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  • General Dynamics to Host Christening Event for Navy's Future 'Thomas Hudner' Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Host Christening Event for Navy’s Future ‘Thomas Hudner’ Destroyer

    The U.S. Navy and General Dynamics will christen a new Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer on Saturday at a ceremony to be held at the company’s Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine. USS Thomas Hudner will be the fourth of 14 ships in the Navy’s DDG 51 program and is built with four gas turbine engines designed to power the ship to a speed of more than […] More

  • Army Selects General Dynamics, Orbital ATK for Tank Training Ammo Cartridge Production Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Selects General Dynamics, Orbital ATK for Tank Training Ammo Cartridge Production Contracts

    Subsidiaries of General Dynamics and Orbital ATK have secured contracts from the U.S. Army to deliver new and recapitalized cartridges designed for 120mm tank training ammunition. The service branch awarded $63.7 million to General Dynamics’ ordnance and tactical systems unit and $47.5 million to Orbital ATK’s Alliant Techsystems Operations subsidiary for the supply of M1002 production cartridges as well as M865 and M1002 recapitalized cartridges, the Defense Department […] More

  • BAE Updates Flight Simulator for F-35 Pilots; Peter Wilson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Updates Flight Simulator for F-35 Pilots; Peter Wilson Comments

    BAE Systems has refurbished a flight engineering simulator to help F-35 pilots prepare for flight trials on a new Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier of the U.K. armed forces. The company said Wednesday it updated the simulator previously used for the Harrier jump-jet and Hawk jet trainer in an effort to help British airmen train for flights to and from the U.K. aircraft carrier […] More

  • Riverbed's WAN Optimization Tech Receives Common Criteria Security Certification; Davis Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riverbed’s WAN Optimization Tech Receives Common Criteria Security Certification; Davis Johnson Comments

    Riverbed Technology has obtained the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ certification for a wide-area network optimization technology designed to help federal customers address network security challenges. The company said Wednesday its SteelHead CX version 9.1.4. will work to help federal government clients mitigate traffic across their respective networks, manage end-to-end user experience and strengthen cybersecurity posture. “As the federal government adopts innovative […] More

  • MBDA to Support France-UK Missile Tech Development Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA to Support France-UK Missile Tech Development Effort

    The governments of France and the U.K. have agreed to invest approximately $53.9 million each to collaborate on the development of future missile technologies and long-range weapons with MBDA. The British government said Tuesday the Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon program will commence with a three-year concept phase that aims to replace, update or create weapons for […] More

  • Aerobotix Develops F-22 Engine Coating Restoration Tech Under Air Force SBIR Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerobotix Develops F-22 Engine Coating Restoration Tech Under Air Force SBIR Program

    Madison, Alabama-based Aerobotix has developed a robotic technology for U.S. Air Force aircraft maintenance personnel to restore coatings on F-22 engine inlets as part of a $1.5 million Small Business Innovation Research contract. The Phase II SBIR contract awarded to Aerobotix supports the efforts of Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center to increase the efficiency […] More

  • Harris Reaches F-35 Avionics Delivery Milestone; Ed Zoiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Reaches F-35 Avionics Delivery Milestone; Ed Zoiss Comments

    Harris has completed delivery milestones and helped meet cost-saving goals under an avionics production program that supports Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft. Harris said Tuesday it collaborated with industry partners to ship more than 780,000 items such as vibration isolated and liquid cooled avionics racks, power supplies, network interface units and phased array antennas for the F-35 […] More

  • DHS Taps Kiana Analytics to Update CBP Passenger Screening Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Taps Kiana Analytics to Update CBP Passenger Screening Tech

    Kiana Analytics has been awarded a $179,800 contract by the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to update the passenger screening technology of the Customs and Border Protection agency. DHS said Tuesday the company will use its real-time location and analytics platforms to help CBP process more than a million travelers that arrive in the country via air, land and […] More

  • DARPA Eyes New Concept for Undersea Payload Delivery Using Extra Large UUVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes New Concept for Undersea Payload Delivery Using Extra Large UUVs

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a presolicitation notice on a program that aims to create a new strategy for the delivery of undersea payloads via extra-large unmanned underwater vehicles. DARPA said in the notice posted March 20 at the FedBizOpps website the 45-month Hunter program will be executed in three parts for the […] More

  • Boeing Secures $59M Air Force KC-46 Support Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Secures $59M Air Force KC-46 Support Contract Option

    Boeing has secured a one-year, $59.2 million contract option for interim contracting support to the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of KC-46 military aerial refueling and transport aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday the company will perform work under the exercised option through March 24, 2018. DoD noted that the service branch will use fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement funds to cover […] More

  • Kongsberg Subsidiary Built Geospatial Tool for New Zealand's Combat System Trainer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kongsberg Subsidiary Built Geospatial Tool for New Zealand’s Combat System Trainer

    A Kongsberg subsidiary produced the geospatial and display components of a combat management system that Lockheed Martin built and delivered to New Zealand’s navy. Lockheed’s Canadian arm deployed the CMS 330 Combat Management System to a maritime warfare training center in Devonport, New Zealand, as part of the country’s Anzac frigate system modernization effort, Kongsberg said Monday. Kongsberg noted the CMS 330 was originally developed to support Canada’s Halifax-class frigates and modified later […] More

  • Navy Orders Raytheon Missile Fire Control System Equipment Shipsets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Raytheon Missile Fire Control System Equipment Shipsets

    Raytheon has landed a $37.3 million modification from the U.S. Navy to exercise an option on a previously awarded contract for the supply of missile fire control system equipment ship sets. The Defense Department said Monday that Raytheon’s integrated defense systems business will produce two MFCS MK 99 equipment ship sets to help address the military branch’s Aegis Weapon […] More