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  • Reportlinker Forecasts Military Cybersecurity Market Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reportlinker Forecasts Military Cybersecurity Market Growth

    Reportlinker has released a forecast study that the military cybersecurity market is projected to increase from $9.8 billion to $13.8 billion at a compound annual growth rate of 3.5 percent between 2017 and 2027. The research firm said Wednesday the market is expected to globally hold a cumulative value of more than $130 billion during the period of forecast. […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Multisource Exploitation Assistant Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Multisource Exploitation Assistant Tool

    The U.S. Air Force has posted a broad agency announcement to solicit proposals for the research, development, integration, test and evaluation of a digital assistant tool that would provide analytical answers. USAF said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday it plans to allocate $24.9 million for the Multi-Source Exploitation Assistant for the Digital Enterprise project and award […] More

  • Reportlinker Study Projects Global Military Submarine Market to Reach $34B by 2027 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reportlinker Study Projects Global Military Submarine Market to Reach $34B by 2027

    A new Reportlinker study predicts the current $22 billion global military submarine and related maintenance, repair and overhaul market to grow at a compound annual growth of 4.5 percent through 2027 and reach approximately $34 billion. Reportlinker said Wednesday it expects nuclear attack submarines to account for approximately 40 percent of the global market spending […] More

  • Bell-Boeing to Deliver Test and Evaluation Services for Navy V-22 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell-Boeing to Deliver Test and Evaluation Services for Navy V-22 Aircraft

    A joint venture between Bell Helicopter and Boeing has received a $23.3 million order to deliver flight test and evaluation services for the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 Osprey aircraft. The Naval Air Systems Command obligated the whole amount in fiscal 2018 funds which will not expire upon the conclusion of the current fiscal year, the Defense Department said Tuesday . The company will perform 90 […] More

  • Aitech Introduces Power Supply Unit Designed to Support Military Embedded Computing Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aitech Introduces Power Supply Unit Designed to Support Military Embedded Computing Systems

    Aitech Defense Systems has unveiled a new power supply unit for CompactPCI, VME and VPX embedded computing systems, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Tuesday. The 500-Watt 3U VITA 62 power supply called P233 was designed to support military embedded computing systems as well as offer added system reliability and redundancy. The MIL-STD-704-compliant P233 also caters to ENABLE#, FAIL#, […] More

  • NASA's Atmosphere Research Mission to Launch With Airbus-Built Commercial Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s Atmosphere Research Mission to Launch With Airbus-Built Commercial Satellite

    NASA has announced an instrument the agency designed to study the region between earth’s atmosphere and space will fly as hosted payload onboard a commercial satellite. The agency said Wednesday its Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk mission will launch with a geostationary communications satellite that Airbus Group built for Luxembourg-based operator SES. SES-14 is scheduled to lift […] More

  • Synergetics Gets New ISO Quality Mgmt Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Synergetics Gets New ISO Quality Mgmt Certification

    Synergetics has received new certification that recognizes the company’s compliance with leadership and management quality standards established by the International Organization for Standardization. The company said Tuesday it transitioned to the ISO 9001:2015 credential after it held the ISO 9001:2008 certification over the past nine years. Colorado-based Synergetics offers a range of information technology services to federal agencies through the General Services Administration’s 8(a) STARS […] More

  • SEC to Introduce IT Support Services IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SEC to Introduce IT Support Services IDIQ

    The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to launch a contract vehicle designed to streamline the acquisition process for information technology platforms and services in support of SEC’s offices and divisions. A FedBizOpps presolicitation notice published Thursday says the agency’s office of IT intends to create a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under the One OIT program. The IDIQ […] More

  • Leidos to Continue Navy Signature Silencing Program Support; Mike Chagnon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Continue Navy Signature Silencing Program Support; Mike Chagnon Comments

    Leidos has received a potential five-year, $42 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock Division to continue support services for a signature silencing program at the U.S. Navy‘s Southeast Alaska Measurement Facility. The company said Tuesday it helps the service branch operate and maintain SEAFAC during acoustic trials as well as repair all facility […] More

  • Triumph Group to Build Landing Gear System for Sierra Nevada's Cargo Space Plane - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Triumph Group to Build Landing Gear System for Sierra Nevada’s Cargo Space Plane

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has awarded Triumph Group a contract to produce a landing gear system for a reusable lifting-body vehicle designed to support NASA‘s resupply mission to the International Space Station. Triumph said Tuesday it will provide main and nose landing gear along with integrated actuation technologies for door systems of Dream Chaser spacecraft SNC is building under its Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract […] More

  • Airbus to Continue UK Puma 2 Helicopter Fleet Support Under Potential $136M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Continue UK Puma 2 Helicopter Fleet Support Under Potential $136M Contract

    Airbus has secured a potential $135.6 million follow-on contract from the U.K. ministry of defense to help sustain the country’s fleet of Puma 2 helicopters throughout the platform’s service life. The company said Dec. 22 its helicopters business will repair, overhaul and provide logistics support for the U.K. air force’s Puma 2 fleet through March 2022. or […] More

  • Report: Pakistan Navy Buys New Warships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Pakistan Navy Buys New Warships

    Pakistan’s navy has begun to purchase new warships as part of an effort to replace six Type 21 frigates that the country acquired from the U.K. in the 1990s, Defense News reported Wednesday. The report said Pakistan awarded a contract in June 2017 for a Chinese Type 054A Jiangkai II frigate, with plans to buy two […] More