marzilli, GDMS president and a 2018 Wash100 recipient, said the business has […] More

  • General Dynamics Tests CBP Remote Video Surveillance Platform in Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Tests CBP Remote Video Surveillance Platform in Texas

    A General Dynamics business unit has tested in Texas a remote video surveillance platform designed to support border security operations. General Dynamics Information Technology partnered with Parsons’ government services business to help the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection field six Relocatable-Remote Video Surveillance Systems in McAllen and Laredo, Texas, the company said […] 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

  • General Dynamics Lands CDC Contact Center Support Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Lands CDC Contact Center Support Order

      A business unit of General Dynamics has received a potential five-year, $31 million task order to provide contact center support for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. General Dynamics Information Technology will help CDC establish a multichannel, multilingual contact center as well as integrate and assess technology platforms for the facility, the company said Thursday. […] More

  • INSA Names 26 Members of Newly Formed Advisory Committee - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Names 26 Members of Newly Formed Advisory Committee

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has created an advisory committee to offer recommendations and guidance on events, policies and other matters related to INSA and its charitable organization. INSA said Tuesday the panel consists of 26 members who have held senior-level roles within the government or industry and previously served on former INSA advisory […] More

  • Report: General Dynamics to Open, Move 280 Jobs in Plano, Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: General Dynamics to Open, Move 280 Jobs in Plano, Texas

    General Dynamics will create and transfer approximately 280 jobs in Plano, Texas as part of a more than $5.3 billion investment on real property and business personal property improvements to the company’s facility in the region, Dallas Business Journal reported Monday. The company will move operations previously conducted in Richardson to Plano, Texas where General […] More

  • Report: General Dynamics Electric Boat to Hire Over 2K Employees in 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: General Dynamics Electric Boat to Hire Over 2K Employees in 2018

    A General Dynamics subsidiary plans to employ an additional 2,200 workers in 2018 to support submarine engineering, design, operations and fabrication work in Groton, Connecticut, and Quonset Point, Rhode Island, The Day reported Monday. Jeffrey Geiger, president of General Dynamics Electric Boat, told state and local officials in Groton Monday that the company hired at […] More

  • Orbital ATK Gets Follow-On Rocket Flare Order From General Dynamics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Gets Follow-On Rocket Flare Order From General Dynamics

    General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems business has awarded Orbital ATK  a follow-on contract to supply additional illuminating flares for Hydra-70 rockets that work to help warfighters defeat targets at an extended range. Orbital ATK said Monday it will provide more than illuminating flares designed to provide light that can be sensed both visually and through infrared technology. […] More

  • General Dynamics Subsidiary Gets Contract Modification for Navy Subs' Large Vertical Array Fixtures - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Subsidiary Gets Contract Modification for Navy Subs’ Large Vertical Array Fixtures

    A subsidiary of General Dynamics has received a modification worth $11.4 million on a previously awarded contract for the supply of large vertical array fixtures for two U.S. Navy submarine classes. The modification exercises the first option year of General Dynamics Electric Boat‘s production of LVA fixtures for Ohio-class and Virginia-class ship sets, the Defense Department said […] More