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  • Mark Signorelli: BAE to Produce Armored Vehicles to Upgrade Army's Personnel Carriers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Signorelli: BAE to Produce Armored Vehicles to Upgrade Army’s Personnel Carriers

    BAE Systems will provide the U.S. Army with engineering, manufacturing and development and low-rate initial production support for the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle under a potential $1.2 billion contract. The company said Tuesday that it will produce 29 AMPVs for the EMD phase of the project and another 289 units for the LRIP phase to replace the Army’s fleet of M113 armored […] More

  • Raytheon to Provide Support Services for Navy Shipboard Electronic Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Provide Support Services for Navy Shipboard Electronic Systems

    Raytheon will provide lifecycle engineering and support services for the shipboard electronic systems on the U.S. Navy‘s LPD 17-class ships under a potential $132.1 million contract. The company said Dec. 23 that the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded through the Naval Sea Systems Command runs through December 2019. Raytheon will perform work at locations abroad and in California, Virginia, Mississippi and Florida. More

  • Report: Boeing, Navy Talk Growler Production Extension Through 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing, Navy Talk Growler Production Extension Through 2017

    Boeing is working with the U.S. Navy on a potential contract modification to extend production of the EA-18G Growler aircraft through the end of 2017 to accommodate the additional 15 planes funded by Congress, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes that Congress included $1.56 billion in the fiscal 2015 spending bill to cover the procurement of 15 more Growlers and enable […] More

  • Kathy Lueders: NASA, Industry Partners Eye Continued Commercial Crew Program Work in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kathy Lueders: NASA, Industry Partners Eye Continued Commercial Crew Program Work in 2015

    NASA and its industry partners Blue Origin, Boeing, Sierra Nevada Corp. and SpaceX together passed 23 milestones in the Commercial Crew Program in 2014 as they seek to develop crew space transportation systems. NASA said Monday the program also included technical review sessions to ensure the reliability and safety of those systems, which would carry astronauts to and from the […] More

  • Iris Bombelyn: Lockheed MUOS-3 to Expand Navy Satellite Comms Coverage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iris Bombelyn: Lockheed MUOS-3 to Expand Navy Satellite Comms Coverage

    The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin team has encased the latest Mobile User Objective System satellite within its payload fairing ahead of the scheduled Jan. 20 launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. Iris Bombelyn, vice president of narrowband communications at Lockheed, said Friday the MUOS-3 satellite will work to expand the coverage of the MUOS mobile satellite communications network. She […] More

  • Brendan O'Connell: Harris Radios, Intercom Systems to Support Philippine Tactical Comm Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brendan O’Connell: Harris Radios, Intercom Systems to Support Philippine Tactical Comm Modernization

    The Philippine army has placed an $18 million order for Harris‘ Falcon III vehicular radios and intercom systems as part of the country’s military communications modernization program. Harris said Friday the foreign military sale to the Philippine army’s light armored division includes Falcon RF-7800V Combat Net Radios and RF-7800I Intercom Systems. Brendan O’Connell, president of international business at Harris RF […] More

  • Dan Hart: Boeing Preps for Next GPS IIF Launch as 8th Satellite Joins Constellation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Hart: Boeing Preps for Next GPS IIF Launch as 8th Satellite Joins Constellation

    Boeing‘s GPS Space Vehicle-69 satellite has joined the 31-satellite GPS System IIF constellation after almost two months of on-orbit checkout and validation as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s network modernization efforts. The company said Thursday this is the eighth of 12 planned GPS IIF satellites and the fourth launched this year to support a growing number of users and […] More

  • Rob Weiss: Lockheed to Continue Open Architecture Support for USAF Aircraft Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rob Weiss: Lockheed to Continue Open Architecture Support for USAF Aircraft Modernization

    Lockheed Martin has deployed its Skunk Works Enterprise Open Systems Architecture to integrate multiple sensors that are compliant with the U.S. Air Force‘s Open Mission Systems standard into the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. The company said Dec. 10 that the three-week flight test series utilized Lockheed’s mission management software, an IP-based data link and four OMS-compliant sensor payloads to perform mission operations. Rob Weiss, […] More

  • Richard Montoni: MAXIMUS Delivers UK Work Program to Additional Region - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard Montoni: MAXIMUS Delivers UK Work Program to Additional Region

    MAXIMUS will deliver the U.K. department for work and pensions’ Work Program to North East Yorkshire and the Humber beginning Feb. 2, 2015, as part of a performance-based contract potentially worth $14 million. MAXIMUS CEO Richard Montoni said Thursday that the company works to support government welfare reform programs by providing personalized assistance to job seekers in the region. The Work Program […] More

  • Lockheed Selects L-3 Digital Data Link for Small UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects L-3 Digital Data Link for Small UAS

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a subcontract to L-3 Communications to equip the U.K. defense ministry’s Desert Hawk III DDL digital platform with the MICRO Secure Digital Data Link. The companies said Dec. 1 that L-3’s MICRO SDDL will support communications for the small unmanned aircraft system’s command-and-control and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Kevin Westfall, director of LM MST’s unmanned solutions business, said that […] More

  • IBM Adds New Global Cloud Centers Under $1B Expansion Plan; Jim Comfort Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Adds New Global Cloud Centers Under $1B Expansion Plan; Jim Comfort Comments

    IBM has opened new cloud centers in 12 new sites across Asia, Europe and the Americas as part of the company’s $1.2 billion expansion plan to meet hybrid cloud computing demand from enterprise clients. The company said Wednesday the new facilities in Tokyo, Frankfurt, Mexico City and other areas bring IBM’s total cloud centers to 40. The new cloud centers […] More

  • Infosys, Unisys to Provide Shared Services to Australian State Gov't - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Infosys, Unisys to Provide Shared Services to Australian State Gov’t

    Infosys and Unisys are set to sign a memorandum of understanding with the government of New South Wales in Australia for the implementation of shared services across state agencies. Dominic Perrottet, NSW minister for finance and services, said in an announcement posted Wednesday that the government has selected the two companies to deliver shared services in areas such as human […] More