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  • Michael Fischer Joins Comprehensive Health Services as Director of Capture & Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Fischer Joins Comprehensive Health Services as Director of Capture & Proposals

    Michael Fischer, formerly director of capture management at IAP Worldwide Services, has been appointed director of capture and proposals at Comprehensive Health Services. CHS said Tuesday Fischer brings more than 25 years of program management, capture and business development experience to the Florida-based medical services contractor’s business development team. Before IAP, he held the positions of capture manager, senior […] More

  • Northrop Hands 1st MQ-4C Triton UAS to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands 1st MQ-4C Triton UAS to Navy

    Northrop Grumman has delivered the first operational MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system to the U.S. Navy‘s facility in Point Mogu, California. The company said Friday MQ-4C is built to provide a 360-degree coverage area for Navy intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Northrop aims to provide a second unit to the military branch before the end of the year. The […] More

  • Lockheed Lands Potential $60M Navy Contract Modification to Help Integrate, Test Aegis Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Lands Potential $60M Navy Contract Modification to Help Integrate, Test Aegis Weapon System

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $60.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to offer ship integration and test services for the Aegis weapon system throughout its Advanced Capability Build 12 phase. The Defense Department said Wednesday the Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate $16,886,684 from fiscal 2012, 2013, 2017 and 2018 Navy shipbuilding […] More

  • VSE Adds Navy Vet Mark Ferguson to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Adds Navy Vet Mark Ferguson to Board of Directors

    Mark Ferguson, a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has been elected to join the board of directors at Alexandria, Virginia-based technical services contractor VSE effective Dec. 1. VSE said Wednesday Ferguson concurrently led U.S. Naval Forces Europe and U.S. Naval Forces Africa, as well as NATO’s Allied Joint Force Command before he retired from military service in July last year. The […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, Navy Christen Delbert D. Black Guided Missile Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls, Navy Christen Delbert D. Black Guided Missile Destroyer

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division hosted a christening ceremony Saturday for the U.S. Navy‘s future Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119). HII said Saturday approximately 1,200 people attended the event at the company’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi and Steven Giordano, master chief petty officer of the Navy, delivered the keynote address. Ima Black, widow of World War II […] More

  • Raytheon to Support Ground Power & Cooling Tech for Navy Jammer Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Support Ground Power & Cooling Tech for Navy Jammer Platform

    Raytheon has received a $22.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver software and hardware components needed for a ground power and cooling system of the service branch’s Next Generation Jammer platform. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification covers the delivery of five ground power carts, five ground power kits, five ground cooling carts, five ground cooling kits, […] More

  • BAE Starts Production of Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile Sensors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Starts Production of Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile Sensors

    BAE Systems has started to produce sensor systems for the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile under a $40 million order from LRASM prime contractor Lockheed Martin. The sensors will include precision routing and guidance features designed to help the Lockheed-built missiles track and engage high-threat maritime targets in support of U.S. Air Force and Navy missions, BAE said […] More

  • General Dynamics IT Gets $50M Navy Contract Option for Logistics Support to FMS Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics IT Gets $50M Navy Contract Option for Logistics Support to FMS Customers

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has received a $50 million option under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for logistics support services to multiple foreign military sales customers. The Defense Department said Wednesday GDIT will provide the FMS logistics services in support of the Naval Air Systems Command’s Logistics Management Integration Department. Work will take place in various within and […] More

  • Raytheon to Produce Missile Guidance Control Sections for Air Force, Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Produce Missile Guidance Control Sections for Air Force, Navy

    Raytheon has received a potential $51.2 million contract to produce 538 laser guidance control sections for Maverick tactical air-to-ground missile systems of the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is the contracting activity and obligated the full contract amount from fiscal 2017 and 2018 procurement funds, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Production […] More

  • Northrop E-2D Aircraft Reaches Aerial Refueling Milestone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop E-2D Aircraft Reaches Aerial Refueling Milestone

    A Northrop Grumman-built E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft equipped with an aerial refueling system completed its first in-flight fuel transfer mission in July alongside a U.S. Navy KC-130 Hercules tanker. Northrop said Tuesday pilots conducted 10 dry plugs and two wet plugs throughout the four-hour flight transferring approximately 1,700 pounds of fuel to the tactical airborne early […] More

  • Navy Holds Unmanned Systems Exercise With Industry, Academia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Holds Unmanned Systems Exercise With Industry, Academia

    The U.S. Navy has facilitated technology demonstrations of various unmanned systems alongside technology developers from industry and academia during the two-day Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017. The event dubbed “Battlespace Preparation in a Contested Environment” kicked off on Aug. 15  at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport in Rhode Island and at the Naval Surface Warfare […] More