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  • Mitre VP William LaPlante to Co-Chair a Defense Science Board Task Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre VP William LaPlante to Co-Chair a Defense Science Board Task Force

    William LaPlante, vice president of Mitre‘s intelligence portfolio, has been appointed to co-chair the Defense Science Board’s task force on the design and acquisition of software for defense systems. He will lead the task force in efforts to examine the evolution of the Defense Department‘s software acquisition process over the past decade and offer recommendations to help DoD improve the […] More

  • General Atomics Gets Phase 1 MQ-9 UAV Logistics Support Order Under France FMS Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Gets Phase 1 MQ-9 UAV Logistics Support Order Under France FMS Deal

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business will provide Phase 1 logistics support for MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles to France under a one-year, $24 million delivery order from the U.S. Air Force. The order comes under a foreign military sales contract and work will occur in Poway, California, through Dec. 31, 2017, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management […] More

  • Decisive Analytics to Help Air Force Develop Target Detection, Typing Algorithms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Decisive Analytics to Help Air Force Develop Target Detection, Typing Algorithms

    Decisive Analytics has received a contract of an undisclosed value to develop target detection and typing manifold algorithms for the remote sensing system directorate of the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center. The company said Tuesday it will incorporate algorithms into the Tools, Applications and Processing laboratory’s open framework architecture in an effort to help […] More

  • Raytheon to Provide Test Support for Qatar Missile Defense Center Under AF Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Provide Test Support for Qatar Missile Defense Center Under AF Contract Modification

    Raytheon has received a $9.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for system verification test support to Qatar’s air and missile defense operations center. The Defense Department said Tuesday Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business will support development of cross-domain platforms for the center as part of a foreign military sales deal between Qatar and the U.S. Work […] More

  • Microsoft Receives Air Force Enterprise IT Consulting Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Receives Air Force Enterprise IT Consulting Contract

    Microsoft has secured a $34.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide consulting support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s information technology network. The Defense Department said Friday that Microsoft will help the Air Force mature the company-designed technologies the military branch purchased under the a joint enterprise license agreement. Work will occur at Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex in Alabama through Dec. 31, 2020. […] More

  • Lockheed to Continue Air Force F-22 Sustainment Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Continue Air Force F-22 Sustainment Support

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $61 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Air Force sustain the military branch’s F-22 air vehicles. The Defense Department said Friday that Lockheed’s aeronautics business will provide depot throughput, assess analytical conditions, repair inlet coating and support radar cross section Marietta turntable under the modification. Work will take […] More

  • Sonoran Technology to Provide Air Force E-3 Mission Crew Training Supplies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sonoran Technology to Provide Air Force E-3 Mission Crew Training Supplies

    Sonoran Technology and Professional Services has secured a $7.2 million contract option to provide equipment, tools and materials to U.S. Air Force personnel in support of the E-3 Mission Crew Training program. The Defense Department said Friday the exercised option also includes support for courseware development, academic instruction, aircrew training device instruction, simulator operator support, scenario development, mission […] More

  • Engility to Help Air Force Engineer, Integrate Remote Sensing Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Help Air Force Engineer, Integrate Remote Sensing Systems

    Engility has secured a two-year, $46.3 million contract option to provide engineering and integration support to the Space and Missile Systems Center’s remote sensing systems directorate. The Defense Department said Dec. 20 that the exercised option covers systems engineering and integration controls, integration execution and enterprise integration services. SMC obligated $2.8 million at the time of award from the Air Force’s fiscal […] More

  • Honeywell to Supply Aircraft Wheel & Brake Spares to Air Force  - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell to Supply Aircraft Wheel & Brake Spares to Air Force 

    Honeywell International will deliver aircraft wheel and brake spare parts to the U.S. Air Force under a five-year, $47.1 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The Defense Department said Friday services will be conducted in Indiana with a completion date of Dec. 21, 2021. The contract will be financed through DLA’s fiscal 2017 to […] More

  • Technica Lands Task Order for Air Force Operation & Security Sustainment Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technica Lands Task Order for Air Force Operation & Security Sustainment Services

    Technica has secured an $8 million task order through the U.S. Air Force‘s Network-Centric Solutions-2 contract vehicle to help the service branch manage and sustain current operations. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Technica will also support the transition of the Air Force Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System Enterprise into a secure regionalized network under the task order. The […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Potential Voice Comm System Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Potential Voice Comm System Sources

    The U.S. Air Force has begun to search for potential sources of a voice communication system for the military branch’s test center at Edwards AF Base in California. The service branch seeks to replace Edwards AFB’s Federated Edwards Digital Switch with a voice over internet protocol system, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday. A selected contractor will acquire, test, integrate and install […] More

  • Boeing-Saab Team Test-Flies Trainer Aircraft Offering for Air Force T-X Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Saab Team Test-Flies Trainer Aircraft Offering for Air Force T-X Program

    Boeing and Saab have conducted the first flight test of a trainer aircraft the companies jointly developed for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X competition. Boeing said Tuesday lead T-X test pilot Steven Schmidt and Air Force chief pilot Dan Draeger flew the aircraft for approximately 55 minutes to demonstrate key aspects of the single-engine jet as […] More