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  • Lockheed Delivers UK's 14th F-35B Aircraft; Peter Ruddock Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Delivers UK’s 14th F-35B Aircraft; Peter Ruddock Comments

    The U.K. military has accepted delivery of a 14th F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft from Lockheed Martin. The F-35B flew into Beaufort, South Carolina, last week to undergo tests by 200 deployed U.K. personnel before the aircraft joins the country’s 617 Squadron by next summer, the British defense ministry said Monday. Peter Ruddock, chief executive of Lockheed’s […] More

  • CAE to Update Army Abrams Training Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE to Update Army Abrams Training Equipment

    CAE‘s U.S. business has won a potential $7.5 million contract to modernize Abrams M1A1 engine diagnostic and troubleshooting trainers for the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Monday CAE USA will perform upgrades to Abrams training systems installed at Fort Benning in Georgia; Fort Lee in Virginia; and Gowen Field in Idaho. The Army Contracting Command received three bids for the firm-fixed-price […] More

  • L3 to Provide Software Integration Support for Canadian Operational Flight Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 to Provide Software Integration Support for Canadian Operational Flight Program

    L3 Technologies has received a $10.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract contract from the U.S. Navy to update and integrate software for a Canadian operational flight program as part of a foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Department said Monday the Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division selected the contractor to support Canada’s CF-18 C21X-B2.0 program. The […] More

  • Saab to Supply Sweden With New Gripen E Aircraft Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Supply Sweden With New Gripen E Aircraft Equipment

    Saab has received a potential $47.5 million to provide new Gripen E fighter aircraft equipment to the Swedish defense and material administration FMV. The company said Monday the supplemental contract updates the terms of an agreement signed with the agency in 2013 concerning reuse of existing Swedish military aircraft fleet or stock. Sweden’s armed forces […] More

  • General Dynamics to Help Army Intelligence & Security Command Manage IT Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Help Army Intelligence & Security Command Manage IT Networks

    General Dynamics‘ information technology unit has secured a $13.3 million contract to help operate and maintain the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command‘s information technology networks. The Army obligated $82,894 at the time of award from its fiscal 2018 operations and maintenance funds, the Defense Department said Monday. GDIT will perform contract work at Fort Belvoir […] More

  • Navy Taps Cobham Subsidiary for SATCOM Antenna System Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Cobham Subsidiary for SATCOM Antenna System Support Services

    Cobham‘s Trivent-Avant subsidiary has received a $45.5 million contract to deliver fabrication, test, upgrade, engineering and related training services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s ultra high frequency satellite communication antenna system. The Defense Department said Friday the services will be applied to the SATCOM system’s components and variants including small ship variants of the system, Mobile User […] More

  • Lockheed Integrates Harris-Developed Satellite Navigation Payload on 4th Air Force GPS III Space Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Integrates Harris-Developed Satellite Navigation Payload on 4th Air Force GPS III Space Vehicle

    Lockheed Martin has fully integrated a Harris-built satellite navigation payload on the fourth U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System III Space Vehicle slated for launch in 2018. Harris said Friday the navigation payloads for GPS III SV02, SV03 and SV04 have been fully integrated while the fifth payload for SV05 currently undergoes environmental testing. The satellite navigation payload […] More

  • Leidos Secures Navy Contract to Help Build 2nd 'Sea Hunter' Autonomous Vessel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Navy Contract to Help Build 2nd ‘Sea Hunter’ Autonomous Vessel

    Leidos has received a potential three-year, $43.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build a hull structure for the construction of a second autonomous vessel. The company will develop the Sea Hunter II-Autonomous Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel Hull Number 2 under the cost-plus-fixed fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work is expected to be completed […] More

  • Maxar's MDA Business Gets Multiple Canadian Space Agency Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar’s MDA Business Gets Multiple Canadian Space Agency Support Contracts

    Maxar Technologies‘ MDA business has received four contracts worth a combined $41.7 million to help the Canadian space agency develop space exploration technology platforms. MDA said Friday it will build tools designed to simplify operations and reduce operator communication load for the Mobile Servicing System currently on board the International Space Station under two contract modifications from […] More

  • NASA Posts RFI on Earth Observation Data Products - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Posts RFI on Earth Observation Data Products

    NASA has published a request for information on FedBizOpps in an effort to determine the availability of Earth science data from commercial small satellites, Space News reported Friday. The agency will accept capability statements from the private sector through Dec. 22 and looks to purchase Earth-relevant data products through blanket purchase agreements. “The question that we’re asking […] More

  • SpaceX’s Reused Dragon Spacecraft Arrives at ISS for 13th Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX’s Reused Dragon Spacecraft Arrives at ISS for 13th Cargo Resupply Mission

    A SpaceX-built spacecraft reached the International Space Station Sunday to deliver approximately 4,861 pounds of scientific experiments and crew supplies in support of more than 300 investigations aboard the orbiting laboratory, NASASpaceFlight.com reported Sunday. Astronauts Joe Acaba and Mark Vande Hei used a robotic arm, CanadArm2, to capture and navigate the Dragon spacecraft to the Nadir port […] More