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  • Mission Ready Services Completes Body Armor Project for Marines; Francisco Martinez Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mission Ready Services Completes Body Armor Project for Marines; Francisco Martinez Comments

    Mission Ready Services has completed development of a body armor for the U.S. Marine Corps under a contract with the Marine Corps Systems Command. The company said Tuesday that Francisco Martinez, chief technical officer of Mission Ready Services’ Protect The Force subsidiary, led the two-year Marines Next Generation Body Armor project that was funded through the Office of Naval Research’s Rapid Innovation Fund. […] More

  • Raytheon, U-Mass Center Receive Flexible Electronics Manufacturing Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, U-Mass Center Receive Flexible Electronics Manufacturing Grant

    Raytheon and the University of Massachusetts’ Lowell Nanomanufacturing Center have received a $1.9 million grant to further develop a flexible electronics manufacturing process, The Lowell Sun reported Tuesday. The project’s funding comes from the NextFlex grant with the goal to advance the way printed, conformal radio-frequency electronics are manufactured, according to the report. Dassault Systemes […] More

  • Diligent Consulting Receives Navy IT Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Diligent Consulting Receives Navy IT Support IDIQ

    Diligent Consulting has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide information technology support to the U.S. Navy and other agencies. Diligent Consulting said Tuesday it will compete on task orders under the SeaPort-e IDIQ contract alongside partner CACI International in support of the Navy’s engineering, financial management, information technology, information assurance, cybersecurity and program management areas. Diligent will […] More

  • CACI Receives Defense Dept Travel Call Center Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Receives Defense Dept Travel Call Center Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a $26 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic organization to provide travel call center support to the Defense Department. The company will support all Defense Travel System components through customer service for DoD personnel that travel worldwide and also offer outreach and training support services […] More

  • Kratos Gets Satcom Equipment Order From US Govt Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Gets Satcom Equipment Order From US Govt Agency

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a $9.5 million contract to provide satellite communications signal processing, monitoring and communications equipment to an unspecified government agency. Kratos said Tuesday it will manufacture equipment and systems under the contract at a protected company facility. The company also produces command and control, signal processing, monitoring, communications, radio frequency, […] More

  • Amtrak Taps Phase One to Support Mobile Mgmt Tool for Chicago's Union Station; Jodi Huston Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amtrak Taps Phase One to Support Mobile Mgmt Tool for Chicago’s Union Station; Jodi Huston Comments

    Phase One has been selected to support a mobile management tool Amtrak will use to manage processes at Chicago’s Union Station. Phase One said Friday it will leverage the company’s Salesforce application expertise to help Amtrak manage train turn-around times and streamline the station’s operations. Yard personnel will use the tool to schedule the preparation of each train for departure and supervisors will […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Establish Depot Capability for Navy Poseidon Radio Parts; Thierry Tosi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Establish Depot Capability for Navy Poseidon Radio Parts; Thierry Tosi Comments

    Rockwell Collins has received a $27 million contract to establish the depot capability of  the HF-121C communications system and miscellaneous radio components for the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon aircraft. The activation stage follows the assessment of the P-8A radio component depot capability and the next phase covers sustainment plan and a potential public-private partnership, Rockwell Collins […] More

  • Gulfstream Receives G550 Aircraft Purchase Order from Poland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gulfstream Receives G550 Aircraft Purchase Order from Poland

    Gulfstream Aerospace has received a purchase order for the company’s G550 aircraft from Poland’s national defense ministry for use in the transport of government officials. The General Dynamics subsidiary will configure two G550 for VIP transport and deliver the aircraft in 2017, Gulfstream said Wednesday. G550 is designed to fly at altitudes higher than commercial traffic and […] More

  • Navy Selects L-3 Switchgear for Ohio Replacement Submarine; Christine Montalvo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects L-3 Switchgear for Ohio Replacement Submarine; Christine Montalvo Comments

    L-3 Communications has won a contract to provide switchgear equipment for the power distribution and protection system of a future U.S. Navy submarine. Work covers design, qualification and delivery of switchgear to the first submarine built to replace the military branch’s legacy Ohio-class platform, L-3 Communications said Friday. L-3’s surge protection device electrical systems business has been assigned to perform the […] More

  • GSA Selects MIT as Transportation Dept Volpe Center Redevelopment Partner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Selects MIT as Transportation Dept Volpe Center Redevelopment Partner

    The General Services Administration has selected the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to assist in the redevelopment project for the Transportation Department’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT will act as exchange partner for the project and help GSA pick a team to design a nearly 400,000-square-foot federal facility as a […] More

  • Drone Aviation, Infor Launch UAS-Based Asset Mgmt Tech Offering; Wayne Bobby Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation, Infor Launch UAS-Based Asset Mgmt Tech Offering; Wayne Bobby Comments

    Infor has partnered with Drone Aviation to develop an unmanned aerial system-based enterprise platform designed to help public and private sector customers manage assets. The Drone Enterprise Asset Management Solution integrates Drone Aviation’s tethered drone technologies with Infor’s enterprise asset management system for organizations to inspect buildings, power stations, railways and other assets, Drone Aviation said Tuesday. Drone Aviation’s tethered drones […] More

  • Boeing's Insitu Demos ScanEagle Maritime Surface Search Tech for UK Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu Demos ScanEagle Maritime Surface Search Tech for UK Navy

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has demonstrated the new wide-area maritime surface search and identification feature of its unmanned aerial vehicle to the U.K. navy, military officials and industry representatives. Insitu said Tuesday it installed the ViDAR payload in a ScanEagle UAV that was used to conduct various maritime missions during the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior demonstration held in Benbecula, Scotland. […] More