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  • COMSAT Gets DoD BPA for Inmarsat Global Xpress, BGAN Mobile Satcom Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    COMSAT Gets DoD BPA for Inmarsat Global Xpress, BGAN Mobile Satcom Services

    COMSAT has received a blanket purchase agreement from the Defense Department to provide internet protocol-based mobile satellite communications services through Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Ka-band network and Broadband Global Area Network. COMSAT will work to deliver voice, video and data services to uniformed personnel through portable satellite terminals and help DoD meet its global mobile communications requirements, […] More

  • ViaSat Awarded DISA In-Flight Comms Service Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViaSat Awarded DISA In-Flight Comms Service Extension

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded ViaSat a six-month, $19.3 million contract modification for in-flight communications service to senior U.S. government leaders and their staff members. ViaSat will continue to provide Ku-band and Ka-band satellite communications coverage when government officials travel by air, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The modification exercises the first option on a previously awarded non-competitive firm-fixed price contract with […] More

  • Howard Lance: MDA Seeks to Diversify Into Earth Imagery Market Via DigitalGlobe Merger - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Howard Lance: MDA Seeks to Diversify Into Earth Imagery Market Via DigitalGlobe Merger

    Canada-based MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates expects its pending merger with Earth imaging services provider DigitalGlobe to help counterbalance the fluctuating revenues and profits of its commercial satellite manufacturing business, Space News reported Tuesday. MDA agreed to buy DigitalGlobe through an estimated $3.6 billion transaction in February. Howard Lance, MDA president and CEO, told investors Tuesday the pending deal seeks […] More

  • Parsons Lands $70M Contract for MDA Facility Mgmt Advisory, Assistance Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Lands $70M Contract for MDA Facility Mgmt Advisory, Assistance Services

    Parsons has received a potential five-year, $70 million contract for advisory and assistance services to the Missile Defense Agency‘s facilities, military construction and the environmental management directorate. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Parsons’ government services unit will advise and assist MDA on construction oversight, demolition and disposal, deployment, lifecycle management, site activation, sustainment and integration efforts. Work will occur through June […] More

  • Northrop Secures Navy Triton UAS Long-Lead Material Procurement Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Secures Navy Triton UAS Long-Lead Material Procurement Funds

    Northrop Grumman has received a $49.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide long-lead components, materials, parts and services required to produce the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system. The Defense Department said Monday work will occur in Maryland, West Virginia, Utah, Texas, California and other locations in the continental U.S. through December 2017. The Naval Air Systems Command will […] More

  • Navy Awards Sikorsky $55M Contract Modification for CH-53K Production Items - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Awards Sikorsky $55M Contract Modification for CH-53K Production Items

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky Aircraft subsidiary has received a $55 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead items needed to build four CH-53K  helicopters. The Defense Department said Monday the Navy will use the service branch’s fiscal 2017 aircraft procurement funds to cover the full obligated amount for lot 2 CH-53K low-rate initial production materials. Sikorsky […] More

  • Accenture to Continue O&M Support for Army Financial ERP System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture to Continue O&M Support for Army Financial ERP System

    A business unit of Accenture will continue to help the U.S. Army operate and maintain a web-based financial and asset management platform under a $59.5 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Friday that Accenture’s federal services business will provide operations and maintenance support for the service branch’s General Fund Enterprise Business System along with its year-end activities and baseline […] More

  • Gentex Wins $51M Marines Combat Helmet, Data Report Delivery Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gentex Wins $51M Marines Combat Helmet, Data Report Delivery Contract

    Gentex has won a potential five-year, $51.4 million contract to provide 84,376 updated combat helmets and data reports to the U.S. Marine Corps. The Marine Corps Systems Command received three proposals for the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract and obligated nearly $10 million in fiscal 2017 operations and maintenance funds.to cover the first delivery order, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will […] More

  • Former DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz Joins Tri Alpha Energy's Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz Joins Tri Alpha Energy’s Board of Directors

    Ernest Moniz, former secretary of the Energy Department, has joined clean energy company Tri Alpha Energy as a member of the board of directors. Tri Alpha Energy CEO Steve Specker said in a statement published Thursday that Moniz will contribute his energy technology and policy development experience to help further the company’s fusion-based electricity generation initiatives. Moniz has also […] More

  • Army Unveils Cyber Range Market Research Plan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Unveils Cyber Range Market Research Plan

    The U.S. Army‘s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation seeks market research that can aid the development of an acquisition strategy for a multi-year National Cyber Range Complex event planning and operations support contract. The service branch said in a special notice published Tuesday on FedBizOpps the NCRC research effort seeks to address an existing Test […] More

  • Leidos to Deliver IED Removal Aircraft Under Army Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Deliver IED Removal Aircraft Under Army Contract Modification

    Leidos has received a $21.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to design, build, test and deliver an aircraft designed to help neutralize improvised-explosive devices. The Defense Department said Thursday Leidos will provide one Saturn Arch configured aircraft to support ongoing operations, sustainment and the Integration Quick Reaction Capability program. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency launched the Saturn […] More

  • Former Army Secretary Eric Fanning Joins CNAS Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Army Secretary Eric Fanning Joins CNAS Advisory Board

    Eric Fanning, former secretary of the U.S. Army, has been appointed to the board of advisers at the Center for a New American Security. He joins other CNAS advisory board members who came from various government, military, academic and private organizations, the Washington-based think tank said Wednesday. CNAS CEO Michele Flournoy said that Fanning has broad leadership experience across the Defense Department and […] More