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  • Slovakia Considers Fighting Falcon, Gripen for MiG-29 Fighter Aircraft Replacement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Slovakia Considers Fighting Falcon, Gripen for MiG-29 Fighter Aircraft Replacement

    Slovakia’s defense ministry has announced it is examining Lockheed Martin‘s F-16 Fighting Falcon and Saab‘s JAS-39 Gripen as two options to replace the current MiG-29 fighter aircraft platform of the Slovak military. The ministry said Friday it aims to complete an analysis of both U.S. and Swedish aircraft offerings for submission to the Slovak government by June 29. Slovak Defense Minister Peter Gajdos […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Anti-Collision Software Into F-35 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Anti-Collision Software Into F-35

    Lockheed Martin will move to implement an anti-collision technology into the F-35 aircraft in an effort to help fighter pilots avoid controlled flight into terrain. The F-35 Joint Program Office, Lockheed and the Air Force Research Laboratory confirmed that the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System is ready to enter a rapid integration phase with the fighter aircraft […] More

  • L3 Wescam Books $250M in EO/IR Tech, Support Contracts for 2017's Second Half - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Wescam Books $250M in EO/IR Tech, Support Contracts for 2017’s Second Half

    An L3 Technologies subsidiary won more than $250 million in contracts during the second half of 2017 to provide electro-optical/infrared products, in-service support equipment and services to military and law enforcement customers. The company said Thursday L3 Wescam will supply a range of MX Series imaging and targeting systems designed for airborne, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Wescam has sold ISR technology platforms to customers […] More

  • NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne Test Main Engine Controller for Orion-SLS Crewed Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne Test Main Engine Controller for Orion-SLS Crewed Flight

    NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have tested the fourth and last engine controller for the first crewed mission of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket, called Exploration Mission-2. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday its RS-25 engine was test fired for 365 seconds to qualify the engine controller, which works to facilitate communications between the engine and SLS as […] More

  • DynCorp to Help Maintain Aircraft Platforms at Navy's Aviation Warfighting Devt Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp to Help Maintain Aircraft Platforms at Navy’s Aviation Warfighting Devt Center

    DynCorp International has received a one-year, $40.4 million contract option to help the U.S. Navy maintain its EA-18G, E-2C, F/A-18, F-16A/B and MH-60S planes currently assigned to a facility in Fallon, Nevada. The company will also provide logistics services to the five aircraft platforms at the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work under […] More

  • Lockheed to Update Navy, UK Tomahawk Weapons Mgmt Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update Navy, UK Tomahawk Weapons Mgmt Software

    A Lockheed Martin business unit has received a one-year, $7.9 million delivery order to update the software product baseline of the Tomahawk Weapons Control Systems for the U.S. Navy and U.K. government. Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems will also help the service branch manage and sustain TTWCS software through the order awarded under a previously issued basic ordering […] More

  • Kratos Wraps Up 1st Phase of USAF Enterprise Ground Services Study - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Wraps Up 1st Phase of USAF Enterprise Ground Services Study

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has completed the initial phase of a study that seeks to demonstrate an approach to facilitate the transition of a command-and-control system for military communications satellites into the U.S. Air Force’s Enterprise Ground Services architecture. The company said Thursday EGS supports the service branch’s Space Enterprise Vision that aims to […] More

  • Austal USA-built Littoral Combat Ship Omaha to Enter Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA-built Littoral Combat Ship Omaha to Enter Service

    The U.S. Navy has announced details on the upcoming commission ceremony of LCS-12, an Independence-class littoral combat ship to be named USS Omaha. The ceremony for the Austal USA-built ship will take place 1:00 p.m. EST, Saturday, at Broadway pier, San Diego, California, the Navy said Thursday. LCS-12 is the eleventh Independence variant of its ship type to join the Navy’s […] More

  • AT&T Joins DXC's Navy NGEN Recompete Team; Marilyn Crouther, Mike Leff Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T Joins DXC’s Navy NGEN Recompete Team; Marilyn Crouther, Mike Leff Comment

    AT&T has been named a teammate on DXC Technology‘s pursuit of the Next Generation Enterprise Network recompete contract for information technology services to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Virginia-based DXC, which currently holds the $3.5 billion NGEN contract, said in a press release it is forming an industry team to chase the follow-on award. […] More

  • Elbit Systems' In-Fill Radar & Tower System Gets CBP OK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems’ In-Fill Radar & Tower System Gets CBP OK

    Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received approval from the Customs and Border Protection to implement an in-fill radar and tower system the company built to help CBP agents protect the country’s borders. CBP certified the system from Elbit Systems of America to support the agency’s air and marine border security operations in Texas, the company said Thursday. […] More

  • Lockheed Starts Orion Crew Capsule Construction for Exploration Mission-2 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Starts Orion Crew Capsule Construction for Exploration Mission-2

    Lockheed Martin has begun construction work at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana, on a spacecraft designed to transport astronauts to the moon as part of Exploration Mission-2. The Orion crew capsule will launch aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of EM-2 mission that is expected to establish the framework for […] More