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  • Air Force Taps Cubic for Logistics Support to Saudi Arabia's Combat Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Cubic for Logistics Support to Saudi Arabia’s Combat Training System

    Cubic has received a $14.8 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide logistics services for Saudi Arabia’s P5 combat training systems. The Defense Department said Friday Cubic’s defense applications unit will help sustain operational tempos at various military bases in Saudi Arabia through the foreign military sales contract. Work under the sole-source acquisition effort will occur through Feb 28, 2022. Cubic’s global […] More

  • Boeing Completes System Requirements Review for ICBM Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Completes System Requirements Review for ICBM Replacement Program

    Boeing has completed a system requirements assessment with the U.S. Air Force under a program that seeks to modernize a ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile system for the military branch’s nuclear deterrence mission. The first key review for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent program aimed to assess technical requirements prior to the design and development of the system, Boeing said Thursday. The Air […] More

  • Booz Allen-NCMS Team Helps Air Force Address Energy Assurance Goals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen-NCMS Team Helps Air Force Address Energy Assurance Goals

    A partnership of Booz Allen Hamilton and The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences has supported the U.S. Air Force‘s efforts to sustain energy across installations. NCMS and Booz Allen entered an agreement with the Air Force assistant secretary for installations, environment, and energy and the Office of Energy Assurance to help installations achieve energy assurance, […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Integrate Airborne Radio Tech on Air Force F-16 Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Integrate Airborne Radio Tech on Air Force F-16 Fleet

    Rockwell Collins will integrate its networked communications airborne radio, which features mobile user objective system and soldier radio waveform capacities, onboard U.S. Air Force F-16 aircraft. The company said Wednesday the ARC-210 RT-2036(C) offering provides data, imagery and voice connectivity for manned and unmanned systems. The ARC-210 RT-2036(C) radio system belongs under the company’s TruNet family […] More

  • Eaton to Support DISA's Data Center Power Capacity Expansion Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eaton to Support DISA’s Data Center Power Capacity Expansion Project

    Eaton has secured a $10.7 million contract to help expand the capacity of power systems at a Defense Information Systems Agency data center in Columbus, Ohio. The company said Tuesday it will provide electrical distribution and power quality management equipment as well as engineering services to the project slated for completion in the first half of 2018. The […] More

  • Air Force Taps Applied Technology Associates for Space Structure R&D Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Applied Technology Associates for Space Structure R&D Project

    Applied Technology Associates has received a potential $7.9 million U.S. Air Force contract to support a research and development program that seeks to increase the resiliency of space structures. The company will provide R&D services required by the service branch’s integrated structural systems program under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work will occur at Kirtland Air Force Base […] More

  • Air Force, Lockheed Transport 4th SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite to Cape Canaveral - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Lockheed Transport 4th SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite to Cape Canaveral

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force shipped a fourth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit missile warning satellite Oct. 31 to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The company said Tuesday GEO Flight 4, the service branch’s next Space Based Infrared System, is scheduled for liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket in January. SBIRS is designed […] More

  • Boeing, Air Force Vet Craig Cooning Elected to BridgeSat's Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Air Force Vet Craig Cooning Elected to BridgeSat’s Board of Directors

    Craig Cooning, an 11-year Boeing veteran and president of its network and space systems business, has joined the board of directors at satellite communications technology firm BridgeSat. BridgeSat said Tuesday it added Cooning as a board member as the company aims to build an advanced optical communications network designed to help address a growing demand for satellite data. Cooning previously […] More

  • Navy Awards BAE Unit $76M Air Expendable Countermeasures Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Awards BAE Unit $76M Air Expendable Countermeasures Delivery Order

    A business unit of BAE Systems has received a potential $75.9 million delivery order to manufacture T-1687/ALE-70(V) electronic warfare devices as part of the U.S. Navy‘s PMA272 Air Expendable Countermeasures program. The Defense Department said Wednesday BAE’s information and electronic systems integration unit will produce the countermeasures designed to protect aircraft from radio frequency and infrared […] More

  • Raytheon Lands $60M Air Force Laser-Guided Weapons Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands $60M Air Force Laser-Guided Weapons Support Contract

    Raytheon has received a potential $59.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide support equipment and services for the service branch’s Enhanced Paveway II laser-guided bombs. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s missile systems business will perform work under the sole-source contract in Tucson, Arizona through Feb. 28, 2019. Modern variants of the Raytheon-built Paveway bomb […] More

  • Leonardo on Track to Build T-100 Aircraft Manufacturing Facility in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo on Track to Build T-100 Aircraft Manufacturing Facility in Alabama

    Leonardo executives have told Alabama government officials that the aerospace company is on track to build a T-100 trainer aircraft manufacturing facility in the state. Leonardo toured a group of Alabama officials around its Venegono Superiore aircraft factory in Italy to demonstrate the production of T-100 trainers, the company’s U.S.-based Leonardo DRS subsidiary said Thursday Leonardo plans […] More

  • Air Force Taps Booz Allen to Develop Virtual Combat Simulation, Analysis Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Booz Allen to Develop Virtual Combat Simulation, Analysis Tools

    Booz Allen Hamilton has received a potential $14.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to research and develop tools for the military branch’s virtual combat laboratory. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will also help the service branch maintain and update technology platforms intended for virtual and constructive modeling, simulation and analysis. The Air Force Research […] More