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  • Lockheed to Engineer Air Force C-5 Surveillance Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Engineer Air Force C-5 Surveillance Tech

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business unit has secured a $14.7 million contract modification to support engineering and manufacturing development work on communications, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s C-5 transport aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also help the military service incorporate an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast out technology into […] More

  • Harris Unveils Mobile Radio Tech for Public Safety Professionals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Unveils Mobile Radio Tech for Public Safety Professionals

    Harris has introduced a land mobile radio technology designed to help public safety professionals transmit data and voice communications over a single-band channel. The XL-185P radio is based on open standards architecture and works to converge LMR voice and date through through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and wireless LTE networks, Harris said Sunday. The company also unveiled its XL-200Pi multiband radio […] More

  • New Zealand Defense Force Taps Barrett to Provide Anti-Material Weapons, Sniper Rifles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Zealand Defense Force Taps Barrett to Provide Anti-Material Weapons, Sniper Rifles

    Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based weapons manufacturer Barrett Firearms Manufacturing has received a potential $2.8 million contract to deliver weapon systems for New Zealand’s Defence Force (NZDF). NZDF said in a report published Wednesday that the contractor will deliver 40 M107A1 anti-materiel weapons, 42 Multi-Role Adaptive Design sniper rifles, optics, suppressors and ballistic computer auxiliary equipment. Maj. Gen. Peter […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Test Fires RS-25 Engine for NASA Exploration Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Test Fires RS-25 Engine for NASA Exploration Mission

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested an engine for NASA‘s second exploration mission at the space agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The RS-25 engine, dubbed as E2063, was fired up for 500 seconds in a move to evaluate the system’s capacity to support the EM-2 exploration mission, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday. RS-25 engines will continuously fire […] More

  • Qualcomm-SenseTime Team to Create AI, Machine Learning Services for Mobile, IoT Products - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Qualcomm-SenseTime Team to Create AI, Machine Learning Services for Mobile, IoT Products

    Qualcomm and SenseTime Group have teamed up to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning features for future mobile and internet of things products. The partnership looks to develop and foster the use of on-device AI through vision and camera-based image processing systems designed to deliver advanced heterogeneous computing services, Qualcomm said Thursday. “We look forward […] More

  • Navy, Coast Guard Issue Polar Icebreaker Design, Construction Draft RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, Coast Guard Issue Polar Icebreaker Design, Construction Draft RFP

    The U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard have released a draft request for proposals for an upcoming project to design and build up to three heavy polar icebreakers. The Naval Sea Systems Command said Thursday USCG needs modern HPIBs in order to maintain access in both Polar regions and address national security, commercial, economic and maritime requirements. The […] More

  • Torch Technologies Wins $86M MDA Contract to Produce Digital Missile Target Models - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Torch Technologies Wins $86M MDA Contract to Produce Digital Missile Target Models

    Torch Technologies has won a potential five-year, $86.2 million contract to create  digital representations of adversary missiles and flight test targets for the Missile Defense Agency. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will model various targets that are common across Ballistic Missile Defense System programs to aid development, testing and assessment activities. Torch Technologies will also […] More

  • Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems

    The U.S. Army has announced it plans to buy up to 1,800 units of L3 Technologies-built upgrade kits to modernize the service branch’s mine detection platform. A justification and approval notice published Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the Army requires kits to address AN/PSS-14 maintainability, performance, reliability and sustainment requirements. The service branch aims to convert its current mine detection […] More

  • SAIC Taps Kinetics to Support Marine AAV Production, Deployment Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Taps Kinetics to Support Marine AAV Production, Deployment Phase

    Kinetics Drive Solutions will serve as a subcontractor of Science Applications International Corp. on the production and deployment phase of the U.S. Marine Corps‘ Amphibious Assault Vehicle Survivability Upgrade program. SAIC received an initial low-rate initial production contract to deliver additional AAV SU platforms equipped with Kinetics-built MD500 marine drive power-take-off and InfiniDrive HMX3000 transmission […] More

  • Unisys Lands $60M Contract to Support Australia's Immigration and Border Protection Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Lands $60M Contract to Support Australia’s Immigration and Border Protection Unit

    Unisys has secured a potential three-year, $60.4 million contract extension to provide managed end-user computing and infrastructure support services for staff members of Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection around the world. The company said Wednesday that it will continue to offer first level service desk, immigration systems and infrastructure support for the DIBP’s […] More

  • ARServices to Support Navy Business Transformation Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ARServices to Support Navy Business Transformation Initiative

    The Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations’ department of capabilities and resources has selected ARServices to support ongoing business transformation efforts under the Operational Effectiveness Initiative. ARServices said Wednesday it will offer business transformation services personnel to support the U.S. Navy‘s N8 department on a mission to reevaluate current organizational structures and procedures. The […] More