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  • Michael Davenport: Booz Allen to Help Integrate Army Resources Under $78M Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Davenport: Booz Allen to Help Integrate Army Resources Under $78M Award

    Booz Allen Hamilton has received a potential $78 million contract to provide  engineering, administrative and business services to the U.S. Army‘s System of Systems Engineering and Integration Directorate. The company said Thursday it aims to help SoSE&I integrate the service branch’s resources and increase the operational effectiveness of resources across programs, units and systems. “We’re proud to expand our partnership with […] More

  • Engility Awards Cyber Scholarships to 2 Army Veterans; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Awards Cyber Scholarships to 2 Army Veterans; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has selected U.S. Army veterans Magdalena Seitz and Leo Bastidas as the first two recipients of the company’s cybersecurity scholarships. The company said Wednesday it partnered with the Center for Cyber Safety and Education to establish the CyberWarrior Scholarship, which will give military veterans funds to pursue cybersecurity certifications. “We are grateful for our veterans’ commitment to […] More

  • Army Seeks Industry Info on IT Modernization Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Industry Info on IT Modernization Tech

    The U.S. Army wants industry feedback on technologies that can help modernize the Army Research Laboratory’s information technology environment. The military branch said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that it plans to use cloud computing, virtualization and self-service tools to modernize ARL’s IT systems. ARL seeks to develop a computing environment that can expand and contract services; deliver optimized services […] More

  • Mark Esper: Army Seeks to Accelerate Combat Vehicle Prototyping Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Esper: Army Seeks to Accelerate Combat Vehicle Prototyping Effort

    The U.S. Army looks to expedite the process for developing a prototype of the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle, Defense News reported Thursday. Army Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Thursday that the service branch aims to accelerate various programs, including NGCV, to help address goals of the Defense Department’s National Defense Strategy. In September 2017, the Army awarded […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Gets Additional Army Funding for Tourniquet Master Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Gets Additional Army Funding for Tourniquet Master Training System

    The U.S. Army has provided an additional funding of $1 million through a two-and-a-half-year contract for Charles River Analytics‘ effort to develop a training system on tourniquet technology usage. The company said Tuesday it is working in partnership with the University of Wisconsin, Boston Engineering and Compression Works to construct the Tourniquet Master Training system. The TMT system is being […] More

  • Valiant Subsidiary Gets Army Contract to Support Multiple Military Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Valiant Subsidiary Gets Army Contract to Support Multiple Military Facilities

    A Valiant Integrated Services subsidiary has won a one-year, $13.1 million contract to help operate and maintain the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. Under the contract, Valiant Government Services will also help manage the National Museum of Health and Medicine as well as the Armed Forces Medical Examiner Service, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Corps of Engineers received […] More

  • DoD Seeks Warfighter Exoskeleton Concept Papers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Seeks Warfighter Exoskeleton Concept Papers

    The Defense Department has asked industry to submit concept papers on exoskeleton-based approaches to increase warfighters’ performance when they perform missions. DoD is interested in multiple exoskeleton types such as infantry or high mobility, logistics/sustainment/mission support and specialized capability platform, the U.S. Army said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Jan. 29. Light support, medium lift and heavy […] More

  • Lockheed Secures $80M Army Funds to Increase Hellfire Missile Production Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures $80M Army Funds to Increase Hellfire Missile Production Capacity

    Lockheed Martin‘s missiles and fire control business has received an $80.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to increase production of the AGM-114 Hellfire  missile system. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will use the funds to set up its production line, procure additional tools and test equipment and hire more suppliers necessary to manufacture up to 11,000 Hellfire units annually. […] More

  • BAE to Modernize Army Munition Guidance Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Modernize Army Munition Guidance Kits

    BAE Systems has received an $8 million contract to produce modernized precision guidance kits for the U.S. Army‘s 155-millimeter artillery munitions. New kits will be developed to increase accuracy of in-flight Army munitions to hit targets through trajectory corrections even in a GPS-jammed environment, BAE said Tuesday. Marc Casseres, director of BAE’s precision guidance and sensor solutions business, said the […] More

  • Bloomberg: Pentagon's Fiscal 2017 Contract Spend Reached $331B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg: Pentagon’s Fiscal 2017 Contract Spend Reached $331B

    Bloomberg‘s government arm has analyzed the Defense Department‘s unclassified contract obligations and found that DoD awarded a total of $331 billion to contractors over the last fiscal year. Robert Levinson, a senior defense analyst at Bloomberg Government, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday that the Department of the Navy, which includes the U.S. Marine Corps, received the highest DoD […] More

  • Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support

    Comtech Telecommunications has received a $1 million delivery order modification to provide support services to the U.S. Army project manager for tactical networks. The company said Wednesday its command and control technologies group will support communications assets for U.S. expeditionary unit readiness. Fred Kornberg, president and CEO at ComTech, said the company aims to deliver  communications systems to the military’s […] More

  • Elbit Systems Subsidiary to Produce Helmets for Army Apache Pilots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Subsidiary to Produce Helmets for Army Apache Pilots

    A subsidiary of Elbit Systems‘ U.S. business has received a four-year, $12.6 million contract to supply Apache aviator integrated helmets and related spare parts to the U.S. Army. EFW is scheduled to complete work under the firm-fixed-price contract by Jan. 31, 2022, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the procurement effort via the internet. […] More