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  • Army Orders Veyance M-88 Track Shoes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Orders Veyance M-88 Track Shoes

    Continental unit Veyance Technologies will supply the U.S. Army with M-88 track shoes under a potential $19.9 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The sole-source contract contains one base year and one six-month option that the Army has also exercised at the time of award, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Veyance will perform work in Ohio through March 12, 2018. […] More

  • DLA Selects Data Monitor Systems to Provide Navy Fuel Mgmt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Selects Data Monitor Systems to Provide Navy Fuel Mgmt Services

    Data Monitor Systems has won a $16 million firm-fixed-price contract from the  Defense Logistics Agency to provide fuel management services to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Friday the contract contains four base years, one five-year option and six months of extension beyond the ordering period. The company is scheduled to finish work by Dec. 31, 2020. DLA received eight bids for the […] More

  • DLA Taps Honeywell for Super Hornet Brakes Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Taps Honeywell for Super Hornet Brakes Delivery Order

    Honeywell International has received a potential three-year, $18.3 million delivery order from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply brakes for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft. DLA’s aviation unit will fund the delivery order with the service branch’s fiscal 2016 working capital funds, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Honeywell will perform work in Indiana through June 30, […] More

  • DLA Orders Elbit Systems-Built Grip Assembly Controllers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Orders Elbit Systems-Built Grip Assembly Controllers

    Elbit Systems of America has secured a $7.3 million firm-fixed price contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply grip assembly controllers to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday DLA’s land and maritime unit will obligate fiscal 2016 Army working capital funds for work to be performed in Texas through Sept. 30, 2018. DoD noted the […] More

  • BlackBerry Crisis Comms Software Receives Army Authority to Operate, Certificate of Networthiness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry Crisis Comms Software Receives Army Authority to Operate, Certificate of Networthiness

    The U.S. Army has awarded BlackBerry‘s AtHoc networked crisis communications software a certificate of networthiness and authority to operate through April 2019 to support uninterrupted use of the software by the service branch. BlackBerry said Wednesday the software works to relay information to soldiers and other personnel and coordinate rapid responses during emergencies such as accidents, severe weather, natural […] More

  • Navy Conducts Final Tests on ARA, Chevron Lummus Co-Developed Renewable Diesel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Conducts Final Tests on ARA, Chevron Lummus Co-Developed Renewable Diesel

    The Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division has completed final phase tests of an Applied Research Associates and Chevron Lummus Global co-developed 100 percent drop-in renewable diesel fuel on a U.S. Navy Self Defense Test Ship. ARA said Friday the ReadiDiesel 100-percent renewable biofuel was designed to serve as a drop-in replacement for petroleum F-76 marine diesel in […] More

  • DLA Exercises IronPlanet Surplus Asset Sale Contract Option; Jeff Holmes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Exercises IronPlanet Surplus Asset Sale Contract Option; Jeff Holmes Comments

    IronPlanet will continue to manage and sell the Defense Logistics Agency’s surplus trucks, heavy equipment and other assets after DLA exercised the first option year under a six-year contract. The exercised option comes after DLA awarded the Commercial Venture 4-Rolling Stock contract to the company in July 2014, IronPlanet said Monday. Jeff Holmes, senior vice […] More

  • HDT Expeditionary Systems to Produce Combat Vehicle Heaters for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HDT Expeditionary Systems to Produce Combat Vehicle Heaters for Army

    HDT Expeditionary Systems has received a $9.3 million contract to manufacture heaters for the U.S. Army‘s combat vehicles. The contract contains a 21-month base period and one 10-month option period, the Defense Department said Friday. HDT Expeditionary will carry out work in Ohio through May 15, 2018. The Defense Logistics Agency used its fiscal 2016 through […] More

  • Lockheed to Produce Airborne Sensor Spares for Navy's Super Hornet Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Produce Airborne Sensor Spares for Navy’s Super Hornet Fleet

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $23.7 million contract by the Defense Logistics Agency to produce spares for company-built sensor technology installed on the U.S. Navy‘s F/A-18E/F aircraft fleet. The IRST21 sensor works to detect and monitor airborne threats with the use of infrared search and track technology and displays high-resolution imagery of multiple targets visible to pilots, Lockheed said Thursday. Paul […] More

  • Draeger Medical, Nobel Biocare Awarded DLA Supply Contract Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draeger Medical, Nobel Biocare Awarded DLA Supply Contract Funds

    Draeger Medical and Nobel Biocare have received separate awards from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide medical and dental supplies for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The Defense Department said Monday Draeger secured a potential $57.3 million modification that exercises the second of nine one-year option periods of a contract that covers patient monitoring […] More

  • SAIC Delivers 1 Millionth Tire for DLA Tire Successor Initiative Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Delivers 1 Millionth Tire for DLA Tire Successor Initiative Program

    Science Applications International Corp. has delivered its 1 millionth tire under the Defense Logistics Agency‘s Tire Successor Initiative program contract awarded to the company in 2011. SAIC said Tuesday it delivered the 1 millionth tire to the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California. The company is the prime contractor on potential nine-year, $1.1 billion TSI program for chain management […] More

  • DLA Orders Laser-Protected Periscopes From Optex Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Orders Laser-Protected Periscopes From Optex Systems

    Optex Systems has received a five-year, $5.99 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to deliver laser-protected periscopes across the U.S. military. The optical sighting systems manufacturer said Friday its glass and plastic periscopes work to support a range of vehicle platforms. Optex CEO Danny Schoening said the award builds on the company’s efforts to grow its footprint in the armored vehicle […] More