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  • CAE USA Awarded 5-Year Navy Pilot Training Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE USA Awarded 5-Year Navy Pilot Training Contract

    CAE‘s U.S. subsidiary has received a potential five-year contract to support primary, intermediate and advanced ground-based training programs for U.S. Navy pilots. The company said Tuesday CAE USA will provide instructors to help the service branch train aviators at five naval air stations. Primary phase training will occur at Navy facilities in Whiting Field, Fla. and Corpus Christi, Texas, […] More

  • DOJ Seeks IT Tools, Services to Update Inmate Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOJ Seeks IT Tools, Services to Update Inmate Mgmt System

    The Justice Department‘s Federal Bureau of Prisons has issued a request for information on potential tools and services to modernize a system used to manage inmate records. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says the bureau looks to update its mainframe-based SENTRY platform that includes common business-oriented language and assembler programs. BOP also seeks a code conversion methodology; databases and […] More

  • Lockheed Martin to Continue Production of U.S. Navy Laser-Guided Training Rounds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin to Continue Production of U.S. Navy Laser-Guided Training Rounds

    Lockheed Martin was awarded a $23.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy for follow-on production of laser-guided training rounds. The company said Tuesday the award exercises the first option of its 2017 contract to provide Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds for the service branch’s Paveway II weapons exercises. The new award extends work for the […] More

  • Adobe Receives FedRAMP ATO for Cloud SaaS Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Adobe Receives FedRAMP ATO for Cloud SaaS Platforms

    Adobe Systems has received permission through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s tailored baseline process to offer three of its cloud computing platforms to government customers. The company said Tuesday its agency authorization to operate covers the Adobe Creative Cloud for enterprise, Adobe Document Cloud and Adobe Sign, all of which were screened through the Adobe Common Controls Framework. […] More

  • US Navy Selects Vigor Industrial for Arleigh Burke-Class Ship Repair, Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy Selects Vigor Industrial for Arleigh Burke-Class Ship Repair, Support

    Vigor Industrial has received a potential $42.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy for repairs and modifications to a guided-missile destroyer. The company said Monday services for the USS Sampson might include surface preparation, blasting and painting. The contract also covers possible work on parts of the ship such as the freeboard, hull, rudders, struts […] More

  • General Atomics Demos Remotely Piloted 'Guardian' Aircraft in Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Demos Remotely Piloted ‘Guardian’ Aircraft in Japan

    General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. commenced on Thursday in Nagasaki, Japan, public demonstrations of its remotely piloted aircraft that will collect data for research and for the development of guidelines for RPA flights. The three-week demonstration for the Guardian RPA includes 10 five-hour test flights in partnership with the Iki Airport and related organizations such […] More

  • Lockheed Lands $92M Award for Army PAC-3 Missile Support Center Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Lands $92M Award for Army PAC-3 Missile Support Center Services

    Lockheed Martin has secured a $91.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to support the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile support center. Work under the modification covers logistics support recertification and missile repair services, the Defense Department said Friday. The Army Contracting Command will determine performance locations and funds with each order. The company is scheduled […] More

  • Orbis Technologies to Provide Automated Document Redaction Tool for DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbis Technologies to Provide Automated Document Redaction Tool for DoD

    Orbis Technologies has secured a production contract to provide an automatic document redaction technology for the Defense Department. The company said Thursday it will deliver its Redaction and Exploitation Releasability tool to allow the U.S. military to safely distribute intelligence data from multiple sources to coalition partners. Brian Ippolito, president and CEO of Orbis, said […] More

  • Ensco to Debut Rail Temperature Prediction System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco to Debut Rail Temperature Prediction System

    A business of Ensco will launch a product for rail safety meant to provide a forecast of track temperature to help in train operations. Ensco Rail will introduce its Predictive Rail Temperature System at the Railway Systems Suppliers, Inc.‘s 58th Annual Communication and Signal Exhibition from May 21 to 24 in Omaha, Neb., Ensco said Wednesday. The rail technology is […] More

  • Cubic to Update Navy's LCS Virtual Training Environment; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Update Navy’s LCS Virtual Training Environment; Dave Buss Comments

    Cubic‘s global defense business has received eight delivery orders worth $16 million combined to add new functions and virtual content to a U.S. Navy virtual training environment for Littoral Combat Ships. The company said Thursday the orders fall under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for support work on the service branch’s Immersive Virtual Shipboard Environment. IVSE is designed to generate a virtual three-dimensional environment […] More

  • ERAPSCO Lands $70M in Navy Sonobuoy Production Subcontracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ERAPSCO Lands $70M in Navy Sonobuoy Production Subcontracts

    A Sparton–Ultra Electronics joint venture has received $70.3 million in subcontracts to produce sonobuoys for the U.S. Navy. The subcontracts are part of ERAPSCO‘s five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and covers sonobuoy requirements for the government’s 2018 fiscal year, Sparton said Tuesday. ERAPSCO plans to distribute the production funds to Ultra Electronics USSI and Sparton De Leon Springs businesses. Work […] More

  • UTC Aerospace Systems to Supply Tail Rotor Components for Sikorsky's CH-53K King Stallion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC Aerospace Systems to Supply Tail Rotor Components for Sikorsky’s CH-53K King Stallion

    A unit of United Technologies Corp. will supply technologies to help Sikorsky deliver a helicopter for a Defense Department program. UTC Aerospace Systems said Wednesday its power transmission systems business will provide products for Sikorsky’s CH-53K King Stallion. The power transmission system for the helicopter’s tail rotor includes bearing assemblies, couplings, drive shafts and a […] More