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  • UTC's Pratt & Whitney Tests Three-Stream Fan Under Air Force Engine Tech Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC’s Pratt & Whitney Tests Three-Stream Fan Under Air Force Engine Tech Devt Program

    A United Technologies Corp. division has tested a three-stream fan in an F135 propulsion system as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Adaptive Engine Technology Development initiative. Pratt and Whitney said Sept. 18 the test occurred at the Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee, and aimed to demonstrate the division’s capacity to meet combat aircraft propulsion requirements of the AETD program. […] More

  • Boeing-ViaSat Team to Build 2 Ka-Band Satellites for the Americas, EMEA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-ViaSat Team to Build 2 Ka-Band Satellites for the Americas, EMEA

    ViaSat has partnered with Boeing to build, integrate and test a pair of Ka-band satellites designed to offer network communications services across the Americas region and in Europe, Middle East and Africa. ViaSat said Monday it reached a critical design review milestone for the ViaSat-3 satellite technology that seeks to deliver a network capacity of more than 1 terabit per […] More

  • General Dynamics Hands Navy's Future USS Colorado Submarine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Hands Navy’s Future USS Colorado Submarine

    The U.S. Navy has accepted a General Dynamics-built Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine designed to provide the service branch with additional undersea capacities. General Dynamics said Monday that USS Colorado (SSN 788) is the fifth of eight ships under the Block III Virginia-class submarine group. The Naval Sea Systems Command said Thursday that the Block III submarines […] More

  • Lockheed Satellite-Based Augmentation System Testbed Begins DFMC Signal Transmission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Satellite-Based Augmentation System Testbed Begins DFMC Signal Transmission

    A Lockheed Martin satellite-based augmentation system testbed has begun to broadcast in dual frequency, multi-constellation as part of a two-year collaborative research project between the company and the government of Australia, Inside GNSS reported Friday. The second-generation SBAS testbed is designed to help increase the efficiency, innovation, productivity and safety of various industrial and research sectors […] More

  • Northrop Lands UK MoD Contract for Robotic EOD Vehicle In-Service Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Lands UK MoD Contract for Robotic EOD Vehicle In-Service Support

    Northrop Grumman has received a two-year contract from the U.K. defense ministry’s special projects search and countermeasures team to provide in-service support for a remotely controlled vehicle that British armed forces use to dispose of explosive ordnance. The company said Monday it will support CUTLASS EOD unmanned ground systems throughout the platform’s life cycle. CUTLASS is equipped with multiple […] More

  • ULA's Atlas V Sends NRO-42 Natl Security Payload to Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Atlas V Sends NRO-42 Natl Security Payload to Space

    United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has launched a National Reconnaissance Office payload from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California into orbit using an Atlas V rocket. NROL-42 lifted off Sunday at 1:49 a.m. Eastern time aboard the Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle 541 configuration vehicle as part of NRO’s national security mission, ULA said Sunday. EELV […] More

  • Lockheed Subsidiary Lands $53M Navy Contract Option for Mk 48 Torpedo Equipment Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Subsidiary Lands $53M Navy Contract Option for Mk 48 Torpedo Equipment Production

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sippican business has received a potential $53 million contract modification to continue the production of Mk 48 Mod 7 equipment and spares for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday the modification exercises the first option year of a previously awarded contract that covers guidance and control sections, Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System functional item replacement kits, […] More

  • Kratos Short Range Ballistic Missile System Supports Navy Air and Missile Defense Radar Testing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Short Range Ballistic Missile System Supports Navy Air and Missile Defense Radar Testing

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has offered its short range ballistic missile system to support U.S. Navy testing activities on the AN/SPY-6(V) Air and Missile Defense Radar. The company said Thursday that the AN/SPY-6(V) system acquired and tracked the movement of the Kratos Space and Missile Defense Systems-built SRBM technology which was launched from the Pacific Missile […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Performs Spectometer Testing, Verification on Air Quality Measurement Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Performs Spectometer Testing, Verification on Air Quality Measurement Tech

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has conducted spectometer testing and verification activities on an instrument built to measure air quality across North America. NASA selected the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution technology as the first Earth Venture instrument to measure levels of nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfur dioxide and aerosols in the atmosphere that affect human health […] More

  • Vencore to Extend GSA Data Integration, Repository Mgmt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Extend GSA Data Integration, Repository Mgmt Support

    Vencore has received a potential 18-month, $5 million to continue to help the General Services Administration‘s Public Building Service integrate data and manage data repositories. The company said Thursday it will provide data repository and data integration, program and project management, and technical support services under the follow-on contract. PBS has worked with Vencore in the past […] More

  • Army Tests Updated Lockheed PAC-3 Missile Interceptor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Tests Updated Lockheed PAC-3 Missile Interceptor

    The U.S. Army has completed the first-ever test of Lockheed Martin‘s updated PAC-3 missile interceptor from a remote launcher to assess the weapon system’s capacity to detect, track and intercept incoming threats. PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement intercepted a tactical ballistic missile target during the missile defense flight test held at the Reagan Test Site in the […] More

  • AM General to Provide Supplemental Humvees, Equipment for Afghan Defense Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AM General to Provide Supplemental Humvees, Equipment for Afghan Defense Forces

    AM General has secured a potential $45.9 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide 6,576 supplemental M1151A1B1 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles to Afghanistan’s national defense security forces. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also deliver an expanded capacity vehicle and capability expansion kits under the foreign military sales contract. AM General will perform […] More