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  • Navy Awards BAE Unit $76M Air Expendable Countermeasures Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Awards BAE Unit $76M Air Expendable Countermeasures Delivery Order

    A business unit of BAE Systems has received a potential $75.9 million delivery order to manufacture T-1687/ALE-70(V) electronic warfare devices as part of the U.S. Navy‘s PMA272 Air Expendable Countermeasures program. The Defense Department said Wednesday BAE’s information and electronic systems integration unit will produce the countermeasures designed to protect aircraft from radio frequency and infrared […] More

  • Lockheed to Help Establish F-35 Bases for US, Foreign Military Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Help Establish F-35 Bases for US, Foreign Military Clients

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has received a $43.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to support the standup of F-35 bases at multiple sites. The Defense Department said Friday the modification covers labor, interim contractor support and sustainment program management services to the global fighter aircraft program. Work will occur through January 2019 in Florida, Texas, South Carolina and California. The […] More

  • Report: Lockheed to Unveil New CH-53K Helicopter at Berlin Air Show - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed to Unveil New CH-53K Helicopter at Berlin Air Show

    Lockheed Martin has obtained approval from the U.S. military to demonstrate its new CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter at an April 2018 air show in Berlin, Germany, Reuters reported Thursday. Anonymous sources told Reuters that the event will mark the international debut of the Sikorsky-built helicopter, which will compete with Boeing‘s CH-47 Chinook twin-rotor platform for a potential $4.7 billion […] More

  • CSRA to Help Modernize Seahawk Helicopters of Navy, Foreign Military Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Help Modernize Seahawk Helicopters of Navy, Foreign Military Clients

    CSRA has received a $38.5 million task order from the U.S. Navy to help update various models of the H-60 Seahawk multimission helicopter. The company said Wednesday the order was issued under the Rapid Response–Third Generation contract vehicle and includes support for Seahawk helicopters of the Navy and foreign military sales customers. CSRA will work to design, fabricate, […] More

  • Bell Boeing-Built Osprey Fleet Surpasses 400K Flight Hours - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Boeing-Built Osprey Fleet Surpasses 400K Flight Hours

    The fleet of V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, produced by a joint venture of Boeing and Textron‘s Bell Helicopter subsidiary, has recorded more than 400,000 flight hours to date. Bell Boeing-built V-22s have supported theater security cooperation, casualty evacuation, tactical aircraft and personnel recovery, disaster response and VIP transport operations worldwide, Boeing said Tuesday. The U.S. Marine Corps has used the […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Delivers Mission Computer Systems for Marine Corps Helicopter Upgrade Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Delivers Mission Computer Systems for Marine Corps Helicopter Upgrade Program

    Northrop Grumman has supplied its mission computer system to the U.S. Marine Corps in support of the service branch’s H-1 helicopter upgrade program. The company said Thursday the Tech Refresh Mission Computer was fielded onboard the UH-1Y and AH-1Z aircraft as part of the upgrade program which aims to replace UH-1N and AH-1W helicopters with […] More

  • Dave Buss: Cubic to Assist Marine Corps in Warfighting Skills Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Buss: Cubic to Assist Marine Corps in Warfighting Skills Training

    Cubic‘s global defense business will provide a range of training services to the U.S. Marine Corps under a six-month, $11.5 million contract. The company said Thursday it will support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force’s Training Systems Support program that covers Marine warfighting training; command post exercises; battle staff training; mission rehearsal exercises; and mobile command, control, communication and computers […] More

  • Cubic Defense Segment Awarded Marine Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Defense Segment Awarded Marine Training Support Contract

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has received an $11.6 million contract to provide training systems support for U.S. Marine Corps‘ air-ground task force. The Defense Department said Thursday MTSS will utilize a computer-based simulation platform designed to train Marines in the command, control, computers, communications, intelligence, surveillance, staff training and reconnaissance areas. DoD added the program will also cover MAGTF tactical warfare training and […] More

  • Black Box to Update Marine Base Telecom Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Black Box to Update Marine Base Telecom Architecture

    The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded Black Box a potential $4.8 million contract to modernize a telecommunication network architecture at the service branch’s air station in North Carolina. Black Box said Wednesday it will update the architecture at MCAS Cherry Point into a unified communications platform as part of the Marine Corps’ efforts to modernize its command, control, communications, computing and […] More

  • Army Invites Firms, Agencies to Participate in C4ISR/EW Interoperatbility Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Invites Firms, Agencies to Participate in C4ISR/EW Interoperatbility Initiative

    The U.S. Army has issued a special notice inviting non-members to join the Vehicular Integration for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance/Electronic Warfare interoperability program. According to a notice published Tuesday on the FedBizOpps website, the initial set of VICTORY standard specifications have started to be implemented on commercial vendors, U.S. Army and Marine […] More

  • Johns Hopkins Laser Communications Platform Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins Laser Communications Platform Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been recognized at the 2017 Defense Innovation Summit in Tampa, Florida for its high-bandwidth, free space optical communications system. The APL laser communications system landed TechConnect‘s defense innovation award which recognizes potential benefits of technologies to national and warfighter security, Johns Hopkins said Tuesday. JHUAPL also had an opportunity […] More