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  • Govt, Tech Industry Vets Named to Govini Board of Advisers; Eric Gillespie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govt, Tech Industry Vets Named to Govini Board of Advisers; Eric Gillespie Comments

    Govini has named six government and technology industry executives to its board of advisers. “Our clients will directly benefit from the strategic initiatives this board and Govini’s leadership team undertake as we pursue our mission to transform the business of government through data science,” Eric Gillespie, founder and executive chairman of Govini, said in a […] More

  • John Hopkins APL Execs Gary Roughead, Christine Fox Named to National Defense Strategy Panel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Hopkins APL Execs Gary Roughead, Christine Fox Named to National Defense Strategy Panel

    Gary Roughead, a member of the board of managers at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory; and Christine Fox, assistant director for policy and analysis at JHU APL; have been named to a 12-member advisory panel tasked to provide recommendations for the U.S. defense strategy. Congress established the Commission on the National Defense Strategy […] More

  • Chemring Subsidiary to Produce Simulator Flares for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chemring Subsidiary to Produce Simulator Flares for Navy

    A Chemring Countermeasures USA subsidiary has won a potential five-year, 30.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture up to 1,260,638 simulator flares designed for use by pilots and ordnance technicians. Chemring’s Kilgore Flares business will produce the SM-875/ALE training flares at a company facility in Toone, Tennessee, and is scheduled to finish work […] More

  • Rhoads Awarded Navy Shipboard Machinery Installation, Maintenance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rhoads Awarded Navy Shipboard Machinery Installation, Maintenance Contract

    Rhoads Industries has been awarded a three-year, $49 million contract by the U.S. Army to fabricate, install, test, maintain and remove U.S. Navy shipboard machinery systems and related components. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will perform contract work through Aug. 7, 2020, at multiple test sites and buildings located at the Naval Surface Warfare […] More

  • AWS Demos Use of AI-Powered Image Analysis Service for DoD Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Demos Use of AI-Powered Image Analysis Service for DoD Missions

    Amazon Web Services has demonstrated the potential defense applications of an artificial intelligence service designed to help software developers build image analysis applications. Amazon Rekognition employs deep learning methods to automatically identify objects and scenes as well as support image tagging to let users search for images using key words, AWS said Monday. The AI service also works to recognize […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Navy Order for F-35 Supplies, Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Navy Order for F-35 Supplies, Services

    Lockheed Martin has received a three-year, $28.8 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide supplies and services in support of F-35 Lightning II milestone events. The Defense Department said Monday the company’s aeronautics business will deliver and install retrofit modification kits for the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and other non-DoD participants under the […] More

  • Raytheon to Continue MDA Ballistic Missile Defense Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Continue MDA Ballistic Missile Defense Support

    Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $66.4 million contract modification to continue to help the Missile Defense Agency integrate and test a ballistic missile defense system as part of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA program. The Defense Department said Monday the company will support BMD 5.1 engineering, integration, certification and testing efforts as well as provide post-event […] More

  • Navy Taps Kratos Subsidiary for Saudi Arabia Technical Services FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Kratos Subsidiary for Saudi Arabia Technical Services FMS Contract

    A Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary has secured a three-year, $46.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide program planning, technical and instructional services to the government of Saudi Arabia. The Defense Department said Monday the foreign military sales contract covers support for Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 initiative that seeks to optimize social and economic conditions […] More

  • Engility Opens New Office in Augusta, Georgia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Opens New Office in Augusta, Georgia

    Engility has established a new facility in Augusta, Georgia, as the company seeks to access the area’s cyber talent pool and expand support to customers at Fort Gordon. Chantilly, Virginia-based Engility said Monday its new office will also house program management personnel who coordinate the activities of approximately 100 company employees across the state. Scott Whatmough, senior […] More

  • Air Force Taps Rockwell Collins for JSTARS Aircrew Training Device Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Rockwell Collins for JSTARS Aircrew Training Device Logistics Support

    Rockwell Collins has received a $7.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide contractor logistics support services for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System‘s aircrew training device. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide simulation and training services for the JSTARS aircrew training device under the sole-source contract. Northrop Grumman built […] More

  • CACI Subsidiary Lands IDIQ Contract to Support Navy SIGINT Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Subsidiary Lands IDIQ Contract to Support Navy SIGINT Systems

    A CACI International subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $29.8 million contract to provide life cycle support for Red Falcon signals intelligence systems currently installed on U.S. Navy ships and shore facilities. BIT Systems will engineer, update and maintain software, repair and provide technical services for the military branch’s foreign instrumentation SIGINT sensors as part of the […] More

  • Raytheon to Update Integrated Sensor Suite for Air Force Global Hawk UAV Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Update Integrated Sensor Suite for Air Force Global Hawk UAV Fleet

    Raytheon has received a potential $25.9 million contract to modify the Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite and retrofit the Enhanced Electro-Optical Receiver Unit on the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also provide non-recurring engineering and retrofitting support for EISS upgrades to Global Hawk Block 30 UAS. Work under the contract […] More