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  • Raytheon to Build Display & Targeting System for Marine Corps Abrams Tanks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Build Display & Targeting System for Marine Corps Abrams Tanks

    Raytheon has been awarded a $12.6 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to provide an integrated display and targeting system for the U.S. Marine Corps‘ fleet of Abrams main battle tanks. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification covers Abrams IDATS production year one units as well as subcontract line items, low-rate initial production units and first article testing […] 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

  • Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Modernize USS Ramage Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Modernize USS Ramage Destroyer

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has won a potential $21.4 contract from the U.S. Navy to perform modernization, repair and maintenance work on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ramage. The Defense Department said Monday the contract has an initial value of $14.1 million and covers the ship’s fiscal 2017 extended selected restricted availability. Work will occur at Huntington Ingalls’ facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi […] 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

  • AECOM to Design Indiana's Truck Parking Info Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM to Design Indiana’s Truck Parking Info Mgmt System

    AECOM has secured a $4 million contract to design a system for the Indiana Transportation Department to manage information on truck parking availability within the state. The company said Wednesday INDOT’s Truck Parking Information Management System project is part of the $25 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the Mid-American Association of State Transportation Officials. The TIGER program aims […] More

  • NASA Taps Vector Space Systems to Build Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Vector Space Systems to Build Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Prototype

    Vector Space Systems has secured a Phase II contract under NASA‘s Small Business Technology Transfer project to continue developing an upper stage prototype for the Vector-R launch vehicle. The award complements the company’s existing contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to examine the potential use of Vector-R’s first stage as a second stage for DARPA’s XS-1 experimental spaceplane, Vector Space Systems said […] More

  • CGI Federal-Wynyard Team to Help Interior Dept Implement Risk Mgmt Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Federal-Wynyard Team to Help Interior Dept Implement Risk Mgmt Software

    A team comprised of CGI Federal and Wynyard Group has been awarded a contract by the Interior Department to install an enterprise risk management platform at DOI’s  Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Wynyard said Friday its Risk Management software will be hosted on a cloud-based information technology infrastructure CGI developed for the department as part of a contract awarded in 2013. CGI Federal is one […] More

  • Milpower Wins Potential $66M Contract From Navy to Produce MUOS Power Amplifiers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Milpower Wins Potential $66M Contract From Navy to Produce MUOS Power Amplifiers

    Milpower has won a potential 10-year, $66.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to manufacture and engineer 100 – and 200-watt power amplifiers for the service branch’s  Mobile User Objective System. The Defense Department said Wednesday the power amplifiers will be integrated with Digital Modular Radios in efforts to help the Navy address MUOS fleet modernization, shipbuilding and conversion […] More

  • ATAC to Update Aviation Simulation Model System at Navy, DoD Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATAC to Update Aviation Simulation Model System at Navy, DoD Facilities

    ATAC has been awarded a potential five-year, $8 million contract to develop and update a naval aviation simulation model system at U.S. Navy and Marine Corps installations as well as Defense Department facilities worldwide. DoD said Tuesday the project will support airfield, airspace and range analyses of existing or proposed operations and activities. The company will also compile information on mission changes to […] More

  • Boeing to Supply Air Force With B-52 Combat Network Comm Tech Spares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Supply Air Force With B-52 Combat Network Comm Tech Spares

    Boeing has received a $9.6 million contract modification to provide Combat Network Communications Technology full-rate production spares as well as modify low-rate initial production spares for the U.S. Air Force‘s B-52 bomber fleet. The Defense Department said Tuesday Boeing will supply replaceable units for FRP-configured bomber aircraft and retrofit field-deployed, LRIP-configured bombers with with FRP line replaceable units. Work will occur in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma through […] More

  • Textron Subsidiary to Produce Universal Test Sets for Navy's Counter-IED Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Subsidiary to Produce Universal Test Sets for Navy’s Counter-IED Program

    Textron subsidiary AAI Corp. has received a $7.4 million contract modification to produce universal test sets for the U.S. Navy’s Joint Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare program. AAI will also provide UTS  system engineering and program and configuration management services to the Navy, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted the modification exercises the second option […] More

  • MBDA to Help Build Qatar's Coastal Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA to Help Build Qatar’s Coastal Defense System

    MBDA has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to build a coastal defense system that will work to help Qatar’s navy defend territorial waters against hostile ships. The system will be designed to deploy an extended-range Marte missile and an Exocet MM40 Block 3 missile as well as feature autonomous radar mode and data-linking to a higher level within a coastal surveillance network, MBDA said […] More