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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Help Boeing Perform Tech Maturation Work on Ground-Based ICBM Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Help Boeing Perform Tech Maturation Work on Ground-Based ICBM Program

    Aerojet Rocketdyne will offer propulsion system support to help Boeing conduct technology maturation and risk reduction work for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent acquisition program. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday that the GBSD program looks to create a replacement for the U.S. military’s current Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile units. Boeing received a potential three-year, $349.1 million contract […] More

  • Sevatec to Help Update USCIS Immigration, Citizenship Processing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec to Help Update USCIS Immigration, Citizenship Processing System

    Sevatec has received a task order from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to support transformation, integration and configuration of an electronic platform the agency uses to process immigration and citizenship applications. The company said Thursday it will provide automation tools designed to help developers integrate and configure information technology codes for the USCIS Agency and Transformation initiative. […] More

  • Lockheed-Fincantieri Marinette Marine Team Supports Navy USS Little Rock LCS Acceptance Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Fincantieri Marinette Marine Team Supports Navy USS Little Rock LCS Acceptance Trials

    An alliance between Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine has helped the U.S. Navy Board of Inspection and Survey perform acceptance trials on the service branch’s future Freedom-variant littoral combat ship. Lockheed said Thursday that USS Little Rock, the Navy’s fifth Freedom-class LCS, completed the five-day trials in port and at sea to demonstrate its […] More

  • Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Navy Should Adopt Data Analytics Tech to Manage Ship Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Navy Should Adopt Data Analytics Tech to Manage Ship Operations

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, told MeriTalk in an interview published Thursday that the U.S. Navy should leverage and manage large amounts of data through adoption of converged and hyperconverged architecture aboard ships to provide analytical results to commanders in real time during combat missions. Chehreh said the use of such platforms […] More

  • Honeywell Gets $65M Modification on Navy Aircraft Power Tech Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Gets $65M Modification on Navy Aircraft Power Tech Support Contract

    Honeywell International has been awarded a $64.9 million contract modification to repair, replace and provide program support for auxiliary power units of the U.S. Navy’s  F/A-18 A/G, P-3 and C-2 auxiliary power units. The company will also support F/A-18 main fuel controls and electronic control technology and P-3 engine driven compressor, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD said the modification will increase […] More

  • India Plans Single-Engine Fighter Aircraft RFI for Lockheed, Saab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    India Plans Single-Engine Fighter Aircraft RFI for Lockheed, Saab

    India is expected to release a request for information to Saab and Lockheed Martin this month for the production of single-engine fighter aircraft in partnership with a domestic private company as part of the Make in India program, Defense News reported Monday. The South Asian country’s defense ministry expects Lockheed and Saab to respond to the […] More

  • Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission to Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission to Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket

    The U.S. Air Force has entered final launch preparations for the fifth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ahead of its scheduled Sept. 7 deployment aboard SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket. The service branch said Thursday the Boeing-built X-37B OTV spaceplane will carry ride-sharing small satellites and perform on-orbit tests of new space technologies. X-37B will also demonstrate experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe […] More

  • Leidos to Support Navy Tactical Signature Guidance Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Support Navy Tactical Signature Guidance Tech

    Leidos has received a potential five-year, $31.4 million contract to provide scientific, technical and programmatic support for tactical signature guidance systems of U.S. Navy ships, airborne and undersea platforms. The company said Thursday it will also develop, update, integrate and test software and systems for signature guidance and tactical decision tools. The contract was awarded by the Naval […] More

  • L3 to Provide Manned-Unmanned Teaming Hardware for Army Apache Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 to Provide Manned-Unmanned Teaming Hardware for Army Apache Helicopters

    L3 Technologies will develop manned-unmanned teaming hardware to aid the U.S. Army‘s AH-64 Apache multirole helicopters as part of a one-year, $69.3 million contract. The Defense Department said Thursday the cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract also covers technical and engineering support services. The Army Contracting Command will solicited and received one bid for the procurement effort. AH-64 helicopters are manufactured by Boeing and […] More

  • Universal Switching to Supply Data Distribution Systems for Canada WGS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Universal Switching to Supply Data Distribution Systems for Canada WGS Program

    General Dynamics has awarded Universal Switching a contract to provide data distribution for satellite command and control systems that will help connect Canada’s military to the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite constellation. Universal Switching said Aug. 22 it will supply its S64530 Digital RS-530 switching system to aid Canada’s participation in the WGS constellation, called the Mercury Global project. In […] More

  • Georgia Power Taps Bechtel for Nuclear Plant Expansion Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Georgia Power Taps Bechtel for Nuclear Plant Expansion Project

    Georgia Power has selected Bechtel to perform construction work on a two-reactor expansion project at a nuclear power plant located in Georgia. Bechtel said Thursday it will build the third and fourth units of the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant under the supervision of Southern Nuclear. Plant Vogtle units 3 and 4 will also be the first reactors […] More

  • ManTech to Support Navy Aircraft Safety Testing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Support Navy Aircraft Safety Testing

    ManTech International has secured a potential $39.6 million contract to help the Naval Air Systems Command integrate, diagnose and test safety hazards associated with aircraft systems. The company said Thursday it will provide reliability, maintainability and system safety services for US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft and subsystems under the contract. Work covers the full life cycle of naval […] More