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  • L3 Subsidiary to Produce Mortar Fuzes for Saudi Arabia Under Army FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Subsidiary to Produce Mortar Fuzes for Saudi Arabia Under Army FMS Contract

    An L3 Technologies subsidiary has secured a $37.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to deliver multioption and point detonating/delay fuzes to Saudi Arabia. The Defense Department said Tuesday L3’s fuzing and ordnance systems business will supply 38,284 M734A1 and 165,426 M783 mortar fuzes under the foreign military sales contract. Work will occur in Cincinnati, Ohio, through May 31, 2019. The Army Contracting Command received […] More

  • BlackBerry's Crisis Comm Platform Gets FedRAMP Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry’s Crisis Comm Platform Gets FedRAMP Certification

    BlackBerry has obtained certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide its cloud-based crisis communication service to federal agencies. The company said Tuesday its AtHoc software-as-a-service offering received FedRAMP authorization through the sponsorship of the Federal Aviation Administration. The U.S. Army also granted AtHoc a certificate of networthiness and authority to operate  in August 2016 to support the […] More

  • Vectrus Secures Army Contract for Base Operations Support in Qatar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vectrus Secures Army Contract for Base Operations Support in Qatar

    A Vectrus subsidiary has secured a $28.7 million contract to provide base operations services in support of the U.S. Army‘s Area Support Group-Qatar. The Defense Department said Monday that Vectrus’ systems business is scheduled to finish work by Sept. 29, 2017. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through an online solicitation and obligated the full contract amount at the […] More

  • General Dynamics Orders Rocket Illuminating Flares From Orbital ATK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Orders Rocket Illuminating Flares From Orbital ATK

    Orbital ATK has secured a contract modification from General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems business to supply visible and infrared illuminating flares for Hydra-70 rockets. The follow-on order is meant to address the U.S. government’s requirement for M257 and M278 rocket warheads that work to provide tactical illumination in visible and infrared spectra, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. General Dynamics awarded Orbital […] More

  • Report: Army Seeks to Update Black Hawk, Apache Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Army Seeks to Update Black Hawk, Apache Engines

    U.S. Army leaders have told House members that one of the service branch’s top modernization priorities is to update the turbine engines of Black Hawk and Apache helicopters, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. The potential $10 billion Improved Turbine Engine Program seeks to replace the T700 family of engines and is one of the reasons behind proposed defense […] More

  • Cubic's Global Defense Business to Support Army's Joint Readiness Training Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic’s Global Defense Business to Support Army’s Joint Readiness Training Center

    Cubic‘s global defense business unit has received a $41.6 million contract to provide mission support services to the U.S. Army‘s training hub for light infantry and special operations units. The Defense Department said Tuesday work will occur at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana, through Oct. 23, 2017. The Army Contracting Command will obligate $36.4 million […] More

  • Army Surveys Potential Tech Sources for Fake Social Media Account Removal Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Surveys Potential Tech Sources for Fake Social Media Account Removal Effort

    The U.S. Army has issued a request for information to gather input from potential vendors that can support the military branch in efforts to identify, report and mitigate imposter social media accounts. The Army Contracting Command will conduct the market research on behalf of the service branch’s Office of the Chief of Public Affairs to identify sources and resources that can […] More

  • Trident Technologies to Build Computer Comms Network for Army Engineer R&D Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trident Technologies to Build Computer Comms Network for Army Engineer R&D Center

    Trident Technologies has won a potential five-year, $48 million contract to build, staff and maintain a computer communications network in support of the U.S. Army‘s Engineer Research and Development Center. The Defense Department said Friday work will occur through Feb. 28, 2022, and locations and funds will be determined with each task order. The Army Corps of Engineers received three […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Help Army Predict Military Operation System Flaws - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Help Army Predict Military Operation System Flaws

    Charles River Analytics has secured two contracts from the U.S. Army to help the service branch predict faults in military operations systems using a company-owned open-source, probabilistic programming language. The company said Wednesday it will use the Figaro programming language to support the Energy Models of Critical Components and the Probabilistic Operations Warranted for Energy Reliability Evaluation and […] More

  • Northrop Helps Army Test-Fly Upgraded Black Hawk Helicopter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Helps Army Test-Fly Upgraded Black Hawk Helicopter

    Northrop Grumman has collaborated with the U.S. Army and Redstone Defense Systems to conduct the first test flight of a UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter equipped with a digitized cockpit. Northrop said Monday it supplied the Integrated Avionics Suite for the UH-60V modernization program, which seeks to replace the older analog gauges of the Army’s UH-60L Black Hawk fleet with digital electronic instrument displays. Redstone […] More

  • Army Mission Command Taps Systematic for C4I Software; Rafael Torres Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Mission Command Taps Systematic for C4I Software; Rafael Torres Comments

    The U.S. Army Mission Command has awarded Systematic a multimillion-dollar contract for the deployment of the company’s commercial off-the-shelf command, control, computing and communications software. Systematic said Feb. 3 its SitaWare platform will work to bolster situational awareness and cooperation of warfighters across the military branches. Rafael Torres, Systematic president, said SitaWare is designed to address the U.S. […] More

  • Syracuse Research to Build, Sustain Counter-UAS Tech for Army Under $65M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Syracuse Research to Build, Sustain Counter-UAS Tech for Army Under $65M Contract

    Syracuse Research has secured a one-year, $65 million contract to develop, produce, integrate and sustain a counter-unmanned aerial system platform for the U.S. Army under the acceleration phase of a joint-urgent operation need. The company will deliver up to 15 sets of low-slow small UAS integrated defeat system to the military branch under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More