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  • Air Force Accepts STEM Scholarship Applications for 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Accepts STEM Scholarship Applications for 2018

    The U.S. Air Force is accepting scholarship applications from students who aim to pursue a science, technology, engineering and math degree. The military service said Monday it offers between $25,000 and $38,000 a year to help students major in one of the 19 STEM disciplines through the branch’s Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Scholarship for Service […] More

  • Lockheed to Help Establish F-35 Bases for US, Foreign Military Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Help Establish F-35 Bases for US, Foreign Military Clients

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has received a $43.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to support the standup of F-35 bases at multiple sites. The Defense Department said Friday the modification covers labor, interim contractor support and sustainment program management services to the global fighter aircraft program. Work will occur through January 2019 in Florida, Texas, South Carolina and California. The […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Gets Air Force Weapon Cybersecurity Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Gets Air Force Weapon Cybersecurity Contract Modification

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has received a $47.9 million contract modification to develop tools, methods and techniques for the U.S. Air Force to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in weapon systems. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will provide research and development services intended to help the military branch secure weapons against cyber attacks. Work will occur at Wright-Patterson Air […] More

  • Air Force Orders Lockheed Missile Instrumentation Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Orders Lockheed Missile Instrumentation Kits

    Lockheed Martin has secured a potential $44.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to manufacture intelligent test instrumentation kits that will support tests of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile system. JASSM tests will cover telemetry and flight termination assessments and the iTIK units will offer support for various missile programs, Lockheed said Tuesday. “The new […] More

  • BAE, Northrop Mark B-21 Bomber Project Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, Northrop Mark B-21 Bomber Project Collaboration

    BAE Systems hosted an event at a company facility in Nashua, New Hampshire, last week to mark a partnership between BAE and Northrop Grumman to help build the U.S. Air Force‘s B-21 Raider bomber aircraft, Union Leader reported Wednesday. The event was attended by Air Force Maj. Gen. Thomas Bussiere, Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and executives from the two defense contractors. […] More

  • CTC JV Receives Air Force Energy Enterprise Support Orders; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC JV Receives Air Force Energy Enterprise Support Orders; Ed Sheehan Comments

    A joint venture of Concurrent Technologies Corp. and the University of Dayton Research Institute received $3 million in task orders during the months of August and September to support U.S. Air Force‘s energy management and efficiency efforts. E2 Technologies secured the orders as part of a potential $99 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Advanced Power Technology […] More

  • El Paso Electric to Help Air Force Build Solar Facility at Holloman AFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    El Paso Electric to Help Air Force Build Solar Facility at Holloman AFB

    El Paso Electric has been selected by the U.S. Air Force to support construction of a five-megawatt solar facility at the Holloman Air Force Base in Otero County, New Mexico. EPE said Wednesday the facility will be built to generate enough clean energy to power approximately 1,700 homes annually as well as reduce HAFB’s annual carbon dioxide emissions […] More

  • Janus to Support Air Force Range Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Janus to Support Air Force Range Operations

    Janus Global Operations has been selected to collaborate with AECOM‘s URS Federal Services business to deliver range support services to the U.S. Air Force. Janus Global said Thursday it will perform work through a potential 16-year, $3.6 billion mission and target management services contract the Air Force awarded to URS. Tasks under the cost-plus-award-fee contract encompass […] More

  • Lockheed Test Pilot Mark Ward Reaches 100 Flight Hours Aboard T-50A - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Test Pilot Mark Ward Reaches 100 Flight Hours Aboard T-50A

    Lockheed Martin test pilot Mark Ward has become the first to fly the T-50A for 100 hours. The company said Wednesday Mark Ward’s T-50A flight was part of the company’s contribution to the U.S. Air Force‘s Advanced Pilot Training competition. Lockheed announced the T-50A’s APT participation in February 2016. The test-flying began November 2016 at the Greenville site. The aircraft was built […] More

  • Orbital ATK Completes Structural Acceptance Test on Space Launch Vehicle Motor Case Component - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Completes Structural Acceptance Test on Space Launch Vehicle Motor Case Component

    Orbital ATK has conducted a structural acceptance test on a motor composite case built to support the company’s Next Generation Launch family of space launch vehicles. The company said Tuesday the test demonstrated the structural loads’ capacity to generate more than 110 percent of the anticipated maximum motor operating pressure as well as operational, flight and […] More

  • Air Force Expects Multiple Firms to Pursue GPS 3 Satellite Production Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Expects Multiple Firms to Pursue GPS 3 Satellite Production Contract

    U.S. Air Force leaders predict that multiple companies will compete for work to build approximately 22 GPS 3 satellites for the service branch, Space News reported Thursday. Air Force Lt. Gen. John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, hinted Boeing and Northrop Grumman as among potential contractors that could respond to a request for […] More