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  • QinetiQ, UK MoD to Upgrade Environmental Test Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ, UK MoD to Upgrade Environmental Test Facility

    QinetiQ and the British defense ministry will jointly provide $27 million in funds to support the upgrade of an environmental test facility based at a military installation in Shoeburyness, England. The company said Tuesday the investment in the Environmental Test Centre is part of an effort to modernize the U.K.’s test and evaluation systems. ETC provides facilities, technology and […] More

  • Babcock-UGL JV Lands $157M Australian Frigate Maintenance Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Babcock-UGL JV Lands $157M Australian Frigate Maintenance Support Contract

    A Babcock–UGL joint venture has secured a potential five-year, $156.7 million contract to help maintain the Australian navy’s Anzac-class frigates, Shephard Media reported Thursday. Naval Ship Management will provide engineering services for eight Australian frigates beginning this month in support of the Warship Asset Management Agreement program. WAMA is a collaborative effort of the Commonwealth of Australia, NSM, BAE Systems  and Saab to […] More

  • Latvia State Border Guard Orders Leonardo-Built Multipurpose Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Latvia State Border Guard Orders Leonardo-Built Multipurpose Helicopters

    Leonardo has received a contract of an undisclosed value to supply two AW119Kx helicopters to Latvia’s state border guard. The contract has an option for an additional helicopter and related aircrew or maintenance technician training services, Leonardo said Tuesday. Leonardo is scheduled to deliver the initial AW119Kx units from a company facility in  Philadelphia is expected […] More

  • Former GTSI CEO Dendy Young Looks to Raise $4M for Precision Medicine Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former GTSI CEO Dendy Young Looks to Raise $4M for Precision Medicine Services

    Dendy Young, co-founder and chairman of Perthera, has said he expects an ongoing investment round to pull in $4 million for the McLean, Virginia-based precision medicine services company, Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. He told the publication that Perthera has secured $2.2 million in funding commitments from investors such as Pilot Growth Equity and McLean Capital, where Young […] More

  • Boeing's Aurora Subsidiary to Continue Orion UAS Development for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Aurora Subsidiary to Continue Orion UAS Development for Air Force

    Aurora Flight Sciences has received a potential $48 million contract to continue developing twin-engine unmanned aircraft system for the U.S. Air Force. The Boeing subsidiary said Wednesday it will build an Orion UAS variant designed to perform in any location worldwide. Aurora will produce the system at its facilities in Mississippi and Virginia. Orion is designed to operate for 100 consecutive […] More

  • General Atomics to Develop Capacitors for DoD Non-Lethal Vehicle Stopper Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Develop Capacitors for DoD Non-Lethal Vehicle Stopper Platform

    A business unit of General Atomics has been selected by the Defense Department Ordnance Technology Consortium to produce high-energy density capacitors for a non-lethal platform designed to stop and disable vehicles as part of force protection and checkpoint operations. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will supply the capacitors to DoD’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate for integration into the Pre-Emplaced […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Begin Full-Rate Void Sensing Fuze Production for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Begin Full-Rate Void Sensing Fuze Production for Air Force

    Orbital ATK has received a $23 million initial contract from the U.S. Air Force to commence full-rate production of hard target void sensing fuze assemblies. FMU-167/B HTVSF is a cockpit programmable fuze designed to help the service branch destroy hard and deeply-buried targets, the company said Wednesday. The award follows a low-rate initial production contract that the […] More

  • Marvin Test Solutions Joins BAE's Air Force Armament Tester Development Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marvin Test Solutions Joins BAE’s Air Force Armament Tester Development Team

    Marvin Test Solutions is part of a BAE Systems-led industry team that won a potential $64.5 million contract to design and build a common armament testing platform for U.S. Air Force bomber aircraft. The team will produce the Bomber Armament Tester for the service branch to evaluate B-1B, B-2A and B-52H weapons and equipment such as bomb ejector […] More

  • Viasat to Help Modernize NATO Satcom Control Stations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viasat to Help Modernize NATO Satcom Control Stations

    Viasat has secured a contract to update NATO control stations for ultra-high-frequency satellite communications systems in an effort to help address the international alliance’s integrated waveform baseline requirement. The company said Wednesday it will modernize NATO’s UHF communications infrastructure to the Visual Integrated SATCOM Information, Operation and Networking software package designed to increase flexibility, interoperability and […] More

  • Navy Exercises Raytheon Contract Options for Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Exercises Raytheon Contract Options for Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Support

    Raytheon has received a one-year, $37.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to support the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile design agent. The modification exercises options under a previously awarded ESSM program support contract and covers missile technical engineering and in-service support, the Defense Department said Wednesday. ESSM is an international cooperative effort that seeks to increase […] More

  • IARPA Awards 4 Language Processing Software R&D Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Awards 4 Language Processing Software R&D Contracts

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded separate contracts to Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies business, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute to develop language processing software platforms. All five awardees will aim to produce systems designed to identify and comprehend media documents written in foreign languages under the Machine Translation for English […] More

  • General Atomics to Supply USAF MQ-9 UAS Block 5 Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Supply USAF MQ-9 UAS Block 5 Kits

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $14.2 million contract modification to a business unit of General Atomics for the supply of Block 5 MQ-9 unmanned aerial system kits. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will provide MQ-9 extended-range and beyond-line-of-sight kits as well as Barrett Asymmetrical Digital Datalink Computer Routers under the modification, the Defense Department said Wednesday. GA-ASI […] More