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  • Air Force Selects Tempus for Flight Operations Support, Technical Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Selects Tempus for Flight Operations Support, Technical Services

    Tempus Applied Solutions has received a $1.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide flight operations support and technical services for aviation systems managed by the military branch’s weapons development and integration directorate. The company said Tuesday that it will integrate the Air Force’s High-Altitude LIDAR Atmospheric Sensing platform onto a Tempus-owned Gulfstream IV […] More

  • Defense Security Service Picks 36 Company Facilities for Industrial Security Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense Security Service Picks 36 Company Facilities for Industrial Security Award

    The Defense Security Service has given the 2017 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award to 36 company facilities for maintaining high standards for industrial security. DSS said Thursday the winning facilities represent various large and small companies such as BAE Systems, Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Camber subsidiary, CGI Group, Concurrent Technologies Corp., General Dynamics, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Modern Technology […] More

  • Strategic Mission Systems to Support Air Force E-4B Fleet Comms Under $73M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Strategic Mission Systems to Support Air Force E-4B Fleet Comms Under $73M IDIQ

    Strategic Mission Systems has secured a seven-year, $73.1 million contract to provide national and nuclear communications support for the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of E-4B command-and-control aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers management, engineering services, field service representatives, facilities operations and management, software engineering services and material support. Work will occur at Offutt Air Force […] More

  • RE2 Robotics Gets USAF Funds to Develop Manned-to-Autonomous Aircraft Conversion Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RE2 Robotics Gets USAF Funds to Develop Manned-to-Autonomous Aircraft Conversion Tech

    RE2 Robotics has received a U.S. Air Force grant to help the service branch create a drop-in robotic system designed to convert traditional manned aircraft platforms to robotically piloted, autonomous aircraft. The company said Wednesday it aims to demonstrate cognitive architecture decision making, humanoid-like robotic manipulation, system architecture feasibility and vision-based flight-status recognition through the Common Aircraft Retrofit for Novel […] More

  • iGov Mobile Comms System Completes Production Acceptance Test & Evaluation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    iGov Mobile Comms System Completes Production Acceptance Test & Evaluation

    Reston, Virginia-based information technology company iGov has wrapped up production acceptance test and evaluation on its mobile communications system that is designed to support the U.S. Air Force‘s tactical air control party. The company said Thursday the Tactical Air Control Party-Mobile Communications System was tested for more than 200 system requirements such as line-of-sight operations and range for […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Demos GPS Receivers in Ballistic & Guided Flight Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Demos GPS Receivers in Ballistic & Guided Flight Tests

    Rockwell Collins‘ military-code global positioning system receivers have completed seven ballistic and guided flight tests that aimed to demonstrate live-fire tracking capacity for guided munitions. The company said Thursday its receivers acquired both M-Code and Y-Code GPS signals to direct munitions toward specific targets during the live-fire tests that occurred in Yuma, Arizona. “Together with the U.S. Army and Air […] More

  • Braxton to Help Air Force Build Navigation Tech Satellite Ground Segment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Braxton to Help Air Force Build Navigation Tech Satellite Ground Segment

    Braxton Technologies has received a five-year, $9.5 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to build a ground control segment for the service branch’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3. The company will help the Air Force construct ground-based infrastructure to support NTS-3 orbit operations as well as demonstrate and mature satellite navigation ground command-and-control technologies for contested environments, the […] More

  • General Atomics Performs Design Review on Ground Control Station for Air Force RPAs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Performs Design Review on Ground Control Station for Air Force RPAs

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has conducted a critical design review (CDR) on its ground control station offering for the U.S. Air Force as part of efforts towards fielding new technologies for the military branch’s fleet of remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics said Tuesday that it conducted the CDR for the Advanced Cockpit Block 50 GCS […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Delivers 770th GPS Receiver to Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Delivers 770th GPS Receiver to Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center

    Rockwell Collins has delivered the 770th global positioning system receiver built for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center as part of a contract awarded in 2012. The company said Thursday that the Military-Code GPS receivers were ordered under the Military GPS User Equipment program which works to boost GPS capacities for the military in […] More

  • 2 Boeing Subsidiaries Partner for VIP Flight Services to Air Mobility Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    2 Boeing Subsidiaries Partner for VIP Flight Services to Air Mobility Command

    A team composed of Boeing subsidiaries Tapestry Solutions and Jeppesen has secured a potential five-year, $28 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide  executive airlift flight dispatch services to the Air Mobility Command. Tapestry said Wednesday the team will help AMC transport very important persons such as the U.S. president, vice president, first lady, cabinet leaders, Congress members, senior military leaders […] More

  • Varley Group to Help Build Portable Ground Facilities for Deployed Air Force F-35 Support Crews - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Varley Group to Help Build Portable Ground Facilities for Deployed Air Force F-35 Support Crews

    Varley Group has received a $37.5 million contract to collaborate with Lockheed Martin on the design and development of portable ground facilities for U.S. Air Force  personnel deployed overseas to support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. Varley Group said Thursday it will build ground facilities that can expand thrice the size of a shipping container as well as house the F-35 aircraft’s Autonomic […] More