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  • Mission Ready Services Completes Body Armor Project for Marines; Francisco Martinez Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mission Ready Services Completes Body Armor Project for Marines; Francisco Martinez Comments

    Mission Ready Services has completed development of a body armor for the U.S. Marine Corps under a contract with the Marine Corps Systems Command. The company said Tuesday that Francisco Martinez, chief technical officer of Mission Ready Services’ Protect The Force subsidiary, led the two-year Marines Next Generation Body Armor project that was funded through the Office of Naval Research’s Rapid Innovation Fund. […] More

  • Klas Telecom Govt Adds Lawrence Brock to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Klas Telecom Govt Adds Lawrence Brock to Board of Directors

    Klas Telecom Government has appointed Lawrence Brock, a retired U.S. Army major general and former commanding general of the 311th Signal Command, to the board of directors for the company’s U.S. government and defense business. Dave Huisenga, Klas Telecom Government president and CEO, said Tuesday Brock will help the company formulate its strategy to deliver new communications equipment to warfighters and operators. […] More

  • Black Box to Update Marine Corps Facility's Telecom Network Architecture, Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Black Box to Update Marine Corps Facility’s Telecom Network Architecture, Systems

    The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded Black Box a $17.9 million contract to update and develop telecommunications network architectures and systems at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Black Box said Monday it will engineer, furnish, deploy, secure and evaluate the base’s communication, network and collaboration infrastructures in an effort to support a high availability unified communications […] More

  • The Office Group Receives DLA Off-The-Shelf Products Supply Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    The Office Group Receives DLA Off-The-Shelf Products Supply Contract

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded The Office Group a potential five-year, $40 million contract to provide commercially available off-the-shelf items for the Defense Department Electronic Mall. DoD said Monday the company will perform work under the multiple award schedule contract in Virginia in support of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. […] More

  • Report: US Defense Sector Expects Donald Trump’s Presidential Win to Drive Weapons Spending - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: US Defense Sector Expects Donald Trump’s Presidential Win to Drive Weapons Spending

    The U.S. defense industry expects Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election combined with Republicans retaining their majorities in both House and Senate to result in an increase in weapons spending, Forbes reported Wednesday. Loren Thompson writes that Trump has announced plans to update the country’s aging nuclear weaponry that includes long-range bombers, ground-based missiles and […] More

  • Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Visits HII's Ingalls Shipyard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Visits HII’s Ingalls Shipyard

    U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has visited Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Mississippi to address the shipyard’s leaders and staff workers. HII said Friday Mabus was accompanied by Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, and Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Mississippi) during his tour of the shipyard. Ingalls Shipbuilding-built vessels support the Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps as they conduct missions and […] More

  • Navy to Test 7 Lockheed-Built F-35B Aircraft Aboard USS America Warship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Test 7 Lockheed-Built F-35B Aircraft Aboard USS America Warship

    The U.S. Navy will conduct developmental and operational tests of seven Lockheed Martin-built F-35B Lightning II aircraft aboard an amphibious assault ship. Five of the seven F-35B short take-off and vertical-landing variant are scheduled to enter the operational testing phase onboard the USS America (LHA-6) vessel while the remaining two fighter jets will begin the third phase of the shipboard […] More

  • Naval Research Office Selects Decisive Analytics Corp to Create Multi-Modal Data System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Naval Research Office Selects Decisive Analytics Corp to Create Multi-Modal Data System

    The Office of Naval Research has awarded Decisive Analytics Corp. a $1.5 million contract to develop a system that will work to carry out analytics functions and utilize disparate, multi-modal data to support warfighters and decision-makers. The SEMantic Powered Event Reasoning system works to tag, identify and provide users information through an intelligent-natural language query mechanism, Decisive […] More

  • Engility Awarded $71M Naval Aircraft Engineering Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Awarded $71M Naval Aircraft Engineering Services Contract

    Engility has received a 21-month, $71 million contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division to provide systems engineering services on U.S. aerial platforms and weapons systems. The company said Friday it will assess the technical performance, suitability and risks of NAWCAD’s aircraft, weapons and integrated systems as part of the contract and perform a […] More

  • DoD to Adapt Aware's Biometric Tech for Applicant Screening Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD to Adapt Aware’s Biometric Tech for Applicant Screening Platform

    Aware will provide web-based biometric products for the Defense Department‘s efforts to gather and store fingerprints as part of DoD’s new SWFT Plus Enrollment applicant screening system. The company said Tuesday its WebEnroll, BioComponents and BioSP tools are designed to collect fingerprints through a web-based biometric enrollment application in an effort to relay, sustain and secure data across the department’s divisions, […] More

  • Bell-Boeing JV Taps Cobham to Develop Aerial Refueling System for Osprey Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell-Boeing JV Taps Cobham to Develop Aerial Refueling System for Osprey Aircraft

    A joint venture of Boeing and Bell Helicopter has awarded a contract to Cobham to build an aerial refueling system for the U.S. Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. Cobham said Tuesday the V-22 Aerial Refueling System will be based on the company’s FR300 Hose Drum Unit and will support Osprey’s capacity to refuel F-35B Lightning II and F/A-18 […] More