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  • ManTech to Support Mine-Resistant Ambush Vehicles of Army, Foreign Military Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Support Mine-Resistant Ambush Vehicles of Army, Foreign Military Clients

    ManTech International has received a $44.9 million contract modification to provide logistics sustainment and support services for mine-resistant ambush vehicles of the U.S. Army, Egypt and Iraq. The Defense Department said Friday the full obligated amount at the time of award is from the Army’s fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance; “other” procurement; research, development, test and evaluation funds; […] More

  • Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program

    Engility has won a five-year, $49 million contract to provide research and development support for the U.S. Air Force‘s weapon systems testing technology program. The Defense Department said Friday Engility will develop multi-spectral and multi-modal phenomenology modeling tools as well as help the Air Force build and transition weapon systems under the Kinetic Kill Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Technology […] More

  • KeyW's Sotera Business to Provide Software Engineering Services to Army CECOM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KeyW’s Sotera Business to Provide Software Engineering Services to Army CECOM

    A KeyW subsidiary has secured an $18 million task order to provide software engineering and sustainment, business consulting, information technology infrastructure and procurement management support for the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command. The three-year task order awarded to Sotera Defense Solutions is part of a $7 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract designated for software and systems engineering services, KeyW reported Thursday. Sotera […] More

  • Aviation Training Consulting to Help Train Kuwait's KC-130J, L-100 Aircrew Under Navy FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aviation Training Consulting to Help Train Kuwait’s KC-130J, L-100 Aircrew Under Navy FMS Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Aviation Training Consulting a potential four-year, $43.7 million contract to provide aircrew and maintenance training products for Kuwait’s KC-130J tanker aircraft as part of a foreign military sales deal. Aviation Training Consulting will also support L-100 transport aircraft transition training of the Kuwaiti air force under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD added that […] More

  • EY to Audit Air Force General, Working Capital Funds Under DFAS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EY to Audit Air Force General, Working Capital Funds Under DFAS Contract

    EY has received a potential $44.2 million contract from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to provide financial statement audit services for the U.S. Air Force‘s general and working capital funds. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also conduct an SSAE18 assessment of the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System. DFAS received one bid […] More

  • BAE Unit to Modernize USS Bataan Amphibious Assault Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit to Modernize USS Bataan Amphibious Assault Ship

    BAE Systems‘ Norfolk Ship Repair business has secured a potential $45.8 delivery order to maintain, repair and modernize the U.S. Navy‘s amphibious assault ship USS Bataan. Norfolk Ship Repair will execute phased maintenance availability of the vessel also called LHD 5 at a facility in Virginia and is scheduled to complete work in July 2018, the Defense Department said Thursday . The Navy […] More

  • Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ

    Rocky Research has landed a five-year, $49.1 million contract to supply the U.S. Navy with navigation and ship control system hardware components. The company will perform contract work in Huntsville, Alabama through September 2022, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division is the contracting office and will obligate $137,559 at the […] More

  • Boeing's Insitu Subsidiary to Provide Sustainment Parts for Navy Blackjack UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary to Provide Sustainment Parts for Navy Blackjack UAS

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has received a $21 million order to supply spare and sustainment parts necessary to maintain an RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system the U.S. Navy uses in naval special warfare fleet operations. Bingen, Washington-based Insitu is scheduled to finish work by June 2018, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD noted approximately $1.4 million of the full […] More

  • DXC’s Earl Matthews: Creation of Separate Space Corps Could Distract Govt From USAF, DoD Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DXC’s Earl Matthews: Creation of Separate Space Corps Could Distract Govt From USAF, DoD Issues

    Earl Matthews, vice president of DXC Technology‘s enterprise security solutions group, has said the establishment of a new space-focused military branch under a House bill could divert the U.S. government from issues facing the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Department. “The focus on space needs to be squarely on situational awareness: our ability to monitor and […] More

  • Black Hills Ammunition Secures Navy Special Ball, Long Range Ammo IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Black Hills Ammunition Secures Navy Special Ball, Long Range Ammo IDIQ

    Black Hills Ammunition has won a potential five-year, $49.9 million contract from to supply the U.S. Navy with 5.56mm special ball, long range ammunition rounds. The Defense Department said Friday the Navy will deploy the weapons to support various operations of U.S. forces overseas. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also includes foreign military sales to the government of Jordan. […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Build ISR Aircraft for Afghan Forces Under $69M USAF Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Build ISR Aircraft for Afghan Forces Under $69M USAF Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Orbital ATK a potential $69.4 million contract to provide AC-208 armed intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft to Afghanistan’s air force. The Defense Department said Friday the undefinitized contractual action will help fulfill a pseudo-foreign military sales requirement and that the obligated amount of $34 million is from fiscal Afghan security forces funds. AC-208 Combat […] More

  • DLA Orders Elbit Systems Night Vision System Spares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Orders Elbit Systems Night Vision System Spares

    An Elbit Systems subsidiary has received a $31.5 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply spares and components for the U.S. Army‘s night vision imaging and heads up display systems. EFW is scheduled to complete deliveries by Nov. 20, 2019, the Defense Department said Friday. DLA’s land and maritime unit is the contracting activity and […] More