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  • Raytheon Wins Air Force Contract for R&D to Boost Missile Capability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Wins Air Force Contract for R&D to Boost Missile Capability

    Raytheon will provide research and development support to help boost the U.S. Air Force‘s capabilities in air-launched tactical missiles under a $14 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will explore the research concepts of Small Advanced Capability Missiles and Miniature Self-Defense Munitions. SACM and MSDM will work to deliver increased missile capacity per sortie, missile […] More

  • L-3 to Repair, Overhaul Photonics Masts on Virginia-/Ohio-Class Submarines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 to Repair, Overhaul Photonics Masts on Virginia-/Ohio-Class Submarines

    L-3 Communications will provide depot-level upgrade, repair and overhaul services for photonics masts on Virginia-class and Ohio-class submarines under a three-year, $44.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract also covers engineering and technical support and the replacement, inspection and evaluation of the photonics mast and photonics mast variant, which are part of […] More

  • Lockheed, Blue Earth Partner on NY Energy Savings Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Blue Earth Partner on NY Energy Savings Project

    Lockheed Martin and clean energy company Blue Earth will collaborate on a project to provide heat and power and facilitate energy savings at the Brooklyn United Methodist Church Home in New York. Blue Earth said Tuesday the project covers lighting and boiler upgrades, cooling and heating unit replacements, larger standby generators and a combined heat and power unit. Lockheed will […] More

  • General Dynamics to Upgrade Navy EW Systems Under SEWIP Block 1B3 Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Upgrade Navy EW Systems Under SEWIP Block 1B3 Contract

    A General Dynamics business unit will provide electronic warfare system upgrades under a five-year production contract for the U.S. Navy‘s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 1B3. The company said Monday General Dynamics Mission Systems will perform work in Massachusetts and install the upgrades on Navy combat ships to help facilitate increased situational awareness. General Dynamics has worked on the SEWIP […] More

  • Navy Seeks Info on Small Tactical UAS for Foreign Partner ISR Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Info on Small Tactical UAS for Foreign Partner ISR Capacity

    The U.S. Navy has issued a request for information to support the Naval Air Systems Command’s market research on small tactical unmanned aircraft systems for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. In a notice posted Dec. 30 on FedBizOpps, the Navy said the STUAS will also work to bolster foreign partner capacity under guidelines set by the Defense […] More

  • Air Force Issues BAA on Funding Opportunity for Distributed Operations R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Issues BAA on Funding Opportunity for Distributed Operations R&D

    The U.S. Air Force has issued a solicitation for white papers on capabilities that support state-driven assessments of the service branch’s distributed adaptive planning and operations under a $9.9 million funding opportunity. A broad agency announcement posted Dec. 23 on FedBizOpps stated that the capability aims to build on periods of reduced communications between forward and operational […] More

  • Airbus, Perlan Project Team Move Engineless Aircraft to New Hangar in Nevada - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Perlan Project Team Move Engineless Aircraft to New Hangar in Nevada

    Airbus‘ U.S. subsidiary and Perlan Project sponsor Dennis Tito have opened a new facility at the Minden-Tahoe Airport in Nevada to house the volunteer-run project ahead of a summer flight for the Perlan 2 glider. Airbus Group said Dec. 9 the new hangar will accommodate Perlan 2 before it departs for Argentina, where the engineless glider will work to soar toward […] More

  • RCT Systems to Research Shipboard Power Conversion, Storage Components for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RCT Systems to Research Shipboard Power Conversion, Storage Components for Navy

    The power systems division of RCT Systems will perform research and development work on shipboard power conversion modules and energy storage components under a $12.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Wednesday RCT will provide testing and manufacturing support and conduct analysis on power conversion and energy storage systems for electrical architectures on Navy […] More

  • Air Force Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Work on 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Qualification Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Work on 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Qualification Standards

    Aerojet Rocketdyne will work with the U.S. Air Force develop standards for the qualification of 3-D printed rocket engine components under a $6 million contract awarded as part of the Booster Propulsion Technology Maturation broad agency announcement. The company said Tuesday it will work to leverage its experience with additive manufacturing processes and technologies to support the service branch’s […] More

  • Syn-Tech Lands Potential $92M Navy Fuel Mgmt System Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Syn-Tech Lands Potential $92M Navy Fuel Mgmt System Support Contract

    Syn-Tech Systems will provide support services for the FuelMaster fuel management systems under a potential six-year, $91.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday Syn-Tech will provide technical, installation and sustainment services for automated FuelMaster fuel service stations, fuel dispensing systems and other equipment at 507 international sites. The contract has a base period of one year […] More

  • USAID to Hold Outreach Session With Small Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAID to Hold Outreach Session With Small Businesses

    The U.S. Agency for International Development will hold an outreach session with small businesses on Jan. 22 to discuss the agency’s programming priorities and potential procurement opportunities. USAID said in a notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps that the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization will host the vendor outreach event. OSDBU works to facilitate small […] More

  • Unisys, Interior Dept Complete Financial Mgmt System Cloud Migration; Casey Coleman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys, Interior Dept Complete Financial Mgmt System Cloud Migration; Casey Coleman Comments

    Unisys has completed work to help migrate the Interior Department‘s Financial and Business Management System to a cloud computing environment as part of a $44 million task order awarded under the Foundation Cloud Hosting Services contract. The company said Tuesday it provided infrastructure-as-a-service technology that includes partner Virtustream‘s SAP in the Cloud hosting services to support the migration. Unisys […] More