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  • Navy Plans Mobile Gateway Buoy Devt Contract Award to Hydronalix - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Plans Mobile Gateway Buoy Devt Contract Award to Hydronalix

    The U.S. Navy plans to award Hydronalix a potential five-year blanket ordering agreement develop a mobile gateway buoy that can support an unmanned underwater vehicle. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says the company will build a pair of MGB prototypes to the Naval Air Systems Command under the third phase of the service branch’s Small Business Innovation Research program. Hydronalix will […] More

  • General Dynamics to Supply Helicopter Gun Turrets to U.S. Marines, Pakistan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Supply Helicopter Gun Turrets to U.S. Marines, Pakistan

    General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems unit has received a $9.1 million delivery order to manufacture helicopter gun turrets for the U.S. Marine Corps and the government of Pakistan. The order is for 41 A/A49E-7 (V4) gun turrets for integration onto AH-1Z attack helicopters, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD noted the order comprises nearly $6 […] More

  • Navy Taps Boeing-Bell JV for Tiltrotor Aircraft Technical Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Boeing-Bell JV for Tiltrotor Aircraft Technical Support Services

    A Boeing–Bell Helicopter joint venture has secured a potential five-year, $18 million contract to render support services for the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 tiltrotor aircraft fleet. The Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will perform technical analysis, engineering and integration efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work is scheduled to be completed by December 2022 with funds […] More

  • Engility Wins Navy Aircraft Systems Engineering Recompete; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Wins Navy Aircraft Systems Engineering Recompete; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has secured a potential five-year, $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division update the service branch’s naval aircraft systems engineering methods. The company said Tuesday it will support the Navy in efforts to modernize launch, recovery and visual landing equipment and maintain aircraft deployed on Navy ships and at […] More

  • IAP Awarded Navy E-6B Logistics Support Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IAP Awarded Navy E-6B Logistics Support Extension

    IAP Worldwide Services has received a one-year, $58.9 million option under a contract with the U.S. Navy to provide logistics services for the service branch’s E-6B command post and communications aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday the company will its extend logistics and maintenance support for the Boeing-built aircraft’s equipment, weapon systems,  associated support facilities and supporting parties. […] More

  • Northrop to Update Navy H-1 Aircraft Mission Computers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Update Navy H-1 Aircraft Mission Computers

    Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $10.7 million delivery order to help the U.S. Navy update mission computers of the H-1 aircraft fleet. The company will incorporate 54 technical refresh mission computers into the H-1 production line, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The firm-fixed-price order falls under a previously issued basic ordering agreement and work runs […] More

  • Curtiss-Wright Subsidiary to Provide Data Acquisition Hardware for Navy Aircraft Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright Subsidiary to Provide Data Acquisition Hardware for Navy Aircraft Platforms

    A Curtiss-Wright subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $45 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide airborne instrumentation data acquisition hardware and related repair services to the Naval Air Systems Command. Teletronics will supply NAVAIR’s Air Vehicle Modification and Instrumentation Department with data acquisition, solid state recorder, high-speed sampling, signal conditioner and power supply systems designed […] More

  • 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

  • Rockwell Collins Integrates ADS-B Out Software on Navy Aircraft Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Integrates ADS-B Out Software on Navy Aircraft Platforms

    Rockwell Collins has finished integration of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast Out software on three aircraft platforms for the Naval Air Systems Command. The company said Monday it integrated the software on NAVAIR’s C-2A, E2-C and P-3C platforms in an effort to help the command meet the federal government’s ADS-B Out requirements set to take effect by the […] More

  • General Atomics to Build Arresting Gear Test Assets for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Build Arresting Gear Test Assets for Navy

    General Atomics has secured an $11.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce test assets of an arresting gear system the company designed to manage deceleration of carrier-borne aircraft. The company will provide Advanced Arresting Gear test articles for the Navy Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment Program Office’s testing and evaluation efforts at an AAG […] More

  • General Dynamics IT Gets $50M Navy Contract Option for Logistics Support to FMS Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics IT Gets $50M Navy Contract Option for Logistics Support to FMS Customers

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has received a $50 million option under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for logistics support services to multiple foreign military sales customers. The Defense Department said Wednesday GDIT will provide the FMS logistics services in support of the Naval Air Systems Command’s Logistics Management Integration Department. Work will take place in various within and […] More

  • Navy Declares Full Operational Capability for Raytheon's Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Variant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Declares Full Operational Capability for Raytheon’s Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Variant

    The latest variant of Raytheon‘s Joint Standoff Weapon system has received full operational capability designation from the Department of the Navy. JSOW C-1 is designed to help U.S. squadrons engage moving maritime and stationary ground targets through an air-to-ground network, the Naval Air Systems Command said Wednesday. “Formal declaration of full operational capability for JSOW C-1 is the final step in a […] More