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  • Air Force Taps Orbital ATK to Deliver EELV Secondary Payload Adapter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Orbital ATK to Deliver EELV Secondary Payload Adapter

    Orbital ATK has won a potential $34 million contract to provide a secondary payload adapter for the U.S. Air Force‘s long-duration propulsive Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle. The Defense Department said Monday the contract will also extend the Air Force Space Command’s standard rideshare service policy and build on previous development efforts for EELV secondary payload adapter technology. Orbital ATK will perform work […] More

  • DoD Seeks Industry Support to Implement Software-Based Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Seeks Industry Support to Implement Software-Based Network

    The Defense Department‘s Joint Service Provider has reached out to industry to gather ideas on how JSP can implement a software-defined network technology to modernize network infrastructure at the Pentagon. A FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 20 said JSP aims to simplify and update the DoD network infrastructure with the use of orchestration, routing and virtualization tools. The organization […] More

  • Lockheed Secures Air Force Contract Modification for AEHF Satellite Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures Air Force Contract Modification for AEHF Satellite Vehicles

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business secured a $21.1 million contract modification to fund work on the fifth and sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite vehicles for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract covers AEHF 6 vehicle operational resiliency efforts and Atlas 551 capability support for the two satellites. Work is scheduled to occur through June 30, […] More

  • Oshkosh Defense to Supply Army Diesel Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh Defense to Supply Army Diesel Engines

    Oshkosh Defense has secured a five-year, $15.6 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply dressed diesel engines along with containers to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday Oshkosh Defense will perform work at a company facility in Wisconsin through Oct. 26, 2022. DLA’s land and maritime unit will use the Army’s fiscal 2018 through fiscal […] More

  • General Atomics, University of Mississippi Form UUV Tech Devt Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, University of Mississippi Form UUV Tech Devt Partnership

    General Atomics has partnered with the University of Mississippi on a project to build acoustic-based navigation and sensing technologies for unmanned underwater systems designed to aid deep-sea operations. The company’s electromagnetic systems group will work in UM’s Insight Park facility and support efforts to develop acoustic-based UUV navigation and control techniques, the university reported Thursday. “Over the course of the […] More

  • Report: DIUx, Tanium Transition Cyber Pilot Program Into $750M Army Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: DIUx, Tanium Transition Cyber Pilot Program Into $750M Army Contract

    The Defense Department‘s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental and cybersecurity firm Tanium have transitioned a pilot project into a potential five-year, $750 million contract with the U.S. Army, Defense News reported Thursday. The contract signed on Sept. 26 calls for Tanium to provide cyber monitoring support to up to 1 million Army endpoint devices such as desktop […] More

  • SPA Gets DoD Innovation Support Order; William Vantine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SPA Gets DoD Innovation Support Order; William Vantine Comments

    Systems Planning and Analysis has secured a potential $26 million task order to continue to support Defense Department innovation efforts. SPA said Tuesday it will provide expert analysis and assessment support to DoD’s Office of Net Technical Assessment as the department works to establish a new research and engineering organization. The company will also support the Research, Development, and […] More

  • CDW to Supply Laptops for Marine Corps' Windows 10 Transition Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CDW to Supply Laptops for Marine Corps’ Windows 10 Transition Effort

    CDW‘s government division has won a $12.7 million delivery order for general purpose laptops to support the U.S. Marine Corps‘ migration to Windows 10 operating system. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will supply 16,033 laptops to the service branch and is scheduled to complete deliveries by March 30, 2018. USMC will obligate the full […] More

  • Fulcrum Eyes DoD, Intell Community Services Expansion via Army Contract; Jeff Handy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fulcrum Eyes DoD, Intell Community Services Expansion via Army Contract; Jeff Handy Comments

    Fulcrum seeks to expand research and development services and other offerings for Defense Department and intelligence community customers through the company’s position under a $480 million U.S. Army contract. The company said it won a spot under the Deployable Adaptive Global Responder Support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which covers electronic and electro-optic equipment; software design; and technical development […] More

  • ManTech Lands Navy IDIQ to Provide Training Services for SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Lands Navy IDIQ to Provide Training Services for SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific

    ManTech International has secured a potential five-year, $45.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to offer training support services to the U.S. Navy‘s the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. The company said Tuesday it aims to develop and implement online computer-based virtualized tools to aid SSC Pacific training on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and […] More

  • Johns Hopkins Laser Communications Platform Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins Laser Communications Platform Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been recognized at the 2017 Defense Innovation Summit in Tampa, Florida for its high-bandwidth, free space optical communications system. The APL laser communications system landed TechConnect‘s defense innovation award which recognizes potential benefits of technologies to national and warfighter security, Johns Hopkins said Tuesday. JHUAPL also had an opportunity […] More

  • XAP to Help DoD Org Implement Education & Career Planning System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    XAP to Help DoD Org Implement Education & Career Planning System

    XAP has secured a five-year contract to develop a virtual system for the Defense Department‘s educational organization to electronically offer postsecondary-planning resources for students in grades 7 to 12 with DoD military and civilian parents. The Department of Defense Education Activity chose XAP’s Choices360 as a platform for high students studying at DoDEA-managed schools to access tools […] More