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  • Raytheon Lands DISA Systems Engineering, Integration Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands DISA Systems Engineering, Integration Support IDIQ

    Raytheon has received a five-year, $40 million contract to support the activities of the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s Joint System Engineering and Integration Office. The company will execute the task at its Arlington, Virginia-based facility from Aug. 1, 2016 through July 31, 2021, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DoD noted the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains firm-fixed-price and cost […] More

  • L-3 Wins Contract to Build AWACS Flight Crew Training System for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Wins Contract to Build AWACS Flight Crew Training System for Air Force

    L-3 Communications‘ link simulation and training division has won a $38.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a flight crew training system for the service branch’s airborne warning-and-control system aircraft. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will perform work on the Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations and Navigation program in […] More

  • Hughes, Partners Demo Integrated Mobile Satcom Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes, Partners Demo Integrated Mobile Satcom Tech

    Hughes Network Systems, Klas Telecom, GetSAT and NexTech Solutions have collaborated to demonstrate a mobile satellite communications platform for voice, data and video connectivity. The integrated communications-on-the move satcom technology worked to facilitate high-definition video call among six participants located in different locations when the system was mounted on a sports utility vehicle as well as on a U.S. Navy watercraft during tests conducted June […] More

  • Air National Guard Tests Lockheed-Built Laser Guided Training Rounds With F-16 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air National Guard Tests Lockheed-Built Laser Guided Training Rounds With F-16 Aircraft

    A U.S. Air National Guard unit has discharged eight laser-guided bomb training units built by Lockheed Martin from a fighter aircraft during flight tests conducted at the Barry M. Goldwater Ranges near Gila Bend in Arizona. The ANG unit evaluated the Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds on the F-16C/D Block 40/42 aircraft and the ELGTR assessments indicated an accuracy of within 9.8 feet, Lockheed said […] More

  • Army Orders Additional Cubic Laser Engagement Training Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Orders Additional Cubic Laser Engagement Training Systems

    Cubic has received more than $10 million in new orders from the U.S. Army for the company’s tactical engagement system that works to help the service branch facilitate live, force-on-force training of soldiers. Cubic said Wednesday its Instrumentable-Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System Individual Weapon Systems 2 will support mission readiness exercises at the Army’s home stations. Dave Buss, president of Cubic’s […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Virtustream Cloud Software to Public Sector Offerings; Craig Abod Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Virtustream Cloud Software to Public Sector Offerings; Craig Abod Comments

    Carahsoft Technology has included Virtustream‘s suite of enterprise-grade cloud software products and services on three contracting vehicles managed by the General Services Administration, NASA and the U.S. Army. Carahsoft said Tuesday it will begin to market Virtustream offerings to agencies through the GSA Schedule as well as NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V and the Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions–Software vehicles. “We are excited to […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, XTAR Demo High-Throughput ISR Service; Rob Freedman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace, XTAR Demo High-Throughput ISR Service; Rob Freedman Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and XTAR have demonstrated a high-throughput intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance service on a C-130 hatch with the use of the former company’s AIRLINK X-1 antenna. AIRLINK X-1 was certified to access XTAR satellites after a terminal sent 4.5 megabits per second of data through the XTAR-LANT satellite during the demonstration that occurred […] More

  • Jacobs Engineering Expands Field Service Operations in Gulf Coast; Lowell Wiles Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Engineering Expands Field Service Operations in Gulf Coast; Lowell Wiles Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has moved to expand its field services business in the Gulf Coast region after the company received contracts from several clients there. The company said Tuesday it received a five-year contract to perform maintenance and material transfer support services at seven customer locations across Texas and Louisiana. Jacobs also aims to continue its the Journeyman Certification Program that works to train […] More

  • ViaSat to Develop In-Flight Broadband, Comms Services for Air Force One; Ken Peterman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViaSat to Develop In-Flight Broadband, Comms Services for Air Force One; Ken Peterman Comments

    ViaSat will develop global in-flight broadband and communications services for Air Force One and other aircraft for U.S. government senior officials under a $73.2 million contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency awarded in June. Work under the contract will support the VC-25s, C-17s, C-32s, C-37s, C-40s and special air mission aircraft through ViaSat’s in-flight […] More

  • Amazon, UK Govt Partner to Explore Drone-Backed Package Deliveries; Paul Misener Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon, UK Govt Partner to Explore Drone-Backed Package Deliveries; Paul Misener Comments

    Amazon has partnered with the U.K. government to study the potential use of small unmanned aerial systems in package deliveries across the country with permission from a British Civil Aviation Authority-backed cross-government team. The shipping giant aims to explore beyond line of sight operations in rural and suburban areas, assess sensor performance to help drones detect obstacles […] More

  • Lockheed Completes VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Design Review; Spencer Elani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Design Review; Spencer Elani Comments

    Lockheed Martin is set to begin the assembly, test and evaluation for the VH-92A presidential helicopter replacement program after the company completed the program’s critical design review stage. The VH-92A is designed to transport the U.S. president and vice president and other officials and a team comprised of Sikorsky and the Naval Air Systems Command conducted the […] More