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  • Lockheed to Support F-35, Bomb Tech Maturation & Risk Reduction Efforts Under Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Support F-35, Bomb Tech Maturation & Risk Reduction Efforts Under Navy Contract

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has been awarded a $34.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to conduct weapons technology maturation and risk reduction efforts under the F-35 fighter aircraft and Small Diameter Bomb 2 programs. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will support F-35 and SDB II pre-engineering, manufacturing and development activities for the U.S. Marine […] More

  • Leidos Gets 100% Score in Workplace Equality Survey; Ann Addison Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Gets 100% Score in Workplace Equality Survey; Ann Addison Comments

    Leidos has scored 100 percent in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s national benchmarking survey on workplace policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer employees. The company said Thursday it received the “Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality” designation due to its perfect score on HRC’s 2018 Corporate Equality Index. Ann Addison, […] More

  • Eaton's Revathi Advaithi to Join BAE Board as Non-Executive Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eaton’s Revathi Advaithi to Join BAE Board as Non-Executive Director

    Revathi Advaithi, chief operating officer of Eaton‘s electronic sector, has been appointed to serve as a non-executive director of the board of directors at BAE Systems beginning Jan. 1, 2018. BAE said Wednesday she oversees Eaton’s global electrical business and corporate operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Advaithi joined the power management company in 1995 as a manufacturing supervisor […] More

  • North Star Scientific Secures Navy Support Contract for Info Distribution System Amplifier Replacement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    North Star Scientific Secures Navy Support Contract for Info Distribution System Amplifier Replacement

    North Star Scientific has secured a $14 million contract to provide a range of support services for the replacement of a high-power amplifier for a U.S. Navy data communications platform. The contract covers design, engineering development, fabrication and prototype testing on the new 1,000-watt amplifier for the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The replacement […] More

  • DynCorp Gets State Dept Info Resource Mgmt Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp Gets State Dept Info Resource Mgmt Task Order

    DynCorp International will provide information resource management services to the State Department under a potential five-year, $52.8 million task order. The order represents the ninth issued under DynCorp’s Afghanistan Life Support Services contract and contains a one-year base period that commenced Aug. 14, the company said Wednesday. Services covered by the order include internet, television broadcasting and […] More

  • Raytheon to Support Risk Mitigation Efforts for Australia's $1.5B Air Defense Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Support Risk Mitigation Efforts for Australia’s $1.5B Air Defense Project

    Raytheon has received a $9.3 million contract from Australia’s defense department to support the first phase of a $1.54 billion air defense project. The department said Wednesday Raytheon’s Australian arm will conduct a year-long risk mitigation activity for the country’s future Short Range Ground Based Air Defense system. Christopher Pyne, Australian minister for defense industry, said risk mitigation efforts […] More

  • NASA Reschedules NOAA Polar Satellite Launch for Nov. 14 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Reschedules NOAA Polar Satellite Launch for Nov. 14

    NASA has pushed back the target launch date for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s next weather satellite at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Joint Polar Satellite System-1 is now scheduled to lift off Nov. 14 at 4:47 a.m. Eastern time aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta II rocket, NASA said Thursday. JPSS-1 was originally slated to […] More

  • Navy Posts Transducer IDIQ Solicitation Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Posts Transducer IDIQ Solicitation Plans

    The U.S. Navy‘s Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division has announced plans to solicit bids for an upcoming indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for  transducers,  connectors and boots. NUWCD said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday it looks for a contractor to design, manufacture, test, package and deliver TR-232C first article and production transducers. TR-232C is essential to systems on the military branch’s all […] More

  • Thales Alenia Space Deploys 'Collaborative' Robots to Aid Satellite Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Alenia Space Deploys ‘Collaborative’ Robots to Aid Satellite Production

    Thales Alenia Space has begun to operate company-developed “collaborative” robots to support satellite production efforts alongside human employees at two separate facilities. The company said Wednesday its Collaborative Robot Addressed To Operative Solutions platform is currently deployed at a plant in L’Aquila, Italy, while the Saphir robot is located at a facility in Cannes, France. CRATOS works to […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Partners With Abu Dhabi Ship Building to Support Gulf Region - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Partners With Abu Dhabi Ship Building to Support Gulf Region

    Rolls-Royce has signed a partnership with Abu Dhabi Ship Building to provide shipbuilding, repair and refit services in support of the Gulf region. Rolls-Royce said Monday partnership will cover fixed service rates for onsite service attendance;  turnkey repair projects; spare parts; and technical and commercial support for ADSB employees on Rolls-Royce waterjets. Leo Pantazopoulos, a senior vice president for Asia and Middle East Marine […] More

  • BAE Systems Taps Marand to Manufacture Turret Shells for Australia's Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Taps Marand to Manufacture Turret Shells for Australia’s Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle Program

    BAE Systems has awarded Marand a potential $11.5 million contract to produce turret shells in support of the former’s bid for the Land 400 combat reconnaissance vehicle program in Australia. The turret shells for BAE Systems and Patria‘s AMV35 combat reconnaissance vehicle offering are common for Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the program and […] More

  • Collab9 to Deploy Unified Comms Platform for CBP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collab9 to Deploy Unified Comms Platform for CBP

    Collab9 will deploy its unified communications-as-a-service platform for the Customs and Border Protection as part of a contract awarded to collab9’s partner company Presidio. The award — issued through the EAGLE II procurement vehicle — requires Presidio to perform professional, managed and ongoing support services such as strategy, consulting, design and implementation support, collab9 said Wednesday. Collab9’s cloud-based […] More