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  • CDI to Support Naval Surface Forces Pacific Under SeaPort-e Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CDI to Support Naval Surface Forces Pacific Under SeaPort-e Task Order

    CDI Corp. has secured a potential five-year, $38 million task order from the U.S. Navy to deploy subject matter experts who will support the Commander of the Naval Surface Forces Pacific. The company said Monday it will assemble a readiness assistance team to provide sailor-centric engineering and combat systems training, review materials, audit programs and […] More

  • Orbital ATK Demos Air-Launched Ballistic Missile Target As Part of MDA’s THAAD Flight Test Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Demos Air-Launched Ballistic Missile Target As Part of MDA’s THAAD Flight Test Program

    Orbital ATK has demonstrated its air-launched intermediate-range ballistic missile target in support of the test flight program for the Missile Defense Agency’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The Orbital ATK-built IRBM target simulated a ballistic missile threat after being launched from a C-17 aircraft and transported by parachutes prior to ignition, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide AEGIS Support for Australian Destroyer Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide AEGIS Support for Australian Destroyer Fleet

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $41.8 million modification to provide lifetime support for the Advanced Electronic Guidance and Instrumentation System on the Australian navy’s Hobart-class air warfare destroyers. The modification exercises a foreign military sales option under a potential $421 million contract awarded to the company last year, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Lockheed’s mission systems […] More

  • Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Industry Input on Future Guided-Missile Frigate

    The U.S. Navy has issued a request for information on existing designs of small surface combatant ships that can be modified to meet the service branch’s requirements for its future guided-missile frigates. The military branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that it plans to award a contract in fiscal year 2020 to design […] More

  • ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Lands 5-Year Navy Fleet Support Contract

    ManTech International has received a five-year, $39 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division’s Combat Direction Systems Activity to help maintain systems on U.S. Navy ships. The company said Friday it will deliver support to NSWCDD’s documentation management function and computer build and installation program under the contract. CDSA works to update and maintain systems on aircraft […] More

  • Northrop to Produce MK 48 Torpedo Components for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Produce MK 48 Torpedo Components for Navy

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $50.1 million contract to manufacture nose shell assemblies and transducer arrays for the U.S. Navy‘s MK 48 torpedo. The company said Thursday it will produce 45 torpedo components under the contract’s base term worth approximately $9.6 million. Northrop would build up to 180 additional components over five years if the […] More

  • Lockheed Starts CH-53K Flight Test Program Transition to Naval Air Station in Maryland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Starts CH-53K Flight Test Program Transition to Naval Air Station in Maryland

    Lockheed Martin has announced the completion of the first cross-country flight of the Sikorsky-built CH-53K King Stallion helicopter from a Florida-based facility to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland as part of the flight test program. The CH-53K aircraft took off Friday from Sikorsky’s facility in Maryland and traveled approximately 810 miles for six hours to Patuxent River with […] More

  • Kratos to Produce Aerial Target Systems Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Produce Aerial Target Systems Under Navy Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $34.6 million contract modification for the low-rate initial production of subsonic aerial target drone systems. Kratos said Wednesday the fiscal 2017 LRIP is the first annual production order for the BQM-177A drone system. The company also secured a $2.5 million contractor logistics support contract […] More

  • Sentar Gets SPAWAR Task Order for Security Engineering, Software Devt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sentar Gets SPAWAR Task Order for Security Engineering, Software Devt Support

    Sentar has secured a five-year, $9.9 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific for security engineering, software development and technical support services. SPAWARSYSCEN PAC awarded the order through the multiple-award Cyberspace Science, Research, Engineering and Technology Integration contract Sentar won a spot on in March, the company said Monday. Sentar will provide […] More

  • Navy, Australia Order Boeing F/A-18 Retrofit Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, Australia Order Boeing F/A-18 Retrofit Kits

    Boeing has received a $48.9 million delivery order to provide retrofit kits for the F/A-18 Hornet jets of the U.S. Navy and Australia. The order will support an engineering change proposal under the combat aircraft’s trailing edge flap retrofit redesign program, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted the full obligated amount at the time of award […] More

  • Metal Shark Lands $54M Navy Contract to Build Near Coastal Patrol Vessels - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Metal Shark Lands $54M Navy Contract to Build Near Coastal Patrol Vessels

    Metal Shark has won a potential $54.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to construct near coastal patrol vessels in support of the U.S. Southern Command‘s partner nations and the foreign military sales program. The Defense Department said Wednesday Metal Shark will provide up to 13 NCPVs, electro-optical infrared sensors, diagnostic equipment, in-country reactivation, crew […] More

  • Lockheed Gets $61M Contract Modification for Navy Aegis Facility O&M Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets $61M Contract Modification for Navy Aegis Facility O&M Support

    Lockheed Martin has received a one-year, $61.3 million contract modification to help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain development and test facilities for the Aegis combat system. The Defense Department said Monday the modification covers technical engineering, configuration management, associated equipment, quality assurance and information assurance services for the Combat Systems Engineering Development Site, SPY-1A Test Facility and the […] More