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  • DLA Tasks Northrop to Deliver Transceivers for Air Force's C-130J Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Tasks Northrop to Deliver Transceivers for Air Force’s C-130J Aircraft

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential five-year, $15.4M firm-fixed-price contract to deliver receiver-transmitter processors for C-130J Super Hercules aircraft deployed in U.S. Air Force operations. The Defense Department said Wednesday that DLA Aviation will obligate the Air Force’s fiscal 2018 working capital funds for the sole-sourced contract. C-130 Hercules is used […] More

  • NASA Plans to Transfer Satellite Servicing Technologies to Commercial Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Plans to Transfer Satellite Servicing Technologies to Commercial Sector

    NASA will host an industry day at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Dec. 6 to present technologies from the agency’s satellite servicing projects division. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the SSPD event, which is the third that NASA announced for this year, is part of its efforts to help private sector organizations commercialize […] More

  • Carahsoft Makes Inc. 5000 List for 11th Straight Year; Craig Abod Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Makes Inc. 5000 List for 11th Straight Year; Craig Abod Quoted

    Carahsoft Technology is included on Inc. magazine’s 37th annual list of top U.S. private companies, ranked by overall revenue growth rate in the past three years. Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft and a four-time Wash 100 recipient, said in a statement released Monday the selection of the company for Inc. 5000 ranking was driven by its efforts […] More

  • Raytheon Team Gets Industry Award for Air Traffic Control System Upgrades - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Team Gets Industry Award for Air Traffic Control System Upgrades

    The Air Traffic Control Association has recognized Raytheon’s standard terminal automation, modernization and replacement system team for modernizing a system designed to help the Federal Aviation Administration and the Defense Department manage terminal area airspace. Raytheon said Tuesday the STARS team will accept an industry award at the association’s 63rd annual conference. The system is built to transmit […] More

  • Jacobs to Support Army Test Center Under $87M Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Support Army Test Center Under $87M Contract Modification

    Jacobs Engineering Group’ technology business has received an $87.4M contract modification from the U.S. Army to provide support services to the Aberdeen Test Center located in Maryland. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will conduct testing efforts in support of ATC’s automotive, firepower, survivability/lethality, technology and warfighter mission areas. The Army Contracting Command will determine […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Develops Weather Forecasting Tool for Navy Mission Planners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Develops Weather Forecasting Tool for Navy Mission Planners

    Charles River Analytics has developed a tool for the U.S. Navy to predict environmental conditions and interpret weather forecast data the service branch can use for mission planning. CRA said Monday it collaborated with Clear Science and the University of Miami to create the COMPASS technology designed to measure the probability of conditions differing from statistical averages or mission benchmarks. […] More

  • SOSi Gets Army Satcom Support Contract; Julian Setian Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOSi Gets Army Satcom Support Contract; Julian Setian Quoted

    SOS International has received a potential $55M contract to help the U.S. Army manage wideband enterprise satellite systems designed to facilitate military communications. The company said Monday it will help the Army’s program executive office for enterprise information systems to deliver voice, data and video services to WESS Data Communications Network users worldwide. Work also covers satcom engineering, installation, operation, […] More

  • McKean Defense to Support Army's Watercraft System Directorate Under IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McKean Defense to Support Army’s Watercraft System Directorate Under IDIQ

    McKean Defense has secured a potential five-year, $47M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support logistics operations for the U.S. Army Watercraft System Product Directorate’s marine vessels. The cost-plus-fixed-fee award tasks the Philadelphia-based naval services firm to provide systems technical support for watercraft operations systems, towing and terminal operations vessels, landing craft and ship-to-shore enablers starting September 2018, McKean […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Professional Services for AFRL's Battlespace Environment Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Professional Services for AFRL’s Battlespace Environment Unit

    The U.S. Air Force is exploring potential industry sources of professional services to an Air Force Research Laboratory unit that supports the military branch’s space communications, positioning, navigation and timing mission area. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the AFRL’s battlespace environment division seeks contractor support on business strategy planning, scientific, technical and organizational development efforts. USAF noted […] More

  • Society of Women Engineers Honors Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Society of Women Engineers Honors Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy

    Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy has been chosen to receive the Society of Women Engineers’ 2018 Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award in recognition of his initiatives to promote diversity in the workplace and empower female engineering professionals through mentoring. SWE chose Kennedy based on testimonials from multiple industry representatives who vouched for his efforts to diversify program teams […] More

  • Booz Allen to Help Military Health System Transform Into 'High Reliability' Organization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Help Military Health System Transform Into ‘High Reliability’ Organization

    Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $13.3M contract modification from the Defense Health Agency to provide integrated professional services to the Military Health System. The company will support MHS as the enterprise works toward obtaining a “High Reliability Organization” status and perform additional services worth $3M in the National Capital Region, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD […] More

  • Navy Orders Raytheon Surface-to-Air Missile Spares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Raytheon Surface-to-Air Missile Spares

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $25.1M contract to supply spares of a medium-range, surface-to-air weapon system built to defend naval vessels against anti-ship missiles. The company will provide life-of-type-buy and assembly-level components for the Navy’s Block I Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile through June 2021 under the firm-fixed-price contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The Naval Sea Systems Command […] More