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  • Leonardo, IMP Add CAE, Rockwell Collins, GE to Cormorant Helicopter Upgrade Industry Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo, IMP Add CAE, Rockwell Collins, GE to Cormorant Helicopter Upgrade Industry Team

    Three companies have joined Leonardo and IMP Aerospace & Defence as part of an industry team that aims to help modernize Canada’s fleet of EH101/CH-149 Cormorant helicopters designed for search-and-rescue missions. Team Cormorant is composed of Leonardo Helicopters, IMP, CAE and the Canadian businesses of Rockwell Collins and GE, Leonardo said Tuesday. The industry team also intends […] More

  • Cisco’s Carl De Groote: Highly Skilled Workforce, Automation Key to DoD’s Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Carl De Groote: Highly Skilled Workforce, Automation Key to DoD’s Cybersecurity

    Carl De Groote, senior director for Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems, has said DoD should combine highly skilled cyber professionals with automated technology in efforts to protect its networks and data from cyber attacks and facilitate response to such threats. De Groote wrote in a guest piece for Signal Magazine he believes that automated machines can help combatant commands evaluate […] More

  • Kratos to Produce Aerial Target Systems Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Produce Aerial Target Systems Under Navy Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $34.6 million contract modification for the low-rate initial production of subsonic aerial target drone systems. Kratos said Wednesday the fiscal 2017 LRIP is the first annual production order for the BQM-177A drone system. The company also secured a $2.5 million contractor logistics support contract […] More

  • BAE, Leonardo Enter Precision-Guided Munition Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, Leonardo Enter Precision-Guided Munition Tech Partnership

    BAE Systems and Leonardo have formed a partnership to further develop a family of precision-guided munitions for a range of weapons systems designed to help U.S. and allied forces counter land, maritime and aerial threats. The companies will work to adapt Leonardo’s family of precision-guided projectiles – Vulcano – for use with BAE’s Mk 45 […] More

  • Boeing Gets F/A-18E/F, EA-18G Engineering Change Proposal Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Gets F/A-18E/F, EA-18G Engineering Change Proposal Order

    Boeing has received a $49.5 million order to develop, qualify and support form-fit-function flight tests of Active Electronically Scanned Array Radar Interface 2 for F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft of the U.S. Navy and Australia. The Defense Department said Wednesday the engineering change proposal will also cover pre-processor module and weapons replaceable assemblies for both the multirole fighter and electronic warfare aircraft […] More

  • Space Systems Loral to Conduct On-Orbit Refuelling Service for SES Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems Loral to Conduct On-Orbit Refuelling Service for SES Satellite

    SES has entered an agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to carry out a satellite life extension mission using an on-orbit refuelling spacecraft made by MDA’s Space Systems Loral subsidiary. The agreement will make SES the first commercial customer of the satellite refuelling service and will allow the company to activate the service when needed, SES said Wednesday. […] More

  • General Atomics Subsidiary Lands USAF MQ-9 Gen 4 Data Link Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Subsidiary Lands USAF MQ-9 Gen 4 Data Link Contract

    A General Atomics subsidiary has received a $27.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to address diminishing manufacturing sources for the primary data link of MQ-9 Gen 4 Predator remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will perform work under the sole-source contract in Poway, California through Nov. 29, 2019, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Verizon Unit to Continue Homeland Security Emergency Comms Support Under DISA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Unit to Continue Homeland Security Emergency Comms Support Under DISA Contract

    A business unit of Verizon has received a $20.4 million contract modification from the Defense Information Systems Agency to support a priority telecommunication service managed by the Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Emergency Communications. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Verizon’s business network services unit will continue efforts to complete the Phase 1 implementation of the Next […] More

  • Harris Gets Lockheed Supplier Award for F-35, F-22 Pneumatic Suspension, Release Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Gets Lockheed Supplier Award for F-35, F-22 Pneumatic Suspension, Release Systems

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a supplier award to Harris Corp. in recognition of the latter’s efforts to deliver pneumatic suspension and release systems for F-35 and F-22 fighter aircraft. “This award recognizes suppliers holding a 98 percent on-time delivery rating with a 98 percent quality rating,” Janet Duffey, vice president of aeronautics supply chain management at Lockheed’s […] More

  • New America Unveils Inaugural Public Interest Tech Fellows - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New America Unveils Inaugural Public Interest Tech Fellows

    Washington-based think tank New America has unveiled the inaugural members of its Public Interest Technology Fellows program that aims to establish a long-term framework for leaders, service providers and advocates to serve communities with technology. New America said Wednesday public and private sector professionals will comprise the organization’s newly formed Public Interest Tech Team. The group is […] More

  • DTRA Funds MerLion-Led Project to Counter Biological Threat Agents - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DTRA Funds MerLion-Led Project to Counter Biological Threat Agents

    A joint project of MerLion Pharmaceuticals and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has received a grant from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to study the effectiveness of an antibiotic called finafloxacin against biological threat agents. The Singapore-based biopharmaceutical company said Wednesday the project will explore the effectiveness of MerLion’s fluoroquinolone finafloxacin against infections caused by […] More

  • Boeing Lands Australian C-17 Fleet Sustainment Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Lands Australian C-17 Fleet Sustainment Contract

    Boeing has received a potential $53.4 million contract from Australia’s capability acquisition and sustainment group to provide sustainment services for the Australian air force’s fleet of C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft. The contract has a base term of five years and covers service management, integration, engineering and maintenance support for eight C-17As based at the Royal Australian […] More