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  • Navy, SkySafe to Test Mobile Anti-Drone Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, SkySafe to Test Mobile Anti-Drone Platform

    The U.S. Navy‘s Special Warfare Command has awarded SkySafe a $1.5 million contract to test the company’s counter-unmanned aerial systems platform, FCW reported Thursday. SkySafe CEO Grant Jordan told FCW that the company’s anti-UAS system is designed to support installation on vehicles and use early detection and radio signal jamming to protect against enemy drones. Jordan added […] 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

  • Boeing to Integrate ViaSat Tactical Comms Terminals on Marines' AV-8B Attack Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Integrate ViaSat Tactical Comms Terminals on Marines’ AV-8B Attack Aircraft

    Boeing has awarded ViaSat a potential $20 million contract to manufacture small tactical terminals for integration onto AV-8B Harrier attack planes for the U.S. Marine Corps and international defense customers. ViaSat said Monday its KOR-24A STT units will work to help Harrier pilots communicate with other U.S. and allied airmen or ground forces via the Link 16 and Soldier Radio Waveform networks. “This order from Boeing […] More

  • General Dynamics Tests 4G Tactical Network at USMC Ship-to-Shore Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Tests 4G Tactical Network at USMC Ship-to-Shore Demo

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has tested a 4G tactical broadband communications network during the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Ship-to-Shore Maneuver, Exploration and Experimentation event in California. The company said Wednesday its engineering team streamed video at a 62-mile distance between a tactical antenna mounted on San Clemente island and an antenna deployed at Red Beach in Camp Pendleton. General Dynamics […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Milestone C Approval for Sikorsky CH-53K Helicopter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Milestone C Approval for Sikorsky CH-53K Helicopter

    Lockheed Martin has received Milestone C approval to transition the Sikorsky-built CH-53K King Stallion helicopter to the low-rate initial production phase. Lockheed said Tuesday the CH-53K aircraft was granted the approval after it completed production readiness reviews and initial operational assessment by the U.S. Marine Corps in October 2016. The helicopter also completed its Defense Acquisition […] More

  • General Dynamics Orders Rocket Illuminating Flares From Orbital ATK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Orders Rocket Illuminating Flares From Orbital ATK

    Orbital ATK has secured a contract modification from General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems business to supply visible and infrared illuminating flares for Hydra-70 rockets. The follow-on order is meant to address the U.S. government’s requirement for M257 and M278 rocket warheads that work to provide tactical illumination in visible and infrared spectra, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. General Dynamics awarded Orbital […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order

    Lockheed Martin has secured a two-year, $64.7 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to perform work on integrated core processor of the company-built F-35 fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday Lockheed will help address manufacturing sources constraints projected under F-35 Lot 15 production in support of the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and international partners. […] More

  • Northrop, Marine Corps Demo G/ATOR Radar's Weapon Tracking Function - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Marine Corps Demo G/ATOR Radar’s Weapon Tracking Function

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Marine Corps have tested the AN/TPS-80 ground/air task-oriented radar system’s capacity to detect and track various types of rocket, artillery and mortar rounds. The company said Thursday the three-week demonstration involved 40 different weapon scenarios and 700 live shots. The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop a potential four-year, $376 million contract in September 2016  to produce […] More

  • SAIC Inaugurates 1st Amphibious Combat Vehicle Prototype for Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Inaugurates 1st Amphibious Combat Vehicle Prototype for Marine Corps

    Science Applications International Corp. has rolled out an amphibious combat vehicle model developed for the U.S. Marine Corps at a company-run integration facility in Charleston, South Carolina. SAIC said Tuesday the ACV 1.1 prototype is an updated version of ST Kinetics‘ TERREX vehicle and designed to help the Marine Corps transport fighting units from ship to shore. The service […] More

  • Eaton to Help Update Navy, Marine Corps Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eaton to Help Update Navy, Marine Corps Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition Systems

    The U.S. Army‘s Engineering and Support Center has awarded Eaton a contract to support the modernization of supervisory control and data acquisition systems installed at U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps facilities in San Diego, California. Eaton said Tuesday it will supply equipment and provide project management, labor, engineering, supervision and transportation services to help the Naval […] More

  • Textron Unit Selects CPI Aerostructures to Produce AH-1Z Helicopter Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Unit Selects CPI Aerostructures to Produce AH-1Z Helicopter Components

    Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has awarded CPI Aerostructures a potential $14.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to supply engine cowl and support assemblies for the AH-1Z Viper attack helicopter. The contract will run through Dec. 31, 2020, and falls under the U.S. Marine Corps‘ H-1 Program of Records initiative that seeks up to 189 AH-1Z and 160 UH-1Y Venom utility helicopters, CPI Aero said Tuesday. Douglas […] More

  • Marine Corps OKs Magpul's Polymer-Based Magazine for Combat & Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps OKs Magpul’s Polymer-Based Magazine for Combat & Training

    The U.S. Marine Corps has cleared Magpul Industries‘ polymer-based magazine for combat and training applications, Military Times reported Sunday. Shawn Snow writes the Marine Corps Systems Command said Magpul’s GenM3 PMAG was the only magazine that met performance requirements across all combinations of the service branch’s 5.56mm rifles and ammunition during tests. “The specification to use ‘only tested, approved, and […] More