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  • Northrop Hands Marine Corps 1st G/ATOR Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands Marine Corps 1st G/ATOR Radar System

    Northrop Grumman has turned over a mobile multimission radar system to the U.S. Marine Corps as part of an initial low-rate initial production contract awarded in October 2014. The company said Tuesday its AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar will replace five legacy radars being used by Marines and the system’s architecture works to interact with multiple command-and-control systems. G/ATOR is designed to detect, track and engage a range […] More

  • Boeing to Provide P-8A Trainers, Support Services to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Provide P-8A Trainers, Support Services to Navy

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Boeing a $42.5 million contract modification to deliver eight deployable mission readiness trainers for the service branch’s P-8A maritime aircraft. Boeing will also provide P-8A mode control panels and program management and engineering services under the modification, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division obligated the full amount of the […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Finishes AR1 Engine Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Finishes AR1 Engine Design Review

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a critical design review of the company-built AR1 rocket engine. The company said Monday it aims to obtain flight certification for the AR1 technology in 2019 to help the Defense Department move away from foreign-made engines. Independent government and industry experts attended the review, which assessed whether AR1’s design meets performance requirements ahead of full-scale manufacturing, Aerojet Rocketdyne added. The […] More

  • AECOM Lands Navy Environmental Action Support Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Lands Navy Environmental Action Support Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded AECOM a $13.5 million contract modification to provide architect-engineering services in support of environmental action programs within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Pacific area of responsibility. The Defense Department said Monday that work will include information evaluation; environmental sample analysis; field investigations; analytical data assessment; human health and ecological risk evaluation; community relations support; and construction oversight services. DoD added the […] More

  • Air Force Taps BAE Unit to Develop Space Testbed Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps BAE Unit to Develop Space Testbed Architecture

    A business unit of BAE Systems has won a potential $12.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop a knowledge-based space testbed architecture. The Defense Department said Monday that BAE’s information and electronic systems integration business will create a testbed for the military branch to evaluate space enterprise command-and-control tools and technologies. DoD noted that the Air Force Research […] More

  • CNAS Names Andrew Krepinevich, James Townsend New Adjunct Senior Fellows - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CNAS Names Andrew Krepinevich, James Townsend New Adjunct Senior Fellows

    The Center for a New American Security has named two national security policy leaders as adjunct senior fellows who will support the organization’s research programs and provide expertise on policy matters. CNAS said Friday the new adjunct senior fellows are Andrew Krepinevich, former president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and James Townsend Jr., former deputy […] More

  • Report: Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium Signs MoU with Joint DoD Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium Signs MoU with Joint DoD Agency

    A joint Defense Department agency and a government-industry consortium inked a memorandum of understanding to help define open avionics standards for military aircraft. The Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium (FACE,) a coalition of government and industry organizations which aims to determine open avionics standards for military aircraft, issued the memo with the DoD agency, Defense Systems reported Thursday. The memorandum will […] More

  • AECOM Secures Army FMS Contract for Architecture, Engineering Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Secures Army FMS Contract for Architecture, Engineering Support Services

    AECOM has received a five-year, $9 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide a range of professional architecture and engineering support services. The Defense Department said Friday AECOM’s technical services business unit will furnish required labor, materials, supplies and equipment in support of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. […] More

  • Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has won a potential $13.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to design, develop and deliver a testbed for Hallmark software and hardware platforms. The Defense Department said Friday that Ball Aerospace’s systems engineering solutions unit will build a testbed architecture that the military branch can apply to space command-and-control tasks, implement […] More

  • Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility

    Red River Computer has received a potential $34.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology and engineering support services for a new command-and-control center of the U.S. Air Force. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific received two proposals for the fixed-price contract that has a base period of 15 months […] More

  • DOE Taps SteelCloud to Provide Security Compliance Automation Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Taps SteelCloud to Provide Security Compliance Automation Tool

    SteelCloud has received a contract from the Energy Department to provide a remediation platform designed to automate compliance of applications and deployed data infrastructure with the Security Technical Implementation Guide. The company said Thursday ConfigOS works to scan endpoint platforms against STIG controls within a minute and remediate endpoints within 90 seconds. Brian Hajost, SteelCloud president and CEO, […] More

  • Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan

    Northrop Grumman‘s military aircraft systems business has received an $11.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead time materials, components, parts and other services that will support the delivery of an E–2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft to Japan. The Defense Department said Thursday the Navy will obligate the full amount of the modification from foreign military sales funds […] More