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  • Textron Subsidiary Gets Navy Contract Modification for H-1 Helicopter Upgrade Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary Gets Navy Contract Modification for H-1 Helicopter Upgrade Support

    Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has received a $12.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide acquisition logistics support for the H-1 modernization effort. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification covers logistics management, maintenance planning material, supply, design interface, technical data and equipment support, inventory and distribution management, storage, transportation, supportability analysis and technical manual updates services. Bell Helicopter will have up […] More

  • Army Extends Lockheed's Apache Sensor Logistics Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Extends Lockheed’s Apache Sensor Logistics Support Contract

    Lockheed Martin has received a $64.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to continue logistics support work on electro-optical sensors designed to help increase Apache helicopter pilots’ situational awareness. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification extends Lockheed’s performance-based logistics services to the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensors program through Dec. 31, 2018. The Army […] More

  • Raytheon Gets USAF 'Cobra Dane' Radar Support Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Gets USAF ‘Cobra Dane’ Radar Support Contract Modification

    Raytheon has received a $25 million contract modification to help the U.S. Air Force maintain operational capability of the ground-based Cobra Dane radar system. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business will perform contract work to address in-scope requirements for the radar. Work under the modification will occur in Colorado Springs, Colorado, through March […] More

  • UES Wins Air Force Aerospace Material Characterization Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UES Wins Air Force Aerospace Material Characterization Research Contract

    UES has won a potential $22 million contract to help U.S. Air Force researchers study the characteristics of aerospace materials. The company will develop methods, software and tools to aid materials characterization and microanalysis research related to electron, ion, x-ray and optical microscopy, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted that contract work will run through April 3, […] More

  • Cubic to Support Army Readiness Training Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Support Army Readiness Training Center

    The U.S. Army has awarded Cubic a potential $40.4 million contract to provide mission support services to the Joint Readiness Training Center located at Fort Polk in Louisiana. Cubic’s defense business segment will perform contract work through June 27, 2018, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the service branch is obligating $23.4 million in fiscal 2018 operations […] More

  • Transcom Eyes ‘Secret’ Level Cloud Services Contract Award to AWS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transcom Eyes ‘Secret’ Level Cloud Services Contract Award to AWS

    The U.S. Transportation Command has announced its intent to award a contract to Amazon Web Services to provide commercial cloud services designed to host data classified at the “secret” level. Transcom said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the proposed contract will cover storage, virtual machines, internet protocol management and network bandwidth services. The company […] More

  • PAE to Provide Curacao and Aruba Base Support Under $79M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE to Provide Curacao and Aruba Base Support Under $79M Task Order

    PAE has received a five year, $79 million task order to deliver base support services for U.S. Southern Command locations in Curacao and Aruba. The services will be in support of SOUTHCOM’s anti-drug surveillance operations under the joint effort between the Defense Department and the Department of State, the company said Monday. Services under the order include mission planning and execution, […] More

  • Guest Spot: DSA’s R.J. Kolton on 'Six Actions Mid-Tier Companies Can Take in 2018 to Achieve Long-Term Growth' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Guest Spot: DSA’s R.J. Kolton on ‘Six Actions Mid-Tier Companies Can Take in 2018 to Achieve Long-Term Growth’

    Written by: R.J. Kolton R.J. Kolton is Senior Vice President for Business Development for Data Systems Analysts, Inc., (DSA), a mid-tier employee-owned company. He oversees planning and implementation of the corporate growth strategy and business development operations. He is also Vice President for Mid-Tier Advocacy (MTA, Inc.), a 501(3)c organization that promotes the interests of […] More

  • Bell Helicopter Launches First Flight of NextGen Tiltrotor Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Helicopter Launches First Flight of NextGen Tiltrotor Aircraft

    Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has conducted the first flight of a next-generation tiltrotor aircraft built to help U.S. military clients meet requirements for a vertical lift platform. Textron said Monday the V-280 Valor aircraft was designed to help users conduct various vertical lift missions previously infeasible using one aircraft as well as offer updated speed […] More

  • Report: Japan OKs Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System Procurement Plan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Japan OKs Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System Procurement Plan

    Japan has approved a proposal to purchase two land-based Aegis combat systems as part of the East Asian country’s effort to expand its ballistic missile defense capability in response to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats, Reuters reported Tuesday. Sources said the establishment of the proposed Aegis Ashore batteries could cost approximately $2 billion and […] More

  • CAE to Update Army Abrams Training Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE to Update Army Abrams Training Equipment

    CAE‘s U.S. business has won a potential $7.5 million contract to modernize Abrams M1A1 engine diagnostic and troubleshooting trainers for the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Monday CAE USA will perform upgrades to Abrams training systems installed at Fort Benning in Georgia; Fort Lee in Virginia; and Gowen Field in Idaho. The Army Contracting Command received three bids for the firm-fixed-price […] More

  • L3 to Provide Software Integration Support for Canadian Operational Flight Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 to Provide Software Integration Support for Canadian Operational Flight Program

    L3 Technologies has received a $10.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract contract from the U.S. Navy to update and integrate software for a Canadian operational flight program as part of a foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Department said Monday the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division selected the contractor to support Canada’s CF-18 C21X-B2.0 program. The […] More