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  • Parsons Lands $70M Contract for MDA Facility Mgmt Advisory, Assistance Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Lands $70M Contract for MDA Facility Mgmt Advisory, Assistance Services

    Parsons has received a potential five-year, $70 million contract for advisory and assistance services to the Missile Defense Agency‘s facilities, military construction and the environmental management directorate. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Parsons’ government services unit will advise and assist MDA on construction oversight, demolition and disposal, deployment, lifecycle management, site activation, sustainment and integration efforts. Work will occur through June […] More

  • MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to Provide NOAA Satellite Data Access - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to Provide NOAA Satellite Data Access

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a potential four-year contract to provide data from the company’s synthetic aperture radar satellite to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA will use data collected by the RADARSAT-2 satellite to aid snow and ice forecasting monitoring activities, MDA said Wednesday. RADARSAT-2 is built to gather all-weather imagery and surveillance information in near-real time for use in the agriculture, aviation, defense, […] More

  • Boeing Wins $59M MDA Contract for Space Object Kill Vehicle Risk Reduction Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Wins $59M MDA Contract for Space Object Kill Vehicle Risk Reduction Work

    Boeing has won a three-year, $58.6 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to implement a technology risk reduction effort for a kill vehicle designed to destroy objects in space. The Defense Department said Friday the contract is part of MDA’s strategy to optimize performance and reduce risk for the Multi-Object Kill Vehicle‘s advanced communications, engagement management […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Preliminary Long-Range Radar Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Preliminary Long-Range Radar Design Review

    Lockheed Martin has completed the preliminary design review of a radar system designed to safeguard the U.S. from ballistic missile threats. The company developed the Long Range Discrimination Radar under a potential $784 million contract the Missile Defense Agency awarded in October 2015, Lockheed said Thursday. The LRDR platform is an S-band radar component of MDA’s […] More

  • Carey Smith: Parsons to Expand MDA Mission Support Under Potential $385M Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carey Smith: Parsons to Expand MDA Mission Support Under Potential $385M Award

    Parsons will provide advisory, technical, engineering and management support services to the Missile Defense Agency‘s ballistic missile defense system under a potential five-year, $385 million contract awarded in March. “This new contract expands Parsons’ support of the MDA’s mission to defend the U.S. and its allies against missile threats,” Carey Smith, Parsons federal group president, said in […] More

  • Raytheon to Continue BMD Radar Gallium Nitride Tech Devt for MDA; Dave Gulla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Continue BMD Radar Gallium Nitride Tech Devt for MDA; Dave Gulla Comments

    Raytheon has received a $10 million contract modification from the Missile Defense Agency to continue to develop hardware and software that will incorporate gallium nitride technology into a ballistic missile defense radar system. Raytheon said Thursday GaN technology will help boost the range, search and friend-or-foe determining capacity of the Army Navy/Transportable Radar Surveillance system, or AN/TPY-2. AN/TPY-2 is designed with a […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Reduce Risk of Space Object Kill Vehicle Under $60M MDA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Help Reduce Risk of Space Object Kill Vehicle Under $60M MDA Contract

    Raytheon has won a three-year, $59.6 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to carry out a technology risk reduction effort for the Multi-Object Kill Vehicle platform. The Defense Department said Monday the contract is part of MDA’s strategy to boost performance and decrease risk for communications systems; high sensitivity multi-band sensor; survivable processor; KV divert and attitude control system; […] More

  • Vishal Giare Named Air, Missile Defense Mission Area Lead at Johns Hopkins APL - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vishal Giare Named Air, Missile Defense Mission Area Lead at Johns Hopkins APL

    Vishal Giare, formerly a program area manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has been appointed as APL’s mission area executive for air and missile defense. He now leads the laboratory’s efforts to develop ballistic missile defense and anti-air warfare systems for U.S. forces and allies, APL said Thursday. Giare previously served as program area manager for Aegis BMD […] More

  • Orbital ATK Secures Follow-On MDA Contract for Rocket Motor Technical Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Secures Follow-On MDA Contract for Rocket Motor Technical Support

    The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Orbital ATK a five-year, $48.2 million contract to provide technical support for multiple types of government-furnished rocket motor. Orbital ATK will refurbish Trident I, Castor IVA/IVB, Orion and Orbus 1/1A rocket motors under the follow-on contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DoD added work also covers technical support, flight certification, safe handling, transportation, propulsion, propellant/motor […] More

  • MDA, Raytheon Incorporate New Sensors, Software Into SM-3 IIA Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA, Raytheon Incorporate New Sensors, Software Into SM-3 IIA Missile

    Raytheon and the Missile Defense Agency have updated the Standard Missile-3 IIA weapon with new software, sensors and infrared seeker designed to handle new threat data and detect hostile targets in space, Defense Systems reported Friday. MDA officials said the Raytheon-built SM-3 IIA missile worked to intercept a medium-range ballistic missile during a demonstration, Kris Osborn wrote. “We […] More

  • MTSI to Assist Navy, MDA in Kinetic Energy Weapon Evaluation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MTSI to Assist Navy, MDA in Kinetic Energy Weapon Evaluation

    Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has secured a five-year, $8 million task order to support the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division and the Missile Defense Agency in efforts to assess kinetic energy weapons designed to counter ballistic missile threats. MTSI said Tuesday the task order was awarded through the U.S. Navy‘s SeaPort-e contract vehicle and calls for the […] More

  • SSL-Managed MDA Division Gets NASA Recognition for ISS Robotic Servicing Support; Rich White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL-Managed MDA Division Gets NASA Recognition for ISS Robotic Servicing Support; Rich White Comments

    A Space Systems Loral-managed division of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates has received recognition from NASA for its support on a January robotic servicing mission at the International Space Station. SSL said Wednesday the Johnson Space Center acknowledged the support of MDA US Systems in planning and validating the maneuvers to update the ISS power system using the Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator robotic arm. Rich White, […] More