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  • Boeing Previews Offering for Navy’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Previews Offering for Navy’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Program

    Boeing has unveiled its proposed unmanned aircraft offering for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 carrier-based aerial refueling tanker drone program. The company said Tuesday it has begun engine tests on its proposed unmanned aerial system in preparation for deck handling demonstrations in 2018. “We will be ready for flight testing when the engineering and manufacturing development […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary Gets Navy Contract Modification for H-1 Helicopter Upgrade Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary Gets Navy Contract Modification for H-1 Helicopter Upgrade Support

    Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary has received a $12.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide acquisition logistics support for the H-1 modernization effort. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification covers logistics management, maintenance planning material, supply, design interface, technical data and equipment support, inventory and distribution management, storage, transportation, supportability analysis and technical manual updates services. Bell Helicopter will have up […] More

  • IBM Forms Network With 12 Firms, Universities to Advance Quantum Computing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Forms Network With 12 Firms, Universities to Advance Quantum Computing

    IBM has partnered with companies, universities and national research laboratories to study quantum computing and identify its potential applications for financial services, automotive, materials, chemical and electronic industries. The New York-based company said Thursday it will collaborate with JPMorgan Chase, Samsung, Daimler, JSR, Barclays, Honda, Nagase and Hitachi Metals through the IBM Q Network. The IBM […] More

  • Navy Preps Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Construction RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Preps Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Construction RFP

    The U.S. Navy could issue a request for proposals within the next month for a multiyear contract to build at least 10 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers (DDG-51), USNI News reported Tuesday. Capt. Casey Moton, DDG-51 program manager, told USNI News that the contract will run from fiscal 2018 to fiscal 2022 and will include options to accelerate […] More

  • Army Extends Lockheed's Apache Sensor Logistics Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Extends Lockheed’s Apache Sensor Logistics Support Contract

    Lockheed Martin has received a $64.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to continue logistics support work on electro-optical sensors designed to help increase Apache helicopter pilots’ situational awareness. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification extends Lockheed’s performance-based logistics services to the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensors program through Dec. 31, 2018. The Army […] More

  • Cubic to Support Army Readiness Training Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Support Army Readiness Training Center

    The U.S. Army has awarded Cubic a potential $40.4 million contract to provide mission support services to the Joint Readiness Training Center located at Fort Polk in Louisiana. Cubic’s defense business segment will perform contract work through June 27, 2018, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the service branch is obligating $23.4 million in fiscal 2018 operations […] More

  • DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Radio Tech Devt Program in January - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Radio Tech Devt Program in January

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to host a proposers day on Jan. 15 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that seeks new radio technology for military operational environments. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday the Network Universal Persistence program looks to prototype a radio system that will work to help military […] More

  • Virgin Galactic, Italian Space Agency Ink Letter of Intent for Suborbital Research Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virgin Galactic, Italian Space Agency Ink Letter of Intent for Suborbital Research Flight

    Virgin Galactic and Italy’s space agency have signed a letter of intent to perform suborbital flight on the company’s SpaceShipTwo spaceplane. The Italian space agency will conduct scientific research and suborbital experiments during the planned mission, which is scheduled to occur in 2019 at Spaceport America in New Mexico, Virgin Galactic said Monday. The partnership will also include on-site […] More

  • Boeing Delivers Battlespace Comms Platform to Australian Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Delivers Battlespace Comms Platform to Australian Military

    Boeing‘s Australia-based defense business unit has delivered a next-generation battlespace communications platform to the Australian defense force. The Australian defence department said in a report published Tuesday the LAND 2072 Phase 2B project was built to offer data, video and voice services as well as help secure communications between the country’s deployed land units and […] More

  • Kratos to Provide Drone Services for Undisclosed Government Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Provide Drone Services for Undisclosed Government Agency

    Kratos‘ unmanned systems division has received a $27 million contract to deliver drone-related services for an undisclosed U.S. government agency involved with national security. The company said Monday it will perform contract work in Kratos-owned and government facilities. Kratos’ USD aims to provide its clients with affordable unmanned aerial systems designed for a variety of […] More

  • Indonesia Receives First Apache Attack Helicopter Under FMS Agreement With US - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Indonesia Receives First Apache Attack Helicopter Under FMS Agreement With US

    Indonesia has received its first Boeing-built AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopter as part of the country’s foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government, Defense News reported Monday. The report said the Apache helicopter was delivered to the city of Semarang in Java, Indonesia using a U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III airlifter. Indonesia requested to buy eight Apache […] More

  • PAE to Provide Curacao and Aruba Base Support Under $79M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE to Provide Curacao and Aruba Base Support Under $79M Task Order

    PAE has received a five year, $79 million task order to deliver base support services for U.S. Southern Command locations in Curacao and Aruba. The services will be in support of SOUTHCOM’s anti-drug surveillance operations under the joint effort between the Defense Department and the Department of State, the company said Monday. Services under the order include mission planning and execution, […] More