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  • Vectrus Unit Secures Recompete Contract for Maxwell AFB Base Operations Support; Chuck Prow Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vectrus Unit Secures Recompete Contract for Maxwell AFB Base Operations Support; Chuck Prow Comments

    A Vectrus subsidiary has secured a $37 million recompete contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide base operations support services at the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama. The company said Friday Vectrus Systems‘ contract covers support for foreign object damage, transient and static display maintenance; resource management; communications and information technology; publishing; installation management and […] More

  • AECOM Unit Lands Army Contract for Environmental Consulting Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Unit Lands Army Contract for Environmental Consulting Services

    AECOM‘s technical services business has secured a $25 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to provide environmental consulting services. The Defense Department said Tuesday the competitive contract will potentially run through March 13, 2022. The Army will provide information on the work locations and allotted funds with the award of each order, DoD added. AECOM Technical Services offers a […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on RF Transistor, Semiconductor Material Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on RF Transistor, Semiconductor Material Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on March 29 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that seeks to develop new radiofrequency and millimeter-wave transistors and semiconductor materials designed to meet electromagnetic spectrum-related requirements. Dan Green, a program manager at DARPA’s microsystems technology office, said in a statement released Thursday the Dynamic […] More

  • Mythics to Deploy Oracle Products, Services to Virginia's Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mythics to Deploy Oracle Products, Services to Virginia’s Public Sector

    Mythics has received a contract from Virginia’s information technologies agency to deploy a range of Oracle products and services to various public organizations across the state. The contract is intended to give participating agencies in Virginia a streamlined acquisition process for Oracle database, applications, support, maintenance, training and professional service offerings, Mythics said Wednesday. Doug Altamura, executive vice […] More

  • Report: Air Force Will Invite Companies to Demo Light Attack Aircraft This Summer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force Will Invite Companies to Demo Light Attack Aircraft This Summer

    Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, the U.S. Air Force‘s military deputy for acquisition, has said the service branch could formally invite companies on Friday to join a light-attack aircraft demonstration in the summer, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Oriana Pawlyk writes Bunch told reporters that the military service aims to keep the OA-X light attack program “as broad as we can so […] More

  • Leidos Introduces UAS Safety Notification Service to Support Airspace Safety - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Introduces UAS Safety Notification Service to Support Airspace Safety

    Leidos has unveiled a service that will allow aircraft pilots to automatically receive notifications of unmanned aircraft systems operations in an effort to help maintain safety in national  airspace. The UAS Notification Service aims to prevent the overlap of commercial UAS and military aircraft operations through a process called deconfliction, Leidos said Thursday. The company added its web-based service is designed to collate UAS […] More

  • Navy Taps BAE for USS Vicksburg Cruiser Upgrade Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps BAE for USS Vicksburg Cruiser Upgrade Work

    BAE Systems has received a potential six-month, $42.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to perform upgrade work on a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser ship. The company will start in April to conduct miscellaneous repairs and alterations onboard the USS Vicksburg cruiser at its shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia, and expects work to conclude by September under the […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Supply Bushmaster Chain Guns to Lithuania's Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Supply Bushmaster Chain Guns to Lithuania’s Army

    Orbital ATK has received a contract from Lithuania’s defense ministry to supply chain guns for integration onto the Vilkas infantry fighting vehicles of the country’s army. The company said Thursday it will begin to deliver MK44 Bushmaster chain guns in mid-2017 and help the Lithuanian army integrate 90 cannons wit the Rafael-built Samson MKII remote weapons station under the […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Devt Work on Army Fiber Laser System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Devt Work on Army Fiber Laser System

    Lockheed Martin has developed and tested for the U.S. Army a 60-kilowatt laser weapon system designed to help the service branch counter threats posed by drones, mortars and rockets. Lockheed has initiated preparation work to facilitate the delivery of the fiber laser platform to the Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Alabama after it […] More

  • NTT Data to Help Update DOJ's Immigration Review IT Support System; Tim Conway Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data to Help Update DOJ’s Immigration Review IT Support System; Tim Conway Comments

    NTT Data has secured a potential five-year, $34.5 million contract to help the Justice Department modernize an information technology support system at DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. Tim Conway, president of NTT Data’s public sector business and an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, said in a statement published Thursday the company will apply its agile […] More

  • BAE Orders Electric Vans for Portsmouth Naval Base in England - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Orders Electric Vans for Portsmouth Naval Base in England

    BAE Systems has ordered Nissan-built electric vans on behalf of the commander of the Portsmouth Naval Base in England to support store transfer, engineering and equipment load-lifting tasks within the installation. The U.K.’s navy will receive this week an initial batch of 48 e-NV200 vans that are designed to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 40 percent, BAE said Monday. “Replacing nearly half […] More

  • Applied Visions to Develop Unified Threat Mgmt System for DHS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Applied Visions to Develop Unified Threat Mgmt System for DHS

    Applied Visions has secured a $16.3 million contract to help the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate create a unified threat management system for developers to detect potential cyber vulnerabilities in software codes. DHS said that Applied Visions and its partners will develop and integrate UTM system components such as application threat modeling, attack simulation and countermeasures modeling, hybrid […] More