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  • Air Force Taps Raytheon to Provide Surveillance Tech for T-38, A-10 Planes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Raytheon to Provide Surveillance Tech for T-38, A-10 Planes

    Raytheon has received a potential six-year, $49 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to integrate a surveillance technology into T-38A/B and A-10 aircraft platforms. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will provide Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast equipment for T-38A/Bs and A-10s in an effort to help the Air Force comply with a Federal Aviation Administration mandate. FAA requires that […] More

  • Sikorsky to Overhaul Tail Rotor Blades of Army UH-60 Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky to Overhaul Tail Rotor Blades of Army UH-60 Helicopters

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a $37.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to repair 381 tail rotor blades of the service branch’s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The Defense Department said Wednesday contract work will run through March 31, 2019 in Dallas, Texas. The Army Contracting Command obligated $18.4 million at the time of award from fiscal 2017 “other” […] More

  • CACI to Extend NAVFAC Cybersecurity Support; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Extend NAVFAC Cybersecurity Support; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has secured a two-year, $21 million task order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to perform cybersecurity systems support for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. The company said Wednesday it will support NAVFAC’s efforts to meet Defense Department information assurance standards for providing cybersecurity to the U.S. Navy‘s industrial control systems. CACI president and CEO Ken Asbury, an […] More

  • IAP to Help Indiana National Guard Build Cyber C2 Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IAP to Help Indiana National Guard Build Cyber C2 Platform

    IAP Worldwide Services has secured a $45 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a cyber command-and-control platform for the Indiana National Guard. The contract was awarded through the Army’s Rapid Response Third Generation  procurement vehicle and covers the development and integration of C2 technology for the Atterbury-Muscatatuck Cyber Technology Environment, IAP said Tuesday. Indiana National Guard operates the […] More

  • Raytheon to Support US-Germany Rolling Airframe Missile Program Under Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Support US-Germany Rolling Airframe Missile Program Under Navy Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $26.8 million contract option to support a U.S.-Germany cooperative project to develop and produce a rolling airframe missile system. Raytheon’s missile systems business will provide design agent and engineering services to the MK-31 RAM guided missile weapon development and production effort, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work also covers design, logistics engineering, maintainability, quality assurance, reliability, […] More

  • PAE Tests Resolute Eagle UAS' Beyond-Line-of-Sight Mission Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE Tests Resolute Eagle UAS’ Beyond-Line-of-Sight Mission Capacity

    PAE has tested the beyond-line-of-sight mission capacity of an unmanned aerial system at the White Sands Missile Test Range in New Mexico to demonstrate the platform’s ability to offer satellite communications and support large data transmission at an extended range. The Resolute Eagle system was able to receive command-and-control data from a tactical ground station during the test, PAE said […] More

  • Navy Taps American Systems for Air Vehicle System Engineering, Technical Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps American Systems for Air Vehicle System Engineering, Technical Services Contract

    American Systems has received a $30.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide specialized engineering and technical services for various Defense Department air vehicles and related systems. DoD said Monday that the company will support the development and operation of aircraft trainer devices, air vehicle dynamic simulations and architecture, future piloted and desktop engineering simulation systems, manned […] More

  • USSOCOM Picks Thales Subsidiary for Multiband Radio Sustainment Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USSOCOM Picks Thales Subsidiary for Multiband Radio Sustainment Contract

    Thales‘ defense and security business has received a $9.9 million to sustain multiband radios for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The Defense Department said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will run through September 2021 and covers sustainment of the Multiband Inter/Intra Team Radio family of radios. Thales’ AN/PRC-148 MBITR is designed to operate with military and commercial legacy radio systems and provide communications capacity for warfighters. […] More

  • Boeing Wins $59M MDA Contract for Space Object Kill Vehicle Risk Reduction Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Wins $59M MDA Contract for Space Object Kill Vehicle Risk Reduction Work

    Boeing has won a three-year, $58.6 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to implement a technology risk reduction effort for a kill vehicle designed to destroy objects in space. The Defense Department said Friday the contract is part of MDA’s strategy to optimize performance and reduce risk for the Multi-Object Kill Vehicle‘s advanced communications, engagement management […] More

  • General Dynamics to Support Air Force Emergency Action Message C2 Terminal Under $53M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Support Air Force Emergency Action Message C2 Terminal Under $53M IDIQ

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has received a five-year, $53 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the U.S. Air Force manage a communications terminal used to deliver emergency action messages to nuclear forces. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers on-site management, software updates, production, contractor logistics support, information awareness, travel, over and above services, field support and engineering services […] More

  • Harris to Provide Sustainment Support for Air Force Distributed Space C2 System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Provide Sustainment Support for Air Force Distributed Space C2 System

    Harris has received a potential one-year, $18.9 million contract modification to provide system sustainment services for the U.S. Air Force’s distributed space command-and-control platform in Dahlgren, Virginia. The modification covers engineering, sustainment services for field service teams, software development and technical orders-related support as well as requirements development analysis and modeling, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • Raytheon Lands $53M Air Force Contract to Manufacture 3D Long-Range Radars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands $53M Air Force Contract to Manufacture 3D Long-Range Radars

    Raytheon has received a potential three-year, $52.7 million contract to design, develop and manufacture a long-range radar platform for the U.S. Air Force. The company will develop three units of the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar system under the fixed-price-incentive-firm contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received two bids for the […] More