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  • Matheson Lands Potential 7-Year USPS Terminal Handling Service Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matheson Lands Potential 7-Year USPS Terminal Handling Service Contract

    Matheson has received a potential seven-year contract from the U.S. Postal Service to provide terminal handling services at a facility located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The company said Monday its Flight Extenders team will collect mail from FedEx aircraft that arrive at the Philadelphia site, then sort the packages for delivery to a local post office by truck or to […] More

  • Kratos Receives Recognition as BAE Systems Supplier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Receives Recognition as BAE Systems Supplier

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions‘ Microwave Electronics Division or KMED has received a Gold Supplier Award in recognition of the company’s supply work for BAE Systems. The division was granted the award during BAE electronic systems’ Partner 2 Win Supplier Symposium, as one of the 37 recipients, Kratos said Monday. The Gold Supplier Award is granted to […] More

  • Lockheed to Update USSOCOM C-130 Operational Flight Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update USSOCOM C-130 Operational Flight Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has received a four-year, $18 million contract to provide flight program upgrade services for the U.S. Special Operations Command‘s C-130 transport aircraft. The company will also help USSOCOM engineer and integrate multiple third-party systems under the indefinite–delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will occur at Lockheed’s facility in Marietta, Georgia, through April 2022. USSOCOM […] More

  • Vectra Cybersecurity Platform Added to DHS Continuous Diagnostics & Mitigation Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vectra Cybersecurity Platform Added to DHS Continuous Diagnostics & Mitigation Program

    The Department of Homeland Security has authorized Vectra to offer a cybersecurity platform to government agencies through DHS’ Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Cognito is available under CDM DEFEND, which refers to the program’s third phase, and designed to help public sector clients detect a cyber attacker’s behavior in real time, Vectra said Thursday. Sonia Walia, head of federal […] More

  • USAF Taps KBRwyle for Air and Space Systems Engineering Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Taps KBRwyle for Air and Space Systems Engineering Support

    KBR‘s government services unit has received a 54-month, $32.3 million U.S. Air Force task order to provide engineering assistance in upgrading the service branch’s air and space systems. Under the Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities effort, KBRwyle will help develop and integrate space, intelligence, and air and missile defense capacities, the company said Monday. Services under the order will include research, […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Division Gets $65M USS Enterprise Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Division Gets $65M USS Enterprise Contract Modification

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has received a $65 million modification under a U.S. Navy contract to obtain additional long-lead-time material for the future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch will obligate the full amount of the modification from its fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion funds. Work under the […] More

  • NASA Taps Aerospace to Study Earth's Atmospheric, Ionospheric Changes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Aerospace to Study Earth’s Atmospheric, Ionospheric Changes

    Aerospace has received a $2.85 million NASA grant to study the gradual changes occurring in the atmosphere and ionosphere of earth. The research effort will make use of six CubeSat units that will compose the Daily Atmospheric Ionospheric Limb Imager, the company said Thursday. DAILI will be built to provide atmospheric data needed for orbital calculations and studies on radio […] More

  • National Strategic Research Institute Lands $92M R&D Contract With Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    National Strategic Research Institute Lands $92M R&D Contract With Air Force

    The University of Nebraska’s National Strategic Research Institute has received a $92 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide research, development and engineering services. NSRI will also conduct mission-related research efforts such as test, evaluation and systems analysis of U. S. Strategic Command-related topics, the Defense Department said Thursday. The institute will perform work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln […] More

  • ICF Gets GSA Contracts to Help Establish Customer Experience, Analytics CoEs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Gets GSA Contracts to Help Establish Customer Experience, Analytics CoEs

    ICF has received a pair of multimillion dollar contracts from the General Services Administration to help the US. government establish two centers of excellence that will focus on service delivery analytics and customer experience. Both projects are part of the White House’s Information Technology Modernization Plan and each contract has one base year plus two option years, ICF said Wednesday. “We’re thrilled […] More

  • DARPA Taps Tortuga Logic to Develop Hardware Security Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Tortuga Logic to Develop Hardware Security Tools

    Tortuga Logic has received a contract to develop new hardware security tools for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The effort will make use of Tortuga’s hardware security models which will then be integrated with commercial emulation systems, the company said Wednesday. The project seeks to support hardware designers in identifying security vulnerabilities needed for chip fabrication. Participants of […] More

  • Boeing Completes Fuel On-Load Tests for KC-46 Tanker Supplemental Type Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Completes Fuel On-Load Tests for KC-46 Tanker Supplemental Type Certification

    Boeing has completed fuel on-load tests needed for Federal Aviation Administration certification of the company’s refueling tanker aircraft. KC-46 received 540,600 pounds of fuel and performed 68 contacts with other tankers as part of the pre-Supplemental Type Certificate test series, Boeing said Wednesday. The recent flight test lasted for three hours and forty eight minutes, during which a KC-46 transferred […] More

  • Northrop Provides Virtual Training to Army Rangers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Provides Virtual Training to Army Rangers

    Northrop Grumman has conducted virtual training sessions for U.S. Army rangers who are certified Joint Terminal Air Controllers. The training took place at Northrop’s Distributed Training Center located at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and involved simulations of actual battle scenarios with corresponding deployment locations, the company said Wednesday. DTC and Joint Base Lewis McCord’s 5th […] More