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  • Intel to Allot $7B for Future Semiconductor Factory in Arizona; Brian Krzanich Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel to Allot $7B for Future Semiconductor Factory in Arizona; Brian Krzanich Comments

    Intel looks to invest more than $7 billion to help complete the development of a new semiconductor factory in Arizona that will work to produce microprocessors for data centers and connected devices. The company said Wednesday it expects the Fab 42 factory to open an estimated 10,000 jobs in Arizona in the long term, including 3,000 positions […] More

  • Orbital ATK Plans Launch Vehicle Business Expansion in Arizona; Rich Straka Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Plans Launch Vehicle Business Expansion in Arizona; Rich Straka Comments

    Orbital ATK has announced plans to expand the operations of its launch vehicles division through the construction of a new facility in Chandler, Arizona. The company said Thursday it will establish a 46,000-square-foot facility at Allred Park Place and aims to create as many as 500 new full-time science, technology, engineering and math positions over a five-year period as part of […] More

  • Raytheon to Expand Missile Systems Business Operations in Arizona, Add Nearly 2K Jobs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Expand Missile Systems Business Operations in Arizona, Add Nearly 2K Jobs

    Raytheon looks to add up to 2,000 positions over the next five years through an expansion of the defense company’s missile systems business headquarters in Tucson, Arizona. Raytheon said Friday it will hire workers at all skill levels to serve in engineering and higher-wage technical roles. Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon’s missile systems unit, said that several Arizona-based organizations will help the company meet workforce and infrastructure needs to […] More

  • Advanced IT Concepts Awarded Army Program Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Advanced IT Concepts Awarded Army Program Support Contracts

    Advanced IT Concepts has received $3.9 million in contract awards to provide program support for the U.S. Army‘s Intelligence Center of Excellence. AITC said Tuesday it will partner with Intelligence, Communications and Engineering in efforts to develop unit and collective task lists for the Theater Intelligence Brigade and other military intelligence units under the contracts. The company added the contracts will support […] More

  • CyrusOne Continues Phoenix Data Center Campus Expansion Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Continues Phoenix Data Center Campus Expansion Efforts

    CyrusOne has acquired an additional 29 acres of land at the Continuum Business Park in Chandler, Arizona, in support of the company’s expansion efforts in the West Coast. The land purchase extends the company’s Phoenix data center campus to above 85 acres and approximately 2 million square feet of data center space to deliver cloud, internet and data center infrastructure services, the company said […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Produce Ballistic Missile Target Rockets for MDA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Produce Ballistic Missile Target Rockets for MDA

    Orbital ATK will supply medium-range ballistic missile target rockets to the Missile Defense Agency under a potential four-year, $182 million contract awarded in July. The company will provide the rockets to support tests of missile defense platforms under the MDA contract that covers the production of the third type of configuration for the agency’s medium-range […] More

  • Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract

    Harris has been awarded a potential $27 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform the first phase of a research and development program. The Defense Department said Tuesday DARPA will obligate $22.3 million in fiscal  year 2015 and fiscal 2016 R&D funds at the time of award. Ninety percent of contract-related work will occur in Palm Bay, Florida and the […] More

  • Raytheon-Kongsberg Partnership Plans US Hub for Naval Strike Missile, Launcher Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Kongsberg Partnership Plans US Hub for Naval Strike Missile, Launcher Production

    Raytheon plans to collaborate with Norway-based Kongsberg Defence Systems to manufacture the Naval Strike Missile system and launchers in the U.S. Raytheon wants to carry out integration and testing work on NSM at its factory in Tucson, Arizona, and produce the NSM launchers at its Louisville, Kentucky-based facility under the partnership with Kongsberg, Raytheon said Wednesday. NSM is […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Expand Arizona Space Tech Production Facility; Rick Kettner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Expand Arizona Space Tech Production Facility; Rick Kettner Comments

    Orbital ATK has announced plans to expand the engineering operations of its space systems business in Gilbert, Arizona, and expects the project to create up to 155 new jobs. The company said Friday the project will add roughly 60,000 square feet of engineering space to its manufacturing complex for civilian and military satellites. “Orbital ATK has been developing satellites in the Gilbert area for […] More

  • General Dynamics Completes Initial Deployment of Border Surveillance System Upgrade - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Completes Initial Deployment of Border Surveillance System Upgrade

    General Dynamics has tested the technical functions of the upgraded Remote Video Surveillance System for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection as part of the program’s deployment schedule. The company said Wednesday it has also completed the initial field deployment of the system in support of CBP’s surveillance and response operations along the southern U.S. border. Edward Hudson, vice […] More

  • POGO to Staff Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton; Debby Munoz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    POGO to Staff Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton; Debby Munoz Comments

    Personnel on the Go has signed a contract with the U.S. Marine Corps to staff Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton with commercial drivers, dispatchers, forklift operators and transportation and clerical support. The company said Wednesday it will help the military base support Marines across Arizona, California and Nevada for a contract period of five and a half years. Debby Munoz, president […] More

  • EMCOR Subsidiary to Help Maintain 340 CBP Arizona, Texas Facilities; Mike Rodgers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMCOR Subsidiary to Help Maintain 340 CBP Arizona, Texas Facilities; Mike Rodgers Comments

    A subsidiary of EMCOR Group has won two contracts to provide repair and preventive maintenance services for U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities systems in Arizona and the Texas Gulf Coast. “The services EMCOR Government Services will provide CBP at its 340 sites across the Arizona and the Texas Gulf Coast Regions are integral in supporting its critical mission,” Mike Rodgers, president […] More