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  • DynCorp Selected for 2019 Military Friendly Employers List; George Krivo Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp Selected for 2019 Military Friendly Employers List; George Krivo Quoted

    Viqtory, a veteran-owned recruitment marketing company, has included DynCorp International for the 12th time in its list of Military Friendly Employers. DynCorp said Thursday it received the recognition for its efforts to hire, retain and promote retired service personnel and their spouses who seek employment in the civilian sector. “DynCorp International is committed to hiring military talent, knowing […] More

  • Navy Eyes Potential Two-Carrier Deal With Huntington Ingalls - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Eyes Potential Two-Carrier Deal With Huntington Ingalls

    Huntington Ingalls Industries and the U.S. Navy have entered negotiations on a potential contract to build the third and fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers, Navy Times reported Thursday. James Geurts, assistant secretary for research, development and acquisition at the Navy, said at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing Tuesday that he expects the military branch to […] More

  • Noblis Awarded DoD Environmental Research Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noblis Awarded DoD Environmental Research Program Support Contract

    Noblis has won a potential $24M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support a pair of Defense Department environmental research programs. The contract has a one-year base period of performance, two option years and an additional one six-month extension, Army Contracting Command said in an award notice posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps. Work covers technical review, direct program area support, administrative and […] More

  • Raytheon Technologies Among Greatest Innovations of 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Technologies Among Greatest Innovations of 2018

    Two of Raytheon’s new drone technologies have landed spots on Popular Science’s list of 100 greatest innovations of 2018. The publication selected the company’s Skyler radar and a laser dune buggy system for the annual Best of What’s New list, recognizing the technologies’ potential to provide new functions for unmanned vehicles, Raytheon said Wednesday. Skyler is […] More

  • Mitre Plans San Antonio, Texas, Office Relocation; Bobby Blount Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Plans San Antonio, Texas, Office Relocation; Bobby Blount Quoted

    Mitre will relocate its current office in San Antonio, Texas, to the Northwest Side after four decades of conducting business near a joint military installation, San Antonio Business Journal reported Wednesday. The report said nearly 70 of the nonprofit company’s employees will move to a facility at Corporate Square by early 2019. Bobby Blount, department […] More

  • Randy Deidrick: Boeing Eyes T-X Trainer Full Operational Capability in 2034 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Randy Deidrick: Boeing Eyes T-X Trainer Full Operational Capability in 2034

    Randy Deidrick, ground-based training systems lead for the T-X program at Boeing, has said the company intends to achieve full operational capability for the T-X trainer aircraft in 2034, National Defense reported Wednesday. “Part of what we’ve been doing in these two months is familiarizing our customer with what we’ve already developed, what we already […] More

  • ManTech Receives Task Order for Marine Tech R&D Services; Kevin Phillips Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Receives Task Order for Marine Tech R&D Services; Kevin Phillips Quoted

    ManTech will provide technology research and development services to the U.S. Marine Corps under a potential 44-month, $35M task order. The company said Wednesday it plans to explore emerging technologies that have potential interoperability, reusability, mapping and scalability applications to the military service’s priority operational requirements. Focus areas of the R&D project include aviation, electronic warfare, artificial intelligence, logistics, weaponry, […] More

  • BayFirst to Help TSA Analyze Transportation Security Risks; Kevin Gooch Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BayFirst to Help TSA Analyze Transportation Security Risks; Kevin Gooch Quoted

    BayFirst Solutions has received a task order to provide risk analysis and data management services to the Transportation Security Administration. The company said Wednesday it will help TSA manage and maintain the Risk IT System that supports the agency’s risk-based operation and policy development functions, as well as collect information on threats and vulnerabilities. BayFirst CEO Kevin […] More

  • Cubic Gets Recognition for Air Combat Training System Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Gets Recognition for Air Combat Training System Development

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has won an award from the National Training and Simulation Association for developing a live, virtual and constructive technology designed to train U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy fighter pilots. The company said Wednesday it received the 2018 Modeling and Simulation award Tuesday at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference. Cubic […] More

  • Leonardo DRS Hands Over 100th Naval Destroyer Gas Turbine Platform to GE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS Hands Over 100th Naval Destroyer Gas Turbine Platform to GE

    Leonardo DRS has manufactured and delivered to General Electric a gas turbine package built for an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy. The GE-designed LM2500 platform is intended for installation on the USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG 126), Leonardo DRS said Monday. Jamie McMullin, senior director of naval power systems group at Leonardo DRS, said the delivery […] More

  • DynCorp to Perform Navy TH-57 Helicopter Maintenance Work in Florida, Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp to Perform Navy TH-57 Helicopter Maintenance Work in Florida, Alabama

    DynCorp International will provide logistics services and materials needed to maintain the U.S. Navy‘s TH-57 helicopters under a $152M contract the Naval Air Systems Command awarded last month. DynCorp said Tuesday it will conduct organizational- and intermediate-level maintenance efforts at Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Milton, Fla., and will perform depot-level support at a company facility in Andalusia, […] More

  • Stratcom Seeks Input to Update Nuclear C3 Enterprise Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stratcom Seeks Input to Update Nuclear C3 Enterprise Architecture

    U.S. Strategic Command has issued a request for information on potential approaches to modernize and operate a nuclear command, control and communications enterprise. Stratcom will use ideas from commercial and academic entities regarding the transition of the Defense Department toward a new NC3 environment, the U.S. Air Force said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. The […] More