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  • Boeing Lands $73M IDIQ to Help Extend Navy Super Hornet Service Life - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Lands $73M IDIQ to Help Extend Navy Super Hornet Service Life

    Boeing has secured a $73.2 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to perform modifications on four F/A-18E/F Super Hornets in an effort to extend the aircraft’s service life. The company will aim to extend the operational service life of the service branch’s F/A-18E/F fleet from 6,000 to 9,000 flight hours, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Seventy-five percent of the work will […] More

  • Raytheon to Develop Additional Navy Aircraft Sensors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Develop Additional Navy Aircraft Sensors

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon an $8.8 million contract modification to develop additional software and hardware for the service branch’s F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft sensor systems. The award modifies a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and work will occur through December 2021 in El Segundo, California, the Defense Department said Tuesday. F/A-18E/F is a fighter aircraft primarily used for the Navy’s air superiority missions, […] More

  • Boeing to Start Navy Super Hornet Life-Extension Upgrades by April 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Start Navy Super Hornet Life-Extension Upgrades by April 2018

    Boeing is scheduled to begin upgrade work on the U.S. Navy‘s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft at a company facility in St. Louis, Missouri in April next year, Flightglobal reported Friday. The aerospace and defense contractor aims to increase the aircraft’s resistance to corrosion and extend its service life by an additional 3,000 flight hours under a potential […] More

  • Report: US Expresses Optimism on Germany’s Tornado Fighter Jet Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: US Expresses Optimism on Germany’s Tornado Fighter Jet Replacement Program

    A U.S. military official said the country is confident that there are U.S.-manufactured fighter jets that can compete to replace Germany’s fleet of 85 Tornado fighter aircraft, Reuters reported Thursday. The official’s statement came days after the German defense ministry said it considers the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft as its primary option to replace its Tornado jets by 2025. The […] More

  • Lockheed Reports $100M in Navy Super Hornet Sensor Upgrade Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Reports $100M in Navy Super Hornet Sensor Upgrade Contracts

    Boeing has awarded Lockheed Martin a pair of contracts worth up to $100 million combined to update an infrared search-and-track sensor technology used on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. Lockheed said Thursday it will develop software, update hardware and deliver prototypes in an effort to optimize the detection, tracking and ranging capacity of […] More

  • Raytheon to Build Lot 2 Small Diameter Bombs for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Build Lot 2 Small Diameter Bombs for Air Force

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a $49.2 million contract modification for the production of Lot 2 Small Diameter Bomb Increment II weapons and containers. Raytheon’s missile systems business will perform work in Tucson, Arizona through Sept. 30, 2018, the Defense Department said Thursday. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded fixed-price incentive firm contract. The Air […] More

  • Boeing to Produce Aircraft Distributed Targeting Systems for US Navy, Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Produce Aircraft Distributed Targeting Systems for US Navy, Australia

    Boeing has received a four-year, $10.2 million delivery order to provide distributed targeting system kits and operational test program sets for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler jets of the U.S. Navy and Australia. The Defense Department said Monday the company will manufacture 218 DTS A kits, 31 OPT sets and 20 fiber optic interface test sets. Boeing will execute […] More

  • Navy Adds Raytheon-Built Joint Standoff Weapon Tech to Fleet; Jaime Engdahl Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Adds Raytheon-Built Joint Standoff Weapon Tech to Fleet; Jaime Engdahl Comments

    The U.S. Navy has introduced a Raytheon-built network-enabled weapon to its fleet of air wings deployed worldwide. The Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 was added to the fleet after the weapon recently completed operational testing against land and sea targets, the Navy said Monday. JSOW C-1 achieved initial operational capability in early June. “As our mission’s […] More

  • Reuters: Lockheed Considers Moving F-35 Work From Canada - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Lockheed Considers Moving F-35 Work From Canada

    Jack Crisler, Lockheed Martin vice president of business development for the F-35 program, said the company might move production work on the fighter jets away from Canadian companies amid uncertainty in Canada’s plans to buy F-35s, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes Crisler told Reuters the company might shift future F-35 work to other partner countries that placed firm […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile Into Navy, AF Aircraft for Continued Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile Into Navy, AF Aircraft for Continued Tests

    Lockheed Martin will integrate the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile into the U.S. Air Force‘s B-1B and U.S. Navy‘s F/A-18E/F aircraft under the $321.8 million sole-source contract awarded earlier this month. The company said Thursday the Air Force has set LRASM to start operations in 2018 with the Navy scheduled in 2019. The contract also funds continued testing on LRASM, a precision-guided anti-ship standoff missile, Lockheed added. Mike […] More

  • Report: US Foreign Military Sales Hit $29B in First Half of FY 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: US Foreign Military Sales Hit $29B in First Half of FY 2016

    Guggenheim Securities has found that foreign military sales of U.S.-built platforms and weapon systems amounted to $29 billion after six months of the government’s 2016 fiscal year, Defense News reported Friday. Aaron Mehta writes the investment banking and capital markets company said in its report obtained by Defense News that Lockheed Martin is the largest beneficiary of FMS deals for the first half of fiscal […] More

  • Navy to Hold Technical Interchange Meetings With Industry on Aircraft Replacement Concerns - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Hold Technical Interchange Meetings With Industry on Aircraft Replacement Concerns

    The Department of the Navy will conduct a series of technical interchange meetings with industry ahead of a scheduled analysis of alternatives in 2015 on potential replacements for the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft. A notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the Naval Air System Command‘s Warfare Analysis and Integration Department plans to build on its 2012 “Carrier-Based, Strike Fighter Key […] More

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