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  • Northrop to Support Saudi Arabia Warfighter Threat Simulation Under $75M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Support Saudi Arabia Warfighter Threat Simulation Under $75M IDIQ

    Northrop Grumman has landed a potential $75 million  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help Saudi Arabia’s warfighters simulate threats with a company-built Joint Threat Emitter system. JTE is designed to generate a battlespace environment that facilitates training of military personnel to identify and address enemy missile and artillery threats, Northrop said Thursday. The company developed the system to be reprogrammable […] More

  • Air Force Orders Boeing Ordnance Penetrators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Orders Boeing Ordnance Penetrators

    Boeing has received a potential $20.9 million contract to supply the U.S. Air Force with GBU-57 massive ordnance penetrators designed to target concrete bunkers and tunnels. The service branch will obligate the full contract amount from its fiscal 2016 production funds at the time of award and the company will perform work through July 31, 2020, […] More

  • NSF Partners With 3 Cloud Providers for Data Science Research Support Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSF Partners With 3 Cloud Providers for Data Science Research Support Program

    The National Science Foundation has partnered with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google to support research projects in the data science and engineering field. NSF said Wednesday it will obligate nearly $30 million to the Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering program. AWS, Google and Microsoft have each pledged to donate […] More

  • Cobham Demos Inmarsat Satcom Connectivity Platform for Tactical UAVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham Demos Inmarsat Satcom Connectivity Platform for Tactical UAVs

    Cobham has showcased a communications terminal designed to offer internet connectivity for tactical unmanned aerial vehicles or smaller airframes via an Inmarsat satellite network. The company said Tuesday its satcom business demonstrated the AVIATOR UAV 200 system at the ongoing the Singapore Air Show. AVIATOR UAV features a compact lightweight design and offers access to the internet protocol-based Inmarsat Class 4 SwiftBroadband […] More

  • ICF to Provide Enterprise Learning Services to USAF's Air Mobility Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF to Provide Enterprise Learning Services to USAF’s Air Mobility Command

    ICF has received a potential four-year, $10 million subcontract to support the enterprise learning office within the U.S. Air Force‘s Air Mobility Command. The company said Tuesday it aims to help AMC implement a learner-centric model for the command to manage organizational, team and individual performance through a combination of experience, training and education. “We are […] More

  • Dave Buss: Cubic Defense Segment to Continue EUCOM Training, Exercise Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Buss: Cubic Defense Segment to Continue EUCOM Training, Exercise Support

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has received a contract of an undisclosed value to provide analytical support services for the U.S. military’s joint training events and exercises in Europe. Cubic Global Defense will continue to support the U.S. European Command’s Joint Exercise Program and Title X exercises through the contract, the company said Wednesday. The company aims […] More

  • ViON Subsidiary Launches PaaS Cloud Offering; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON Subsidiary Launches PaaS Cloud Offering; Tom Frana Comments

    ViON‘s Ascolta subsidiary has introduced a platform-as-a-service offering designed to help government contracting firms comply with federal cybersecurity standards. Greenfield is hosted on a cloud environment certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and meant to help contractors secure controlled unclassified information through a managed system, Ascolta said Tuesday. “As the federal government raises […] More

  • Raytheon Gets Navy Weapons Tech Insertion, Integration Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Gets Navy Weapons Tech Insertion, Integration Order

    Raytheon has received a $44.6 million delivery order to provide advanced technology insertion and integration services for multiple U.S. Navy weapons systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday Raytheon will conduct one lot of research and development design, development studies and technology demonstration efforts under the sole-source order. Work will occur in Tucson, Arizona, through December 2022. […] More

  • BAE's US Arm to Support Navy SPAWAR Under Potential $180M IDIQ Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s US Arm to Support Navy SPAWAR Under Potential $180M IDIQ Contract

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has secured a position on a potential five-year, $180 contract to help the U.S. Navy‘s Space Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center-Atlantic implement  surveillance and sensor systems. The company said Tuesday it will pursue task orders to provide equipment and support services intended to help SPAWAR identify and track potential threats to […] More

  • PAR Technology Secures Air Force C4ISR Tech R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAR Technology Secures Air Force C4ISR Tech R&D Contract

    A subsidiary of PAR Technology has received a potential $4.5 million contract to develop multidomain command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tools for the U.S. Air Force. PAR Government Systems will also integrate and test computing and network architectures through the three-year Synchronized Command and Control Multi-Domain Test and Integration program managed by the […] More

  • Vencore to Develop Mobile Information Exchange Security Tech Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Develop Mobile Information Exchange Security Tech Under DARPA Program

    Vencore‘s research arm has received a $4.1 million prime contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop tools for military personnel to secure information they share through smartphones. The company said Monday that Vencore Labs will provide technologies for new security models under the first phase of DARPA’s three-year Secure Handhelds on Assured Resilient networks at the tactical Edge […] More

  • Chris Marzilli: General Dynamics-Built Comms Tech Aids Coast Guard in SAR Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Marzilli: General Dynamics-Built Comms Tech Aids Coast Guard in SAR Missions

    A maritime communications technology developed by General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has supported search-and-rescue missions of the U.S. Coast Guard since 2006. The service branch used the company-built Rescue 21 Coastal system for command, control and direction-finding communications tasks in approximately 100,000 SAR operations, GDMS said Friday. Chris Marzilli, GDMS president and a 2018 Wash100 recipient, said the business has […] More