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  • Saab to Refresh Australian Army’s Air Defense Weapon, Radar Systems; Dean Rosenfield Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Refresh Australian Army’s Air Defense Weapon, Radar Systems; Dean Rosenfield Comments

    Saab has received a potential $25 million contract to update the Australian army’s ground-based air defense weapon and radar platforms with new modulation, coding and cryptographic techniques. The company said Monday it will incorporate Mode 5 functionality into the identification friend or foe technology of the RBS 70 air defense weapon and Giraffe AMB radar systems under the […] More

  • Raytheon to Update Air Force GPS Receivers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Update Air Force GPS Receivers

    Raytheon has secured a $52.6 million task order to modernize the U.S. Air Force‘s miniature airborne global positioning system receiver 2000 in accordance with Defense Department and civil regulations. DoD said Friday the company will develop, test and deliver a military code/automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast capable and propose engineering changes to the baseline configuration. The MAGR 2000 design […] More

  • Pentagon Grants Milestone C Approval to Boeing's KC-46A Pegasus Tanker - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon Grants Milestone C Approval to Boeing’s KC-46A Pegasus Tanker

    Boeing has received Milestone C approval from Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall for the KC-46A Pegasus aircraft the company will build to support aerial refueling operations of the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force said Friday it will award Boeing a pair of contracts within 30 days to manufacture the first two KC-46A low-rate initial production batches. […] More

  • Saab to Build Electronics for Sweden's Main Battle Tanks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Build Electronics for Sweden’s Main Battle Tanks

    Saab has secured a $15.4 million contract to produce vehicle electronics for integration into Sweden’s fleet of Stridsvagn 122 main battle tanks. The company will design, develop and deliver the electronics to Krauss-Maffei Wegmann Gmbh, which serves as the primary tank supplier to the Swedish military, Saab said Wednesday. The contract also covers training and documentation services. Saab noted it will also integrate its Swedish battalion combat management system […] More

  • BAE Awarded Logistics Support Contract for Army SIGINT Payload System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Awarded Logistics Support Contract for Army SIGINT Payload System

    BAE Systems has secured a potential seven-year, $38.2 million contract to provide logistics support for the U.S. Army‘s tactical signal intelligence payload system. The Defense Department said Thursday work will occur through Aug. 10, 2023 and performance location will be determined with each individual task order. The Army Contracting Command received one offer for the contract through an online solicitation, DoD […] More

  • Jacobs to Help Novartis Pharma Expand Biotech Center in France; Robert Norfleet Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help Novartis Pharma Expand Biotech Center in France; Robert Norfleet Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to provide engineering, procurement and construction management services for Novartis Pharma‘s estimated $100 million  biotechnology center expansion project in France. Novartis Pharma aims to increase its biotechnology center’s production capacity by 70 percent and build a second line of purification to manufacture multiple drugs at the same time, Jacobs said Thursday. The project is […] More

  • DigitalGlobe to Extend Support for PSMA Australia's Continent-Wide Mapping Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe to Extend Support for PSMA Australia’s Continent-Wide Mapping Project

    An Australian government-owned company has awarded DigitalGlobe a follow-on contract to provide a geospatial content management platform for a mapping initiative that seeks to host information on more than 15 million buildings across Australia. PSMA Australia will implement DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform to generate geospatial content and location information for PSMA’s Geoscape continent-scale mapping product, DigitalGlobe said Wednesday. Shay Har-Noy, DigitalGlobe platform general manager, said Geoscape […] More

  • SOS International Subsidiary to Help Monitor Traditional, Social Media in Afghanistan; Jeremy Davis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SOS International Subsidiary to Help Monitor Traditional, Social Media in Afghanistan; Jeremy Davis Comments

    The State Department has contracted a subsidiary of SOS International to help monitor and analyze traditional and social media in Kabul, Afghanistan in support of the U.S.’ diplomatic mission there. Exovera will use the cloud-based media analysis software EV3 to execute the five-year contract, SOS International said Wednesday. SOS International unveiled EV3 in 2016 and the software gathers unstructured […] More

  • DARPA, Lockheed Partner for Optical Systems Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Lockheed Partner for Optical Systems Research Project

    Lockheed Martin has received a $7.1 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform research into optical systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday the research project is part of the Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks program that aims to explore technologies for the development of ultra-compact light detection and ranging systems. DARPA obligated $2.0 million […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Continue Iraq Caravan Aircraft Logistics Support Under Potential $118M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Continue Iraq Caravan Aircraft Logistics Support Under Potential $118M Contract

    Orbital ATK has been awarded a potential $118 million contract to continue its logistics support for missionized Cessna 208 aircraft flown by the Iraqi air force to perform security missions. The company said Tuesday it will also provide maintenance and support training, produce spare parts, repair components, update publications for Iraq’s Armed Caravan program. The contract has an initial $11 million value […] More

  • Comtech Receives $7.6M Army Satellite Systems Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Receives $7.6M Army Satellite Systems Order

    Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has received $7.6 million in order from the U.S. Army for a set of very small aperture terminal satellite systems. The company booked the order in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year and funded orders to Comtech so far have totaled $49.5 million out of the $91.0 million contract ceiling under […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Produce Military Test Range Instrumentation System Under DoD Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Produce Military Test Range Instrumentation System Under DoD Contract

    Rockwell Collins has received a $31 million contract from the Defense Department to build a test range instrumentation system for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army. The company said Monday it will build the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System to replace the Advanced Range Data System currently used at the three military  branches’ test ranges as the prime contractor and system integrator on […] More