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  • CSRA to Develop Tactical Trainer Platform for Navy LCS Under $51M Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Develop Tactical Trainer Platform for Navy LCS Under $51M Order

    CSRA has received a potential $51 million delivery order to produce an integrated tactical trainer system for the U.S. Navy‘s Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship 6. The company said Monday it will provide the Virtualship software package for the military branch to train bridge teams for at-sea operations. Virtualship is designed to support hydrodynamics and maritime environmental modeling activities as […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Info on Sensing, Neutralization Tech Platforms Against Small Drones - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Info on Sensing, Neutralization Tech Platforms Against Small Drones

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to provide information on novel technology platforms designed to counter small unmanned aerial systems. A request for information posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps says DARPA is interested in modular and scalable platforms that work to identify and target small drones and could complement systems that are still in […] More

  • WidePoint to Help Coast Guard Implement Web-Based Telecom Asset Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint to Help Coast Guard Implement Web-Based Telecom Asset Mgmt Platform

    WidePoint has received an initial task order to build an online portal for U.S. Coast Guard personnel to manage the service branch’s telecommunications assets as well as provide cellular wireless services to USCG components. The Coast Guard will implement WidePoint’s ITMS Telecom Lifecycle Management  Portal in an effort to simplify invoicing, billing, payment, ordering, delivery, reporting, auditing and […] More

  • Lockheed Secures $62M Coast Guard C-130J Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures $62M Coast Guard C-130J Contract Option

    Lockheed Martin has received a $61.9 million contract option to produce C-130J Super Hercules aircraft for the U.S. Coast Guard. The Defense Department said Thursday Lockheed will build the military transport aircraft at a company facility in Marietta, Georgia, through April 30, 2020. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is the contracting activity and will obligate the full modification […] More

  • TFab Defense to Supply Missionization Equipment for Coast Guard HC-144B Surveillance Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TFab Defense to Supply Missionization Equipment for Coast Guard HC-144B Surveillance Aircraft

    TFab Defense Systems has received a potential $15.4 million contract to provide Minotaur mission system workstations, or PODs, and integration tools for the U.S. Coast Guard‘s HC-144B Ocean Sentry surveillance aircraft. The Coast Guard said Thursday the contract’s $7.5 million base value will cover the production of eight integration kits and 16 PODs designed to manage aircraft mission data and communications. […] More

  • ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract

    ManTech International has received a five-year, $39 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Combat Direction Systems Activity to help maintain systems on U.S. Navy ships. The company said Friday it will deliver support to NSWCDD’s documentation management function and computer build and installation program under the contract. CDSA works to update and maintain systems on aircraft […] More

  • Coast Guard Seeks Small UAS for Legend-Class Cutters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Seeks Small UAS for Legend-Class Cutters

    The U.S. Coast Guard plans to acquire small unmanned aircraft systems that can provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for the Legend-class national security cutters, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday. USCG issued a draft request for proposals for small UAS in March and the service branch plans to release a full RFP later this year. A potential fiscal year […] More

  • Parsons Receives ACEC/MA Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for Bridge Replacement Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Receives ACEC/MA Bronze Engineering Excellence Award for Bridge Replacement Project

    Parsons has won the Bronze Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts for its work on a bridge replacement project on Martha’s Vineyard island. The company said Thursday it designed a drawbridge to replace the Lagoon Pond bridge, which was built in 1935, under a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. Parsons added […] More

  • Homeland Security and Defense Business Council Welcomes Four New Industry Partners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Homeland Security and Defense Business Council Welcomes Four New Industry Partners

    Blue Canopy Group, CACI International, E3 Federal Solutions and SureID have joined the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council in the first quarter of 2017. The council said Monday that its members have taken part in various forums such as round table discussions with leaders of the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the Federal Emergency […] More

  • Coast Guard Looks at Commercial EHR Platform Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Looks at Commercial EHR Platform Sources

    Interested vendors have until May 26 to respond to a U.S. Coast Guard request for information on the possibility of replacing the service branch’s paper-based health data documentation system with an electronic health records system. USCG currently explores potential industry sources of an integrated Electronic Health Record Acquisition platform that can work to secure personally identifiable information and personal health information, according to […] More

  • Leonardo Subsidiary to Supply Electric Drive Systems for USCG Offshore Cutters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Subsidiary to Supply Electric Drive Systems for USCG Offshore Cutters

    A Leonardo subsidiary has received a $10.7 million contract from the Eastern Shipbuilding Group to supply nine hybrid electric drive systems for integration into the U.S. Coast Guard‘s future Offshore Patrol Cutters. Leonardo DRS will provide motor-based Auxiliary Propulsion Systems that work to boost the mission duration capacity of ships as well as help vessels reduce emissions, the company said Thursday. The system is designed to also provide emergency take-home […] More

  • General Dynamics Obtains CBP FOC Status for Remote Video Surveillance Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Obtains CBP FOC Status for Remote Video Surveillance Platform

    General Dynamics has obtained full operating capability status from the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection agency for a company-built remote video surveillance platform. The company said Tuesday it achieved the FOC designation for the updated Remote Video Surveillance System after it completed the field testing and deployment phase along the southern U.S. border over […] More