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  • Turkey Moves to Buy Second Lockheed F-35 Batch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Turkey Moves to Buy Second Lockheed F-35 Batch

    Turkey’s defense procurement authority has agreed to purchase a second batch of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jets, Defense News reported Monday. Burak Ege Bekdil writes the country’s procurement and military officials expect to complete a dual-fighter jet fleet comprised of the F-35 and an indigenous aircraft called TFX by 2023. Turkey has committed to buy a […] More

  • Air Force Picks Applied Defense Solutions Team for Space Data Contract; Tom Kubancik Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Applied Defense Solutions Team for Space Data Contract; Tom Kubancik Comments

    Applied Defense Solutions will collaborate with Lockheed Martin, Pacific Defense Solutions and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary RT Logic to supply space surveillance data to the U.S. Air Force under a contract awarded Oct. 19, Space News reported Monday. Phillip Swarts writes the industry team will provide commercially sourced space situational awareness data to the Joint Interagency Combined […] More

  • Navy Exercises Third Option Year in Lockheed Aegis Weapon Ship Integration, Testing Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Exercises Third Option Year in Lockheed Aegis Weapon Ship Integration, Testing Contract

    Lockheed Martin has landed a $60.9 million contract modification to integrate and test the Aegis weapon system aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG 51 class ships under the third option year of a previously awarded contract. The company will perform Aegis shipboard integration engineering, support the Ballistic Missile Defense test team and assess AWS elements  through Advanced Capability Build 12, the […] More

  • Honeywell, Inmarsat Form Military Satellite Comms Partnership; Carey Smith, Peter Hadinger Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell, Inmarsat Form Military Satellite Comms Partnership; Carey Smith, Peter Hadinger Comment

    Honeywell and Inmarsat have forged a partnership to provide satellite communications offerings intended to help military users connect anywhere in the world. Inmarsat combines its Global Xpress SATCOM as a service in-flight broadband service with Honeywell’s JetWave satellite communications hardware in efforts to provide high-bandwidth connectivity for military customers, Honeywell said Monday. Carey Smith, president of […] More

  • AeroVironment to Update Netherlands' Small UAS Data Link; Kirk Flittie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment to Update Netherlands’ Small UAS Data Link; Kirk Flittie Comments

    AeroVironment has been awarded a $10.3 million contract by the Netherlands ministry of defense to provide small unmanned aircraft systems and digital data link upgrade services to the Dutch military. The company said Monday it will refresh the DDL system for the Dutch forces’ Raven B, Puma AE  and Wasp AE vehicles as well as ground control systems under the contract. The Netherlands’ defense […] More

  • Diffeo Earns First Prize in NGA Disparate Data Access Tilt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Diffeo Earns First Prize in NGA Disparate Data Access Tilt

    Diffeo has received the top prize in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s challenge that required access to disparate data sets with the use of machine intelligence algorithms. Diffeo integrated its research and analysis process with machine intelligence algorithms into the system to create a knowledge graph of people, places, organizations and events and their inter-relationships under […] More

  • Virginia Electric & Power Lands DoD Electricity Supply Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virginia Electric & Power Lands DoD Electricity Supply Contract

    Virginia Electric and Power Co. has been awarded a $23.4 million contract to perform electricity distribution and supply services for the Pentagon and other government facilities located in Northern Virginia. The company will carry out work in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia, through Aug. 21, 2018, the Defense Department said Friday. The Washington Headquarters Services obligated fiscal 2017 […] More

  • Cambridge International Systems Opens New Office in Virginia Beach; Russell Thurston Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cambridge International Systems Opens New Office in Virginia Beach; Russell Thurston Comments

    Cambridge International Systems has opened a new office in Virginia Beach, Virginia where the company will house its Combatant Commands division and the Military Sealift Command information technology engineering and support services program support team. The new office is part of the company’s effort to provide collaborative workspaces to its employees, Cambridge said Friday. Russell Thurston, Cambridge […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Invests $30M in Composite Material R&D Facility Expansion; Marion Blakey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Invests $30M in Composite Material R&D Facility Expansion; Marion Blakey Comments

    Rolls-Royce has invested $30 million in an expansion project for a company research-and-development center in Southern California. The 62,000-square-foot facility in Cypress is dedicated to research related to ceramic matrix composite materials and processes designed for future production of aircraft engine components, Rolls-Royce said Thursday. Marion Blakey, president and CEO of Rolls-Royce’s North America business, said […] More

  • NIKA to Design New Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic; Kabir Chaudhary Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIKA to Design New Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic; Kabir Chaudhary Comments

    Architecture and engineering firm NIKA has been awarded a $1 million contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs to design a new outpatient clinic in Riverview, Florida for the VA. Hokanson Companies will lead the project scheduled for completion by 2018 and Doster Construction Company will be responsible for construction aspects for the 50,000-square-foot South Hillsborough outpatient […] More

  • BAE Taps Magellan Aerospace for F-35 Horizontal Tails Production; Phillip Underwood Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Taps Magellan Aerospace for F-35 Horizontal Tails Production; Phillip Underwood Comments

    BAE Systems has selected Magellan Aerospace to supply horizontal tail assemblies for the conventional takeoff-and-landing variant of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft under a two-year, $52 million contract. Magellan said Thursday it aims to manufacture more than 1,000 ship sets of horizontal tail assemblies over the fighter program’s life cycle. “Magellan will be producing approximately half of the CTOL horizontal tails […] More

  • Thales Alenia Space to Supply Satellite Navigation System to South Korea; Jean Loic Galle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Alenia Space to Supply Satellite Navigation System to South Korea; Jean Loic Galle Comments

    Thales Alenia Space will supply a satellite navigation system to the South Korea’s national space agency in an effort to help enhance the country’s positioning system. The Korea Aerospace Research Institute will use the KASS system built based on Thales Alenia Space’s European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System to provide aeronautical applications and extend its use to maritime, […] More