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  • Lockheed, Indra Extend Radar Devt Collaboration for Spanish Navy's F-110 Frigate Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Indra Extend Radar Devt Collaboration for Spanish Navy’s F-110 Frigate Program

    Lockheed Martin signed a heads of agreement with Indra to extend a collaborative effort to develop S-band active electronically scanned array radar systems for the Spanish navy’s F-110 shipbuilding program. Lockheed said Tuesday the F-110 multimission surface vessel is designed to feature the Aegis Combat System configured to detect asymmetric and conventional threats that affect coastline missions. Production of […] More

  • Kaman Receives $85M Air Force Bomb Fuze Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kaman Receives $85M Air Force Bomb Fuze Order

    Kaman‘s aerospace business segment has received a potential $85 million order to supply bomb fuzes to the U.S. Air Force and 18 foreign military customers. The Air Force issued the initial order under option 13 of the Joint Programmable Fuzes acquisition contract and the company is scheduled to deliver the JPFs over the next two […] More

  • Army to Implement Rockwell Collins' Helmet Mounted Display for Aviation Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army to Implement Rockwell Collins’ Helmet Mounted Display for Aviation Training

    Rockwell Collins has received a contract to provide a new helmet mounted display platform for integration with the U.S. Army‘s Aviation Combined Arms Tactical Trainer systems. The company said Tuesday it will update 332 SimEye HMD units for the military branch and expects to complete the upgrades by October 2019. SimEye will be equipped with new display and optical […] More

  • Honeywell Wins Air Force Accelerometer R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Wins Air Force Accelerometer R&D Contract

    Honeywel International has won a potential $10.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop an acceleration measurement device. The Defense Department said Tuesday Honeywell support research and development of a low noise, high sensitivity vibrating beam accelerometer under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. Work  will occur in Glendale, Arizona, through Feb. 20, 2025 and […] More

  • Convergence Technology Joins M7 Global Partners' IT Consulting Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Convergence Technology Joins M7 Global Partners’ IT Consulting Network

    M7 Global Partners has added Convergence Technology Consulting to the consortium’s roster of information technology consulting companies. Columbia, Maryland-based Convergence Technology’s cyber and enterprise infrastructure consulting experience will help grow M7 Global Partners’ presence in the public sector, the consortium said Tuesday. Convergence Technology offers data security, enterprise IT, support and recovery services across multiple industries and […] More

  • 4th Iridium NEXT Satellite Batch Enters Pre-Launch Processing Phase; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4th Iridium NEXT Satellite Batch Enters Pre-Launch Processing Phase; Matt Desch Comments

    SpaceX has begun processing the fourth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites at its west coast launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in preparation for the Dec. 22 launch aboard a pre-flown Falcon 9 rocket as part of its launch campaign with Iridium Communications. Iridium said Tuesday the company and SpaceX are set […] More

  • DLA Orders $72M in Oshkosh Motor Vehicle Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Orders $72M in Oshkosh Motor Vehicle Components

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Oshkosh Defense a potential five-year, $71.7 million contract to produce motor vehicle parts and accessories for the U.S. Marine Corps. The firm-fixed-price contract has three base years along with two option years, the  Defense Department said Tuesday. Oshkosh Defense will perform work at a company facility in Wisconsin and is scheduled to finish by Nov. […] More

  • NASA Starts Commissioning Spacecraft Meant to Demo CubeSat Capability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Starts Commissioning Spacecraft Meant to Demo CubeSat Capability

    NASA has started to checkout and commission a small satellite that is designed to demonstrate the capacity of CubeSats to gather scientific data. The agency said Tuesday its ground controllers began checking out the Dellingr CubeSat a few hours after the spacecraft was launched into low-Earth orbit by a NanoRacks-built CubeSat deployer aboard the International Space Station on Nov. 20. […] More

  • Lockheed Partners With 5 Firms to Pursue Canada’s Surface Combatant Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Partners With 5 Firms to Pursue Canada’s Surface Combatant Program

    Lockheed Martin and five other defense contractors have formed a consortium to offer a warship design for a program that seeks to replace the Canadian navy’s fleet of surface combatants. The Canada’s Combat Ship Team composed of Lockheed’s Canadian arm, CAE, BAE Systems, L3 Technologies, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates – now called Maxar Technologies – and […] More

  • Comtech to Source, Test Space Components for NASA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech to Source, Test Space Components for NASA Program

    Comtech Telecommunications‘ command and control technologies group has received contract worth more than $8 million to source and test spacecraft components for use in a NASA program. An unnamed U.S. space contractor awarded the contract and initially obligated $4 million, Comtech said Tuesday. “We are pleased that this customer has placed their confidence in our space-level parts supply chain management […] More