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  • Milpower Wins Potential $66M Contract From Navy to Produce MUOS Power Amplifiers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Milpower Wins Potential $66M Contract From Navy to Produce MUOS Power Amplifiers

    Milpower has won a potential 10-year, $66.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture and engineer 100 – and 200-watt power amplifiers for the service branch’s  Mobile User Objective System. The Defense Department said Wednesday the power amplifiers will be integrated with Digital Modular Radios in efforts to help the Navy address MUOS fleet modernization, shipbuilding and conversion […] More

  • Lockheed to Build Jordan's F-16 Air Combat Training Centers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Jordan’s F-16 Air Combat Training Centers

    Lockheed Martin has received a $39.5 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Air Force to establish and maintain two F-16 air combat training centers for Jordan’s military. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Lockheed will also provide logistics support to Jordan and is scheduled to complete work under the sole-source contract by Sept. 15, 2020. The contracting activity is the Air Force […] More

  • Dan Batrack: Tetra Tech to Help NOAA Manage Coastal Resources With Geospatial Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Batrack: Tetra Tech to Help NOAA Manage Coastal Resources With Geospatial Tech

    Tetra Tech has been awarded a spot on a $49 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide technical geospatial services for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s coastal management program. The company said Tuesday it will collect, analyze and process geospatial data with the use of airborne and bathymetric lidar, satellite imagery and video and acoustic systems in an […] More

  • Lockheed Hands 2,000th Air Force JASSM Missile; Jason Denney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Hands 2,000th Air Force JASSM Missile; Jason Denney Comments

    Lockheed Martin has built and delivered its 2,000th Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile  system to the U.S. Air Force under the company’s lot 12 production contract. The company said Tuesday it began work on batch 12 of baseline JASSM cruise missiles and JASSM-Extended Range missiles in January. Jason Denney, program director of long-range strike systems at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, said that U.S. […] More

  • Alphaport Lands NASA Mission Assurance, Safety Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alphaport Lands NASA Mission Assurance, Safety Support Contract

    Alphaport has received a potential five-year, $47.5 million contract to provide mission assurance and safety support services to NASA. The company will provide such services under the Safety and Mission Assurance Support Services III contract through risk evaluation, investigations, engineering analyses, inspections and assessment of work done by other NASA institutions and contractors, NASA said Wednesday. […] More

  • Air Force Demos Boeing-Built Minuteman III ICBM with Test Re-Entry Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Demos Boeing-Built Minuteman III ICBM with Test Re-Entry Vehicle

    The U.S. Air Force’s Global Strike Command tested a Boeing-built Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile system Monday at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The military branch said Monday 341st Missile Wing airmen launched the unarmed Minuteman III with a test re-entry vehicle that contained a telemetry package during the operational test, the Air Force said Monday. The re-entry vehicle traveled nearly 4,200 […] More

  • ATAC to Update Aviation Simulation Model System at Navy, DoD Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATAC to Update Aviation Simulation Model System at Navy, DoD Facilities

    ATAC has been awarded a potential five-year, $8 million contract to develop and update a naval aviation simulation model system at U.S. Navy and Marine Corps installations as well as Defense Department facilities worldwide. DoD said Tuesday the project will support airfield, airspace and range analyses of existing or proposed operations and activities. The company will also compile information on mission changes to […] More

  • DLA Taps Honeywell for Super Hornet Brakes Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Taps Honeywell for Super Hornet Brakes Delivery Order

    Honeywell International has received a potential three-year, $18.3 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply brakes for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft. DLA’s aviation unit will fund the delivery order with the service branch’s fiscal 2016 working capital funds, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Honeywell will perform work in Indiana through June 30, […] More

  • Boeing to Supply Air Force With B-52 Combat Network Comm Tech Spares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Supply Air Force With B-52 Combat Network Comm Tech Spares

    Boeing has received a $9.6 million contract modification to provide Combat Network Communications Technology full-rate production spares as well as modify low-rate initial production spares for the U.S. Air Force‘s B-52 bomber fleet. The Defense Department said Tuesday Boeing will supply replaceable units for FRP-configured bomber aircraft and retrofit field-deployed, LRIP-configured bombers with with FRP line replaceable units. Work will occur in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma through […] More

  • PKL Services to Provide Singapore Aircraft Operation Support Under Air Force Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PKL Services to Provide Singapore Aircraft Operation Support Under Air Force Contract Modification

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded PKL Services an $11.9 million contract modification for aircraft maintenance and operation services to Singapore. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will perform contract work at the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho through Sept. 30, 2017. The 366th Contracting Squadron is the contracting activity for the foreign military sales contract. […] More

  • Gemalto to Help Norway's Postal Agency Implement Fraud Protection Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto to Help Norway’s Postal Agency Implement Fraud Protection Tech

    Norway’s national post and logistics service has selected digital security company  Gemalto to provide a verification tool for the agency to check customer credentials. Gemalto said Thursday it will supply its Coesys ID Verification technology to Posten Norge in order to verify identity cards and passports for the country’s financial services sector in compliance with the European Union’s Anti-Money Laundering Directive. […] More

  • AeroVironment, Partners to Market Hand-Launched UAS to Australian Armed Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment, Partners to Market Hand-Launched UAS to Australian Armed Forces

    AeroVironment has partnered with Australian companies XTEK, Sentient Vision and General Dynamics‘ Mediaware subsidiary to bring AeroVironment’s line of unmanned aircraft systems to the Australia. The California-based small UAS provider said Monday the team looks to sell the AeroVironment Wasp AE or RQ-12A micro air vehicle to Australia’s armed forces. Wasp AE systems consist of two air vehicles and one ground control system and feature AeroVironment’s […] More