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  • Airbus, Lockheed Select Arkansas to House Production of LMXT Aerial Refueling Boom System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Lockheed Select Arkansas to House Production of LMXT Aerial Refueling Boom System

    Airbus will use a manufacturing facility in Arkansas to produce the aerial refueling boom system for Lockheed Martin’s offering for a U.S. Air Force strategic tanker program. The Arkansas-built boom system will be integrated into the LMXT strategic tanker aircraft during the second phase of the plane’s assembly and configuration process, Lockheed said Wednesday. The […] More

  • DARPA Unveils Broad Agency Announcement for Tactical-Grade Clock Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Unveils Broad Agency Announcement for Tactical-Grade Clock Development

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a broad agency announcement seeking proposals on the development of ultra-small, low-power clocks envisioned to maintain microsecond precision for a week. The H6 program aims to create a low size, weight and power platform that works to provide precise global positioning system timing updates in a GPS-denied […] More

  • Elbit Systems Books USMC Order for Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Books USMC Order for Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggles

    Elbit Systems’ U.S. subsidiary has secured a $49 million delivery order to supply additional helmet-mounted night vision systems to the U.S. Marine Corps. Elbit Systems of America will deliver Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggles to the Marines to help boost their situational awareness and performance during night operations, the company said Monday. The goggles include […] More

  • NASA to Launch 5 CubeSats to Orbit for ELaNa 45 Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Launch 5 CubeSats to Orbit for ELaNa 45 Mission

    NASA will liftoff five small research satellites aboard a SpaceX spacecraft to the International Space Station for the latest Educational Launch of Nanosatellites mission. As part of SpaceX’s 25th Commercial Resupply Services mission, the ELaNa 45 will launch to orbit on June 7 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the space agency […] More

  • Black Construction Secures $85M Contract for Wharf Modernization Efforts at Naval Base Guam - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Black Construction Secures $85M Contract for Wharf Modernization Efforts at Naval Base Guam

    Black Construction has been awarded a potential three-year, $84.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to renovate and modernize Naval Base Guam’s wharf and related structures. The company will provide design and construction services in support of the installation’s wharf improvement program to accommodate two loaded dry cargo and ammunition ships, the Department of Defense […] More

  • L3Harris Unveils Radio Waveform With Anti-Jamming Capability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3Harris Unveils Radio Waveform With Anti-Jamming Capability

    L3Harris Technologies has developed a multi-channel mobile ad-hoc network waveform to safeguard voice and data communications against jamming attacks in austere environments. Wraith is an exportable handheld radio device that works to deliver secure communications at the tactical level to warfighters deployed on contested battlefields, L3Harris said Thursday. The next-generation waveform is available on the […] More

  • Boeing, Nammo Host Ground-Tests of Ramjet 155 Long-Range Projectile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Nammo Host Ground-Tests of Ramjet 155 Long-Range Projectile

    Boeing has partnered with Norwegian aerospace and defense company Nammo to conduct ground-fire tests of the Ramjet 155 extended-range artillery projectile designed to enable precision fires from long distances for the U.S. Army. The partnership conducted the three-month tests in Norway to validate gun-launched survivability and performance predictions and expand the projectile’s employment envelope, Boeing […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute Saasyan’s AI-Powered Student Safety Tool to Public Sector Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Distribute Saasyan’s AI-Powered Student Safety Tool to Public Sector Customers

    Carahsoft Technology has signed an agreement to market to its public sector customers a cloud-based, artificial intelligence-powered system designed by Saasyan to secure the remote learning environment for K-12 students. Saasyan’s Assure technology is now available through Carahsoft’s reselling partners and OMNIA Partners, the National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and the National Association of State Procurement […] More

  • Raytheon, Marine Corps Test AESA Radar on Hornet Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Marine Corps Test AESA Radar on Hornet Aircraft

    The U.S. Marine Corps has tested a Raytheon Technologies-built airborne radar system on the F/A-19 Hornet aircraft at the Naval Air Weapons Station in California. The flight test comes a year after Raytheon’s intelligence and space division delivered the first APG-79(V)4 active electronically scanned array radar prototype to the military service to help pilots detect […] More

  • Northrop's C-sUAS C2 System Supports DOD Testing of Multidomain Messaging Standard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s C-sUAS C2 System Supports DOD Testing of Multidomain Messaging Standard

    The Department of Defense has employed Northrop Grumman’s command and control system to assess a universal messaging standard for the U.S. military’s multidomain battlefield communications concept. During a joint field demonstration at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona, Northrop’s Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control system used a universal command and control interface to showcase […] More

  • Martin Defense Group Wins $54M Navy Award for USMC Unmanned Surface Vessel Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Martin Defense Group Wins $54M Navy Award for USMC Unmanned Surface Vessel Development

    Martin Defense Group has secured a potential nine-year, $54.4 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to support the development of unmanned surface vessels for mobility enhancement. The contractor will work on a USVME platform meant to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with capabilities to conduct unmanned support and resupply activities, the Department of […] More

  • Telesat Receives NASA Funding to Demo Space-to-Space Data Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telesat Receives NASA Funding to Demo Space-to-Space Data Connectivity

    NASA has selected the U.S.-incorporated subsidiary of Telesat to demonstrate the potential of its satellite-based broadband connectivity network to provide space-to-space relay capabilities to support communications for future near-Earth missions. Telesat Government Solutions said Tuesday it received $30.7 million in funding from the Communications Services Project to co-develop space-based radio frequency terminals that will be […] More