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  • Altamira Secures Intell Community Mission System Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Altamira Secures Intell Community Mission System Support Contract

    Altamira Technologies has secured a five-year, $18 million contract to perform classified full life cycle development, engineering and sustainment work on a mission critical system that supports the U.S. intelligence community. The company said Friday the contract will expand the company’s portfolio in Chantilly, Virginia, the reach of its business in other mission areas. “This award represents a deepening relationship with one of […] More

  • McMurdo to Help UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency Update Search-and-Rescue Satellite Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McMurdo to Help UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency Update Search-and-Rescue Satellite Tech

    Orolia‘s McMurdo subsidiary has received a four-year contract from the U.K.’s maritime and coastguard agency to support upgrade work on a satellite technology designed for search-and-rescue missions. McMurdo said Thursday it will install local user terminals for MCA’s Medium-altitude Earth Orbit Search and Rescue satellites and update ground stations that operate on geostationary and low-Earth orbiting SAR satellites. The company […] More

  • Trowbridge & Trowbridge Awarded Navy IT, Cybersecurity Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trowbridge & Trowbridge Awarded Navy IT, Cybersecurity Support Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Trowbridge & Trowbridge a $23.4 million contract for  information technology, system administration and cybersecurity services to the Naval Air Warfare Center’s weapons division. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract covers hardware, software, licensing, technical support, lab warranty services, technological refreshment and enhancements, life cycle support and customer services. Work will occur […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Auxiliary Engines for Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft; Eileen Drake, Mike Hawes Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Auxiliary Engines for Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft; Eileen Drake, Mike Hawes Comment

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted hot-fire acceptance tests on eight auxiliary engines to be used on the inaugural flight of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System next year. The company said Wednesday it oversees the development of auxiliary engines for the European Space Agency’s European Service Module that will provide air and water, temperature control, power and propulsion capacity for Orion crew […] More

  • ULA's Atlas V Rocket Sends NRO Payload Into Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Atlas V Rocket Sends NRO Payload Into Space

    The Lockheed Martin–Boeing joint venture United Launch Alliance has launched a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Calfornia. ULA said Wednesday the Atlas V lifted off with the NROL-79 payload at 12:50 p.m. Eastern time as part of NRO’s national defense mission. The rocket is based on the Evolved […] More

  • InfoReliance Wins Marine Training Program Support Recompete - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoReliance Wins Marine Training Program Support Recompete

    InfoReliance has won a three-year, $16 million contract to help the U.S. Marine Corps manage an enterprise training program designed to support missions of the service branch’s training and education command. The company said Monday it will also continue to support development and enhancement of the Marine Corps Training Information Management System under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity recompete contract. “This win […] More

  • Drone Aviation Installs ISR Equipment on DoD's Tactical Airship Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation Installs ISR Equipment on DoD’s Tactical Airship Platform

    Drone Aviation has integrated government-furnished intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment onto a company-built tactical airship platform as part of a $346,000 contract from the Defense Department. The company said Wednesday it added communications and optical sensor systems to the Winch Aerostat Small Platform in an effort to increase the platform’s flexibility to perform missions and address ISR support requirements. WASP is also equipped with updated data […] More

  • Report: Sikorsky to Offer Black Hawk Variant to Air Force Huey Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Sikorsky to Offer Black Hawk Variant to Air Force Huey Replacement Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary plans to offer a modified version of the Black Hawk helicopter as a potential replacement for the U.S. Air Force‘s UH-1N Huey aircraft, DoD Buzz reported Wednesday. Oriana Pawlyk writes Sikorsky will pitch its HH-60U platform that is currently part of the Air Force’s inventory to the UH-1N replacement program. The military branch looks to procure 84 new helicopters as part of efforts […] More

  • CTC to Explore AI Automation Tools Under NGA Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC to Explore AI Automation Tools Under NGA Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has won a $498,000 contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to research artificial intelligence-based automation technologies. CTC said Wednesday it aims to develop an AI Analyst Virtual Assistant platform that would process large quantities of information through NGA’s Boosting Innovative GEOINT initiative. Ed Sheehan, CTC president and CEO, said the contract gives CTC an opportunity to “contribute to a […] More

  • PwC Offers Strategies for Defense Contractors That Seek Emerging Market Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PwC Offers Strategies for Defense Contractors That Seek Emerging Market Opportunities

    PwC‘s strategy and consulting team has suggested various strategies the group believes can help defense companies win contracts in emerging countries such as Saudi Arabia, India, South Korea and Japan. PwC advisers Randy Starr and Anurag Garg wrote in a 2017 trend report they forecast that defense contractors will increasingly seek business with individual nations as military budgets in traditional defense […] More

  • Fulcrum to Assist SOCOM's Military Info Support Operations Branch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fulcrum to Assist SOCOM’s Military Info Support Operations Branch

    The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Fulcrum a $850,000 task order for manpower augmentation services to the SOCOM’s J39-Military Information Support Operations Branch. Fulcrum will also support senior military engagement, complex analysis and global planning efforts at MISO under the three-year task order, the company said Feb. 1. “We are proud to have Fulcrum subject matter experts […] More

  • Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Navigation System for MALD-J Flight Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Navigation System for MALD-J Flight Vehicle

    The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon have conducted six flight tests that validated the performance of an updated navigation system for a programmable, expendable flight vehicle. Raytheon said Tuesday B-52 and F-16 aircraft were flown to test the GPS Aided Inertial Navigation System II of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer vehicle at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. GAINS II modifications also […] More