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  • Rolls-Royce Wants to Offer Engine Tech for Air Force B-52 Bomber Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Wants to Offer Engine Tech for Air Force B-52 Bomber Aircraft

    Rolls-Royce seeks to pitch the company’s BR725 engine technology offering to the U.S. Air Force as a potential replacement for current B-52 bomber engines, FlightGlobal reported Thursday. Tom Hartmann, senior vice president of customer business at Rolls Royce’s North American arm, told FlightGlobal the company will prepare for a potential bomber engine modernization program as the service branch […] More

  • Deborah Lee James Joins Cybersecurity Tech Firm 3eTI as Special Adviser - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deborah Lee James Joins Cybersecurity Tech Firm 3eTI as Special Adviser

    Former U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has been named a special adviser at Ultra Electronics‘ 3eTI cybersecurity business. The more than 30-year public and private sector veteran will offer advice on 3eTI’s efforts to design and implement defense-related programs, the company said Tuesday. She also seeks to apply her national security experience to help drive the company’s innovation programs […] More

  • Lockheed Unit Demos Use of Open Systems Architecture to Help Warfighters Share Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unit Demos Use of Open Systems Architecture to Help Warfighters Share Data

    A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has taken part in the U.S. Air Force‘s Northern Edge military exercise to demonstrate how open systems architecture could help warfighters gain battlespace awareness and accelerate the data-to-decision process in the battlefield. Skunk Works demonstrated the Project Hunter system in a series of six flights during the military exercise that featured open […] More

  • Northrop Grumman's Cyber Program Teams to Occupy San Antonio Building Under 5-Year Lease - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman’s Cyber Program Teams to Occupy San Antonio Building Under 5-Year Lease

    Northrop Grumman has signed with Port San Antonio a five-year lease agreement for a 7,700-square-foot facility located near Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas to accommodate employees designated to cyber programs. The new office at 903 Billy Mitchell Boulevard will employ a “user experience feature” designed to support updates to the company’s work processes and […] More

  • Comtech Helps Civil Air Patrol Develop Web-Based SAR Aircraft Monitoring Portal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Helps Civil Air Patrol Develop Web-Based SAR Aircraft Monitoring Portal

    Comtech Telecommunications‘ enterprise technologies unit has created an online portal designed to help the Civil Air Patrol simultaneously track search-and-rescue aircraft in real time. The company said Monday it used the Location Studio technology to develop the web-based CAP platform that works to monitor flight patterns, altitude, speed and global positioning system location of SAR planes. […] More

  • Boeing to Supply Additional Parts for Air Force B-1B Integrated Battle Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Supply Additional Parts for Air Force B-1B Integrated Battle Station

    Boeing has secured a potential $23.8 million contract modification to provide diminishing manufacturing source life-of-type parts for the U.S. Air Force‘s Integrated Battle Station. The Defense Department said Friday Boeing’s defense, space and security unit will supply additional DMS LoT parts in support of the B-1B fleet. The service branch received its first B-1 bomber aircraft equipped with a company-built Integrated […] More

  • Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program

    Engility has won a five-year, $49 million contract to provide research and development support for the U.S. Air Force‘s weapon systems testing technology program. The Defense Department said Friday Engility will develop multi-spectral and multi-modal phenomenology modeling tools as well as help the Air Force build and transition weapon systems under the Kinetic Kill Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Technology […] More

  • Textron Systems CEO Lisa Atherton Joins Boulder Crest Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Systems CEO Lisa Atherton Joins Boulder Crest Board

    Textron Systems President and CEO Lisa Atherton has joined the board of directors at Bluemont, Virginia-based nonprofit organization Boulder Crest. Atherton will work with Board Chairman Ken Falke, Vice Chairman Fred Malek, Executive Director Dusty Baxley and 15 other directors, Boulder Crest said Monday. The nonprofit provides support to military veterans who are dealing with post-traumatic […] More

  • Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System

    Northrop Grumman has secured a potential three-year, $37 million task order to develop and deploy a cyber operations system for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it will continue to develop, integrate, field and sustain the Cyber Mission Platform under the contract, which has a one-year base period valued at $9.4 million. The Air Force […] More

  • EY to Audit Air Force General, Working Capital Funds Under DFAS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EY to Audit Air Force General, Working Capital Funds Under DFAS Contract

    EY has received a potential $44.2 million contract from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to provide financial statement audit services for the U.S. Air Force‘s general and working capital funds. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also conduct an SSAE18 assessment of the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System. DFAS received one bid […] More

  • Comtech Satellite Equipment Support Army Disaster Recovery Missions in Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Satellite Equipment Support Army Disaster Recovery Missions in Texas

    The U.S. Army has utilized Comtech Telecommunications-developed satellite equipment to support disaster recovery operations in Texas following the landfall of Hurricane Harvey. Comtech said Wednesday that the 63rd Expeditionary Signal Battalion has used the company’s AN/TSC-198 Secret Internet Protocol Router and Non-secure Internet Protocol Router Access Point equipment to provide voice, data, video teleconferencing and […] More

  • Raytheon to Develop Incremental Software for Air Force AIM-120D Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Develop Incremental Software for Air Force AIM-120D Missiles

    Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $38.6 million contract to develop  incremental software that will work to increase the performance of the U.S. Air Force‘s  advanced medium-range air-to-air missile system. The company will provide AIM-120D AMRAAM software to the military branch as part of the System Improvement Program 3- Engineering Manufacturing, Development program,  the Defense Department […] More