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  • SES Subsidiary to Provide Additional Beam for DoD Satellite Connectivity; Pete Hoene Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES Subsidiary to Provide Additional Beam for DoD Satellite Connectivity; Pete Hoene Comments

    SES‘ government solutions subsidiary has received a five-year task order from the Defense Department to provide an additional satellite beam for government end-users to access real-time information. The company said Tuesday it will deliver an additional 432-megahertz satellite beam designed to operate at less than 200 milliseconds per roundtrip along with a full duplex link, gateway […] More

  • PAE Secures Navy F-5 Maintenance, Logistics Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE Secures Navy F-5 Maintenance, Logistics Contract Option

    PAE has received a one-year, $43.7 contract modification to carry out organizational, intermediate and depot-level maintenance and logistics support for the U.S. Navy‘s F-5F Tiger II and F-5N Freedom Fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday PAE’s aviation and technical services business will support F-5 aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada; Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, […] More

  • Lockheed Gets $75M Army Contract Modification for Updated Apache Sensor Kits, Spares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets $75M Army Contract Modification for Updated Apache Sensor Kits, Spares

    Lockheed Martin has secured a $75.4 million contract modification to provide updated sensor kits and spares for the U.S. Army‘s Apache attack helicopters. The Defense Department said Friday the company will supply Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor equipment under the modification. M-TADS/PNVS is a precision engagement and pilotage system equipped with an electro-optical sensor technology that works […] More

  • ARCTEC to Extend Air Force Radar O&M Support in Alaska - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ARCTEC to Extend Air Force Radar O&M Support in Alaska

    ARCTEC Alaska, an ASRC Federal Primus–ATCO Structures and Logistics joint venture, will continue to help the U.S. Air Force manage a military radar system installed in Alaska under a $37.9 million contract modification. The modification exercises a 12-month option under the company’s Alaska Radar System operations and maintenance contract with the service branch, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • Leidos Gets $61M Contract Funds to Help Army Sustain Aerial IED Neutralizer Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Gets $61M Contract Funds to Help Army Sustain Aerial IED Neutralizer Platform

    The U.S. Army has awarded Leidos a potential $61 million contract modification to help manage an aerial platform built to help U.S. and international security assistance forces neutralize improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. Leidos will support operations, sustainment and integration of Saturn Arch quick reaction capability systems through Sept. 16, 2018, under the modification, the Defense […] More

  • Navy Taps Joint Tactics and Technologies for Network Defense Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Joint Tactics and Technologies for Network Defense Support IDIQ

    Joint Tactics and Technologies has won a potential five-year, $18 million contract to provide cyber support for the U.S. Navy‘s computer network defense efforts. JTT will help the Navy configure and sustain networks as well as analyze, evaluate, integrate and implement security products under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will occur in San […] More

  • General Dynamics to Continue Software Modernization Support for Navy Submarine Combat System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Continue Software Modernization Support for Navy Submarine Combat System

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has received a $36.7 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Navy modernize software for tactical control system of the military branch’s submarines. The Defense Department said Friday the contract modification exercises the eighth option year of a previously awarded contract to support the AN/BYG-1 Tactical Control System Technology […] More

  • Quanterion to Help Manage DoD Cyber & Info Analysis Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Quanterion to Help Manage DoD Cyber & Info Analysis Center

    Quanterion Solutions has won a potential six-year, $47.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform basic operations support at the Defense Department‘s Cyber Security and Information Systems Information Analysis Center. DoD said Thursday Quanterion will help the Defense Technical Information Center to manage DoD services, databases, systems or networks for the collection, storage, retrieval […] More

  • CSRA, ScienceLogic Form Cyber Alliance for Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA, ScienceLogic Form Cyber Alliance for Govt Clients

    CSRA and ScienceLogic have partnered to offer cybersecurity and monitoring services to the government sector. Both companies aim to help customer agencies meet requirements under President Donald Trump’s cybersecurity executive order, CSRA said Thursday. Seth Abrams, chief technology officer of CSRA’s homeland security group, said the partnership will work to support government customers’ agile development and security […] More

  • General Dynamics Gets $60M Afghanistan Rocket FMS Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Gets $60M Afghanistan Rocket FMS Contract Modification

    General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems business has received a $59.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to supply Hydra rockets and motors to Afghanistan under a foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification covers the delivery of 38,496 M151; 458 M229; 49,728 M274; and 1,200 M278 units along with MK66 MOD4 20,871 […] More

  • Lisa Disbrow, Mary Louise Krakauer Join Mercury Systems Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lisa Disbrow, Mary Louise Krakauer Join Mercury Systems Board of Directors

    Lisa Disbrow, former undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, and Mary Louise Krakauer, former executive vice president and chief information officer at Dell, have been appointed to the board of directors at Mercury Systems. The latest appointments bring the number of Mercury Systems’ board members to nine, including eight independent directors, the company said Thursday. Mark […] More

  • Lockheed Begins Mobile Rocket Launcher Delivery Under FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Begins Mobile Rocket Launcher Delivery Under FMS Contract

    Lockheed Martin has handed over the first mobile rocket launcher system to the Defense Department under a foreign military sales contract awarded in December 2015. The company produced the launcher and chassis components for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System at its Camden, Arkansas-based facility, Lockheed said Wednesday. The U.S. Army tapped Lockheed to build 12 […] More