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  • Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Denmark Takes in 3 Sikorsky Seahawk Multimission Helicopters

    The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin have handed over an initial set of three Sikorsky-built MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Denmark under a foreign military sales agreement. Lockheed said Wednesday Denmark’s unified armed forces will deploy the MH-60Rs to support maritime surveillance, anti surface warfare, force protection and utility transport, search-and-rescue, patrol and support operations across the country’s borders. Denmark ordered nine Seahawks under an FMS deal with the […] More

  • Air Force to Negotiate Potential Contract for GPS Receiver Tech with Rockwell Collins - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force to Negotiate Potential Contract for GPS Receiver Tech with Rockwell Collins

    The Department of the Air Force has announced it wants to negotiate a contract for the production, repair and logistics support of a global positioning system receiver for the Defense Department and foreign military customers. In a presolicitation released Monday, the Air Force said it also looks to tap Rockwell Collins for the requirements for the planned […] More

  • Meggitt to Produce F-16 Canopy Actuators for US Air Force, Int'l Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Meggitt to Produce F-16 Canopy Actuators for US Air Force, Int’l Customers

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded a five-year, $21.5 million contract to Meggitt Safety Systems to provide two-seat canopy actuators for the F-16 jets of the U.S. Air Force and foreign military customers. DLA’s aviation unit received two bids for the firm-fixed-price contract through a competitive acquisition process and will obligate fiscal year 2016 through fiscal 2021 defense working capital and foreign military sales […] More

  • Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy

    Harris subsidiary Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $12.3 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide engineering services and software support equipment for multiple airborne countermeasure systems. The Defense Department said Monday Exelis will support the Navy’s AN/ALQ-165 self-protection jammers, AN/ALQ-214 integrated defensive electronic countermeasures as well as the service branch’s aircraft self-protection and software modernization projects. […] More

  • Army Awards Foreign Sales Contract Modification to Kilgore for IR Countermeasure Flares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Awards Foreign Sales Contract Modification to Kilgore for IR Countermeasure Flares

    Kilgore Flares Co. has received a one-year, $24.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to produce infrared countermeasure flares for UAE and Qatar under a foreign military sales program. The Defense Department said Monday that Kilgore is scheduled to complete work by June 30, 2017, at a company facility in Toone, Tennessee. The Army obligated the full amount […] More

  • Navy Transports 1st Seahawk Helicopters to Denmark - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Transports 1st Seahawk Helicopters to Denmark

    The U.S. Navy has delivered three MH-60R Seahawk helicopters to Denmark as part of the second foreign military procurement of the multi-mission helicopters built by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary. The MH-60Rs were transported from Sikorsky’s William P. Gwinn Airfield aboard two C-17 aircraft bound for Karup air base in Denmark, the Navy said Wednesday. Denmark’s navy will […] More

  • Lockheed Secures Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Option

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $40.8 million contract modification to provide engineering support for AN/SQQ-89A surface ship undersea warfare systems. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification exercises a one-year option on a previously awarded contract for the development, integration and production of an  AN/SQQ-89A variant. The system is designed to search, detect, classify, localize and […] More

  • Report: US Foreign Military Sales Hit $29B in First Half of FY 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: US Foreign Military Sales Hit $29B in First Half of FY 2016

    Guggenheim Securities has found that foreign military sales of U.S.-built platforms and weapon systems amounted to $29 billion after six months of the government’s 2016 fiscal year, Defense News reported Friday. Aaron Mehta writes the investment banking and capital markets company said in its report obtained by Defense News that Lockheed Martin is the largest beneficiary of FMS deals for the first half of fiscal […] More

  • L-3 Subsidiary Receives Navy Delivery Order for EO Sensor System Depot Spares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Subsidiary Receives Navy Delivery Order for EO Sensor System Depot Spares

    L-3 Communications subsidiary L-3 KEO has received a $9.3 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide MK 46 and MK 20 electro-optical sensor system depot spares. The Defense Department said Wednesday L-3 KEO will deliver the spares for the Navy as well as the government of South Korea under the foreign military sales program. L-3 acquired Danaher Corp.‘s Kollmorgen […] More

  • Army Org Selects Harris Vehicle Radios for Middle East, North African Foreign Sales Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Org Selects Harris Vehicle Radios for Middle East, North African Foreign Sales Orders

    Harris has received $20 million in task orders from a U.S. Army organization to provide vehicle-based radios to service branch partners in Middle East and North Africa under the U.S.’ foreign military sales program. Harris said Friday the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command will help those partner countries acquire the company’s Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System radios for use in ground […] More

  • Lockheed Lands $79M Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Lands $79M Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Modification

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $79 million contract modification to produce Technical Insertion 14 baseline for the U.S. Navy’s underwater combat systems for fiscal 2016. The fixed-price-incentive-firm modification for the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Undersea Warfare System covers a part of a foreign military sales agreement with Japan and was awarded through a competitive procurement process, the […] More

  • State Dept OKs Indonesia's $95M Missile Sale Request, DSCA to Hold Competition for Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept OKs Indonesia’s $95M Missile Sale Request, DSCA to Hold Competition for Contract

    The State Department has approved Indonesia’s request to acquire a suite of air-to-air missiles, equipment, training and logistics support from the U.S. government under a $95 million foreign military sales agreement. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday Indonesia asked to purchase 36 AIM-120C-7 AMRAAM missiles, one missile guidance section, spare parts and loading adapters. DSCA will hold […] More