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  • Engility, NDI to Provide Engineering, Technical Support for Navy Aircraft Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility, NDI to Provide Engineering, Technical Support for Navy Aircraft Division

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $29.9 million contract to Engility and a $29.6 million contract to NDI Engineering for technical and engineering support services to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. Both companies will work to help NAWCAD’s Support Equipment and Aircraft Launch and Recover Equipment Department establish operational requirements and apply standard processes to translate requirements […] More

  • CAE Teams Up With Tech3Lab to Study Pilots’ User Experience in Flight Simulators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Teams Up With Tech3Lab to Study Pilots’ User Experience in Flight Simulators

    CAE has partnered with a research laboratory at Canada-based business school HEC Montreal to build up aviators’ performance through research on user experience in flight simulators. CAE said Tuesday it will collaborate with the school’s Tech3Lab to use big data analysis, neuroscience and biometrics to study pilots’ behaviors in a training environment. Marc St-Hilaire, vice […] More

  • CAE-Elbit Team to Vie For UK Air Training Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE-Elbit Team to Vie For UK Air Training Support Contracts

    The U.K.-based subsidiaries of CAE and Elbit Systems have partnered to pursue business opportunities under the British defense ministry’s air training program. CAE UK and Elbit Systems UK will vie for the Defence Operational Training Capability (Air) program’s core system and services project as well as the Typhoon Future Synthetic Training effort, CAE said Tuesday. […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, Navy Launch Delbert D. Black Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls, Navy Launch Delbert D. Black Destroyer

    Huntington Ingalls Industries on Friday launched the U.S. Navy‘s future Delbert D. Black guided missile destroyer at a company facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi. HII said Tuesday its Ingalls Shipbuilding division moved DDG 51 to a floating dry dock with a rail car system then flooded the dock until the vessel could stay afloat. USS Delbert B. Black is named after the Navy’s […] More

  • Raytheon to Supply Projectors for BAE-Built F-22 Digital Head-Up Displays - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Supply Projectors for BAE-Built F-22 Digital Head-Up Displays

    Raytheon has been chosen to deliver projectors for digital head-up displays that BAE Systems will install aboard the U.S. Air Force‘s F-22 Raptor aircraft. The Digital Light Engine HUDs will replace traditional analog displays on the fighter aircraft and help pilots gain situational awareness, Raytheon said Tuesday. Lockheed Martin awarded BAE a contract in January to modernize F-22 HUDs for the […] More

  • DARPA Selects Orbital ATK for Hybrid Engine Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Selects Orbital ATK for Hybrid Engine Research Project

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Orbital ATK a potential $21.4 million contract to study the potential integration of turbine and hypersonic engine technologies into a new aircraft propulsion system. DARPA obligated $1 million in fiscal 2017 research and development funds for the Advanced Full Range Engine project at the time of contract award, the […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Install Navigation System on German Military Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Install Navigation System on German Military Vehicles

    Rockwell Collins has received a contract from Germany’s defense ministry to supply a technology that will offer Global Navigation Satellite System accessibility for the country’s military vehicles. The company said Tuesday it will install the NavHub system on multiple types of military vehicle in an effort to help German armed forces access navigation data. NavHub is designed to help military users receive […] More

  • DSS to Help VHA Implement Renal Patient Data Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSS to Help VHA Implement Renal Patient Data Mgmt System

    Document Storage Systems has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract of an undisclosed value to deliver and install a healthcare management system for kidney disease patients at Veterans Health Administration facilities. DSS said Tuesday it will implement the cyberREN Renal Patient Care Management System to support VHA’s nephrology services and integrate the platform with Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture. CyberREN was developed by DSS […] More

  • BAE-General Dynamics-Airbus Team Develops Tactical Network Demonstrator for UK Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE-General Dynamics-Airbus Team Develops Tactical Network Demonstrator for UK Army

    Airbus, BAE Systems and General Dynamics have worked with the U.K. army to develop a concept demonstrator for a new tactical network technology designed to help frontline troops communicate with command headquarters. BAE said Tuesday the service branch awarded the industry team a $1.6 million contract for the development and delivery of two experimental STRIKE Tactical Hotspot systems. The […] More

  • Retired Air Force Gen. Ronald Keys Appointed to SPA Board; William Vantine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Retired Air Force Gen. Ronald Keys Appointed to SPA Board; William Vantine Comments

    Ronald Keys, owner of management consulting services company RK Solution Enterprises and a retired U.S. Air Force general, has joined the board of directors at Systems Planning and Analysis. SPA said Keys helped provide operational context for the Alexandria, Virginia-based contractor’s support work at the Office of the Secretary of Defense and pilot experience-level research efforts […] More

  • State Dept Vet Jay Anania Named Foreign Affairs Director at Buchanan & Edwards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept Vet Jay Anania Named Foreign Affairs Director at Buchanan & Edwards

    Jay Anania, a more than 30-year veteran of the State Department and former U.S. ambassador to Suriname, has joined Buchanan and Edwards as director of foreign affairs at the government information technology and consulting services provider. He will manage BE’s programs with the State Department and the U.S. Agency of International Development in his new position, the company said Wednesday. Mohamed […] More

  • Airbus to Provide Demonstrator for Gov't Satcom Pooling Project in Europe - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Provide Demonstrator for Gov’t Satcom Pooling Project in Europe

    Airbus has received a contract from the European Space Agency to provide a service demonstrator for the Governmental Satellite Communications program that aims to update satellite communications capability in Europe. The two-year contract consists of a first phase that entails the production of a ground system that can facilitate the sharing of satellite functions as well […] More