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  • Boeing to Supply Additional Parts for Air Force B-1B Integrated Battle Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Supply Additional Parts for Air Force B-1B Integrated Battle Station

    Boeing has secured a potential $23.8 million contract modification to provide diminishing manufacturing source life-of-type parts for the U.S. Air Force‘s Integrated Battle Station. The Defense Department said Friday Boeing’s defense, space and security unit will supply additional DMS LoT parts in support of the B-1B fleet. The service branch received its first B-1 bomber aircraft equipped with a company-built Integrated […] More

  • Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program

    Engility has won a five-year, $49 million contract to provide research and development support for the U.S. Air Force‘s weapon systems testing technology program. The Defense Department said Friday Engility will develop multi-spectral and multi-modal phenomenology modeling tools as well as help the Air Force build and transition weapon systems under the Kinetic Kill Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Technology […] More

  • Textron Systems CEO Lisa Atherton Joins Boulder Crest Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Systems CEO Lisa Atherton Joins Boulder Crest Board

    Textron Systems President and CEO Lisa Atherton has joined the board of directors at Bluemont, Virginia-based nonprofit organization Boulder Crest. Atherton will work with Board Chairman Ken Falke, Vice Chairman Fred Malek, Executive Director Dusty Baxley and 15 other directors, Boulder Crest said Monday. The nonprofit provides support to military veterans who are dealing with post-traumatic […] More

  • Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System

    Northrop Grumman has secured a potential three-year, $37 million task order to develop and deploy a cyber operations system for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it will continue to develop, integrate, field and sustain the Cyber Mission Platform under the contract, which has a one-year base period valued at $9.4 million. The Air Force […] More

  • EY to Audit Air Force General, Working Capital Funds Under DFAS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EY to Audit Air Force General, Working Capital Funds Under DFAS Contract

    EY has received a potential $44.2 million contract from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to provide financial statement audit services for the U.S. Air Force‘s general and working capital funds. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also conduct an SSAE18 assessment of the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System. DFAS received one bid […] More

  • Comtech Satellite Equipment Support Army Disaster Recovery Missions in Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Satellite Equipment Support Army Disaster Recovery Missions in Texas

    The U.S. Army has utilized Comtech Telecommunications-developed satellite equipment to support disaster recovery operations in Texas following the landfall of Hurricane Harvey. Comtech said Wednesday that the 63rd Expeditionary Signal Battalion has used the company’s AN/TSC-198 Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point equipment to provide voice, data, video teleconferencing and […] More

  • Raytheon to Develop Incremental Software for Air Force AIM-120D Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Develop Incremental Software for Air Force AIM-120D Missiles

    Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $38.6 million contract to develop  incremental software that will work to increase the performance of the U.S. Air Force‘s  advanced medium-range air-to-air missile system. The company will provide AIM-120D AMRAAM software to the military branch as part of the System Improvement Program 3- Engineering Manufacturing, Development program,  the Defense Department […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts Launch Simulation Test on Second Air Force GPS III Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts Launch Simulation Test on Second Air Force GPS III Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has completed a launch simulation test on the second GPS III satellite that the company built for the U.S. Air Force. Lockheed said Tuesday the GPS III SV02 satellite was hit with a 140-decibel sound during the acoustic test to simulate launch conditions and identify parts that were not properly attached. GPS III SV02 is […] More

  • In The News: Heather Wilson, 24th Secretary of the U.S. Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In The News: Heather Wilson, 24th Secretary of the U.S. Air Force

    Those who follow the defense industry will probably recognize the name Heather Wilson, the United States’ 24th Secretary of the Air Force, former cabinet secretary representative for the New Mexico state government and National Security Council staff director for European defense policy and arms control under the George H.W. Bush administration. With a variety of […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Build ISR Aircraft for Afghan Forces Under $69M USAF Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Build ISR Aircraft for Afghan Forces Under $69M USAF Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Orbital ATK a potential $69.4 million contract to provide AC-208 armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Afghanistan’s air force. The Defense Department said Friday the undefinitized contractual action will help fulfill a pseudo-foreign military sales requirement and that the obligated amount of $34 million is from fiscal Afghan security forces funds. AC-208 Combat […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Help Boeing Perform Tech Maturation Work on Ground-Based ICBM Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Help Boeing Perform Tech Maturation Work on Ground-Based ICBM Program

    Aerojet Rocketdyne will offer propulsion system support to help Boeing conduct technology maturation and risk reduction work for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent acquisition program. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday that the GBSD program looks to create a replacement for the U.S. military’s current Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile units. Boeing received a potential three-year, $349.1 million contract […] More

  • Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission to Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission to Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket

    The U.S. Air Force has entered final launch preparations for the fifth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ahead of its scheduled Sept. 7 deployment aboard SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket. The service branch said Thursday the Boeing-built X-37B OTV spaceplane will carry ride-sharing small satellites and perform on-orbit tests of new space technologies. X-37B will also demonstrate experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe […] More