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  • Lockheed Secures Navy Contract Option for F-35 Electronic Components Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures Navy Contract Option for F-35 Electronic Components Procurement

    Lockheed Martin has received a $10.02 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to purchase additional diminishing manufacturing sources electronic components for the F-35 fighter aircraft. The award exercises an option to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract and Lockheed will perform work in Fort Worth, Texas, through December 2018, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Navy obligated the full […] More

  • ATAC to Update Aviation Simulation Model System at Navy, DoD Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATAC to Update Aviation Simulation Model System at Navy, DoD Facilities

    ATAC has been awarded a potential five-year, $8 million contract to develop and update a naval aviation simulation model system at U.S. Navy and Marine Corps installations as well as Defense Department facilities worldwide. DoD said Tuesday the project will support airfield, airspace and range analyses of existing or proposed operations and activities. The company will also compile information on mission changes to […] More

  • AT&T to Design, Build Mobile Radio Comm Towers for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Design, Build Mobile Radio Comm Towers for Navy

    AT&T has won an $11.3 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to design and build five land mobile radio communication towers throughout the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California. The company’s government solutions business unit will construct 70- to 150-foot-high towers that can operate as standalone facilities in remote areas within the Sierra Nevada […] More

  • First Command Appoints Retired Navy, Marine Corps Officers to Military Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    First Command Appoints Retired Navy, Marine Corps Officers to Military Advisory Board

    Retired military officers Alford McMichael and Charles Clarke have joined First Command Financial Services as members of the company’s military advisory board. McMichael and Clarke will provide independent advice on military trends and the financial needs and products and services that affect military families as part of First Command’s 10-member board, the company said Monday. They will also […] More

  • Navy Picks A&D General Contracting to Build Marine Corps Combat Support Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks A&D General Contracting to Build Marine Corps Combat Support Facility

    The Naval Facilities Engineering Command has awarded A&D General Contracting a $9.6 million task order to build a combat service support facility for the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command. The facility will be built in Camp Pendleton, California and will have operational, maintenance and administrative offices for the 1st Marine Raider Support Battalion’s West Coast-based combat service support organization units, NAVFAC said Friday. […] More

  • Oshkosh Defense to Enter Full-Rate Production for Marine Corps P-19R Aircraft Firefighting Trucks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh Defense to Enter Full-Rate Production for Marine Corps P-19R Aircraft Firefighting Trucks

    An Oshkosh Corp. subsidiary is set to proceed with the full-rate production of P-19R aircraft rescue firefighting vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps after the company and the military branch received Milestone C approval from the Defense Department. Oshkosh Defense will produce and deliver 164 ARFFs through 2019 to replace the Marine Corps’ P-19 fleet under a potential $192 million […] More

  • SAIC Awarded $54M DLA Chemical, Petroleum Logistics Support Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Awarded $54M DLA Chemical, Petroleum Logistics Support Extension

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a three-month, $53.5 million contract modification for chemical and petroleum products logistics support to the Defense Logistics Agency. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification represents an extension to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that contains a five-year base period and one five-year option. SAIC will execute the task in New […] More

  • BAE to Help Navy Design, Build Airborne Reconnaissance Tech for Buried Threats Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help Navy Design, Build Airborne Reconnaissance Tech for Buried Threats Detection

    A BAE Systems subsidiary has secured a potential $12.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a soil-penetrating airborne reconnaissance prototype for threat assessment and neutralization. The Defense Department said Wednesday the cost-reimbursement contract has a base value of $9.5 million over two years and work could extend through December 28, 2020 if all options are exercised. BAE Systems’ spectral […] More

  • USNI News: ONR Nears Vehicle-Mounted Laser Weapon Program's 3rd Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USNI News: ONR Nears Vehicle-Mounted Laser Weapon Program’s 3rd Phase

    The Office of Naval Research is close to the third phase of its program to develop a vehicle-mounted laser weapon system for efforts to counter adversaries’ unmanned aerial vehicles, USNI News reported Thursday. Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, U.S. Marine Corps deputy commandant for combat development and integration, said the third phase of the Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Supply Parts, Equipment for Navy Electronic Warfare System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Supply Parts, Equipment for Navy Electronic Warfare System

    Rockwell Collins has received a $24.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide various equipment for the AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid Tiger Electronic Attack System. Rockwell Collins will deliver roughly 194 Quint Networking Technology radios and 379 hardware parts and perform 36,482 hours of incidental equipment modification services for the precision pods, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Textron's Shadow UAS Reaches 1M Flight Hours; Henry Finneral Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron’s Shadow UAS Reaches 1M Flight Hours; Henry Finneral Comments

    Textron has recorded more than 1 million flight hours for the Shadow tactical unmanned aircraft system since the company launched the aerial vehicle in 1999. The company said Tuesday Shadow became the only UAS of its size to accomplish the feat and that more than 85 percent of the drone’s flights occurred during combat operations. Shadow TUAS supports the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Special Operations Command […] More

  • Seqirus, GlaxoSmithKline to Produce Flu Vaccine Vials for US Military, Civilian Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Seqirus, GlaxoSmithKline to Produce Flu Vaccine Vials for US Military, Civilian Agencies

    Seqirus and GlaxoSmithKline have each won a contract worth $18.1 million and $17.1 million, respectively, from the Defense Logistics Agency to manufacture multi-dose influenza vaccine vials. The pharmaceutical companies will produce the vials for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies under their one-year contracts, the Defense Department said Wednesday. […] More