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  • Cubic to Update Navy's LCS Virtual Training Environment; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Update Navy’s LCS Virtual Training Environment; Dave Buss Comments

    Cubic‘s global defense business has received eight delivery orders worth $16 million combined to add new functions and virtual content to a U.S. Navy virtual training environment for Littoral Combat Ships. The company said Thursday the orders fall under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for support work on the service branch’s Immersive Virtual Shipboard Environment. IVSE is designed to generate a virtual three-dimensional environment […] More

  • NAVAIR Seeks Hard-Kill Self-Protection System to Counter Adversary Missile Attacks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NAVAIR Seeks Hard-Kill Self-Protection System to Counter Adversary Missile Attacks

    The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command is seeking proposals for the development of a hard-kill self-protection countermeasure system that would protect large aircraft like transports and tankers in the event of open conflict, The Drive reported Wednesday. The proposed aircraft self-defense mechanism should be capable of defeating up to 10 incoming missiles. NAVAIR’s interest in building […] More

  • ERAPSCO Lands $70M in Navy Sonobuoy Production Subcontracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ERAPSCO Lands $70M in Navy Sonobuoy Production Subcontracts

    A Sparton–Ultra Electronics joint venture has received $70.3 million in subcontracts to produce sonobuoys for the U.S. Navy. The subcontracts are part of ERAPSCO‘s five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and covers sonobuoy requirements for the government’s 2018 fiscal year, Sparton said Tuesday. ERAPSCO plans to distribute the production funds to Ultra Electronics USSI and Sparton De Leon Springs businesses. Work […] More

  • Boeing Gets Advance Acquisition Contract for Additional Navy Super Hornet Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Gets Advance Acquisition Contract for Additional Navy Super Hornet Jets

    Boeing has secured a $41.3 million advance acquisition contract from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead materials needed to build additional Super Hornet combat aircraft. The company will produce 20 F/A-18Es and four F/A-18Fs under full-rate production lot 43, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The service branch will use fiscal 2018 aircraft procurement funds to cover […] More

  • Telephonics Wins Coast Guard Aircraft Multimode Radar IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telephonics Wins Coast Guard Aircraft Multimode Radar IDIQ

    Telephonics will supply radar systems for integration onto U.S. Coast Guard surveillance aircraft under a potential $31.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The contract covers the purchase of 19 multimode radar systems for the Coast Guard’s HC-27J aircraft and the required logistics support and engineering technical services, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will run […] More

  • Raytheon to Equip Army Gray Eagle UAS With Common Sensor Payload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Equip Army Gray Eagle UAS With Common Sensor Payload

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $28.5 million contract to provide an electro-optical/infrared sensor technology designed to process visual imagery and complement electronic sensors of a U.S. Army unmanned aircraft system. Raytheon will provide 20 common sensor payloads that include data, one turret and an electronics unit in each CSP system for the Army’s MQ-1C Gray Eagle UAS, […] More

  • Craig Abod Wins 2018 GCW Reader's Choice Award for GovCon Executives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Craig Abod Wins 2018 GCW Reader’s Choice Award for GovCon Executives

    TYSONS CORNER, Va., May 2, 2018 — Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft, has received the 2018 GCW Readers’ Choice Award for GovCon Executives after garnering the highest number of votes among his category in Executive Mosaic‘s 2018 Wash100 list, GovConWire reported Wednesday. Abod, who is a four-time Wash100 inductee, earned 832 out of the 24,131 total votes […] More

  • Dave Dacquino: Serco Inc. to Continue Navy Counterterrorism Support Under $232M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Dacquino: Serco Inc. to Continue Navy Counterterrorism Support Under $232M Contract

    Serco Inc., the British contractor’s North American arm, will continue to help the U.S. Navy sustain naval electronic surveillance systems for anti-terrorism and force protection efforts under a potential five-year, $232 million contract awarded in April. The company said Tuesday it has performed similar work since 2001 through prior contract vehicles and helped integrate communications for […] More

  • Report: General Dynamics Plans $850M Investment in Connecticut to Back Electric Boat Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: General Dynamics Plans $850M Investment in Connecticut to Back Electric Boat Operations

    General Dynamics plans to make an $850 million investment in its operations in Connecticut to support the production of 12 Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines for the U.S. Navy under a potential $5 billion contract awarded in 2017, the Connecticut Post reported Tuesday. General Dynamics Electric Boat plans to establish a new dry dock in Groton, Conn., […] More

  • Navy Selects tiag to Support ONR IT Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects tiag to Support ONR IT Operations

    The Informatics Applications Group has won a potential five-year, $47.1 million task order from the U.S. Navy to help the Office of Naval Research establish an information technology network operation. Virginia-based tiag will also support ONR’s business process as part of the task order awarded under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. The order has a one-year […] More

  • General Dynamics to Repair, Replace Navy Aircraft Computer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Repair, Replace Navy Aircraft Computer Systems

    A business unit of General Dynamics has secured a potential 10-year, $36.3 million contract to repair or replace mission systems installed on multiple U.S. Navy aircraft platforms. General Dynamics Mission Systems will also provide program support for Advanced Mission Computer systems onboard F/A-18 E/F, EA 18G and AV-8B, the Defense Department said Friday. The performance-based logistics contract […] More

  • Scientific Research Corp. to Engineer, Install Navy Carrier Under $92M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scientific Research Corp. to Engineer, Install Navy Carrier Under $92M IDIQ

    Scientific Research Corp. has secured a potential $92.5 million contract to engineer, integrate and install command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems on newly constructed aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy. SRC will also support the service branch’s shipbuilding conversion efforts and other government shipbuilding projects under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The Space and Naval Warfare […] More