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  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: FY 2018 NDAA Aims to Meet Military Satcom Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: FY 2018 NDAA Aims to Meet Military Satcom Requirements

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said the fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act serves as the U.S. government’s response to help meet warfighters’ need for secure and resilient satellite communication capabilities with the aid of the commercial satcom industry. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Via Satellite piece posted Thursday […] More

  • Raytheon Uses AWS Government Cloud to Meet Security Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Uses AWS Government Cloud to Meet Security Requirements

    Raytheon is using Amazon Web Services‘ government cloud platform to meet the security needs of the former’s national defense customers. AWS said Thursday Raytheon has worked to speed up tests of information technology systems through the AWS GovCloud (US) offering. GovCloud (US) is compliant with the Defense Department‘s cloud security information impact levels 2, 4 and 5. Steve […] More

  • Lockheed Subsidiary Wins $66M Navy Torpedo Engineering, Maintenance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Subsidiary Wins $66M Navy Torpedo Engineering, Maintenance Contract

    A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has won a potential five-year, $65.9 million contract  to maintain and engineer MK48 torpedoes for the U.S. Navy‘s Intermediate Maintenance Activity in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded the contract to Lockheed Martin Sippican after a competitive solicitation that garnered two proposals, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD noted the service branch will obligate $3,028,731 […] More

  • DoD Seeks Underwater-Launched UAV Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Seeks Underwater-Launched UAV Platform

    The Defense Department has started to accept solution briefs for an underwater-launched unmanned aerial vehicle with interface and control features similar to those of existing consumer drones. A solicitation notice posted on the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental’s website says that DoD seeks a platform that can process full-motion video and operate for more than one hour at a range […] More

  • Peraton Gets Navy Unexploded Ordnance Removal Support Contract; Gus Bontzos Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton Gets Navy Unexploded Ordnance Removal Support Contract; Gus Bontzos Comments

    Peraton has received a potential five-year, $40.97 million contract to help the Department of the Navy identify, locate and remove unexploded underwater and ground ordnance. The contract has a one-year base term and four one-year options and covers support for the Navy’s explosive ordnance disposal program management office, Peraton said Wednesday. “Detecting, locating, removing or […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Gets USAF Precision Strike Package Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Gets USAF Precision Strike Package Contract Option

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has received a one-year, $19.9 million contract modification to provide additional services for the U.S. Air Force’s aircraft precision strike package. The Air Force exercised an option under a previously awarded contract that covers PSP logistics support for the Lockheed Martin-built AC-130J and AC-130W platforms, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the latest award brings the contract’s […] More

  • Tiag to Help Military Health Profession Academy Consolidate IT Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tiag to Help Military Health Profession Academy Consolidate IT Systems

    The Informatics Applications Group has received a contract to help the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences consolidate operational information technology systems, environments and applications into a single IT platform. The company said Tuesday it will migrate IT equipment and users at several USU Research Centers into the university’s accredited .edu domain and evaluate the remaining 18 centers […] More

  • DLA Taps Rockwell Collins for Repairs and Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Taps Rockwell Collins for Repairs and Engineering Services

    Rockwell Collins has received a five-year, $40 million Defense Logistics Agency contract to provide repairs, engineering support and depot-level reparable items. Work under the contract will be done to support the Defense Department and foreign military sales efforts, the DoD said Monday. The DLA is financing the contract through funds intended for fiscal year 2018 through 2023 defense […] More

  • VSE Receives Air Force C-130J MRO Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Receives Air Force C-130J MRO Task Order

    VSE has secured a potential 30-month, $28.5 million task order to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul support for the U.S. Air Force‘s military transport aircraft fleet. The company said Monday it will perform organizational MRO services for the 314th Air Wing headquartered at Little Rock AF Base in Arkansas. USAF awarded the order under the Contract Field Teams indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Secures $69M Navy Trainer Aircraft Engine Support Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Secures $69M Navy Trainer Aircraft Engine Support Contract Option

    Rolls-Royce has received a six-month, $69.4 million contract option to maintain and provide logistics support for the U.S. Navy‘s T-45 training aircraft engines. The company will perform intermediate and depot-level maintenance work on 209 F405-RR-401 Adour engines as part of the exercised option, the Defense Department said Monday. Forty-six percent of contract work will occur at Naval Air Station Kingsville in […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: An Interview With Neil Albert, President of ACT I - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Spotlight: An Interview With Neil Albert, President of ACT I

    ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Neil Albert, president of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, about his company’s role providing acquisition services and information technology modernization to federal agencies. “Cybersecurity is probably the most important area that the private sector can help … With more private sector-friendly contracting vehicles out there, like Other Transaction Agreements, I think […] More

  • FBI Vet Timothy Gallagher Named Kroll Cyber & Investigations Practice Managing Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Vet Timothy Gallagher Named Kroll Cyber & Investigations Practice Managing Director

    Timothy Gallagher, a more than 20-year FBI veteran, has been named as a managing director within Kroll‘s cybersecurity and investigations practice. Kroll said Monday Gallagher brings investigative experience in the areas of financial fraud and cyber-related crimes to his new position. He previously managed the FBI’s Newark, New Jersey office and led a multiagency task force that worked to […] More