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  • Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA's App Store - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA’s App Store

    Prescient has released its mobile application for traveler safety on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s GEOINT app store. The company said Wednesday Defense Department and Intelligence Community personnel with common access cards can now download the Prescient Traveler app directly to approved mobile devices for free use across the globe. Prescient Traveler offers cultural information and visuals for more than 650 […] More

  • BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform

    BAE Systems has received a $15.3 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply 242 retrofit systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s (AN/ALE)-58A countermeasure dispenser platform. The Defense Department said Thursday the (AN/ALE)-58A platform is designed to dispense countermeasure decoys such as chaffs and flares in order to disrupt radar and infrared homing threats and increase aircraft survivability. BAE’s electronic systems […] More

  • Pelatron Technologies to Support Air Force F-16 Program Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pelatron Technologies to Support Air Force F-16 Program Office

    The U.S Air Force has awarded Pelatron Technologies a potential five-year, $22 million contract to support the military branch’s F-16 aircraft-related programs. Pelatron will provide software, systems and interface design, sustainment and intelligence analyst engineering services for the F-16 systems program office, the Defense Department said Friday. The company will also conduct ground test and flight test, information assurance and cybersecurity […] More

  • General Dynamics Receives $59M Navy Funds for DDG 51 Destroyer Lead Yard Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Receives $59M Navy Funds for DDG 51 Destroyer Lead Yard Work

    The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary a one-year, $59.4 million contract modification to provide lead yard services for the DDG 51 guided missile destroyer shipbuilding program. Bath Iron Works will perform general class, class logistic, class design agent and class change design services as well as support DDG 51 Flight III update design efforts […] More

  • Endgame Lands Contract to Provide Air Force Cyber Threat Detection Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Endgame Lands Contract to Provide Air Force Cyber Threat Detection Tool

    Endgame has received an $18.8 million contract to provide an endpoint security platform designed to help the U.S. Air Force detect, track and prevent cyber threats to the service branch’s networks. The company initially fielded its endpoint detection and response tool to the military branch’s cyber protection teams under a sole-source contract awarded in December […] More

  • General Dynamics Offers Direct Fiber Optic Network Connection for Secure Phones - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Offers Direct Fiber Optic Network Connection for Secure Phones

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has started to offer direct fiber optic network connections for the company’s universal secure phones. Users of the new Sectera vIPer phone can plug into the fiber network without the need for converters, General Dynamics said Tuesday. Mike Tweed-Kent, vice president and general manager of General Dynamics’ cyber and electronic warfare […] More

  • Army Taps Robertson for Black Hawk External Fuel System A-Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps Robertson for Black Hawk External Fuel System A-Kits

    Robertson Fuel Systems has secured a five-year, $42.1 million contract to supply 541 crashworthy external fuel systems bussed aircraft A-kits for the U.S. Army‘s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will perform work under the firm-fixed-price contract through Dec. 8, 2021. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the procurement effort through an online solicitation […] More

  • IST Research to Provide DoD Data Collection, Analysis Platform; Ryan Paterson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IST Research to Provide DoD Data Collection, Analysis Platform; Ryan Paterson Comments

    IST Research has received a potential $4.8 million contract to provide a data collection and analysis platform to Defense Department combatant commands and partner organizations that support human security efforts. The company said Tuesday it will initially provide its Pulse Platform to the U.S. Central Command under the Phase III Small Business Innovative Research contract from the General Services Administration. “We’re very enthusiastic […] More

  • NexGen Communication to Provide Spares, Repair Supplies for Navy Emitter ID System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NexGen Communication to Provide Spares, Repair Supplies for Navy Emitter ID System

    NexGen Communication has received a five-year, $7.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide spares and repair supplies for the U.S. Navy’s AN/SSX-1 Specific Emitter Identification System. The Defense Department said Tuesday NexGen Communication will work to repair, modify, update and manage the configuration of the system to address requirements under the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program. SEWIP is the […] More

  • Northrop Gets Contract for Engineering, Logistics Services to US Navy, Intl Defense Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Gets Contract for Engineering, Logistics Services to US Navy, Intl Defense Clients

    Northrop Grumman has received a one-year, $22.8 million contract to provide engineering and logistics services to the air dominance department within the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Port Hueneme division. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract covers engineering, test and evaluation, computer programming, materials management and specified logistics support to the Aegis combat system and other weapon programs. Northrop will […] More

  • CACI Receives SmartCEO Award for GovCon Industry Contributions; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Receives SmartCEO Award for GovCon Industry Contributions; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received an award from SmartCEO in recognition of the company’s contributions to the government contracting sector through its mentoring, business partnerships, philanthropy and advocacy efforts. The company said Wednesday it accepted the GovStar Industry Star award in the large category at a ceremony held Nov. 21. SmartCEO recognizes contracting firms in the greater Washington, D.C., area based on criteria such […] More

  • Air Force, Ohio State University Partner for Human Performance Monitoring Research Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Ohio State University Partner for Human Performance Monitoring Research Initiative

    Ohio State University and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing have signed a cooperative research-and-development agreement with the goal to create human performance monitoring processes for the battlefield. The U.S. Air Force said Nov. 30 the partnership will offer 711th HPW access to data  on the university’s Division 1 college athletes that have similar mentality, […] More