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  • Raytheon to Supply IFF Transponders for US, Norwegian C-130 Planes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Supply IFF Transponders for US, Norwegian C-130 Planes

    Raytheon‘s space and airborne systems business has received a $30.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide new and updated APX-119 Identification Friend or Foe transponders for C-130H and C-130J military transport planes. The Defense Department said Friday the firm-fixed-price contract includes a $725,000 foreign military sale of the IFF transponders to Norway. Work will occur through Feb. 29, 2020, […] More

  • MBDA Delivers Initial Missiles and Firing Posts to French Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA Delivers Initial Missiles and Firing Posts to French Military

    MBDA has delivered the initial set of 50 missiles and 20 firing posts needed for the French armed forces’ new man-portable weapon system. The company said Thursday it developed the MMP missile system to incrementally replace the Milan, HOT and ERYX anti-tank missiles that are currently in service with France’s military. The French defense procurement agency aims to procure a total of 400 […] More

  • Naval Group, Fincantieri Team Up to Pursue Canadian Surface Combatant Ship Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Naval Group, Fincantieri Team Up to Pursue Canadian Surface Combatant Ship Program

    Naval Group and Fincantieri have partnered to submit a joint proposal to the Canadian government for the development of a surface combat ship. Both companies aim to offer Canada an “off-the-shelf” naval platform based on the FREMM multimission frigate designed for French and Italian navies, Fincantieri said Friday. Canada intends to procure up to 15 surface combatant ships for the […] More

  • Air Force Taps Cubic for Logistics Support to Saudi Arabia's Combat Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Cubic for Logistics Support to Saudi Arabia’s Combat Training System

    Cubic has received a $14.8 million U.S. Air Force contract to provide logistics services for Saudi Arabia’s P5 combat training systems. The Defense Department said Friday Cubic’s defense applications unit will help sustain operational tempos at various military bases in Saudi Arabia through the foreign military sales contract. Work under the sole-source acquisition effort will occur through Feb 28, 2022. Cubic’s global […] More

  • Romania Signs Purchase Agreement for Lockheed PAC-3 MSE Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Romania Signs Purchase Agreement for Lockheed PAC-3 MSE Missiles

    The government of Romania has signed an agreement to buy Lockheed Martin-built Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors and related equipment from the U.S. government. Scott Arnold, vice president and deputy of integrated air and missile defense at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, said in a statement published Thursday the company is honored […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary to Test Augmented Reality Tech for V-280 Helicopter Simulator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary to Test Augmented Reality Tech for V-280 Helicopter Simulator

    TRU Simulation + Training, a Textron subsidiary, will test an augmented reality feature for the Bell V-280 Valor helicopter simulator, Defense News reported Thursday. John Hayward, senior vice president and general manager of military and the business simulation sector at TRU, told the company developed the V-280 simulator to introduce augmented reality features in the […] More

  • CTC to Support FEMA Electronic Validation Tech; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC to Support FEMA Electronic Validation Tech; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has secured a one-year, $1.8 million contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support a mobile-based electronic validation technology the company developed through previous agreements with FEMA. CTC said Thursday it helped develop FEMA’s Federal and Mutual Aid Emergency Response Official Accountability Tracking System for the agency to identify personnel in the event of […] More

  • DoD Taps Lockheed to Design New Heavily Armed Surface Combatant for Saudi Arabia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Taps Lockheed to Design New Heavily Armed Surface Combatant for Saudi Arabia

    Lockheed Martin has received a $22.7 million contract from the Defense Department to transform the design of current Freedom-class littoral combat ships into a heavily armed multi-mission surface combatant, USNI News reported Thursday. The contractor secured the award via a potential $20 billion foreign military sales deal with Saudi Arabia for various arms such as […] More

  • Lockheed Assembles First Comms Satellite for Saudi Arabia-Based Operator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Assembles First Comms Satellite for Saudi Arabia-Based Operator

    Lockheed Martin has finished assembly and integration work on the first of two communications satellites the U.S. aerospace contractor is building for Arabsat and King Abdulaziz City’s Science and Technology organization in Saudi Arabia. Lockheed said Thursday it shipped the Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1 satellite to a company facility in Sunnyvale, California to undergo environmental tests that would simulate various  launch and space […] More

  • UK Allocates Nearly $73M for Aerospace R&D Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Allocates Nearly $73M for Aerospace R&D Projects

    The U.K. government plans to invest nearly $73 million in seven research and development projects meant to support innovation in the British aerospace sector. The funds will be awarded through the Aerospace Technology Institute as part of the British government and industry’s commitment to invest as much as $5.3 billion in civil aerospace R&D initiatives by 2026, […] More

  • Esri Agrees to Expand Airbus Defense & Space Unit's GIS Tech Access - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Agrees to Expand Airbus Defense & Space Unit’s GIS Tech Access

    Esri has signed an enterprise agreement to extend Airbus‘ access to a geographic information system to support the intelligence program line of the latter’s defense and space business. Airbus seeks to expand its use of Esri-built ArcGIS platform in efforts to help address  environmental, social and economic challenges globally with the use of the mapping and geospatial analysis […] More

  • Carey Smith Talks About Parsons' Williams Electric Purchase, Control System Business Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carey Smith Talks About Parsons’ Williams Electric Purchase, Control System Business Expansion

    Carey Smith, federal group president at Parsons, has said the company expects the acquisition of control system integration company Williams Electric to create new opportunities as the Pasadena, California-based engineering services contractor operates in the Middle East and other regions, the Pasadena Star-News reported Thursday. Smith told Pasadena Star-News she believes Parsons’ contractual relationships with federal […] More