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  • Telephonics to Supply Weapon System Comms Equipment for Army Chinooks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telephonics to Supply Weapon System Comms Equipment for Army Chinooks

    Griffon‘s Telephonics subsidiary has secured a three-year, $23.3 contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide weapon system communication equipment for U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The Defense Department said Thursday Telephonics is scheduled to complete work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by July 31, 2020. DLA’s aviation unit is the contracting activity and the Army will use its fiscal 2017 through […] More

  • Lockheed Releases 1st Images From Experimental Optical Instrument - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Releases 1st Images From Experimental Optical Instrument

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a first set of images captured by an experimental ultra-thin optical instrument as the company aims to demonstrate the possibility of reducing the size and weight of space telescopes. Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance generated a standard bar test pattern and an overhead view of a rail yard with […] More

  • Romania to Buy F-16s, Rocket Launchers in Support of NATO Spending Commitment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Romania to Buy F-16s, Rocket Launchers in Support of NATO Spending Commitment

    Romania has announced plans to purchase 36 F-16 fighter aircraft and High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems by 2022, Defense News reported Thursday. “These acquisitions are in the interest of safeguarding the security needs of Romania, but also to respect the government’s commitments in relation to NATO’s structures,” said Adrian Tutuianu, Romania’s defense minister. The European […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Aims to Help Advance Natl Security Innovation Through 'Asymmetric Threat' Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Aims to Help Advance Natl Security Innovation Through ‘Asymmetric Threat’ Forum

    Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, has said he believes asymmetric threat discussions and representatives from federal agencies, industry and academia could help advance the development of strategies and capabilities to combat global national security threats. “Such thought leadership also reinforces our commitment to our customers’ critical missions,” Asbury, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Initial Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Initial Flight

    Lockheed Martin has completed the initial flight of a VH-92A test aircraft as part of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Presidential Helicopter Replacement Program. The test aircraft’s first flight on July 28 at Sikorsky Aircraft in Connecticut involved an airfield pass, low speed flight and hover control checks and marked the start of the test flight program […] More

  • Elbit Subsidiary, Baltimore Cyber Range Unveil Cybersecurity Training Facility in Maryland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Subsidiary, Baltimore Cyber Range Unveil Cybersecurity Training Facility in Maryland

    Elbit Systems’ Cyberbit subsidiary has teamed up with the Baltimore Cyber Range to open a new facility in Maryland to provide simulation training support to cybersecurity professionals to help safeguard and defend critical infrastructure from potential cyber attacks. The Baltimore-based center is equipped with the Cyberbit Range platform and is designed to help cyber professionals build […] More

  • Esri GIS Platform Supports Navy Unmanned System Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri GIS Platform Supports Navy Unmanned System Demo

    The Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command has used an Esri-built geographic information system during an operational demonstration of unmanned systems designed to map the ocean floor and collect raw data, Defense Systems reported Thursday. William Burnett, deputy commander and technical director to the commander NMOC’s Task Group 80.7, told Defense Systems that Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise platform works […] More

  • Bell Boeing to Retrofit Navy MV-22 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Boeing to Retrofit Navy MV-22 Aircraft

    A joint venture of Boeing and Bell Helicopter has received a potential $57.1 million contract modification to engineer and retrofit one MV-22 Osprey aircraft for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office will provide non-recurring engineering and retrofitting services under the V-22 Common Configuration-Readiness and Modernization program. DoD noted the service branch aims to reconfigure the MV-22 […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Gets Follow-On Army Manpack Radio, Equipment Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Gets Follow-On Army Manpack Radio, Equipment Order

    Rockwell Collins has received a follow-on order from the U.S. Army‘s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical to deliver 101 manpack radios and ancillaries. The company said Thursday it is scheduled to begin manufacturing the additional Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Factor radios this month. The service branch issued the new order after Rockwell Collins […] More

  • AECOM Subsidiary to Support Army Pre-Positioned Stocks in Kuwait, Germany - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Subsidiary to Support Army Pre-Positioned Stocks in Kuwait, Germany

    An AECOM subsidiary has received two contract modifications from the U.S. Army to supply, maintain and provide logistics services for the military branch’s pre-positioned stocks. The Defense Department said Thursday URS Federal Services will support Army pre-positioned stock-5 in Kuwait under a $14.2 million modification that runs through Jan. 2, 2018. URS Federal Services will also support APS-2 […] More

  • Boeing to Exhibit Anti-Aircraft System, Other Tech at SMD Symposium; Jim Chilton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Exhibit Anti-Aircraft System, Other Tech at SMD Symposium; Jim Chilton Comments

    Boeing will participate at the upcoming Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama, where it will feature homeland defense, integrated air and missile defense, commercial satellite and directed energy technologies. The company said Wednesday the event is scheduled at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville from Aug. 8 to 10 and includes a session where Boeing will exhibit alongside […] More

  • LMI Secures $50M Follow-On CMS Marketplace Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI Secures $50M Follow-On CMS Marketplace Support Contract

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded LMI a potential four-year, $49.7 million contract to continue to support the marketplace plan management group at CMS’ Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. The company said Wednesday it will help manage, analyze and review issuer operations within CCIIO MPMG under the follow-on contract with an $11.9 million […] More