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  • Boeing to Extend Navy P-8A Aircraft Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Extend Navy P-8A Aircraft Engineering Services

    Boeing has secured a two-year, $24.6 million modification to a previously awarded delivery order to perform additional engineering work on the U.S. Navy‘s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The Defense Department said Thursday Boeing will support systems engineering technical and critical design reviews for P-8A’s Increment 3 Block 2 upgrades under the modification. Work will occur in Seattle, Washington and Greenlawn, New […] More

  • HII Subsidiary Completes Builder's Sea Trials of 'Ralph Johnson' Destroyer Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Subsidiary Completes Builder’s Sea Trials of ‘Ralph Johnson’ Destroyer Ship

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding unit has conducted builder’s sea trials on an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer built for the U.S. Navy. HII said Tuesday it tested the combat, main propulsion and other systems of USS Ralph Johnson for more than three days in the Gulf of Mexico. “DDG 114’s sea trials showcase the skill of our […] More

  • Navy, SkySafe to Test Mobile Anti-Drone Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, SkySafe to Test Mobile Anti-Drone Platform

    The U.S. Navy‘s Special Warfare Command has awarded SkySafe a $1.5 million contract to test the company’s counter-unmanned aerial systems platform, FCW reported Thursday. SkySafe CEO Grant Jordan told FCW that the company’s anti-UAS system is designed to support installation on vehicles and use early detection and radio signal jamming to protect against enemy drones. Jordan added […] More

  • Booz Allen Awarded Navy Enterprise Mgmt Support Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Awarded Navy Enterprise Mgmt Support Extension

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a potential five-year, $13.2 million contract modification to extend its enterprise management and technical support to the Navy Information Force’s Shore Modernization and Integration Directorate. Booz Allen will continue to support the directorate in the areas of enterprise architecture and operational transition planning; shore network and communications modernization; […] More

  • Navy Seeks Info on Potential IT Support Sources for Environmental Program Web App - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Info on Potential IT Support Sources for Environmental Program Web App

    The U.S. Navy has asked information on potential industry sources that can help provide programming, development, administration, maintenance and other information technology services for a web application that works to support the service branch’s environmental program. The Environmental Program Requirements Web is a Microsoft stack-based online application used by the Navy to perform budget development and […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Help MDA Sustain Trident, Orion Rocket Motors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Help MDA Sustain Trident, Orion Rocket Motors

    Orbital ATK has secured a five-year, $48 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to help sustain Trident I and Orion rocket motors the agency intends to use in target and interceptor vehicles. The company said Wednesday it will provide engineering, test and analysis, motor logistics storage and disposal static test, and flight test motor preparation support under the […] More

  • CDI to Support Naval Surface Forces Pacific Under SeaPort-e Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CDI to Support Naval Surface Forces Pacific Under SeaPort-e Task Order

    CDI Corp. has secured a potential five-year, $38 million task order from the U.S. Navy to deploy subject matter experts who will support the Commander of the Naval Surface Forces Pacific. The company said Monday it will assemble a readiness assistance team to provide sailor-centric engineering and combat systems training, review materials, audit programs and […] More

  • Orbital ATK Demos Air-Launched Ballistic Missile Target As Part of MDA’s THAAD Flight Test Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Demos Air-Launched Ballistic Missile Target As Part of MDA’s THAAD Flight Test Program

    Orbital ATK has demonstrated its air-launched intermediate-range ballistic missile target in support of the test flight program for the Missile Defense Agency’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The Orbital ATK-built IRBM target simulated a ballistic missile threat after being launched from a C-17 aircraft and transported by parachutes prior to ignition, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide AEGIS Support for Australian Destroyer Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide AEGIS Support for Australian Destroyer Fleet

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $41.8 million modification to provide lifetime support for the Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System on the Australian navy’s Hobart-class air warfare destroyers. The modification exercises a foreign military sales option under a potential $421 million contract awarded to the company last year, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Lockheed’s mission systems […] More

  • Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate

    The U.S. Navy has issued a request for information on existing designs of small surface combatant ships that can be modified to meet the service branch’s requirements for its future guided-missile frigates. The military branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that it plans to award a contract in fiscal year 2020 to design […] 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

  • Northrop to Produce MK 48 Torpedo Components for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Produce MK 48 Torpedo Components for Navy

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $50.1 million contract to manufacture nose shell assemblies and transducer arrays for the U.S. Navy‘s MK 48 torpedo. The company said Thursday it will produce 45 torpedo components under the contract’s base term worth approximately $9.6 million. Northrop would build up to 180 additional components over five years if the […] More