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  • Navy Exercises Third Option Year in Lockheed Aegis Weapon Ship Integration, Testing Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Exercises Third Option Year in Lockheed Aegis Weapon Ship Integration, Testing Contract

    Lockheed Martin has landed a $60.9 million contract modification to integrate and test the Aegis weapon system aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG 51 class ships under the third option year of a previously awarded contract. The company will perform Aegis shipboard integration engineering, support the Ballistic Missile Defense test team and assess AWS elements  through Advanced Capability Build 12, the […] More

  • AeroVironment to Update Netherlands' Small UAS Data Link; Kirk Flittie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment to Update Netherlands’ Small UAS Data Link; Kirk Flittie Comments

    AeroVironment has been awarded a $10.3 million contract by the Netherlands ministry of defense to provide small unmanned aircraft systems and digital data link upgrade services to the Dutch military. The company said Monday it will refresh the DDL system for the Dutch forces’ Raven B, Puma AE  and Wasp AE vehicles as well as ground control systems under the contract. The Netherlands’ defense […] More

  • General Dynamics to Develop Acoustic Path Exploitation System for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Develop Acoustic Path Exploitation System for Navy

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has won an $18.9 million contract to help the U.S. Navy design and develop an acoustic path exploitation system. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers hardware delivery, design and construction services for the Deep Reliable Acoustic Path Exploitation System dummy array. The contractor will also help the service branch create deployment procedures as […] More

  • Virginia Electric & Power Lands DoD Electricity Supply Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virginia Electric & Power Lands DoD Electricity Supply Contract

    Virginia Electric and Power Co. has been awarded a $23.4 million contract to perform electricity distribution and supply services for the Pentagon and other government facilities located in Northern Virginia. The company will carry out work in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia, through Aug. 21, 2018, the Defense Department said Friday. The Washington Headquarters Services obligated fiscal 2017 […] More

  • Cubic to Maintain Atlanta Transit Fare Collection System Under Potential $52M Contract Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Maintain Atlanta Transit Fare Collection System Under Potential $52M Contract Extension

    Cubic‘s transportation systems segment has received a potential $52 million contract extension that includes options from Atlanta, Georgia’s public transportation agency to provide maintenance services for an automated fare collection platform. San Diego-based Cubic said Thursday it will continue to maintain the company-built Breeze Card AFC system which currently generates more than 106 million rides for the Metropolitan Atlanta […] More

  • NIKA to Design New Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic; Kabir Chaudhary Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIKA to Design New Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic; Kabir Chaudhary Comments

    Architecture and engineering firm NIKA has been awarded a $1 million contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs to design a new outpatient clinic in Riverview, Florida for the VA. Hokanson Companies will lead the project scheduled for completion by 2018 and Doster Construction Company will be responsible for construction aspects for the 50,000-square-foot South Hillsborough outpatient […] More

  • BAE Taps Magellan Aerospace for F-35 Horizontal Tails Production; Phillip Underwood Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Taps Magellan Aerospace for F-35 Horizontal Tails Production; Phillip Underwood Comments

    BAE Systems has selected Magellan Aerospace to supply horizontal tail assemblies for the conventional takeoff-and-landing variant of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft under a two-year, $52 million contract. Magellan said Thursday it aims to manufacture more than 1,000 ship sets of horizontal tail assemblies over the fighter program’s life cycle. “Magellan will be producing approximately half of the CTOL horizontal tails […] More

  • Bell-Boeing JV Taps Cobham to Develop Aerial Refueling System for Osprey Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell-Boeing JV Taps Cobham to Develop Aerial Refueling System for Osprey Aircraft

    A joint venture of Boeing and Bell Helicopter has awarded a contract to Cobham to build an aerial refueling system for the U.S. Marine Corps’ MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. Cobham said Tuesday the V-22 Aerial Refueling System will be based on the company’s FR300 Hose Drum Unit and will support Osprey’s capacity to refuel F-35B Lightning II and F/A-18 […] More

  • Cray, SGI Federal to Modernize DoD High-Performance Computing Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cray, SGI Federal to Modernize DoD High-Performance Computing Systems

    The U.S. Army has awarded Cray and Silicon Graphics International‘s federal business contract modifications worth $26.6 million each to support the Defense Department‘s high-performance computing modernization program. DoD said Wednesday Cray and SGI Federal will provide HPC systems as well as administration and maintenance services. Work will occur through Apr. 24, 2021 in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland for SGI Federal […] More

  • Parsons to Update Southern California Transport Data Exchange System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons to Update Southern California Transport Data Exchange System

    Parsons ha received a contract from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to modernize a system that works to facilitate transportation data exchange between approximately 125 agencies across Southern California. The company said Wednesday it will provide technologies with big data analytics and reporting features for the Regional Integration of Intelligent Transportation System project. “Southern California has the most congested traffic […] More

  • ICF Receives DoD Contract for Psychological Health Data Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Receives DoD Contract for Psychological Health Data Support Services

    Consulting and technology services provider ICF has received a potential five-year, $35 million contract from the Defense Department to provide psychological health interdisciplinary support services at DoD’s Deployment Health Clinical Center. ICF said Wednesday the contract covers behavioral health and data support services to DHCC in the areas of psychological health performance and analytics, research, promotion and clinical […] More

  • Collab9 Lands State Cooperative Purchasing Contract for Unified Comms Cloud Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collab9 Lands State Cooperative Purchasing Contract for Unified Comms Cloud Service

    Collab9 has secured a contract from the state of Utah to offer the company’s unified communications-as-a-service platform to participating U.S. states under the NASPO ValuePoint Cooperative Purchasing Organization. The company said Monday its Cisco-powered UCaaS cloud service works to facilitate voice and video calls; provide mobility, customer care applications and E911 functionality; and support integration with Microsoft 365, Skype […] More