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  • Kathy Warden: Northrop Expands Portfolio Into Hypersonics Through Innovation Systems Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kathy Warden: Northrop Expands Portfolio Into Hypersonics Through Innovation Systems Business

    Kathy Warden, president and chief operating officer of Northrop Grumman, has said the company considers hypersonic missiles as a promising business line, USNI News reported Saturday. Warden, a three-time Wash100 recipient, told analysts at a conference call that Northrop’s innovation systems business, formerly Orbital ATK, expands the defense contractor’s portfolio of products into hypersonics. “We have […] More

  • Boeing, L3 Secure Navy EA-18G Flight Trainer Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, L3 Secure Navy EA-18G Flight Trainer Contracts

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $9.6 million contract to L3 Technologies and a $9.2 million contract to Boeing to supply flight training systems designed to train EA-18G pilots on tactical missions. Each company will provide two EA-18G tactical operational flight trainers and Boeing will also build one brief/debrief station for the service branch, the Defense Department said Friday. The Naval Air […] More

  • Report: Northrop, Raytheon Eye Marine Aircraft Radar Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop, Raytheon Eye Marine Aircraft Radar Upgrade Contract

    Northrop Grumman and Raytheon intend to separately respond to a solicitation for new active electronically scanned arrays for the U.S. Marine Corps’ fleet of legacy Hornet aircraft, Flightglobal reported Friday. The service branch issued a request for proposals in early July for advanced AESAs as part of a modernization requirement for 88 Boeing F/A-18C/Ds. Raytheon seeks to offer […] More

  • Red Hat’s Adam Clater: MGT Act to Help Drive Federal IT Modernization Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s Adam Clater: MGT Act to Help Drive Federal IT Modernization Initiatives

    Adam Clater, chief architect of Red Hat’s North American public sector business, said the Trump administration’s move to enact the Modernizing Government Technology Act will help empower agency chief information officers to invest in information technology modernization programs. He wrote in an opinion piece posted Friday on Nextgov that MGT Act provides funds for federal agencies […] More

  • Dewberry to Help Army Engineer Building Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dewberry to Help Army Engineer Building Systems

    Dewberry has secured a position on a potential five-year, $45 million contract to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Army‘s Engineering and Support Center in Huntsville, Ala. Fairfax, Va.-based Dewberry said Friday it is one of three contractors who will vie for work to engineer  building automation, electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems for the  Defense Department and […] More

  • NASA Begins Exoplanet-Hunting Mission With TESS Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Begins Exoplanet-Hunting Mission With TESS Spacecraft

    A NASA satellite designed to explore outer space for potentially life-supporting exoplanets entered service on July 25 and is expected to transmit science data back to Earth in August. The space agency said Saturday the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will work to periodically send data every 13.5 days after the TESS Science Team receives the […] More

  • Marine Corps Seeks Data Storage, Analytics Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Seeks Data Storage, Analytics Platform

    The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a request for white papers for a cloud-based data storage and analytics platform, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. In the first phase of the effort, the service will use the prototype to assess data collected from Deployable Mission Support Systems. The Marine Corps will then develop more data analytics models, expand […] More

  • Northrop CEO Wes Bush Open to Make Webb Telescope Contract Fees Contingent on Mission Outcome - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop CEO Wes Bush Open to Make Webb Telescope Contract Fees Contingent on Mission Outcome

    Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has said he would be open to making the company’s award fees from the James Webb Space Telescope development contract depend on the successful commissioning of NASA’s space observatory following launch, SpaceNews reported Thursday. “As a mechanism to ensure we are all aligned on mission success, Northrop Grumman has actually […] More

  • Honeywell to Implement Voice Comms Tech at DLA Distribution Centers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell to Implement Voice Comms Tech at DLA Distribution Centers

    Honeywell has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide voice-directed systems for employees at approximately 24 distribution centers managed by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency. The company said Friday it will configure, test and implement the Vocollect technology for DLA’s warehouse staff to pick orders across U.S. military and federal supply chain activities worldwide. Vocollect comprises a headset equipped with […] More

  • Thomas Kennedy: Raytheon Seeks to Replace Existing Surface-to-Surface Missiles With NSM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomas Kennedy: Raytheon Seeks to Replace Existing Surface-to-Surface Missiles With NSM

    Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy, a two-time Wash100 recipient, has said the company intends to make the Naval Strike Missile program a “multibillion-dollar franchise opportunity” by replacing the current international and local inventory of surface-to-surface missiles, Defense News reported Thursday. NSM is a joint effort of Raytheon and Norway-based Kongsberg and is an anti-ship missile that has […] More

  • Jacobs-Navy Team Recognized for Puerto Rico Cleanup Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs-Navy Team Recognized for Puerto Rico Cleanup Project

    Jacobs Engineering Group, a Comprehensive Long-term Environmental Action Navy program contractor, has received recognition for its cleanup efforts in Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of an environmental restoration team along with the U.S. Navy. Jacobs said Thursday the team received the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval Operations awards for environmental restoration, […] More