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  • DigitalGlobe's WorldView-4 Earth Imaging Satellite Ready for Friday Liftoff - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 Earth Imaging Satellite Ready for Friday Liftoff

    Lockheed Martin is scheduled to launch the WorldView-4 imaging satellite for DigitalGlobe Friday onboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket. WorldView-4 will lift off from the Space Launch Complex 3 East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to a sun-synchronous orbit, where the satellite will begin to capture images of the Earth, Lockheed said Tuesday. The satellite is built to operate in […] More

  • CAE Lands $91M Defense Contracts for Training Services, Simulator Updates; Gene Colabatistto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Lands $91M Defense Contracts for Training Services, Simulator Updates; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    CAE has secured contracts worth approximately $91.2 million combined from international military customers to provide aircrew training services and simulation system updates. The Montreal-headquartered company said Tuesday the contracts include awards from the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Austria’s armed forces. “Our large installed base of existing training devices and simulation systems provide ongoing upgrade and update opportunities along with long-term service […] More

  • LabCorp Gets $66M Modification on Army Clinical Laboratory Testing Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LabCorp Gets $66M Modification on Army Clinical Laboratory Testing Services Contract

    Laboratory Corp. of America has received a one-year, $66.2 million contract modification to provide clinical reference laboratory testing services to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Defense Health Agency. The Army Medical Command at Fort Sam Houston in Texas is the contracting activity and will provide performance location and funds with each order, the Defense […] More

  • ICL Business Unit to Supply Phos-Chek Firefighting Foam to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICL Business Unit to Supply Phos-Chek Firefighting Foam to Air Force

    ICL‘s advanced additives business unit has landed a $6.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide 418,000 gallons of the company’s firefighting foam for firefighting vehicles and fire station foam stocks. The company said Wednesday it has started delivery of its Phos-Chek firefighting foam in August and will continue over a 10-week period. ICL added the Air […] More

  • Air Force Exercises L-3 Contract Option for T-1A Trainer Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Exercises L-3 Contract Option for T-1A Trainer Logistics Support

    A subsidiary of L-3 Communications has received a one-year, $49.2 million contract modification to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-1A Jayhawk trainer aircraft. The modification exercises an option on a previously awarded contract to L3’s Vertex Aerospace business for contractor-operated maintained base supply, on-equipment maintenance and data services, the Defense Department said Friday. Vertex Aerospace will perform work  through Sept. […] More

  • 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

  • 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

  • UES to Help Air Force Researchers Develop Nanoelectronic Materials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UES to Help Air Force Researchers Develop Nanoelectronic Materials

    UES has won a potential six-year, $42 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to research and develop advanced materials for electronic, magnetic and electro-optical applications. The Defense Department said Tuesday that UES will help the Air Force Research Laboratory produce materials the service branch can use to update digital, radio frequency, radar, infrared detector, opto-electronic, communications, power generation, sensing […] 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

  • Ball Aerospace Named Tier 1 Supplier on USAF Superior Supplier Incentive Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Named Tier 1 Supplier on USAF Superior Supplier Incentive Program

    Ball Aerospace has ranked as a Tier 1 supplier in the U.S. Air Force‘s Superior Supplier Incentive Program for 2016 in recognition of the company’s work as a prime contractor for the military branch. This is the first time the company qualified for the Air Force’s annual ranking, which evaluates contractors based on three years of contractor performance assessment reports, Ball said Tuesday. […] More

  • Vencore Labs Continues 'Applied' Research Focus One Year Post-Launch; President Petros Mouchtaris on R&D Collaborations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Labs Continues ‘Applied’ Research Focus One Year Post-Launch; President Petros Mouchtaris on R&D Collaborations

    The mission of Chantilly, Virginia-based contractor Vencore‘s internal technology development and engineering subsidiary remains the same year out from its initial rebrand and relaunch: transformative applied research for organizations in the government, utility and commercial arenas. More than 200 scientists, engineers and analysts now staff the Basking Ridge, New Jersey-headquartered Vencore Labs business and focus its applied research in […] More