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  • Boeing Lands Contract Option for Navy Shipboard Network Engineering Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Lands Contract Option for Navy Shipboard Network Engineering Support

    Boeing has received a potential one-year, $13.7 million contract option to continue to provide technical engineering and design agent support services for the AN/USQ-82(V) Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG 51-class destroyers. The Defense Department said Wednesday the exercised option on a previously awarded contract covers purchases for the service branch as […] More

  • Austal to Perform LCS Engineering Assessment Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal to Perform LCS Engineering Assessment Under Navy Contract Modification

    Austal’s U.S. arm has received a potential one-year, $36.6 million contract modification to conduct special studies and provide core-class services for the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program. Austal USA will evaluate production and engineering challenges, analyze alternate processes, test technology candidates and assess schedule and cost risks under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification, the Defense […] More

  • Navy Taps BAE for USS Vicksburg Cruiser Upgrade Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps BAE for USS Vicksburg Cruiser Upgrade Work

    BAE Systems has received a potential six-month, $42.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to perform upgrade work on a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser ship. The company will start in April to conduct miscellaneous repairs and alterations onboard the USS Vicksburg cruiser at its shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia, and expects work to conclude by September under the […] More

  • Lockheed to Engineer Fire Control Systems Under $68M Navy Basic Ordering Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Engineer Fire Control Systems Under $68M Navy Basic Ordering Agreement

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a five-year, $68 million basic ordering agreement to engineer and provide logistics support for Mk 92 fire control systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday the agreement covers equipment changes, repairs, and overhauls; engineering and field service; computer programming; documentation development and engineering services. Support services under the BOA will aid the […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order

    Lockheed Martin has secured a two-year, $64.7 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to perform work on integrated core processor of the company-built F-35 fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday Lockheed will help address manufacturing sources constraints projected under F-35 Lot 15 production in support of the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and international partners. […] More

  • Cubic to Produce, Test Portable Common Data Link Systems & Spares for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Produce, Test Portable Common Data Link Systems & Spares for Navy

    Cubic‘s defense applications business has won a $20.9 million contract to assemble,  produce, document, test and deliver 25 Portable Common Data Link systems for installation at the U.S. Navy‘s tactical and mobile tactical operation centers. The Defense Department said Friday that work also covers engineering services for TacMobile Person PCDL systems and spare suites. The contract’s 18-month base […] More

  • Industry Officials Talk Govt’s Reluctance to Share Cyber Threat Data at House Panel Hearing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Officials Talk Govt’s Reluctance to Share Cyber Threat Data at House Panel Hearing

    Industry officials told lawmakers at a House Homeland Security Committee’s cybersecurity panel hearing Thursday that that U.S. government is hesitant to facilitate cyber threat data sharing with stakeholders in the private sector, Nextgov reported Thursday. Scott Montgomery, a vice president at Intel Security, told House committee members that U.S. government investigators’ reluctance to share threat data […] More

  • General Atomics Unveils Railgun Pulsed Power Container - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Unveils Railgun Pulsed Power Container

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has developed a pulsed power container designed to provide twice the energy density of current railgun pulsed power platforms. The High Energy Pulsed Power Container is equipped with HEPP modules that work to supply energy content of more than 415 kilojoules per module, General Atomics said Thursday. The company added the system can work to […] More

  • ViON Secures Potential $50M Contract for On-Demand Computing Services to SPAWAR - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON Secures Potential $50M Contract for On-Demand Computing Services to SPAWAR

    ViON has won a potential seven-year, $50 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide on-demand, on-premise computing, networking and storage services in support of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract has a five-year base value of $34.8 million and covers support for multiple systems applications for SPAWAR’s research, development, […] More

  • Battelle to Update Forecast Analytic Tool for Navy Aircraft Capacity Synchronization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Update Forecast Analytic Tool for Navy Aircraft Capacity Synchronization

    Battelle has landed a five-year, $38.6 million contract to help the U.S. Navy update a forecast analytic system designed to synchronize aircraft capacity sets.  The nonprofit research and development company said Thursday it will collaborate with subcontractor Veracity Forecasting and Analysis to update the Naval Synchronization Toolset for use on the service branch’s multiple weapon platforms such as the F/A-18 Hornet aircraft. […] More

  • Report: Germany to Purchase Northrop-Built Triton UAVs from US Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Germany to Purchase Northrop-Built Triton UAVs from US Navy

    Germany plans to buy three Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aerial vehicles from the U.S. Navy for use in signal intelligence operations of its armed forces, Defense News reported Wednesday. The inspector general with Germany’s armed forces Bundeswehr said the country’s military aims to procure the first Triton UAV in 2025 and the other two drones by […] More

  • Navy Extends Sierra Nevada's Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Extends Sierra Nevada’s Countermeasure Transmitter Support Contract

    Sierra Nevada has received a one-year, $31 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue to supply and support countermeasure transmitters designed for explosive ordnance disposal personnel. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification exercises option year six and extend the ordering period of a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for AN/PLT-5 electronic jamming systems. Sierra Nevada will produce the systems as […] More