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  • Northrop’s Global Hawk UAS Receives Milestone C Approval - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s Global Hawk UAS Receives Milestone C Approval

    Northrop Grumman has received Milestone C approval for the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system it built for the U.S. Air Force. The approval from the Milestone Decision Authority is part of the Defense Department‘s acquisition process and paves the way for the Global Hawk to move into the production phase, the company said Tuesday. “The most important date in any […] More

  • Raytheon Enters Full-Rate Production for SM-6 Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Enters Full-Rate Production for SM-6 Missiles

    Raytheon has entered full-rate production of its Standard Missile-6 rocket for the U.S. Navy at the company’s Redstone Arsenal production facility in Alabama. “Full-rate production allows us to significantly ramp up production and deliver to the U.S. Navy the quantities it needs to further increase operational effectiveness,” Mike Campisi, SM-6 senior program director at Raytheon, said Wednesday. The SM-6 […] More

  • Engility, Vencore Among 2015 Corporate Growth Awards Winners for Washington M&A Deals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility, Vencore Among 2015 Corporate Growth Awards Winners for Washington M&A Deals

    Engility, Vencore, Maximus and Raytheon are among the 2015 winners of ACG National Capital‘s annual Corporate Growth Awards for mergers and acquisitions and other strategic corporate deals for companies with a presence in the Washington metropolitan area. “We want to congratulate this year’s winners for continuing their contributions to one of the largest, most successful economies in […] More

  • Raytheon Extends Hypersonic Missile Development Work for DARPA; Tom Bussing Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Extends Hypersonic Missile Development Work for DARPA; Tom Bussing Comments

    Raytheon has been awarded a $20,489,714 contract modification to continue the company’s development work for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s hypersonic missile project. Raytheon will develop and demonstrate the tactical boost glide technology in Tucson, Arizona, the company said Wednesday. Tom Bussing, vice president of advanced missile systems at Raytheon, said the program aims to address […] More

  • University of Central Florida Wins Raytheon-Sponsored 2015 NCCDC; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    University of Central Florida Wins Raytheon-Sponsored 2015 NCCDC; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    The University of Central Florida emerged as champions of the Raytheon-sponsored 2015 National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition held over the weekend in San Antonio, Texas. Raytheon said Sunday UCF won for the second consecutive year and bested nine other teams during the finals of the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security competition. “The talented men and women who […] More

  • Northrop to Produce IMUs for Raytheon Targeting Systems; Bob Mehltretter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Produce IMUs for Raytheon Targeting Systems; Bob Mehltretter Comments

    Northrop Grumman has agreed to manufacture inertial measurement units for integration into Raytheon-built optical targeting systems under an agreement that will run through 2018. Raytheon’s space and airborne systems unit placed a $2 million initial purchase order for LN-200 IMUs in December, Northrop said Thursday. Robert Mehltretter, vice president of navigation and positioning systems at Northrop […] More

  • Raytheon Picks SES to Host FAA Payload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Picks SES to Host FAA Payload

    SES Government Solutions will host a Federal Aviation Administration payload on the company’s satellite under a 14-year contract with Raytheon. SES will construct the wide area augmentation systems payload, launch the SES-15 satellite and operate the spacecraft for 11 years in orbit, SES said Wednesday. The SES-15 satellite is scheduled for launch in 2017. The […] More

  • Raytheon Releases New Cyber Defense Offerings; Ed Hammersla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Releases New Cyber Defense Offerings; Ed Hammersla Comments

    Raytheon has introduced a new portfolio of cybersecurity tools designed to help enterprise customers track, prevent and respond to advanced threats. The SureView offering is designed to integrate the company’s acquired technologies and in-house platforms for network and data security, Ed Hammersla, president of Raytheon’s cyber products, said Tuesday. The suite includes Insider Threat to […] More

  • Raytheon Receives Exelis Ground Encryptors for US Air Force GPS; Joe Rambala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Receives Exelis Ground Encryptors for US Air Force GPS; Joe Rambala Comments

    Exelis has handed Raytheon six updated ground encryptors built for installation in the operational control system of the U.S. Air Force’s global positioning system. The encryptors are designed to help secure data transmitted between OCX and navigation payloads aboard the Air Force’s GPS satellites, Exelis said Wednesday. Joe Rambala, Exelis vice president and general manager […] More

  • Bluestone Capital Partners: Defense Sector to Start Recovery in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bluestone Capital Partners: Defense Sector to Start Recovery in 2015

    A new report by Bluestone Capital Partners indicates an improving market performance for the defense industry in 2015 after almost five years of being outperformed by the aerospace industry. The company said that businesses in the aerospace and defense sector with significant defense exposure have achieved a median trading multiple of at least 10-times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization this year […] More

  • Navy Set to Deploy Raytheon's AIM-120D Missile System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Set to Deploy Raytheon’s AIM-120D Missile System

    The U.S. Navy has declared initial operating capability for a Raytheon-built medium range air-to-air missile system after the military service completed flight testing of the technology. Raytheon said Thursday the Navy tested the AMRAAM AIM-120D missile on F/A-18 fighters and is scheduled to deploy the system later this year. According to the company, the U.S. […] More

  • Visiongain: Cybersecurity Market to Hit $75B by 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Visiongain: Cybersecurity Market to Hit $75B by 2015

    Visiongain forecasts that the global cybersecurity market will reach a value of $75.4 billion by the end of 2015 due to continued cyber issues and legislation and investment activity focused on cyber capabilities. The company said Tuesday its latest report on the market covers an analysis of cybersecurity growth through 2025 across the network, data, endpoint, application, cloud security, identity management and […] More