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  • Enersys, Exide Technologies Land DLA Contracts to Provide Army Storage Batteries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Enersys, Exide Technologies Land DLA Contracts to Provide Army Storage Batteries

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a potential $71.1 million contract to Enersys Energy Products and a separate $47.4 million contract to Exide Technologies to supply the U.S. Army with storage batteries. Each indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains three base years and two one-year options, the Defense Department said Friday. Both contracts’ base period will run through March 16, 2020, and work will occur at the […] More

  • AECOM Unit Lands Army Contract for Environmental Consulting Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Unit Lands Army Contract for Environmental Consulting Services

    AECOM‘s technical services business has secured a $25 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to provide environmental consulting services. The Defense Department said Tuesday the competitive contract will potentially run through March 13, 2022. The Army will provide information on the work locations and allotted funds with the award of each order, DoD added. AECOM Technical Services offers a […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Devt Work on Army Fiber Laser System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Devt Work on Army Fiber Laser System

    Lockheed Martin has developed and tested for the U.S. Army a 60-kilowatt laser weapon system designed to help the service branch counter threats posed by drones, mortars and rockets. Lockheed has initiated preparation work to facilitate the delivery of the fiber laser platform to the Army Space and Missile Defense Command in Alabama after it […] More

  • Lockheed to Engineer Fire Control Systems Under $68M Navy Basic Ordering Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Engineer Fire Control Systems Under $68M Navy Basic Ordering Agreement

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a five-year, $68 million basic ordering agreement to engineer and provide logistics support for Mk 92 fire control systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday the agreement covers equipment changes, repairs, and overhauls; engineering and field service; computer programming; documentation development and engineering services. Support services under the BOA will aid the […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Facilitate Cross-Platform Data Link Comms Under DIUx Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Facilitate Cross-Platform Data Link Comms Under DIUx Deal

    Rockwell Collins has landed a Digitally Aided Close Air Support contract from the Defense Department‘s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental to facilitate cross-platform data link functions for mobile devices. Rockwell Collins said Tuesday it will offer an open source aggregation framework designed to support cross-platform data link communications on Android and Windows mobile devices in efforts to boost the […] More

  • Parsons Gets DoD Accreditation for Munition Geophysical Classification; Carey Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Gets DoD Accreditation for Munition Geophysical Classification; Carey Smith Comments

    Parsons has received accreditation under the Defense Department’s Advanced Geophysical Classification Accreditation Program. The company said Tuesday it secured the DAGCAP certification after the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation assessed Parsons’ geophysical classification and technical management platforms. Carey Smith, Parsons federal group president and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, said the company […] More

  • Lockheed Supports Sea Acceptance Trials of Australia's Future Aegis-Equipped Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Supports Sea Acceptance Trials of Australia’s Future Aegis-Equipped Destroyer

    Lockheed Martin has collaborated with an alliance composed of Australia’s defense department, Raytheon‘s Australian subsidiary, ASC Shipbuilding and Navantia to conduct a five-week sea acceptance trial for a Hobart-class air warfare destroyer. The Air Warfare Destroyer Alliance and Lockheed jointly tested Australia’s future HMAS destroyer to verify the ship platform and determine if the vessel could support the Aegis combat system, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order

    Lockheed Martin has secured a two-year, $64.7 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to perform work on integrated core processor of the company-built F-35 fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday Lockheed will help address manufacturing sources constraints projected under F-35 Lot 15 production in support of the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and international partners. […] More

  • Report: Army Seeks to Update Black Hawk, Apache Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Army Seeks to Update Black Hawk, Apache Engines

    U.S. Army leaders have told House members that one of the service branch’s top modernization priorities is to update the turbine engines of Black Hawk and Apache helicopters, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. The potential $10 billion Improved Turbine Engine Program seeks to replace the T700 family of engines and is one of the reasons behind proposed defense […] More

  • Cubic to Produce, Test Portable Common Data Link Systems & Spares for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Produce, Test Portable Common Data Link Systems & Spares for Navy

    Cubic‘s defense applications business has won a $20.9 million contract to assemble,  produce, document, test and deliver 25 Portable Common Data Link systems for installation at the U.S. Navy‘s tactical and mobile tactical operation centers. The Defense Department said Friday that work also covers engineering services for TacMobile Person PCDL systems and spare suites. The contract’s 18-month base […] More

  • MC Dean Secures Army IT, Infrastructure Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MC Dean Secures Army IT, Infrastructure Support Contract

    M.C. Dean has been awarded a potential four-year, $45 million contract to provide information technology and infrastructure support services to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch received five bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet. The Army Communications-Electronics Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland will determine funds and performance locations with each order. Contract work is scheduled to […] More

  • Esri to Offer DOE Lab Access to Spatial Analysis Tools via Enterprise Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri to Offer DOE Lab Access to Spatial Analysis Tools via Enterprise Agreement

    Esri is poised to sign an enterprise agreement with an Energy Department-funded laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to provide some federal research and development projects access to the company’s geographic information system. DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory can leverage a full set of ArcGIS-based spatial analysis tools and add licenses on an as-needed basis as part of the agreement with Esri, the […] More