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  • Textron Systems’ AAI Subsidiary Lands SOCOM Drone ISR Services IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Systems’ AAI Subsidiary Lands SOCOM Drone ISR Services IDIQ

    A Textron Systems subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $35 million contract to continue to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support services for the U.S. Special Operations Command through mid-endurance unmanned aerial systems. The sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded to AAI Corp. has a base term of six months and six option months and contains cost reimbursable and […] More

  • Boeing's Insitu Unit to Provide UAS ISR Services for SOCOM Under IDIQ Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu Unit to Provide UAS ISR Services for SOCOM Under IDIQ Contract

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has landed a one-year, $40.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from U.S. Special Operations Command to provide Mid-Endurance Unmanned Aircraft Systems intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services. The Defense Department said Friday SOCOM will obligate $40.7 million from fiscal 2016 operations and maintenance funds for individual task orders to be fulfilled worldwide. DoD noted the sole-source contract works to provide continuity […] More

  • Dynetics Designs New Guided Bomb With Larger Warhead for SOCOM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics Designs New Guided Bomb With Larger Warhead for SOCOM

    Dynetics has introduced a new guided bomb with a larger warhead that it will provide to the U.S. Special Operations Command under an $11.6 million contract awarded in early June to develop small glide munition, Flightglobal reported Tuesday. Stephen Trimble writes the nearly 60-pound guided bomb’s warhead case incorporates separate modules for the nose section, tail kit and wing […] 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

  • Raytheon Secures Socom Contract to Produce 'Silent Knight' Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Secures Socom Contract to Produce ‘Silent Knight’ Radar System

    Raytheon has landed a potential $49.5 million contract by the U.S. Special Operations Command to continue low-rate initial production of the Silent Knight radar system. The company’s space and airborne systems business will perform work in McKinney, Texas, and Forest, Mississippi, through October 2018 under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Silent Knight radar works to serve as a terrain following […] More

  • General Atomics Lithium-Ion Battery Tech Receives DNV GL Certification; Paul Clark Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lithium-Ion Battery Tech Receives DNV GL Certification; Paul Clark Comments

    A General Atomics-developed battery technology has received certification from the international certification body Det Norske Veritas Germanischer Lloyd following on-hull demonstration tests on a U.S. Special Operations Command undersea vehicle. DNV GL certified General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems‘ Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant battery after it completed more than 60 hours of at-sea “underway under battery power” operations, General Atomics said Monday. Paul Clark, LiFT program senior manager […] More

  • CACI to Offer Mission Planning Support Through SOCOM JGASS Contract; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Offer Mission Planning Support Through SOCOM JGASS Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International will work to support mission planning efforts of U.S. geographic combatant commands worldwide as part of a five-year, $180 million Joint Geospatial Analytic Support Services contract awarded to the company by Special Operations Command. The company said Monday the contract seeks to expand its footprint in the intelligence services market and contains a base term and four […] More