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  • AeroVironment Gets Army Contract Modification for Aerial Missile System Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment Gets Army Contract Modification for Aerial Missile System Equipment

    AeroVironment has received a $44.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to provide hardware and parts for Block 10C Switchblade miniature aerial missile systems. The company will supply equipment for inert training vehicles and all up rounds, multi pack launchers and modular battery payloads, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD noted the service branch will use fiscal 2017 missile procurement appropriations […] More

  • Navy Taps Boeing to Integrate Tactical Operational Flight Trainer Software Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Boeing to Integrate Tactical Operational Flight Trainer Software Updates

    Boeing has received an $18.8 million delivery order to integrate Tactical Operational Flight Trainer sensor software updates to U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft. The company will also identify requirements, install updated software, provide complementary spare parts and perform other related services under the delivery order, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will take place at locations in Texas, Missouri, […] More

  • Northrop to Help Install Interrogator, Transponder Unit on Japan E-2C Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Install Interrogator, Transponder Unit on Japan E-2C Aircraft

    Northrop Grumman has received a $51.9 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide supplies and services needed to deliver, install and test an interrogator and transponder unit compatible with Japan’s E-2C aircraft. The order includes non-recurring engineering support for AN/APX-122A Mode 5/S  developmental laboratory work, integration tests, technical data and software modifications, the Defense Department said Thursday. […] More

  • Nimbis Services to Help Air Force Build Microelectronics Verification Ecosystem - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nimbis Services to Help Air Force Build Microelectronics Verification Ecosystem

    Nimbis Services has won a potential five-year, $49.5 million contract to develop an ecosystem for the U.S. Air Force to verify microelectronics throughout the life cycle. The company will support a research and development project to help the service branch manage microelectronics supply chain risks, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force Research Laboratory received six offers […] More

  • Dynetics Enters Phase 3 of DARPA's UAV Aerial Launch & Recovery Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics Enters Phase 3 of DARPA’s UAV Aerial Launch & Recovery Program

    Dynetics has won a $32.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue developing a system to deploy and recover multiple small unmanned air vehicles from large aircraft. The company will aim to produce and demonstrate an aerial launch-and-recovery system under the third phase of DARPA’s Gremlins program, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Phase 3 of […] More

  • HawkEye 360 Names Robert Work, John Mulholland to Advisory Board; Letitia Long Adds Chairperson Role - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HawkEye 360 Names Robert Work, John Mulholland to Advisory Board; Letitia Long Adds Chairperson Role

    HawkEye 360 has appointed Robert Work, former deputy secretary at the Defense Department, and John Mulholland, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, to its advisory board. Letitia Long, former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency director and a HawkEye 360 advisory board member since 2017, will assume the role of board chairperson, the company said Monday. Work served as […] More

  • Lockheed to Update USSOCOM C-130 Operational Flight Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update USSOCOM C-130 Operational Flight Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has received a four-year, $18 million contract to provide flight program upgrade services for the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s C-130 transport aircraft. The company will also help USSOCOM engineer and integrate multiple third-party systems under the indefinite–delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will occur at Lockheed’s facility in Marietta, Georgia, through April 2022. USSOCOM […] More

  • DoD Issues Final Draft Cloud Procurement Solicitation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Issues Final Draft Cloud Procurement Solicitation

    The Defense Department has issued the second draft solicitation for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud procurement program, Nextgov reported Monday. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the final draft request for proposals covers responses to at least 1,000 industry and government questions submitted in March after DoD released the initial draft solicitation for the single-award contract for […] More

  • USAF Taps KBRwyle for Air and Space Systems Engineering Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Taps KBRwyle for Air and Space Systems Engineering Support

    KBR‘s government services unit has received a 54-month, $32.3 million U.S. Air Force task order to provide engineering assistance in upgrading the service branch’s air and space systems. Under the Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities effort, KBRwyle will help develop and integrate space, intelligence, and air and missile defense capacities, the company said Monday. Services under the order will include research, […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Division Gets $65M USS Enterprise Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Division Gets $65M USS Enterprise Contract Modification

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has received a $65 million modification under a U.S. Navy contract to obtain additional long-lead-time material for the future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch will obligate the full amount of the modification from its fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion funds. Work under the […] More

  • Lockheed gets $69M Navy contract modification for guided missile destroyer enhancement support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed gets $69M Navy contract modification for guided missile destroyer enhancement support

    Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business will help enhance the U.S. Navy‘s guided missile destroyers under a potential three-year, $68.5 million contract modification that runs through June 2021. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will support the restoration of the USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) and supply five upgraded AN/SPY-1D(V) phased arrays for in-service […] More

  • Bell to supply Navy helicopter gearbox assemblies under DLA delivery order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell to supply Navy helicopter gearbox assemblies under DLA delivery order

    Textron‘s Bell subsidiary has received a three-year, five-month delivery order worth up to $37.4 million from the Defense Logistics Agency for the supply of a helicopter gearbox. The company will provide main rotor gearbox assemblies for the U.S. Navy under the delivery order against a five-year basic ordering agreement, the Defense Department said Thursday. The […] More