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  • Moog Lands Navy F-18 Aircraft Repair Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Moog Lands Navy F-18 Aircraft Repair Support IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Moog a potential five-year, $50 million contract to repair 26 items for the U.S. Navy‘s F-18 aircraft fleet. Moog will perform work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through June 2022 at various locations in California, Florida and New York, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted the Navy will obligate fiscal 2017 working […] More

  • Riverbed to Exhibit Software-Defined WAN at AWS Public Sector Summit; Davis Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riverbed to Exhibit Software-Defined WAN at AWS Public Sector Summit; Davis Johnson Comments

    Riverbed Technology is set to present a suite of software-defined wide area network and visibility platforms designed for cloud environments at the three-day Amazon Web Services Public Sector Summit that kicked off Monday in Washington, D.C. The company said Monday it will demonstrate its SteelConnect SD-WAN offering that works to combine policy-based orchestration and management across […] More

  • Leidos to Support Navy Acoustic Trials, Research Activities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Support Navy Acoustic Trials, Research Activities

    Leidos has received a potential nine-month, $12 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Arderock Division to support acoustic trials and research activities at the U.S. Navy‘s Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility. The contract contains a six-month base period plus one three-month option and work will occur at various locations in Alaska, Washington and Mississippi, Leidos said Monday. Mike Chagnon, […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    Orbital ATK has concluded its seventh cargo delivery mission to International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The company said Sunday its Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed S.S. John Glen, also served as a platform for in-space research before the vehicle re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. S.S. John Glenn was launched atop a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V […] More

  • Accellion Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Content Collaboration Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accellion Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Content Collaboration Tool

    Accellion has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  certification to offer a cloud-based content collaboration system to federal agencies. The FedRAMP moderate-impact level authorization seeks to facilitate the deployment of Accellion’s kiteworks content collaboration tool on Amazon Web Services’ Cloud platform to help government employees access and transmit sensitive data files, Accellion said Monday. “Earning […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Transfers 16th Virginia-Class Submarine for Final Testing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Transfers 16th Virginia-Class Submarine for Final Testing

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has launched the U.S. Navy‘s future Indiana submarine into James River and transferred the watercraft from a construction facility to a pier managed by the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in preparation for final crew certification, outfitting and testing. Indiana, dubbed as SSN 789, will represent the 16th Virginia-class submarine of the Navy and the eighth unit Newport […] More

  • Lockheed Gets $59M Air Force KC-130J Trainer Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets $59M Air Force KC-130J Trainer Contract Modification

    Lockheed Martin has received a $59 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for the delivery of four customized KC-130J fuselage trainers. The Defense Department said Friday that Lockheed’s rotary and mission systems unit will modify C-130 airframe trainer systems to replicate the appearance, functions and performance of the KC-130J aircraft. DoD noted that modified trainers will support load […] More

  • Labor Dept Seeks Info on Cloud Hosting Services Sources for EBSA Public Disclosure System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Labor Dept Seeks Info on Cloud Hosting Services Sources for EBSA Public Disclosure System

    The Labor Department has sought information on potential contractors that can provide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified cloud hosting services for the Employee Benefits and Security Administration’s public disclosure platform. DOL said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the ERISA Public Disclosure System is a database application that contains 12 terabytes of data that […] More

  • Raytheon Unit to Produce 'Friend or Foe' ID Crypto Tech for Air Force, Intl Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Unit to Produce ‘Friend or Foe’ ID Crypto Tech for Air Force, Intl Customers

    A business unit of Raytheon has landed a $42.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide cryptographic applique for friend-or-foe identification systems to the U.S. Air Force and multiple foreign military sales customers. The Defense Department said Friday the sole-source contract covers the production of  KIV-77 Mode 4/5 units along with data, remote form factor and spare parts. Raytheon’s space and […] More

  • Navy Selects BAE, General Dynamics, MES for Submarine Trainer Production, Installation IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects BAE, General Dynamics, MES for Submarine Trainer Production, Installation IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded three companies positions on a potential five-year, $42.6 million contract to provide support services for the military branch’s Submarine Multi-Mission Team Trainer systems. BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services business, General Dynamics‘ mission systems segment  and services business and MES‘ simulation and training unit will compete for hardware design, fabrication, logistics and installation task orders under […] More

  • Honeywell to Establish APAC Cyber Innovation Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell to Establish APAC Cyber Innovation Hub

    Honeywell‘s process solutions business plans to open a facility in Singapore by the end of 2017 to provide managed cybersecurity services intended to help Asia-Pacific customers manage security posture and avoid breaches. The company said Thursday its cybersecurity center of excellence for the APAC region will feature a research-and-development laboratory, a security operations center and a training facility. The lab will […] More

  • PCX Aerostructures to Supply Army Apache Weapon Connecting Links - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PCX Aerostructures to Supply Army Apache Weapon Connecting Links

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded PCX Aerostructures a potential five-year, $67 million contract to supply right connecting links for the weapon system of the U.S. Army‘s AH-64 Apache attack helicopters. The Defense Department said Thursday the Army will use working capital funds from fiscal 2017 through fiscal 2022 to pay for the procurement of […] More