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  • Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon 'Progresses' on Air Force GPS Satellite Ground Control System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon ‘Progresses’ on Air Force GPS Satellite Ground Control System

    Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services business segment, has said the company will continue to collaborate with the U.S. Air Force to further develop a ground control system for GPS satellites, Reuters reported Tuesday. “We feel good about the progress we’ve made,” he told Reuters reporter Andrea Shalal at the Farnborough International Airshow. […] More

  • Matt Cicchinelli: PAR Technology to Support Air Force's Radio Frequency Comms R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Cicchinelli: PAR Technology to Support Air Force’s Radio Frequency Comms R&D Program

    A PAR Technology subsidiary has received a five-year, $5.1 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate to research, develop, test and evaluate radio frequency communications tools. PAR Technology said Tuesday its government systems business will work to help AFRL address RF technical requirements for military vehicles and weapon systems tests at the U.S. Air Force and other Defense Department components. Matt Cicchinelli, […] More

  • L-3 Completes 1st C-130 Aircraft Systems Upgrade for Argentina; Mark Von Schwarz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Completes 1st C-130 Aircraft Systems Upgrade for Argentina; Mark Von Schwarz Comments

    L-3 Communications has completed system updates to a C-130 military transport aircraft for Argentina under the U.S. Air Force‘s foreign military sales program. The company’s platform integration division refreshed the aircraft’s communication, navigation, air traffic management and critical environmental and power systems, L-3 said Tuesday. The updated C-130 is the first of five aircraft slated for avionics and […] More

  • MTI Instruments to Provide Vibration Measurement, Maintenance Services to USAF - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MTI Instruments to Provide Vibration Measurement, Maintenance Services to USAF

    A subsidiary of Mechanical Technology Inc. has received a potential $9.35 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to deliver PBS 4100+ vibration measurement and balancing systems. MTI Instruments will also provide maintenance services under the contract, with initial orders anticipated within the next two months and succeeding orders anticipated for next year, MTI said Friday. The company added that the first order will […] More

  • UTC to Integrate Sensor Tech Into Air Force ISR System; Kevin Raftery Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC to Integrate Sensor Tech Into Air Force ISR System; Kevin Raftery Comments

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a contract to United Technologies Corp. to integrate a sensor system with the U.S. Air Force’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection and processing infrastructure. UTC said Monday its aerospace systems unit will perform a study on the integration of the MS-177 sensor system into the Distributed Common Ground System to help provide image processing tools, command […] More

  • MaryLou Thomas Takes Helm of Triumph's Aerospace Structures Unit as EVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MaryLou Thomas Takes Helm of Triumph’s Aerospace Structures Unit as EVP

    MaryLou Thomas, former head of Triumph Group Inc.‘s composites business area, has been appointed executive vice president of the company’s aerospace structures business unit. TGI said Tuesday Thomas, who will be based at the company’s Arlington facility in Texas, brings more than three decades of experience from work in the aerospace and defense industry, including stints with the U.S. […] More

  • Raytheon, USAF Conduct Latest Flight Tests on Small Diameter Bomb II - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, USAF Conduct Latest Flight Tests on Small Diameter Bomb II

    Raytheon, in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force, has started a new round of flight tests on the Small Diameter Bomb II seeker missile, which comes with additional modes for coordinated attack and laser illuminated attack. The team tested SDB II against fixed and moving targets in a number of tactical scenarios in efforts to update the missile’s […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a potential $34.8 million contract to demonstrate an updated electronic warfare technology for the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer. Raytheon said Sunday it is scheduled to complete development of MALD-X, successor of the current MALD-J model, within a 24-month period and will conduct two flight demonstrations to showcase the aerial decoy’s EW upgrades. MALD-X will feature an EW payload, a low-altitude flight mode and […] More

  • Leonardo-Finmeccanica Unveils Dual Role Version of M-346 Trainer Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo-Finmeccanica Unveils Dual Role Version of M-346 Trainer Aircraft

    Leonardo-Finmeccanica has introduced a dual role model of the M-346 trainer, developed by the Italian conglomerate’s subsidiary Alenia Aermacchi, and expects the new aircraft to enter service in 2018, Defense News reported Sunday. Tom Kington writes the M-346FT trainer is designed to shift between pilot training application and combat operations. The aircraft incorporates a new tactical datalink and five hard points […] More

  • Composite Engineering Nabs Air Force UAS R&D Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Composite Engineering Nabs Air Force UAS R&D Deal

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $40.8 million cost-share research-and-development contract to Composite Engineering Inc. to help the service branch develop an unmanned aerial system. The Defense Department said Friday CEI will design, build, assemble and test a technical baseline for a new long-range, high-speed UAS platform as well as identify key technology for future aircraft demonstrations and a vehicle for […] More

  • Air Force Picks Millennium Engineering and Integration for Pad Safety Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Millennium Engineering and Integration for Pad Safety Support IDIQ

    Millennium Engineering and Integration Co. has won a $21.5 million contract to identify and mitigate risks associated with the systems used in the U.S. Air Force space launch pad. The Defense Department said Thursday Millennium Engineering will oversee safety operations, support launch countdown, address anomalies, perform safety inspections, conduct operations safety reviews for critical procedures […] More

  • Serco's US Arm to Install C4I Infrastructure at Air Force C2 Hub in Nebraska; Dan Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco’s US Arm to Install C4I Infrastructure at Air Force C2 Hub in Nebraska; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary has received a four-year, $12 million contract to install command, control, communications, computers and intelligence infrastructure for a new U.S. Air Force command and control facility in Omaha, Nebraska. The U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Systems Center Pacific awarded the contract to Serco Inc. in a move to help […] More