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  • Lynn Dugle: Engility to Continue Support for TSA's Security Screening Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lynn Dugle: Engility to Continue Support for TSA’s Security Screening Program

    An Engility subsidiary has been awarded a potential five-year, $90 million contract to help evaluate the security screening processes and equipment and information technology systems of the Transportation Security Administration. Engility said Tuesday its unit TASC will perform test planning and execution as well as provide data management and analysis services under the recompete contract. Lynn Dugle, CEO at Engility, […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Provide $210M Worth of Small Caliber Ammo to US Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Provide $210M Worth of Small Caliber Ammo to US Army

    Orbital ATK has received orders worth $210 million to produce three kinds of small caliber ammunition to the U.S. Army. The orders are for 5.56-millimeter, 7.62-millimeter and .50 caliber rounds and fall under a previously awarded ammunition supply contract, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. Dulles, Virginia-based Orbital ATK will perform work at the Independence, Missouri-located Lake City Army Ammunition […] More

  • Honeywell, NASA Demo Software, Cockpit Displays for Sonic Boom Prediction; Brett Pauer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell, NASA Demo Software, Cockpit Displays for Sonic Boom Prediction; Brett Pauer Comments

    Honeywell and NASA have developed and flight-tested a software tool and cockpit displays designed to help supersonic jet pilots predict sonic booms under a two-year contract with the space agency. Honeywell said Tuesday the contract was awarded in 2015 as part of the space agency’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project that aims to mitigate sonic booms’ impact on […] More

  • Sikorsky Completes Combat Rescue Helicopter Air Vehicle Preliminary Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Completes Combat Rescue Helicopter Air Vehicle Preliminary Design Review

    Lockheed Martin‘s helicopter subsidiary Sikorsky has conducted an air vehicle preliminary design review for its Combat Rescue Helicopter program that will look to replace the U.S. Air Force‘s HH-60G Pave Hawk. The conclusion of the preliminary design review on the HH-60W air vehicle moves the program forward to detailed design work on the air vehicle and logistics system as […] More

  • Lynn Orr: DOE Funding Program to Support Clean Energy, Grid Modernization Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lynn Orr: DOE Funding Program to Support Clean Energy, Grid Modernization Initiative

    The Energy Department will allot $25 million in funds to aid the efforts of software developers, solar companies and utilities to integrate solar energy into the power grid in support of DOE’s Grid Modernization Initiative. The Enabling Extreme Real-Time Grid Integration of Solar Energy funding program seeks concepts for utility distribution system planning and operations that work to utilize sensing, communication […] More

  • Raytheon Secures Socom Contract to Produce 'Silent Knight' Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Secures Socom Contract to Produce ‘Silent Knight’ Radar System

    Raytheon has landed a potential $49.5 million contract by the U.S. Special Operations Command to continue low-rate initial production of the Silent Knight radar system. The company’s space and airborne systems business will perform work in McKinney, Texas, and Forest, Mississippi, through October 2018 under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Silent Knight radar works to serve as a terrain following […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Launch Thaicom 8 Broadcast Comms Satellite in Late May - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Launch Thaicom 8 Broadcast Comms Satellite in Late May

    Orbital ATK has delivered the Thaicom 8 communications satellite that it built for Thaicom to Cape Canaveral, Florida, to prepare for a scheduled May launch. The Dulles, Virginia-headquartered company said Friday Thaicom 8 is based on its GEOStar-2TM platform and is designed to support Thailand’s broadcast industry and deliver broadcast and data services to clients across South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa. […] More

  • Air Force, Lockheed Partner to Build Integrated Battle Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Lockheed Partner to Build Integrated Battle Mgmt System

    Lockheed Martin has won a $16.2 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force build an integrated system for the military branch to manage air-to-ground and air-to-air combat missions in a peer threat contested environment. Lockheed’s aeronautics business will provide software, hardware and reports for the development of an integrated Distributed Battle Management infrastructure, the Defense Department said Monday. The Air Force Research Laboratory received two offers […] More

  • NASA Awards Ames Aeronautics, Exploration Modeling & Simulation Contract to STC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Awards Ames Aeronautics, Exploration Modeling & Simulation Contract to STC

    Hampton, Virginia-based small business Science and Technology Corp. has secured a potential five-year, $39.3 million contract from NASA for services under the Aeronautics and Exploration Mission Modeling and Simulation contract. The company will provide services to aid the space agency’s Ames Research Center along with research and development support to two advanced supercomputing division branches, the systems […] More

  • Army Selects 3 Companies for Medical Equipment Supply Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Selects 3 Companies for Medical Equipment Supply Contract

    The U.S. Army has awarded positions on a multi-year, $49.4 million contract to TQM Inc., Lighthouse for the Blind and MSGI Corp. to deliver a wide range of medical and laboratory equipment to Army medical units. The Defense Department said Monday the indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract also includes surgical, dental, pharmaceutical and veterinary equipment as well as materiel sets for nonmedical and medical support programs of […] More

  • DOJ Requests Info on Body-Worn Cameras for Market Survey - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOJ Requests Info on Body-Worn Cameras for Market Survey

    The Justice Department has issued a request for information in support of the National Institute of Justice’s upcoming market survey that aims to identify commercial body-worn cameras designed for use in law enforcement operations. DOJ’s justice programs office said in a Federal Register notice posted Thursday the survey will work to help law enforcement agencies’ purchasing agents […] More

  • Exabeam Names DoD, DOE, AF Cyber Vets to Federal Advisory Board; Robert Lentz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exabeam Names DoD, DOE, AF Cyber Vets to Federal Advisory Board; Robert Lentz Comments

    Exabeam, a security intelligence platforms provider, has created a federal advisory board in an effort to help federal and state government agencies detect and respond to cyber threats. The company said Monday the board will consist of Robert Lentz, president of Cyber Security Strategies and former chief information security officer at the Defense Department; and […] More