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  • Airbus DS to Continue Personal Communications Services to UK Armed Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus DS to Continue Personal Communications Services to UK Armed Forces

    Airbus‘ defense and space business will continue to provide WelComE welfare communication services to the U.K. military through August 2022 under an estimated $20.3 million contract renewal from the U.K. ministry of defense. The company said Thursday the WelComE services work to supply welfare communications across various operational environments, including satellite phones, Wi-Fi services and video calling. Airbus Defense and Space […] More

  • Raytheon, USAF Conduct Latest Flight Tests on Small Diameter Bomb II - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, USAF Conduct Latest Flight Tests on Small Diameter Bomb II

    Raytheon, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, has started a new round of flight tests on the Small Diameter Bomb II seeker missile, which comes with additional modes for coordinated attack and laser illuminated attack. The team tested SDB II against fixed and moving targets in a number of tactical scenarios in efforts to update the missile’s […] More

  • Cubic Receives Subcontract for British UAS Tactical Common Data Links - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Receives Subcontract for British UAS Tactical Common Data Links

    Cubic Corp. has been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million subcontract extension award from UAV Tactical Systems to provide additional Tactical Common Data Links for the U.K. defense ministry of defense’s Watchkeeper Unmanned Aircraft System program. The TCDL is a wireless connection system designed to facilitate image and data transfers from UAS platforms to ground control stations through digital signal processing […] More

  • Boeing, Mahindra Launch C-17 Training Center for India's Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Mahindra Launch C-17 Training Center for India’s Air Force

    Boeing and Mahindra Defense Systems have launched a new facility at the Flight Simulation Technique Center in Gurgaon, India, to support C-17 pilot and loadmaster training for the Indian air force. The full-service center is designed to train  C-17 aircrews for military airlift operations, humanitarian missions, aerial refueling and emergency procedures through simulation, courseware and computer-based training, Boeing said Friday. The company added that the facility will […] More

  • ICF Subsidiary Selected for EC Communication Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Subsidiary Selected for EC Communication Services

    An ICF International subsidiary has received a possible 4-year, $18 million communication framework service contract in support of the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The company said Monday its ICF Mostra will work to develop and implement communication strategies in line with online and offline communication trends for EASME and the Directorates General for climate action, […] More

  • CACI to Continue Dev't, Maintenance of DoD Financial Management System; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Continue Dev’t, Maintenance of DoD Financial Management System; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a three-year, $37 million contract to continue its development and maintenance support services for the Defense Department‘s Oracle-developed enterprise resource planning application. CACI will deliver architecture, compliance and configuration management services for Oracle’s Global Model technology as part of the Defense Agencies Initiative’s efforts to transform DoD financial management and accounting, CACI said Thursday. […] More

  • USAID, Tetra Tech Partner to Help Protect Indonesia's Marine Resources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAID, Tetra Tech Partner to Help Protect Indonesia’s Marine Resources

    Tetra Tech has received a $32 million contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development to support marine and biodiversity conservation efforts in Indonesia. The company said Wednesday that it will collaborate with USAID as well as Indonesian agencies at the national, regional and community levels to update policies that govern Indonesia’s management of marine ecosystem. “Tetra Tech has supported USAID’s coastal resource […] More

  • Engility to Provide Technical Services for NAVAIR's Flight Safety Program; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Provide Technical Services for NAVAIR’s Flight Safety Program; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has been awarded a potential four-year, $38 million contract to help the U.S. Navy determine aircraft safety requirements and prepare flight clearances. The company said Thursday it will provide aircraft worthiness recommendations to the Naval Air Systems Command Airworthiness and CYBERSAFE Office as well as convert the flight and technical manuals of the Navy into an electronic format. “This new work builds upon Engility’s long-standing system engineering […] More

  • ETC to Help Army Implement Disaster Mgmt Simulation Training System at Fort McCoy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ETC to Help Army Implement Disaster Mgmt Simulation Training System at Fort McCoy

    Environmental Tectonics Corp. has received a contract from the U.S. Army to provide a virtual-reality simulator platform for the military branch’s disaster management training activities at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. The Army plans to use an Advanced Disaster Management Simulator training system from ETC’s simulation business unit to train as many as 800 military and civilian firefighters each year, the company said Wednesday. The ADMS-Command system will be installed at […] More

  • Australia Takes in 3 Boeing Chinook Helicopters, Fleet Stands at 10 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia Takes in 3 Boeing Chinook Helicopters, Fleet Stands at 10

    Boeing has coordinated with Australia and the U.S. Army to deliver three more H-47 Chinook helicopters to the Australian army 85 days since the company received the order. The company said Wednesday that these three helicopters bring Australia’s fleet to 10 Chinooks, which are designed to provide pilots situational awareness and also monitor and identify the aircraft’s maintenance needs through […] More

  • Ionic Security Joins DHS Internet of Things System Security Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ionic Security Joins DHS Internet of Things System Security Initiative

    Ionic Security has received $119,000 in funds from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to help develop new approaches for DHS to secure and monitor Internet of Things systems and carry out detection functions. DHS said Tuesday that the company’s team plans to apply a new distributed data protection model to address challenges the department faces […] More

  • NIST Awards Tech R&D Grants to 19 Small Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Awards Tech R&D Grants to 19 Small Businesses

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen 19 small businesses to receive grants worth a combined $3.3 million to research and develop a wide range of technology platforms. NIST chose the companies based on their submitted R&D proposals that seek to address advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, biomanufacturing, cyber-physical, technology transfer and advanced sensing for manufacturing challenges, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. DOC noted grantees […] More