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  • Rockwell Collins Installs Avionics System on French Air Force C-130H Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Installs Avionics System on French Air Force C-130H Aircraft

    Rockwell Collins has integrated a new avionics system for the French air force’s C-130H Hercules military transport aircraft as part of a modernization contract from France’s defense procurement agency. The company said Monday that the Flight2 avionics system offers communications, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management capacities that comply with International Civil Aviation Organization standards. […] More

  • Comtech Helps Civil Air Patrol Develop Web-Based SAR Aircraft Monitoring Portal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Helps Civil Air Patrol Develop Web-Based SAR Aircraft Monitoring Portal

    Comtech Telecommunications‘ enterprise technologies unit has created an online portal designed to help the Civil Air Patrol simultaneously track search-and-rescue aircraft in real time. The company said Monday it used the Location Studio technology to develop the web-based CAP platform that works to monitor flight patterns, altitude, speed and global positioning system location of SAR planes. […] More

  • Boeing to Help SES Build 7 Medium Earth Orbit Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Help SES Build 7 Medium Earth Orbit Satellites

    Boeing has signed a deal to design and build seven medium earth orbit satellites for SES to deliver data communications services for clients worldwide. O3b mPOWER satellites will feature Boeing’s digital payload technologies along with customized electronics from the 702 satellite platform, the company said Monday. Paul Rusnock, chairman and CEO of Boeing Satellite Systems International, […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Support Navy Cruiser, Destroyer Long Lead Materials Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Support Navy Cruiser, Destroyer Long Lead Materials Procurement

    Huntington Ingalls Industries will help the U.S. Navy procure and manage long lead-time materials for cruiser and destroyer ships under a one-year, $12.8 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Monday the company will help plan yard services for the service branch’s CG-47 cruisers and DD 63 destroyers. HII currently provides engineering, technical, planning, ship configuration, data and […] More

  • SAIC to Help MDA Update Analysis Tech for Ballistic Missile Defense System Modeling - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC to Help MDA Update Analysis Tech for Ballistic Missile Defense System Modeling

    Science Applications International Corp. has secured a $34.6 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency further develop an analysis technology to support modeling of the Ballistic Missile Defense System‘s expected performance. The Defense Department said Monday SAIC will support analysis efforts by the MDA director for engineering’s quick reaction team and the agency’s BMDS research, development and […] More

  • BAE Unit Gets Navy LCS Post-Shakedown Availability Contract Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit Gets Navy LCS Post-Shakedown Availability Contract Options

    A business unit of BAE Systems has received $24.4 million in contract options to support post-shakedown availabilities for two U.S. Navy littoral combat ships. BAE’s San Diego Ship Repair business will provide manpower, technical data, material, non-standard equipment and support services necessary to complete PSA work on USS Gabrielle Giffords and USS Omaha. The contractor will also help […] More

  • ManTech to Support Mine-Resistant Ambush Vehicles of Army, Foreign Military Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Support Mine-Resistant Ambush Vehicles of Army, Foreign Military Clients

    ManTech International has received a $44.9 million contract modification to provide logistics sustainment and support services for mine-resistant ambush vehicles of the U.S. Army, Egypt and Iraq. The Defense Department said Friday the full obligated amount at the time of award is from the Army’s fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance; “other” procurement; research, development, test and evaluation funds; […] More

  • Lieberman Software Details Cyber Support for Govt Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lieberman Software Details Cyber Support for Govt Agencies

    Lieberman Software has released a new white paper which details how the company helps boost the cybersecurity of government agencies via the Department of Homeland Security‘s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. The company said Thursday that its Lieberman RED rapid enterprise defense technology covers five cybersecurity modules designed to help information technology organizations repair potential […] More

  • LA County Orders Sikorsky Aerial Firefighting Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LA County Orders Sikorsky Aerial Firefighting Helicopters

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a contract to assemble and deliver a pair of baseline configuration S-70i Black Hawk helicopters to the Los Angeles County fire department. S-70i is equipped with wide chord rotor blades, an updated airframe, a digital glass cockpit, a cockpit voice and flight data recorder and an integrated vehicle health management […] More

  • Report: NASA to Solicit Proposals on Lunar Payload Transportation Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: NASA to Solicit Proposals on Lunar Payload Transportation Systems

    Jason Crusan, director of advanced exploration systems at NASA, has told a House subcommittee the space agency plans to issue a request for proposals on commercial payload transportation systems for a lunar mission, Space News reported Thursday. Crusan said at the subcommittee hearing Thursday that NASA would issue the RFP after it completes evaluation of […] More

  • Aviation Training Consulting to Help Train Kuwait's KC-130J, L-100 Aircrew Under Navy FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aviation Training Consulting to Help Train Kuwait’s KC-130J, L-100 Aircrew Under Navy FMS Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Aviation Training Consulting a potential four-year, $43.7 million contract to provide aircrew and maintenance training products for Kuwait’s KC-130J tanker aircraft as part of a foreign military sales deal. Aviation Training Consulting will also support L-100 transport aircraft transition training of the Kuwaiti air force under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD added that […] More

  • EY to Audit Air Force General, Working Capital Funds Under DFAS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EY to Audit Air Force General, Working Capital Funds Under DFAS Contract

    EY has received a potential $44.2 million contract from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to provide financial statement audit services for the U.S. Air Force‘s general and working capital funds. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also conduct an SSAE18 assessment of the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System. DFAS received one bid […] More