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  • Intelsat General’s Skot Butler Talks Multi-Band Satcom Services, Air Force’s Wideband Analysis of Alternatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelsat General’s Skot Butler Talks Multi-Band Satcom Services, Air Force’s Wideband Analysis of Alternatives

    Skot Butler, president of Intelsat General, has said he thinks there will be a demand for multi-band satellite communications services within the Defense Department in an effort to provide users with more choices, Space News reported Tuesday. Butler told SpaceNews editor-in-chief Brian Berger in an interview that the U.S. Air Force’s Wideband Analysis of Alternatives seems to […] More

  • Lockheed Completes First Tactical Missile System Flight Test; Scott Greene Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes First Tactical Missile System Flight Test; Scott Greene Comments

    Lockheed Martin has demonstrated its first updated Tactical Missile System missile as part of a flight test conducted at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company used a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launcher to fire the missile and hit a target area with a proximity sensor-equipped detonation, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. Lockheed […] More

  • Leidos to Build, Implement Army's Common Driver Trainer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Build, Implement Army’s Common Driver Trainer Systems

    Leidos has received a potential $10 million prime contract to develop and deploy 14 common driver trainer systems for the U.S. Army‘s program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation. Leidos said Tuesday it will produce the CDTs at the company’s Lee Vista Integration Facility in Orlando, Florida, and deliver the systems to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. The contract has a […] More

  • Navy to Release Undersea Warfare Combat System Production RFP in December - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Release Undersea Warfare Combat System Production RFP in December

    The U.S. Navy has issued a draft statement of work on the production of a surface ship undersea warfare combat system and the service branch plans to seek proposals next month. The Navy said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday that the USW combat system program will involve Advanced Capability Build software integration and Technical Insertion hardware development, […] More

  • Allied Associates International Wins MDA Advisory & Assistance Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Allied Associates International Wins MDA Advisory & Assistance Services Contract

    Allied Associates International has secured a $23.4 million contract to advise and assist the Missile Defense Agency on the technical, engineering, advisory and management aspects of MDA’s international affairs and foreign military sales. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract covers studies, analyses, evaluations, management and professional services to support the Aegis, Sensors and Terminal High Altitude ballistic missile defense […] More

  • DARPA Taps Northrop for RF Signal Processing Tech Development Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Northrop for RF Signal Processing Tech Development Contract

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $7.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop new technology platforms for a program that seeks to facilitate radio and radar communications in contested radiofrequency environments. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the contract awarded through the Signal Processing at RF program has a base […] More

  • Sweden Orders Helmet Mounted Display System for Gripen Pilots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sweden Orders Helmet Mounted Display System for Gripen Pilots

    Saab has been awarded an estimated $13.2 million contract to supply helmet mounted display systems to Sweden’s defense material agency. Pilots of the Swedish air force’s Gripen E fighter aircraft will use the Targo system to detect, track, identify and engage air and ground targets, Saab said Monday. AEL Sistemas will manufacture the Targo helmets and Saab […] More

  • Toshiba Establishes Mobile Computing Subsidiary in Australia & New Zealand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Toshiba Establishes Mobile Computing Subsidiary in Australia & New Zealand

    Toshiba Corp. has formed an Australia-based subsidiary within Toshiba America Information Systems to deliver mobile computing platforms and services in Australia and New Zealand. Toshiba Client Solutions ANZ will serve small and medium-sized businesses as well as the enterprise, government and education markets, Toshiba said Tuesday. TCSAN will operate in Sydney with Mark Whittard as managing director and chief executive […] More

  • Ideal Innovations to Support DIA Document, Media Exploitation Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ideal Innovations to Support DIA Document, Media Exploitation Mission

    Ideal Innovations Inc. has secured a potential four-year, $6.5 million contract to provide biometric examination services for the Defense Intelligence Agency‘s document and media exploitation mission. I3 said Nov. 2 it will support DIA’s National Media Exploitation Center under the contract, which contains one base year and three option years. Bob Kocher, I3 president and CEO, […] More

  • Micro Craft CEO Kenneth Sullivan to Chair NDIA Manufacturing Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Micro Craft CEO Kenneth Sullivan to Chair NDIA Manufacturing Division

    The National Defense Industrial Association has named Kenneth Sullivan, president and CEO of Micro Craft, as chairman of NDIA’s manufacturing division. He previously served as vice chairman of the same division and chaired the association’s  supply chain network committee, NDIA said Monday. Bruce Roulstone, vice president of program development at NDIA, said Sullivan will work to help advance issues that […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Names Andreas Schell Power Business CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Names Andreas Schell Power Business CEO

    Rolls-Royce has named Andreas Schell, former digital strategy vice president at United Technologies Corp.‘s aerospace systems segment, to succeed Ulrich Dohle as CEO of the Rolls-Royce Power Systems unit. Schell will work with Dohle on the transition into the new role that takes effect Jan. 1, 2017, Rolls-Royce said Nov. 2. “[Schell] has a thorough understanding of product and […] More