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  • Navy Seeks Info on Potential Small Business Sources of Engineering & Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Info on Potential Small Business Sources of Engineering & Support Services

    The U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command wants information on small businesses that can provide engineering and support services for the service branch’s future tactical afloat network. SPAWAR said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice that the required engineering services under the Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services program includes research into technology updates, configuration management, preparations […] More

  • Elbit Systems Subsidiary to Produce Helmets for Army Apache Pilots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Subsidiary to Produce Helmets for Army Apache Pilots

    A subsidiary of Elbit Systems‘ U.S. business has received a four-year, $12.6 million contract to supply Apache aviator integrated helmets and related spare parts to the U.S. Army. EFW is scheduled to complete work under the firm-fixed-price contract by Jan. 31, 2022, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the procurement effort via the internet. […] More

  • Cisco, Luxembourg Form Digital Innovation Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Luxembourg Form Digital Innovation Partnership

    Cisco and Luxembourg’s government have entered into a three-year memorandum of understanding to implement efforts to accelerate the digitization of systems in the country. Cisco said Tuesday the public-private partnership aligns with the Digital Luxembourg program and seeks to tackle four pillars that include cybersecurity, education, financial technology and internet of things. “Luxembourg aims at attracting […] More

  • Reports: Boeing to Mull Participation in Canada’s Fighter Jet Replacement Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Boeing to Mull Participation in Canada’s Fighter Jet Replacement Competition

    Boeing has not yet decided whether to propose its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft for a potential $14.5 billion contract to replace Canada’s fleet of CF-18 fighter planes, Flightglobal reported Tuesday. The Chicago-based aerospace company said in a statement it will assess its participation in Canada’s Future Fighter Capability Project once the Canadian government provides the […] More

  • Space Dynamics Lab to Develop Test, Flight Units for NASA's Ocean Color Measurement Instrument - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Dynamics Lab to Develop Test, Flight Units for NASA’s Ocean Color Measurement Instrument

    Space Dynamics Laboratory has been awarded a potential 26-month, $8.1 million contract to produce engineering test and flight units for an optical spectometer being developed at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center. NASA said Saturday that SDL will design, develop, fabricate, assemble, test and deliver the test and flight articles of the Ocean Color Instrument Short Wave Infra-Red Aft Optics Box. […] More

  • Atec to Repair Air Force Engine Test Stands Under $80M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atec to Repair Air Force Engine Test Stands Under $80M Contract

    Atec has received a potential four-year, $80.3 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force repair engine test stands. The company will fix platforms the service branch uses to conduct intermediate maintenance test and evaluation of aircraft units, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Contract work will occur in the U.S. and various locations overseas through Jan. 21, […] More

  • Air Force Renews Telos’ System Security Review Licenses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Renews Telos’ System Security Review Licenses

    Telos will continue to carry out system security assessments to support the Defense Department’s cybersecurity authorization process after the U.S. Air Force renewed the company’s licenses. The renewal of the firm’s General Agent of the Security Control Assessor and Special ASCA certifications by the Air Force Space Command’s SCA would allow Telos to test networks, […] More

  • L3 Begins Texas Pilot Training Center Expansion Project; Christopher Kubasik Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Begins Texas Pilot Training Center Expansion Project; Christopher Kubasik Comments

    L3 Technologies has broken ground on a 40,000-square-foot expansion at a multipurpose pilot training center in Arlington, Texas, operated by the company’s link training and simulation business unit. The company said Tuesday the existing facility offers instructional and simulation tools to both military and commercial customers. L3 will expand the training center to include six full-flight simulators, classrooms, […] More

  • Draper Lab to Provide Test Support for Space & Missile Systems Center's GPS Directorate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab to Provide Test Support for Space & Missile Systems Center’s GPS Directorate

    Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has received an $11.1 million contract to support modernized receiver test assets of global positioning systems directorate at the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center. Draper Lab will also provide support services for the SMC GPS directorate’s test and verification branch under the sole-source contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The nonprofit research […] More

  • Comtech to Supply, Test Space-Based Components for NASA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech to Supply, Test Space-Based Components for NASA Program

    A Comtech Telecommunications business group will support a NASA program through a potential $11 million letter contract from a U.S. aerospace company. Comtech said Tuesday its command and control technologies unit will supply and test space-based electrical, electronic and electromechanical components to the agency contractor. “This is the second large order we’ve received from this customer this fiscal […] More

  • Magellan Aerospace Delivers First Power Control Unit for Upcoming Space Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Magellan Aerospace Delivers First Power Control Unit for Upcoming Space Mission

    Canada-based Magellan Aerospace has delivered the first power control unit under a contract in support of a future international space operation. The delivery follows the company’s selection by the University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics to provide three PCUs that will be used for control and data handling units, Magellan Aerospace said […] More