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  • Greece, Lockheed, HAI Start P-3B Maritime Patrol Aircraft Modernization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greece, Lockheed, HAI Start P-3B Maritime Patrol Aircraft Modernization Program

    Lockheed Martin, the Greek navy and Hellenic Aerospace Industry have officially launched Greece’s P-3B Orion maritime surveillance aircraft modernization program at a ceremony held Monday at an HAI facility in Athens. The event was attended by representatives from the Greek defense ministry, national defense general staff, navy, air force and general directorate for defense investment and armament as well as leaders from the U.S. Embassy […] More

  • PAE to Proceed With Navy F-5 Maintenance & Logistics Support; John Heller Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE to Proceed With Navy F-5 Maintenance & Logistics Support; John Heller Comments

    PAE is set to provide maintenance and logistics support services for 44 F-5 aircraft of the U.S. Navy after the service branch cancelled a stop-work order on the company. PAE said Tuesday it began contract transition performance on May 25 and will continue work through a four-year period if all options are exercised. The contract awarded by the […] More

  • Astronics to Produce Night-Vision Lighting Systems for Intl Customer's F-16 Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Astronics to Produce Night-Vision Lighting Systems for Intl Customer’s F-16 Fleet

    Astronics has received a 24-month, $5 million contract to supply night-vision lighting systems for the F-16 jets of an unnamed country through the U.S. foreign military sales program. The contract calls for Astronics to design and develop a complete lighting system that will work to help pilots fly F-16s with night-vision goggles, the company said Wednesday. Astronics added the system will incorporate exterior and […] More

  • Raytheon Gets Navy Contract Modification for Planar Array Antenna Assemblies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Gets Navy Contract Modification for Planar Array Antenna Assemblies

    Raytheon has received a $30.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide radar absorbing material-equipped planar array antenna assemblies for the transmission processing sets of the Cooperative Engagement Capability. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract also covers delivery of CEC sensor netting system antennas to Japan under the foreign military sales program. DoD noted the Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate the full […] More

  • General Atomics to Provide Certifiable Predator B Variant to UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Provide Certifiable Predator B Variant to UK

    The U.K. defense ministry has selected General Atomics to provide a variant of its Predator B remotely piloted aircraft system in support of the country’s intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance needs. General Atomics said Monday the U.K. will acquire modified Certifiable Predator B RPA systems to replace its line of Predator B aircraft starting 2018. The company added its aeronautical […] More

  • L-3 Completes 1st C-130 Aircraft Systems Upgrade for Argentina; Mark Von Schwarz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Completes 1st C-130 Aircraft Systems Upgrade for Argentina; Mark Von Schwarz Comments

    L-3 Communications has completed system updates to a C-130 military transport aircraft for Argentina under the U.S. Air Force‘s foreign military sales program. The company’s platform integration division refreshed the aircraft’s communication, navigation, air traffic management and critical environmental and power systems, L-3 said Tuesday. The updated C-130 is the first of five aircraft slated for avionics and […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Deliver Black Hawk Simulator to Mexico's Navy; Alan Prowse Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Deliver Black Hawk Simulator to Mexico’s Navy; Alan Prowse Comments

    Rockwell Collins has been selected to provide a UH-60M Black Hawk simulator to the Mexican navy as part of an effort to help train the nation’s aviators in the operations of the helicopter built by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary. The Mexican navy will use the Transportable Blackhawk Operations Simulator to help equip Black Hawk pilots with the skills […] More

  • Defense News: India Asks US Govt for 22 General Atomics-Built Predator UAVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense News: India Asks US Govt for 22 General Atomics-Built Predator UAVs

    India has requested to acquire a batch of General Atomics-built Predator unmanned aerial vehicles through a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government, Defense News reported Monday. Vivek Raghuvanshi writes Indian government sent a letter of request to the U.S. on June 17 to procure 22 Predator UAVs in support of the former country’s naval forces. The […] More

  • Reuters: India's Defense Agency OKs Proposed $750M Buy of BAE Howitzers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: India’s Defense Agency OKs Proposed $750M Buy of BAE Howitzers

    India’s defense procurement officials have approved a proposal to acquire $750 million in BAE Systems-built M777 Howitzer artillery guns through a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government, Reuters reported Saturday. Aditya Kalra writes that approximately 120 of the 145 Howitzers that India plans to buy will be assembled in the country. The report said India will send the proposal to the […] More

  • Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters

    The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have handed over an initial set of three Sikorsky-built MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Denmark under a foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed said Wednesday Denmark’s unified armed forces will deploy the MH-60Rs to support maritime surveillance, anti surface warfare, force protection and utility transport, search-and-rescue, patrol and support operations across the country’s borders. Denmark ordered nine Seahawks under an FMS deal with the […] More

  • Air Force to Negotiate Potential Contract for GPS Receiver Tech with Rockwell Collins - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Negotiate Potential Contract for GPS Receiver Tech with Rockwell Collins

    The Department of the Air Force has announced it wants to negotiate a contract for the production, repair and logistics support of a global positioning system receiver for the Defense Department and foreign military customers. In a presolicitation released Monday, the Air Force said it also looks to tap Rockwell Collins for the requirements for the planned […] More

  • Meggitt to Produce F-16 Canopy Actuators for US Air Force, Int'l Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Meggitt to Produce F-16 Canopy Actuators for US Air Force, Int’l Customers

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a five-year, $21.5 million contract to Meggitt Safety Systems to provide two-seat canopy actuators for the F-16 jets of the U.S. Air Force and foreign military customers. DLA’s aviation unit received two bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through a competitive acquisition process and will obligate fiscal year 2016 through fiscal 2021 defense working capital and foreign military sales […] More