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  • Leidos to Help Manage DTRA Meteorological Data Servers, Weather Prediction Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Help Manage DTRA Meteorological Data Servers, Weather Prediction Service

    Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $13 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to provide operations and maintenance support for DTRA’s Meteorological Data Servers and Numerical Weather Prediction services. DTRA awarded the contract, which contains one base year and four option years, through its Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction procurement vehicle, Leidos said Thursday. The company will offer targeted research-and-development […] More

  • Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan

    Northrop Grumman‘s military aircraft systems business has received an $11.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead time materials, components, parts and other services that will support the delivery of an E–2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft to Japan. The Defense Department said Thursday the Navy will obligate the full amount of the modification from foreign military sales funds […] More

  • GSA Adds Crunchy Data's PostgreSQL Enterprise Support, Professional Services to Schedule 70 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Adds Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Enterprise Support, Professional Services to Schedule 70

    Crunchy Data has secured a position on the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle to offer open-source database enterprise and engineering support and professional services to the federal government. The company said Wednesday that its five-year contract with the GSA includes the PostgreSQL Professional Services and the PostgreSQL Secure Enterprise Support that will provide  government customers access to the Crunchy Certified PostgreSQL  distribution […] More

  • NASA Solicits Development Ideas for In-Space Material Fabrication Lab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Solicits Development Ideas for In-Space Material Fabrication Lab

    NASA is looking for industry partners that can help the agency develop concepts for the development of an in-space laboratory to fabricate multiple materials for exploration missions. The agency said Thursday the FabLab solicitation, issued as part of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration broad agency announcement, will consist of three phases with the goal to build a multimaterial fabrication […] More

  • Cubic's Defense Business to Continue UK Combat Simulator Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic’s Defense Business to Continue UK Combat Simulator Support

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has received a three-year, $35 million contract to continue support and repair work on combat simulation systems installed at two British army training facilities. The company said Thursday it provides support services for the Area Weapons Effects Simulator at the British Army Training Unit Suffield in Alberta, Canada, and the Salisbury Plain Training Area […] More

  • Northrop to Modify, Install Air Force EQ-4B Battlefield Airborne Comms Node - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Modify, Install Air Force EQ-4B Battlefield Airborne Comms Node

    Northrop Grumman has received a one-year, $39.9 million letter contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide Battlefield Airborne Communications Node units for the service branch’s remotely piloted aircraft. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop will modify, integrate and install BACN payloads onto EQ-4B Global Hawk drones. BACNs help pilots exchange data via the payload’s airborne executive processor when […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Division Unveils Navy's 2nd America-Class Amphibious Assault Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Division Unveils Navy’s 2nd America-Class Amphibious Assault Ship

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has rolled out a second America-class amphibious assault ship from a floating dry dock following completion of preparation work on the ship’s hull. HII said Wednesday it launched Tripoli, or LHA 7, for the U.S. Navy approximately 13 weeks ahead of schedule. Ingalls Shipbuilding expects to begin the construction of the service branch’s next amphibious assault ship Bougainville in […] More

  • Navy Clears Accelera's Cloud-Based Active Directory Service; Steve Weiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Clears Accelera’s Cloud-Based Active Directory Service; Steve Weiss Comments

    The Department of the Navy has granted Accelera Solutions authorization to operate a cloud-based active directory service intended to help U.S. Navy reservists access to applications hosted in Microsoft‘s Office 365 environment. Accelera said Tuesday its Dedicated Active Directory Forest is built upon the Active Directory Federation Services platform and will help connect the Defense Department‘s Office 365-based network with the Navy’s […] More

  • BAE to Increase Manufacturing Capacity in Pennsylvania, Add 530 Full-Time Positions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Increase Manufacturing Capacity in Pennsylvania, Add 530 Full-Time Positions

    BAE Systems plans to establish a new office and implement machining and manufacturing systems at a company facility in York, Pennsylvania, as part of efforts to increase its production capacity. Gov. Tom Wolf’s office said Monday that BAE will invest more than $44.5 million to fund the project and expects to create as many as 530 jobs over a three-year period. “We’re […] More

  • Boeing Adds KC-46A Aircraft to Tanker Test Program, Jeanette Croppi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Adds KC-46A Aircraft to Tanker Test Program, Jeanette Croppi Comments

    Boeing has added a sixth aircraft to its tanker test program to help expand the company’s capacity to conduct ground and flight-test activities. The company said Tuesday that it conducted test activities on the new KC-46A multi-role tanker to evaluate the aircraft’s capacity to operate through radar- and radio tower-produced electromagnetic fields. “Adding another tanker will help […] More

  • Raytheon to Assist Air Force in High-Power Electromagnetics System Transition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Assist Air Force in High-Power Electromagnetics System Transition

    Raytheon has won a $15 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support high power electromagnetics transition efforts of the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Tuesday that the company will help the service branch analyze and integrate HPEM systems on multiple airborne platforms. Raytheon will use simulation tools to evaluate the performance of a proposed integrated platform in mission operations. The Air […] More

  • Ray Service to Produce Cable Assemblies for BAE-Built Mortar Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ray Service to Produce Cable Assemblies for BAE-Built Mortar Systems

    Ray Service has been chosen to develop and manufacture cabling assemblies for vehicle-mounted mortar systems that BAE Systems will build for the Swedish army. BAE said Tuesday it will provide 40 Mjolner mortars for installation on CV90 infantry fighting vehicles under as part of a $68 million contract awarded by Sweden’s defense material administration in late 2016. BAE and VOP CZ jointly offered the […] More