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  • Report: Japan Asks US to Equip Aegis BMD System With New Radar Amid North Korean Missile Threat - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Japan Asks US to Equip Aegis BMD System With New Radar Amid North Korean Missile Threat

    Japan has asked the U.S. government to use a new radar for integration with a ground-based version of the Aegis ballistic missile defense platform the East Asian country plans to launch by 2023 in an effort to counter threats posed by North Korea, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters Japan wants to equip the Aegis […] More

  • KBR Unit to Support DoD Missile Defense Systems Under Army Follow-On Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR Unit to Support DoD Missile Defense Systems Under Army Follow-On Task Order

    KBR‘s government services arm has received a three-year, $48 million task order from the U.S. Army to provide support services for the Defense Department‘s missile defense systems. The company said Thursday its KBRwyle business will provide program management, foreign military sales case support, system engineering, diagnostics and testing support to the Lower Tier Project Office located in Huntsville, […] More

  • Gryphon to Support MDA's Sea-Based Radar Mission Under $58M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gryphon to Support MDA’s Sea-Based Radar Mission Under $58M Contract

    Gryphon Technologies has won a potential seven-year, $57.7 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to support integration work on the Sea-Based X-Band Radar mission. The Defense Department said Thursday that Gryphon will provide communication operations and support services to MDA’s SBX strategic mission under the cost-plus-incentive-fee contract. SBX Radar is built as part of the country’s Ballistic Missile Defense System and designed to help […] More

  • MDA Demos Boeing-Built Ground Midcourse Defense System Against ICBM Target - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Demos Boeing-Built Ground Midcourse Defense System Against ICBM Target

    The Missile Defense Agency performed Tuesday a live-fire test of the Boeing-built Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense platform. During the test, the GMD system helped guide a ground-based interceptor that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to zero in on an intercontinental ballistic missile target that lifted off from […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Preliminary Long-Range Radar Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Preliminary Long-Range Radar Design Review

    Lockheed Martin has completed the preliminary design review of a radar system designed to safeguard the U.S. from ballistic missile threats. The company developed the Long Range Discrimination Radar under a potential $784 million contract the Missile Defense Agency awarded in October 2015, Lockheed said Thursday. The LRDR platform is an S-band radar component of MDA’s […] More

  • Carey Smith: Parsons to Expand MDA Mission Support Under Potential $385M Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carey Smith: Parsons to Expand MDA Mission Support Under Potential $385M Award

    Parsons will provide advisory, technical, engineering and management support services to the Missile Defense Agency‘s ballistic missile defense system under a potential five-year, $385 million contract awarded in March. “This new contract expands Parsons’ support of the MDA’s mission to defend the U.S. and its allies against missile threats,” Carey Smith, Parsons federal group president, said in […] More

  • Utah State University Research Foundation to Support MDA's Ballistic Missile Defense Tech R&D Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Utah State University Research Foundation to Support MDA’s Ballistic Missile Defense Tech R&D Initiative

    The Defense Department has awarded a potential five-year, $99.4 million contract to the Utah State University Research Foundation to help the Missile Defense Agency develop and field an integrated, layered ballistic missile defense system. The USU Research Foundation and its affiliate Space Dynamics Laboratory will research, engineer, analyze and test systems designed to protect the U.S. and allies against ballistic […] More

  • Booz Allen Subcontracts System High for MDA Security Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Subcontracts System High for MDA Security Services

    Booz Allen Hamilton has awarded System High Corp. a five-year subcontract to deliver security services in support of multiple Missile Defense Agency programs nationwide. System High said Wednesday it will provide personnel security, physical security, security operations support, information security, classification management, international security, antiterrorism, insider threat, security reviews, emergency management/continuity of operations and research, development and acquisition security and […] More

  • Parsons Lands 2 Advisory, Assistance Services Contracts With MDA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Lands 2 Advisory, Assistance Services Contracts With MDA

    The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Parsons two “bridge” contracts worth a combined $48 million to provide advisory and assistance services for MDA’s Ballistic Missile Defense System and Space and Directed Energy programs. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will support Ballistic Missile Defense system architecture and engineering activities under the first contract valued at $40.8 million. Work will occur through […] More

  • Lockheed-Led C2BMC Team Gets MDA Tech Achievement Award for Missile Defense System Software Algorithms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Led C2BMC Team Gets MDA Tech Achievement Award for Missile Defense System Software Algorithms

    A Lockheed Martin-led command, control, battle management and communications team has received the 2016 Ronald Reagan Missile Defense award from the Missile Defense Agency in recognition of its efforts to develop software algorithms in support of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. Vice Adm. James Syring, MDA director, handed the technology achievement award to Lockheed’s C2BMC team […] More

  • Northrop Breaks $1B Mark in MDA Ballistic Missile Support Subcontracts to Small Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Breaks $1B Mark in MDA Ballistic Missile Support Subcontracts to Small Businesses

    Northrop Grumman has awarded at least $1 billion in subcontracts to small businesses as the prime awardee of the Missile Defense Agency‘s Joint National Integration Center Research and Development Contract. Forty-nine percent of all subcontracts under JRDC have gone to various classes of small business, the company said Tuesday. Northrop held two events to mark the achievement in Huntsville, Alabama and Colorado Springs, Colorado — the headquarters of small businesses […] More

  • Kevin Robinson: MTSI to Continue Acquisition Support for MDA Through BCF Solutions Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin Robinson: MTSI to Continue Acquisition Support for MDA Through BCF Solutions Partnership

    Modern Technology Solutions Inc. and BCF Solutions will collaborate to provide technical, engineering, advisory and management support advisory and assistance services to the Missile Defense Agency under a potential $110 million contract. MTSI said Friday it will serve as a primary subcontractor to BCF Solutions and support the agency’s efforts to develop and implement the Ballistic Missile Defense System. “MTSI is thrilled to continue our long-term support […] More