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  • Mikros to Supply Navy With Combat System Sensor Monitoring Units - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mikros to Supply Navy With Combat System Sensor Monitoring Units

    Mikros Systems has received a five-year, $48 million contract to supply Adaptive Diagnostic Electronic Portable Test Distance Support Sensor Suite units and spare parts to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also perform engineering work on ADSSS units under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Work will occur in various locations across the continental U.S. through September 2021. ADSSS is designed to integrate […] More

  • Honeywell to Build Inertial Navigation Tech for Polish Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell to Build Inertial Navigation Tech for Polish Military

    Honeywell has been chosen by Polish electronics firm Wojskowe ZakÅ‚ady Elektroniczne to develop inertial navigation technology for Poland’s armed forces. Wojskowe ZakÅ‚ady Elektroniczne will integrate Honeywell’s TALIN navigation system to into Poland’s 96 Rak 120mm mortar turrets and command vehicles as part of a military fleet modernization effort in the country, Honeywell said Thursday. TALIN is built to […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Hydrocarbon Boost Tech for Air Force; Shawn Phillips Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Hydrocarbon Boost Tech for Air Force; Shawn Phillips Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a full-scale component test for a rocket engine the company is developing with the U.S. Air Force as part of efforts to end the nation’s reliance on Russian technology for satellite launch missions. The Hydrocarbon Boost Technology Demonstrator, a major component in the Air Force’s Oxygen Rich Staged Combustion engine development initiative, underwent its first full-scale test at 100-percent […] More

  • Boeing to Support Army's Wideband Satcom Operational Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Support Army’s Wideband Satcom Operational Mgmt System

    Boeing has received a $46.2 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide support for the wideband satellite communications operational management system. The Defense Department said Friday work will occur through Sept. 1, 2021 and that performance locations and funds will be determined with every order. The Army Contracting Command received one offer for the contract through an online […] More

  • Whiting-Turner Contracting to Build Modular Clinics for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Whiting-Turner Contracting to Build Modular Clinics for Navy

    Whiting-Turner Contracting has won a $29.4 million contract to construct temporary modular medical or clinical facilities at a U.S. Navy base in Bethesda, Maryland. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will build the healthcare facilities at Naval Support Activity Bethesda to supplement space vacated by a demolition effort. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command received two offers for the […] More

  • Northrop Lands Navy Contract Modification for MK 54 Torpedo Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Lands Navy Contract Modification for MK 54 Torpedo Production

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a potential two-year, $16.4 million contract modification to continue to produce MK 54 Mod 0 lightweight torpedo array kits for the service branch. The modification exercises the third option year on a previously awarded contract and covers engineering, production support materials, hardware repair services and factory test equipment […] More

  • DRS Wins Data Terminal Set Development Contract From Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Wins Data Terminal Set Development Contract From Navy

    A DRS Technologies subsidiary has won a potential $22 million contract to develop and produce Link 11 and Link 22 data terminal sets for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday DRS Advanced ISR will also help the military service integrate, test and sustain Link 11 data terminal and Link 22 signal processing controller system for the branch’s command-and-control processor […] More

  • Battelle to Extend Environmental Tech Development, Assessment Support for EPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Extend Environmental Tech Development, Assessment Support for EPA

    The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Battelle a potential five-year, $55 million contract for the development and assessment of technologies, processes and tools designed to mitigate pollution as well as restore ecosystems. Battelle said Wednesday it will also continue to help EPA conduct tests and evaluations in an effort to address drinking water problems, aging water infrastructure and greenhouse emissions in […] More

  • Continental Electronics to Replace Navy Submarine Broadcast System Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Continental Electronics to Replace Navy Submarine Broadcast System Equipment

    Continental Electronics Corp. has received an $11.4 million contract to replace the system elements of the U.S. Navy’s Fixed Submarine Broadcast System transmitter equipment. CEC will replace helix coils of the antenna matching network, pure water cooling loop system, two grid variometers of the AN/FRT-64 very-low-frequency transmitter and power supply, the Defense Department said Friday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract […] More

  • VA Verifies Worldwide Counter Threat Solutions as Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Verifies Worldwide Counter Threat Solutions as Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has verified Worldwide Counter Threat Solutions, formerly known as Allen Vanguard Counter-Threat Solutions, as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business. WCTS said Thursday the verification makes the company eligible to utilize the Veterans First Contracting Program that works to prioritize SDVOSBs in VA contract awards. VA programs under the Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business […] More

  • Takeda Subsidiary Lands HHS Contract to Develop, Test Zika Vaccine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Takeda Subsidiary Lands HHS Contract to Develop, Test Zika Vaccine

    A U.S. subsidiary of Takeda Group has received an initial $19.8 million contract from  the Department of Health and Human Services to develop and test a Zika virus vaccine over the next 18 months. HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority will provide funds to help Takeda Vaccines complete process development and preclinical tests of the company’s vaccine candidate against the virus, HHS […] More

  • Space Systems Loral Readies Australia’s 2nd Broadband Network Satellite for Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems Loral Readies Australia’s 2nd Broadband Network Satellite for Launch

    Space Systems Loral has shipped the second satellite developed for Australia’s national broadband network to French Guiana in preparation for the spacecraft’s launch. The Sky Muster II satellite will take off onboard an Ariane 5 launch vehicle built by Arianespace from the European Spaceport in Kourou, SSL said Wednesday. The satellite will work to provide […] More