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  • Atlantic CommTech to Update Air Force's Weapon Security, Alarm Comm Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atlantic CommTech to Update Air Force’s Weapon Security, Alarm Comm Systems

    Atlantic CommTech Corp. has won a $36.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force modernize the service branch’s Weapon Storage and Security System and Alarm Communication and Display. The Defense Department said Friday the company will perform sustainment upgrades to the WS3 cryptographic platform that works to encrypt the system’s alarm data. ACT-Corp will also replace obsolete components and the […] More

  • Orbit Logic to Update Planning Software for DigitalGlobe WorldView Direct Access Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbit Logic to Update Planning Software for DigitalGlobe WorldView Direct Access Program

    Orbit Logic has updated its Direct Access Facility Collection Planning Systems software that works to help DigitalGlobe‘s international Direct Access Program partners task and receive imagery from WorldView satellites. The DAF CPS platform has been updated to cover WorldView-4 satellite that is scheduled to launch this month as well as the existing GeoEye-1, WorldView-1, WorldView-2 and WorldView-3, Orbit Logic said Wednesday. Orbit Logic has provided collection planning […] More

  • NASA Taps Vector Space Systems to Build Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Vector Space Systems to Build Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Prototype

    Vector Space Systems has secured a Phase II contract under NASA‘s Small Business Technology Transfer project to continue developing an upper stage prototype for the Vector-R launch vehicle. The award complements the company’s existing contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to examine the potential use of Vector-R’s first stage as a second stage for DARPA’s XS-1 experimental spaceplane, Vector Space Systems said […] More

  • CGI Federal-Wynyard Team to Help Interior Dept Implement Risk Mgmt Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Federal-Wynyard Team to Help Interior Dept Implement Risk Mgmt Software

    A team comprised of CGI Federal and Wynyard Group has been awarded a contract by the Interior Department to install an enterprise risk management platform at DOI’s  Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Wynyard said Friday its Risk Management software will be hosted on a cloud-based information technology infrastructure CGI developed for the department as part of a contract awarded in 2013. CGI Federal is one […] More

  • Lockheed Concludes Encapsulation Work on DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Earth Imaging Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Concludes Encapsulation Work on DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Earth Imaging Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has completed the encapsulation of DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Earth imaging satellite into a launch vehicle fairing platform. WorldView-4 is scheduled to take off Sept. 16 onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket, Lockheed said Thursday. Lockheed will now transport the satellite to the Space Launch Complex 3 East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California for integration with the […] More

  • L-3 Subsidiary Lands Naval Air Training Logistics, Maintenance Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Subsidiary Lands Naval Air Training Logistics, Maintenance Contract Modification

    An L-3 Communications subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $13.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide logistics, repair and maintenance support services for the Chief of Naval Air Training. The indefinite-delivery, firm-fixed-price modification awarded to L-3 Communications Vertex Aerospace exercises an option on a previously awarded contract and covers direct and indirect material, equipment, […] More

  • Raytheon to Build Lot 2 Small Diameter Bombs for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Build Lot 2 Small Diameter Bombs for Air Force

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a $49.2 million contract modification for the production of Lot 2 Small Diameter Bomb Increment II weapons and containers. Raytheon’s missile systems business will perform work in Tucson, Arizona through Sept. 30, 2018, the Defense Department said Thursday. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded fixed-price incentive firm contract. The Air […] More

  • Lockheed Secures Navy Contract Option for F-35 Electronic Components Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures Navy Contract Option for F-35 Electronic Components Procurement

    Lockheed Martin has received a $10.02 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to purchase additional diminishing manufacturing sources electronic components for the F-35 fighter aircraft. The award exercises an option to previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract and Lockheed will perform work in Fort Worth, Texas, through December 2018, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Navy obligated the full […] More

  • USmax Secures Contract Modification for Five-Year Extension on GSA STARS II Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USmax Secures Contract Modification for Five-Year Extension on GSA STARS II Vehicle

    USmax has received a contract modification to exercise the five-year option period on its General Services Administration STARS II governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology service offerings to federal government clients. The company said Wednesday it will continue to provide its cybersecurity, technical and physical security, IT infrastructure management and enterprise application services via the STARS II contract through Aug. 30, […] More

  • NASA, Harmonic Release Astronaut Space-Walk Training Virtual Reality Video - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Harmonic Release Astronaut Space-Walk Training Virtual Reality Video

    NASA and video services company Harmonic have unveiled a 360-degree, virtual reality video on NASA TV’s Youtube channel to show three different perspectives of astronauts in space-walk training. Harmonic said Wednesday the video was taken at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory in Houston where astronauts train for future missions through an indoor pool of water and a life-size replica of the […] More

  • CAE Delivers C-130 Flight Simulator to Indonesian Air Force; Peter Redman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Delivers C-130 Flight Simulator to Indonesian Air Force; Peter Redman Comments

    Indonesia’s air force has received a CAE-built C-130H full-mission simulator previously in-service with Australia’s air force as part of a government-to-government agreement signed years ago. CAE said Wednesday that Indonesia bought nine used C-130 Hercules transport planes along with the flight simulator and five of the airlifters were delivered by an Airbus Group subsidiary as the prime contractor for the aircraft […] More

  • CTC Affiliate Lands Subcontract for Air Force Industrial Hygiene Support; Jeff Anderson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Affiliate Lands Subcontract for Air Force Industrial Hygiene Support; Jeff Anderson Comments

    A Concurrent Technologies Corp. affiliate has received a potential multi-year, $1 million subcontract from BTL Technologies to provide industrial hygiene assistance to the U.S. Air Force. BTL Technologies awarded the subcontract to Enterprise Ventures Corp. as part of the 711th Human Performance Wing Small Business contract vehicle in support of the service branch’s School of Aerospace Medicine, […] More