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  • Parsons Secures Contract for Life Cycle Mgmt Support at MDA Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Secures Contract for Life Cycle Mgmt Support at MDA Facilities

    Parsons has landed a $9.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the Missile Defense Agency to provide life cycle management support services for Technical Engineering, Advisory and Management Support facilities. Parsons Government Services will offer advisory and assistance services including facility and infrastructure planning, programming, design, acquisition, construction and configuration management, the Defense Department said Thursday. The company […] More

  • Raytheon, MDA Test Updated Standard Missile-3 Third Stage Rocket Motor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, MDA Test Updated Standard Missile-3 Third Stage Rocket Motor

    Raytheon and the Missile Defense Agency have validated the third stage rocket motor update for the updated Standard Missile-3 Block IB following completion of a flight test. MDA and Raytheon tested the in-flight performance of the SM-3 rocket motor following previous ground tests, the company said Thursday. The updated missile will join the existing missile production line. The […] More

  • Booz Allen to Provide Intelligence, Consulting Support for Missile Defense Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Provide Intelligence, Consulting Support for Missile Defense Agency

    Booz Allen Hamilton has received a potential five-year, $25.2 million contract to provide intelligence support and consulting services to the Missile Defense Agency. The company will work to determine requirements and related products to help MDA’s intelligence requirements division facilitate use of technical engineering and acquisition intelligence in order to sustain the Ballistic Missile Defense System, […] More

  • MDA Tests Lockheed Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 on Navy Destroyer Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Tests Lockheed Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 on Navy Destroyer Ship

    The Missile Defense Agency has collaborated with the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Pacific Command to demonstrate the target detection features of a Lockheed Martin-built Aegis weapon system installed on the USS John Paul Jones guided-missile destroyer. MDA said Tuesday the Aegis Baseline 9.C1 Weapon System worked to detect and track a medium-range ballistic missile target that was launched from the Pacific […] More

  • Lockheed, Indra Demo First-Phase Integration of Radar System for Spain's F-110 Frigate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Indra Demo First-Phase Integration of Radar System for Spain’s F-110 Frigate

    Lockheed Martin and Indra have tested a new solid-state, S-band radar system at a facility in New Jersey as part of the first phase of integration ahead of the platform’s installation on Spain’s future F-110 frigate. The team combined Indra’s Digital Transmit-Receive modules with Lockheed’s solid-state phased array antenna to check their mechanical, electrical and thermal compatibility, Lockheed said Tuesday. The […] More

  • First European Aegis Ashore Site in Romania Begins Missile Threat Monitoring Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    First European Aegis Ashore Site in Romania Begins Missile Threat Monitoring Functions

    The first European Aegis Ashore site has begun scanning for potential ballistic missile threats in the skies of southern Europe. The inauguration of the Aegis Ashore site at Deveselu air base in Romania — which utilizes Lockheed Martin‘s Aegis Combat System — completes phase two of the European Phased Adaptive Approach for allied ballistic missile defense, the company said Thursday. Brendan […] More

  • Missile Defense Agency Taps ManTech for Counterintelligence Program Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Missile Defense Agency Taps ManTech for Counterintelligence Program Support

    ManTech International has won a potential five-year, $32.1 million contract to provide advisory and assistance services for the Missile Defense Agency‘s counterintelligence programs. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will support counterintelligence missions and functional areas covered by the DoD Directive 5240.02. ManTech will work to help MDA detect, identify, exploit and work to neutralize intelligence collection efforts against agency personnel, data, facilities, material, […] More

  • Mabbett & Associates to Support MDA's Environmental Compliance Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mabbett & Associates to Support MDA’s Environmental Compliance Efforts

    Mabbett & Associates has been awarded a $15.4 million contract to provide environmental management advisory and technical assistance services to the Missile Defense Agency. The Defense Department said Friday the company will help MDA develop a comprehensive environmental planning, compliance and sustainability framework for its Ballistic Missile Defense System and other emerging weapon programs. Work will take place in Huntsville, […] More

  • MDA to Supply Grapple Fixtures for Japan Space Robotic Arm, Experiment Module - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA to Supply Grapple Fixtures for Japan Space Robotic Arm, Experiment Module

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a contract from Japan’s national space agency to provide grapple fixtures that will work to support connections between the Japanese Experiment Module support equipment and the JEM Robotic Manipulator System. MDA said Tuesday the grapple fixtures are designed to operate with JEMRMS and some of its payloads as the robotic arm supports the JEM […] More

  • Biff Lyons: Parsons Extends Missile Defense Tech Integration Support for MDA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Biff Lyons: Parsons Extends Missile Defense Tech Integration Support for MDA

    Parsons aims to help the Missile Defense Agency implement and transition all three elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System into U.S. military organizations as part of a five-year, $60 million contract the company won in late March. “This contract is a natural extension of the work we have been performing for the MDA for decades,” Biff Lyons, executive vice president […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Hands THAAD Missile Booster Motor, Control System to MDA; Eileen Drake Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Hands THAAD Missile Booster Motor, Control System to MDA; Eileen Drake Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has transported a new batch of booster motors and Divert and Attitude Control Systems to the Missile Defense Agency for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The company said Thursday it delivered the 300th booster motor and the DACS propulsion system to MDA through THAAD builder Lockheed Martin. The booster motor technology works to power the THAAD […] More

  • MDA to Continue Satellite Information Support to CLS & ScanEx Under Contract Extensions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA to Continue Satellite Information Support to CLS & ScanEx Under Contract Extensions

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates will continue to provide RADARSAT-2 satellite information for Collecte Localisation Satellites and ScanEX Research and Development Centre through February 2017 and December 2019 respectively via two contract amendments. MDA said Wednesday CLS uses RADARSAT-2 imaging to monitor and detect illegal fishing vessels around the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean while ScanEX requires satellite information to monitor ice […] More