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  • SpaceX Gets USAF Contract Modification to Continue Rocket Engine Tech Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Gets USAF Contract Modification to Continue Rocket Engine Tech Devt

    Space Exploration Technologies has received a $40.8 million contract modification to further develop a rocket propulsion system prototype for the U.S. Air Force‘s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program. The Defense Department said Thursday SpaceX will continue development of the Raptor engine technology through April 30, 2018, under the modification. USAF awarded the company a $61.4 million “other transaction” agreement last year […] More

  • Torch Technologies Wins $86M MDA Contract to Produce Digital Missile Target Models - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Torch Technologies Wins $86M MDA Contract to Produce Digital Missile Target Models

    Torch Technologies has won a potential five-year, $86.2 million contract to create  digital representations of adversary missiles and flight test targets for the Missile Defense Agency. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will model various targets that are common across Ballistic Missile Defense System programs to aid development, testing and assessment activities. Torch Technologies will also […] More

  • Keoki Jackson Outlines Lockheed's Tech Investment Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Keoki Jackson Outlines Lockheed’s Tech Investment Plans

    Keoki Jackson, chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, has outlined technology areas where Lockheed plans to invest over the next two to three decades during an Oct. 11 roundtable, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Jackson said the technologies are classified into three categories, including the strategic technology thread areas that cover “anything Lockheed Martin will do… whether from undersea […] More

  • TechTrans Wins Multi-Country Cessna Aircraft Maintenance Training IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechTrans Wins Multi-Country Cessna Aircraft Maintenance Training IDIQ

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded TechTrans International a potential four-year, $45 million contract to provide Cessna 208 aircraft maintenance training support to multiple foreign military sales customers. TechTrans will work with the Air Force Security Assistance Training Squadron under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through Oct. 18, 2021, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will take pace in Houston, Texas […] More

  • Resource Management Concepts to Support Naval Air Warfare Center's Simulation Lab Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Resource Management Concepts to Support Naval Air Warfare Center’s Simulation Lab Operations

    Resource Management Concepts Inc. has won a potential $40 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support laboratory operations and maintenance efforts of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s simulation unit. RMC will also provide information technology services to the AIR-5.4.3 simulation division under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company will perform work through November […] More

  • IAI-Hankuk JV to Offer UAVs in South Korea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IAI-Hankuk JV to Offer UAVs in South Korea

    Israel Aerospace Industries and South Korea-based composites manufacturing firm Hankuk Carbon have formed a joint venture with the goal to develop and produce unmanned aerial vehicles. Korea Aviation Technologies will specifically offer vertical takeoff-and-landing UAVs to the South Korean military and civilian sectors, IAI said Tuesday. KAT aims to build platforms with a maximum take-off weight of 600 […] More

  • Angie Heise: Leidos to Extend Spaceflight Cargo Processing Support Under $159M NASA Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Angie Heise: Leidos to Extend Spaceflight Cargo Processing Support Under $159M NASA Award

    Leidos will continue to provide engineering services for ground processing of NASA spaceflight cargo under a potential $159 million contract the agency originally announced in mid-September. The Cargo Mission Contract 3 covers the use of multiple technology platforms for the company to pack cargo NASA would send to the International Space Station, Leidos said Thursday. Angie Heise, a […] More

  • BAE Updates C4I Systems of 5,000th Mine-Resistant Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Updates C4I Systems of 5,000th Mine-Resistant Vehicle

    BAE Systems has updated command, control, communications, computers and intelligence systems on the 5,000th mine-resistant tactical vehicle that company built for U.S. military and allied forces. The company said Thursday it performed the C4I upgrades through the Tactical Vehicle Engineering and Prototyping Support Services program managed by the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic. The program […] More

  • CyrusOne Enters Partnership, Equity Deal With Chinese Data Center Operator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Enters Partnership, Equity Deal With Chinese Data Center Operator

    CyrusOne has formed a strategic partnership with GDS Holdings and agreed to acquire an 8 percent stake in the China-based data center operator for approximately $100 million. The agreement seeks to drive synergy between the two companies and allows both parties to exchange strategies in data center design and construction, operations, sales and marketing, and supply chain customer […] More

  • Eric Joseph Receives ExecutiveBiz’s 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eric Joseph Receives ExecutiveBiz’s 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award

    ExecutiveBiz is pleased to name Eric Joseph, Partner-in-Charge at Heidrick & Struggles, as a recipient of its 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award. J. Eric Joseph is the partner in charge in Heidrick & Struggles’ Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of the Global Technology & Services Practice and serves as the sector leader for […] More

  • General Atomics, Huneed Agree to Explore Aerospace Tech Collaboration Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, Huneed Agree to Explore Aerospace Tech Collaboration Opportunities

    A General Atomics subsidiary and South Korea-based airborne systems manufacturer  Huneed Technologies have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore potential opportunities for collaboration between the two companies. Both parties seek to identify common manufacturing, technology and strategic interests as General Atomics Aeronautics Systems Inc. considers Huneed as its possible in-country technology supplier, GA-ASI said Wednesday. “We are […] More

  • Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Plans L3 Upgrade Kit Buy for Mine Detection Systems

    The U.S. Army has announced it plans to buy up to 1,800 units of L3 Technologies-built upgrade kits to modernize the service branch’s mine detection platform. A justification and approval notice published Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the Army requires kits to address AN/PSS-14 maintainability, performance, reliability and sustainment requirements. The service branch aims to convert its current mine detection […] More