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  • Boeing-Saab Team Test-Flies Trainer Aircraft Offering for Air Force T-X Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Saab Team Test-Flies Trainer Aircraft Offering for Air Force T-X Program

    Boeing and Saab have conducted the first flight test of a trainer aircraft the companies jointly developed for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X competition. Boeing said Tuesday lead T-X test pilot Steven Schmidt and Air Force chief pilot Dan Draeger flew the aircraft for approximately 55 minutes to demonstrate key aspects of the single-engine jet as […] More

  • Doug Harlow Named an ACT I Executive Program Manager; Michael Niggel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Doug Harlow Named an ACT I Executive Program Manager; Michael Niggel Comments

    Doug Harlow, formerly a business development executive at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, has been named executive program manager for the acquisition management services company’s contract with the Department of Homeland Security‘s national protection and programs directorate. ACT I said Harlow will oversee program management and service delivery efforts and serve as the primary contact for contracting personnel on matters […] More

  • Executive Profile: Cynthia Shelton, CenturyLink Area VP for Special Program Sales - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Cynthia Shelton, CenturyLink Area VP for Special Program Sales

    Cynthia Shelton serves as area vice president of special program sales at CenturyLink‘s government business segment. Shelton has led the company’s federal sales team for intelligence, energy, justice, homeland security and cybersecurity programs since she joined the company in May 2015. She also has over three decades of experience within the Intelligence Community and nearly two decades of combined […] 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

  • 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

  • General Dynamics Recognizes Small Biz Partner Cosmos IT Solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Recognizes Small Biz Partner Cosmos IT Solutions

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has recognized the performance and technical initiatives of Cosmos IT Solutions over the past year as a subcontractor. Cosmos IT Solutions said Tuesday the recognition was part of General Dynamics Information Technology‘s Quality Service Provider program, which honors small business partners based on quality of work, timeliness, responsiveness, cost effectiveness and standards of conduct. GDIT […] More

  • Lockheed Breaks Ground on Minuteman III ICBM Replacement Program Mgmt Facility in Utah - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Breaks Ground on Minuteman III ICBM Replacement Program Mgmt Facility in Utah

    Lockheed Martin has kicked off construction of a program management facility at  the Falcon Hill National Aerospace Research Park in Utah to support the U.S. Air Force‘s project to develop a follow-on intercontinental ballistic missile system. Lockheed said Friday it will move into the company’s program management office at Falcon Hill by August 2017 as part of the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent competition and seeks […] More

  • General Dynamics, Navy to Christen Virginia-Class Nuclear Attack Submarine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics, Navy to Christen Virginia-Class Nuclear Attack Submarine

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary will host a christening ceremony at its shipyard Saturday for the U.S. Navy‘s 15th Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus will be a principal speaker at the event and his daughter Annie Mabus will serve as the sponsor of USS Colorado, the company said Thursday. Virginia-class submarines are designed to provide international multi-dimensional […] More

  • Rockwell Collins' Manpack Radio Tech Completes Army Qualification Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins’ Manpack Radio Tech Completes Army Qualification Test

    Rockwell Collins has completed the qualification test procedure for its military communication radio system as part of a potential $12.7 billion U.S. Army contract awarded in February. The company said Thursday it delivered 30 two-channel, software-defined AN/PRC-162 radios for the qualification tests under the Army’s Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit competition. Rockwell Collins, General Dynamics and Harris were selected to compete for the HMS contract to supply tactical radio systems, […] More

  • General Dynamics Secures Navy Ship & Submarine Yard Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Secures Navy Ship & Submarine Yard Services Contract

    A General Dynamics subsidiary has received a $24.7 million contract to provide planning yard services for the U.S. Navy‘s nuclear-powered submarines and moored training ships. General Dynamics Electric Boat will furnish, manufacture and procure materials, supplies and services necessary for the operation of the planning yard for nuclear-powered submarine reactor and propulsion facilities, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will occur in […] More

  • National Advanced Mobility Consortium Elects New Board Members & Director of Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    National Advanced Mobility Consortium Elects New Board Members & Director of Operations

    The National Advanced Mobility Consortium has elected three new members to the nonprofit organization’s board of directors. NAMC said Tuesday Christopher Rohe will serve as president of the board of directors, while Michael Ladika and Gerald Lane have been appointed respectively as vice president and treasurer of the manned and unmanned ground vehicle-focused consortium. Rohe serves as senior […] More

  • General Dynamics to Build Ship Monitoring Platforms, Processors Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Build Ship Monitoring Platforms, Processors Under Navy Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics a potential 20-month, $7.2 million contract modification to produce technology insertion-16 Total Ship Monitoring Systems and multipurpose processors. General Dynamics’ mission systems business will perform work in Virginia and Massachusetts through July 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded the cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to exercise […] More