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  • Rheinmetall to Supply Ammo Products to US Navy and Marines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rheinmetall to Supply Ammo Products to US Navy and Marines

    A Rheinmetall subsidiary has secured $6.8 million in orders from the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps for infantry ammunition and special effects ordnance products. The company said Wednesday its Camden, Arkansas-based American Rheinmetall Munitions subsidiary will produce 40mm x 46 practice cartridges for Marines under a $3 million order. ARM will also provide MK 24 MOD 0 flash-bang […] More

  • Marine Corps Picks Tactical Edge for Post-Deployment System Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Picks Tactical Edge for Post-Deployment System Support Contract

    Tactical Edge has won a potential five-year, $49 million contract to provide post-deployment system support to the U.S. Marine Corps. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will aim to address the Marine Air-Ground Task Force’s logistics support system requirements through PDSS technical services. San Diego-based Tactical Edge will help the group manage projects, administer systems, develop […] More

  • Corps Solutions to Support Marine Range Control Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Corps Solutions to Support Marine Range Control Facilities

    Corps Solutions has received a $44.4 million contract from to provide support services to U.S. Marine Corps range control facilities. The Defense Department said Thursday that USMC will obligate $6.8 million in fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds for the first delivery order under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company will conduct base work at locations in Arizona, Virginia, California, Georgia, Hawaii, […] More

  • AT&T Joins DXC's Navy NGEN Recompete Team; Marilyn Crouther, Mike Leff Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T Joins DXC’s Navy NGEN Recompete Team; Marilyn Crouther, Mike Leff Comment

    AT&T has been named a teammate on DXC Technology‘s pursuit of the Next Generation Enterprise Network recompete contract for information technology services to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Virginia-based DXC, which currently holds the $3.5 billion NGEN contract, said in a press release it is forming an industry team to chase the follow-on award. […] More

  • Marine Corps Seeks Industry Input on Man-Portable Laser-Targeting Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Seeks Industry Input on Man-Portable Laser-Targeting Technology

    The U.S. Marine Corps seeks industry input for the potential acquisition of a man-portable rapid laser-targeting platform that integrates three currently used systems. The Marine Corps Systems Command considers a two-phased approach to full operational capacity for the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System, the Marines said through a Federal Business Opportunities sources-sought notice posted Wednesday. NGHTS, […] More

  • Bloomberg: Pentagon's Fiscal 2017 Contract Spend Reached $331B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg: Pentagon’s Fiscal 2017 Contract Spend Reached $331B

    Bloomberg‘s government arm has analyzed the Defense Department‘s unclassified contract obligations and found that DoD awarded a total of $331 billion to contractors over the last fiscal year. Robert Levinson, a senior defense analyst at Bloomberg Government, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday that the Department of the Navy, which includes the U.S. Marine Corps, received the highest DoD […] More

  • BAE-Iveco Team Bids on Marine Amphibious Combat Vehicle Production Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE-Iveco Team Bids on Marine Amphibious Combat Vehicle Production Contract

    A team of BAE Systems and Iveco Defence Vehicles has submitted its proposal to the U.S. Marine Corps for the production of amphibious combat vehicles. BAE said Tuesday its offering for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle 1.1 program demonstrated a capacity to launch from an amphibious ship and return after a 12 nautical mile open ocean swim. The Marine […] More

  • Andreas Bernhard: Sikorsky Uses New Digital Tools in CH-53K Devt Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andreas Bernhard: Sikorsky Uses New Digital Tools in CH-53K Devt Process

    Andreas Bernhard, CH-53K chief engineer at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky business, has said Sikorsky has adopted software tools such as LCA and CATIA V5 and other digital technologies to produce a paperless design of the CH-53K helicopter, Rotor & Wing International reported Monday. “It’s all model based; there are no more drawings,” he said at the SciTech […] More

  • Airborne Systems to Build Multimission Parachute Tech for Marines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airborne Systems to Build Multimission Parachute Tech for Marines

    Airborne Systems of North America has won a potential five-year, $26.7 million contract to develop a parachute system and provide related reports to the U.S. Marine Corps. The Marine Corps received two proposals for the the Enhanced Multi-Mission Parachute System procurement contract and will obligate $2.3 million on the first delivery order, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will […] More

  • Report: Marine Corps to Pick New Amphibious Vehicle by Summer 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Marine Corps to Pick New Amphibious Vehicle by Summer 2018

    The U.S. Marine Corps will select by summer 2018 a new amphibious combat vehicle from prototypes developed by BAE Systems and Science Applications International Corp. to replace its existing fleet of Assault ­Amphibious Vehicles, the Marine Corps Times reported Thursday. The service branch awarded two contracts worth up to $225 million combined to BAE and SAIC in […] More

  • In The News: Ret. Brig.- Gen. Frank Kelley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In The News: Ret. Brig.- Gen. Frank Kelley, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Unmanned Systems

    By land, air or sea, unmanned systems are a technological marvel in today’s efforts in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, as well as mine warfare, electronic warfare and command and control operations. Some of the benefits to unmanned systems are reducing risk to U.S. sailors and marines, as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy (DASN) for […] More