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  • ManTech Backs Army Vehicles Through New South Carolina Logistics Center; Dan Keefe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Backs Army Vehicles Through New South Carolina Logistics Center; Dan Keefe Comments

    ManTech International has launched a new logistics center in North Charleston, S.C., to support the U.S. Army’s Vehicle Engineering Maintenance and Operations Support program. The logistics center is composed of two buildings with a combined space of approximately 310,000 square feet, including a central hub that houses parts for the service’s Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles […] More

  • Navy Seeks Contractor to Design, Build Electronic Warfare Training Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Contractor to Design, Build Electronic Warfare Training Systems

    The U.S. Navy has launched a small business set-aside solicitation on a potential five-year project to build integrated battleforce electronic warfare trainer and surface electronic warfare team trainer systems. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the military service looks for a contractor to design, develop, test and integrate EW training platforms through the competitive procurement […] More

  • Booz Allen Eyes Growth With Tech Talent; Horacio Rozanski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Eyes Growth With Tech Talent; Horacio Rozanski Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton executives believe talent recruitment and retention efforts will serve as a growth driver for the company moving forward, The Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday. “We feel really good about our overall capacity to attract and retain the right kind of talent,” Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski told analysts during an earnings call Tuesday. […] More

  • Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos Supports Call for Manned Lunar Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos Supports Call for Manned Lunar Missions

    Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said during the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles that he supported the government’s call for manned lunar missions and believes establishing a lunar base is necessary for sustained missions to Mars, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Bezos said he would be willing to work with other countries to build facilities […] More

  • NAVAIR Eyes Pratt & Whitney for E-6B Power Tech Upgrade Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NAVAIR Eyes Pratt & Whitney for E-6B Power Tech Upgrade Support Contract

    The Naval Air Systems Command plans to award United Technologies Corp.‘s Pratt & Whitney subsidiary a sole-source contract to help install updated auxiliary power units into the U.S. Navy‘s E-6B Mercury planes. Work will cover APU installation, sustainment and engineering support for 16 E-6B aircraft units and training systems, the Navy said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. The service branch noted […] More

  • General Atomics Forms Industry Team for Canada’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Forms Industry Team for Canada’s Remotely Piloted Aircraft Project

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has partnered with CAE, L3 Technologies’ Wescam subsidiary and Maxar Technologies’ MDA business to form an industry team that aims to meet Canada’s requirements for multi-mission remotely piloted aircraft systems. Team SkyGuardian Canada will offer the MQ-9B SkyGuardian drone for the Canadian armed forces’ RPAS project that seeks a medium-altitude, long-endurance […] More

  • Report: USDA's Jonathan Benett to Join Adobe's Public Sector Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: USDA’s Jonathan Benett to Join Adobe’s Public Sector Team

    Jonathan Benett, chief enterprise architect of the Agriculture Department, has stepped down to join Adobe Systems‘ public sector business in June, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. He started his federal service in 2008 as head of project management at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after almost 10 years of industry career. After USPTO, he served as director of […] More

  • Coast Guard Uses Satellites, Sensors to Back Arctic-Based Comms, Situational Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Uses Satellites, Sensors to Back Arctic-Based Comms, Situational Awareness

    The U.S. Coast Guard uses sensor technologies and satellites to perform communications, situational awareness, navigation and remote sensing operations in the Arctic region, National Defense reported Tuesday. A 2018 report by the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center says some of the technologies the Coast Guard uses for navigation and domain awareness include personal locator beacons; long-rang […] More

  • Air Force Issues A-10 Thunderbolt Wing Assembly Procurement RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Issues A-10 Thunderbolt Wing Assembly Procurement RFP

    The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals for a program to procure wing assemblies for the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the service intends to award a potential seven-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under the A-10 Thunderbolt Advanced-Wing Continuation Kit program. The IDIQ contract has a base ordering period of […] More

  • Raytheon to Produce Radar Warning Receivers Under $90M Air Force FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Produce Radar Warning Receivers Under $90M Air Force FMS Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a potential five-year, $90 million contract to manufacture radar warning receiver systems to fullfill production requirements under a foreign military sales transaction. Raytheon’s self protect systems business will fabricate, integrate, test and deliver AN/ALR‐69A receivers through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the company will receive $51.5 million from Japanese FMS funds upon […] More

  • Raytheon Recognizes Kratos For Supplier Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Recognizes Kratos For Supplier Support Services

    Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems business has recognized the services of a unit of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions as an outstanding supplier. Kratos said Tuesday its microwave electronics division (KMED) was among 56 companies that received 4-star honors during the Supplier Excellence Conference that Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems held on May 17. Kratos Microwave Electronics Division was selected […] More