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  • Tyonek Unit to Help Air Force Integrate UH-1N Performance Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tyonek Unit to Help Air Force Integrate UH-1N Performance Tracking System

    A business unit of Tyonek Native Corporation has received a potential $16 million contract to install a technology for the U.S. Air Force to monitor the performance of the military branch’s UH-1N Huey helicopter fleet. Tyonek Global Services will support the integration of a health and usage monitoring system into the utility helicopter platform under the firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable contract, the […] More

  • Booz Allen-NCMS Team Helps Air Force Address Energy Assurance Goals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen-NCMS Team Helps Air Force Address Energy Assurance Goals

    A partnership of Booz Allen Hamilton and The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences has supported the U.S. Air Force‘s efforts to sustain energy across installations. NCMS and Booz Allen entered an agreement with the Air Force assistant secretary for installations, environment, and energy and the Office of Energy Assurance to help installations achieve energy assurance, […] More

  • Former Military Leaders James McLaughlin, Robert Latiff Named to Polaris Alpha’s Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Military Leaders James McLaughlin, Robert Latiff Named to Polaris Alpha’s Advisory Board

    Polaris Alpha has appointed retired military officers James “Kevin” McLaughlin and Robert Latiff to its board of advisers. McLaughlin and Latiff will provide the leadership team with strategic guidance and advice as the defense technology company delivers services to government, intelligence community and military clients, Polaris Alpha said Wednesday. McLaughlin is a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general […] More

  • Kaman Receives $85M Air Force Bomb Fuze Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kaman Receives $85M Air Force Bomb Fuze Order

    Kaman‘s aerospace business segment has received a potential $85 million order to supply bomb fuzes to the U.S. Air Force and 18 foreign military customers. The Air Force issued the initial order under option 13 of the Joint Programmable Fuzes acquisition contract and the company is scheduled to deliver the JPFs over the next two […] More

  • Honeywell Wins Air Force Accelerometer R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Wins Air Force Accelerometer R&D Contract

    Honeywel International has won a potential $10.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop an acceleration measurement device. The Defense Department said Tuesday Honeywell support research and development of a low noise, high sensitivity vibrating beam accelerometer under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. Work  will occur in Glendale, Arizona, through Feb. 20, 2025 and […] More

  • Boeing, Air Force Vet Craig Cooning Elected to BridgeSat's Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Air Force Vet Craig Cooning Elected to BridgeSat’s Board of Directors

    Craig Cooning, an 11-year Boeing veteran and president of its network and space systems business, has joined the board of directors at satellite communications technology firm BridgeSat. BridgeSat said Tuesday it added Cooning as a board member as the company aims to build an advanced optical communications network designed to help address a growing demand for satellite data. Cooning previously […] More

  • Lockheed, USAF Test Norwegian F-35A Drag Chute - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, USAF Test Norwegian F-35A Drag Chute

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have begun to test the performance of a drag chute that is designed for installation on Norway’s F-35A conventional takeoff and landing aircraft. The company said Monday the initial icy runway ground test at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska is part of a certification process for the Norwegian F-35A drag chute and […] More

  • Air Force Taps ELTA North America to Provide Stratcom Counter-UAS Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps ELTA North America to Provide Stratcom Counter-UAS Equipment

    An Israel Aerospace Industries subsidiary has secured a potential $39.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide counter-unmanned aerial system supplies to the U.S. Strategic Command. ELTA North America will deliver the counter-UAS equipment in support of Stratcom’s joint emergent operational requirements, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Contract work is scheduled to be completed by […] More

  • Leonardo on Track to Build T-100 Aircraft Manufacturing Facility in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo on Track to Build T-100 Aircraft Manufacturing Facility in Alabama

    Leonardo executives have told Alabama government officials that the aerospace company is on track to build a T-100 trainer aircraft manufacturing facility in the state. Leonardo toured a group of Alabama officials around its Venegono Superiore aircraft factory in Italy to demonstrate the production of T-100 trainers, the company’s U.S.-based Leonardo DRS subsidiary said Thursday Leonardo plans […] More

  • Lockheed Subcontracts CAE USA for C-130J Weapons Systems Trainer Devt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Subcontracts CAE USA for C-130J Weapons Systems Trainer Devt Support

    CAE’s U.S. subsidiary has received subcontracts to support Lockheed Martin in the design and production of C-130J weapons systems trainers for deployment to multiple U.S. air bases in 2020 and 2021. CAE USA will help build six C-130J WSTs for the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard  through orders booked during CAE’s fiscal 2018 second quarter, […] More

  • Reports: Virgin Orbit Lands DoD Contract to Demo Air Launch System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Virgin Orbit Lands DoD Contract to Demo Air Launch System

    Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch venture spun out of commercial space company Virgin Galactic, has secured a contract to demonstrate its air-launched rocket technology through the Defense Department‘s Space Test Program, TechCrunch reported Thursday. The report said Long Beach, California-based Virgin Orbit expects the LauncherOne prototype flight to take place as early as January 2019. LauncherOne […] More