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  • USSOCOM Taps General Atomics to Deliver Lithium-Ion Fault Tolerant Battery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USSOCOM Taps General Atomics to Deliver Lithium-Ion Fault Tolerant Battery

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has received a contract to develop and provide a battery system that would power propulsion units of the U.S. Special Operations Command’s underwater vehicles. The company said Monday it will work to develop Lithium-Ion Fault Tolerant prototype batteries for integration and testing with these vehicles that work to transport USSOCOM […] More

  • Sierra Nevada to Help Maintain SOCOM Tactical Radio Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada to Help Maintain SOCOM Tactical Radio Software

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has received a five-year, $47M contract to provide sustainment support and other services for the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s Tactical Radio Application Extension and Android TRAX software. The company will help USSOCOM maintain, integrate, demonstrate and manage the performance of fielded systems, as well as train field service representatives under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

  • Tim Creighton Promoted to VATC VP Post - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Creighton Promoted to VATC VP Post

    Tim Creighton, formerly a program manager at Visual Awareness and Technologies Consulting and a 28-year U.S. Army veteran, has been promoted to vice president of operations at the military training contractor. VATC said Thursday Creighton will oversee operational activities and corporate functions as well as help maintain the company’s team functionality, customer service and growth efforts. […] More

  • Boeing Gets $81M MH-47G Special Operations Helicopter Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Gets $81M MH-47G Special Operations Helicopter Delivery Order

    Boeing has received an $80.7 million order to build and deliver four MH-47G Chinook  rotary-wing helicopters to the U.S. Special Operations Command. SOCOM issued the delivery order to address an “urgent” requirement to sustain special operations forces’ heavy-assault, rotary-wing platform and address impacts of an increased SOF operational demand, the Defense Department said Thursday. The command will obligate $33.7 million […] More

  • Lockheed to Update USSOCOM C-130 Operational Flight Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update USSOCOM C-130 Operational Flight Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has received a four-year, $18 million contract to provide flight program upgrade services for the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s C-130 transport aircraft. The company will also help USSOCOM engineer and integrate multiple third-party systems under the indefinite–delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will occur at Lockheed’s facility in Marietta, Georgia, through April 2022. USSOCOM […] More

  • Army Special Operations Command to Exercise 1st Option on General Dynamics' Mission Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Special Operations Command to Exercise 1st Option on General Dynamics’ Mission Training Support Contract

    The U.S. Army Special Operations Command intends to award General Dynamics‘ One Source business an option under a potential five-year, $30.8 million contract for mission training support services. The firm-fixed price contract was originally valued at $26.9 million and covered support for the U.S. Special Operations Command’s G3 organization, the Defense Department said Thursday. USSOCOM obligated $5.1 million for […] More

  • AeroVironment-MDA Team to Provide Small UAS for Canada's Maritime Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment-MDA Team to Provide Small UAS for Canada’s Maritime Operations

    The Canadian department of national defense has selected a team of AeroVironment and Maxar Technologies‘ MDA subsidiary to provide small unmanned aerial systems for deployment aboard the Canadian navy’s maritime coastal defense vessels. AeroVironment said Wednesday the military service will receive Puma II AE mini UAS equipped with 360-degree antenna and Mantis i45 sensor systems designed to support […] More

  • General Atomics Produces Initial Li-ion Battery Shipset for USSOCOM Combat Submersible - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Produces Initial Li-ion Battery Shipset for USSOCOM Combat Submersible

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has produced and delivered the first batch of Lithium-ion Fault Tolerant batteries for a new transport vehicle of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Lockheed Martin contracted GA-EMS to supply the LiFT battery systems designed to power propulsion and internal support systems of USSOCOM’s Dry Combat Submersible platform, General Atomics said Thursday. USSOCOM awarded Lockheed […] More

  • Raytheon to Develop Radar Operational Flight Software for USSOCOM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Develop Radar Operational Flight Software for USSOCOM

    Raytheon has received a $9.75 million sole-source contract to develop radar flight software for the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s fixed-wing aircraft. The company will develop the Silent Knight Radar Operational Flight program under the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. USSOCOM will finance work through task or delivery orders and will obligate $3 million […] More

  • USSOCOM Taps Rockwell Collins for Avionics Tech Repair, Field Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USSOCOM Taps Rockwell Collins for Avionics Tech Repair, Field Support Services

    Rockwell Collins has received a potential five-year, $30.7 million contract to repair a common avionics architecture system for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The company said Monday it will also provide CAAS logistics, field support and spares management support under the contract. CAAS is based on the Flight2 open systems architecture and consists of multiple navigation, communications and mission […] More

  • BAE Tests Head-Up Display on 3 Aircraft Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Tests Head-Up Display on 3 Aircraft Platforms

    BAE Systems has conducted initial flight tests of its see-through head-up display that works to show flight information directly in a pilot’s line of sight without blocking views. The company said Tuesday its LiteHUD platform was flown aboard the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s AC-130J aircraft, the Textron-made Scorpion jet and BAE-built Advanced Hawk demonstrator aircraft. LiteHUD has […] More