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  • DynCorp Lands $54M Navy Aircraft Maintenance, Crew Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp Lands $54M Navy Aircraft Maintenance, Crew Support Contract

    DynCorp International has won a potential $53.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to help the Naval Test Wing Pacific maintain different types of aircraft and support aircrew. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide organizational-level maintenance and logistics support services for the Navy’s P-3 Orion, C-130 Hercules, F/A-18 Hornet, E/A-18 Growler, AV-8B Harrier […] More

  • NuRAN Subsidiary to Supply NAVAIR With Software-Base Radio Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NuRAN Subsidiary to Supply NAVAIR With Software-Base Radio Tech

    A NuRAN Wireless subsidiary has received a contract to provide a software-defined radio technology to a Naval Air Systems Command division that maintains a weapons development center of excellence for the U.S. Navy. Nutaq Innovations will deliver the PicoSDR 8×8 radio system to NAVAIR’s Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in Point Mugu, California, NuRAN said Thursday. […] More

  • Leidos Eyes Work to Update Navy's Combat Environment Instrumentation Systems; Tim Reardon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Eyes Work to Update Navy’s Combat Environment Instrumentation Systems; Tim Reardon Comments

    Leidos will work to provide research, development, sustainment and other services in support of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s Combat Environment Instrumentation Systems through a potential $198 million multi-award contract the U.S. Navy awarded in March. The company said Thursday the contract also covers instrumentation delivery and updates as well as hardware and software engineering services for CEIS in use […] More

  • Navy Solicits Proposals for Cybersecurity Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Solicits Proposals for Cybersecurity Support Services

    The U.S. Navy‘s Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division has begun to solicit proposals from interested vendors for a range of cybersecurity support services. NAWCWD plans to award a five-year, single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to aid the analysis, design, development, test, integration, deployment and operations of information technology systems and services, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday. […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Completes 2 Flight Tests on Laser-Guided Munitions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Completes 2 Flight Tests on Laser-Guided Munitions

    Lockheed Martin has completed a demonstration of the new linear optics, guidance system and control actuation system of its Dual Mode Plus laser-guided bomb during two flight tests held at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in California. The tests featured two Mk-82 inert warheads that were released from an F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft to engage fixed targets, the company said Monday. Lockheed […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Supply Parts, Equipment for Navy Electronic Warfare System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Supply Parts, Equipment for Navy Electronic Warfare System

    Rockwell Collins has received a $24.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide various equipment for the AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid Tiger Electronic Attack System. Rockwell Collins will deliver roughly 194 Quint Networking Technology radios and 379 hardware parts and perform 36,482 hours of incidental equipment modification services for the precision pods, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Navy Taps Toyon Research Corp. to Provide Electronic Warfare Hardware, Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Toyon Research Corp. to Provide Electronic Warfare Hardware, Engineering Services

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Toyon Research Corp. a potential five-year, $22.8 million contract to provide to produce AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid  Tiger II pod system hardware. Toyon will also provide AN/ALQ-231 incidental engineering and modification services for electronic warfare and attack communications jamming airborne and ground-based systems and laboratories, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division obligated […] More

  • Deloitte to Provide Analysis Support for NAVAIR Weapons Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte to Provide Analysis Support for NAVAIR Weapons Division

    The U.S. Army has granted Deloitte Consulting a four-year, $9 million contract to provide enterprise value map, value chain and governance performance analysis for the Naval Air Warfare Center weapons division. Deloitte will conduct analysis in support of project management, executive consulting, business improvements, sustainment, process design and other areas, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The company will perform work […] More

  • Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy

    Harris subsidiary Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $12.3 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide engineering services and software support equipment for multiple airborne countermeasure systems. The Defense Department said Monday Exelis will support the Navy’s AN/ALQ-165 self-protection jammers, AN/ALQ-214 integrated defensive electronic countermeasures as well as the service branch’s aircraft self-protection and software modernization projects. […] More

  • Navy Picks Global Technical Systems to Supply RF Countermeasure Hardware Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks Global Technical Systems to Supply RF Countermeasure Hardware Components

    Global Technical Systems has secured a $7.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the procurement of as many as 12,275 hardware components to be used for the Technique Control Modulator Hydra. The Defense Department said Wednesday the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division will obligate $55,498 from the U.S. Air Force‘s fiscal 2015 missile procurement and fiscal 2016 […] More

  • Navy Taps Textron Subsidiary to Update EW Systems Integration Testbed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Textron Subsidiary to Update EW Systems Integration Testbed

    A subsidiary of Textron (NYSE: TXT) has received a potential five-year, $49.8 million contract to modernize a technology platform that the U.S. Navy uses to conduct electronic warfare systems integration tests. AAI Corp. will perform EW systems integration test environment upgrades for the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s electronic combat simulation and evaluation laboratory, the Defense Department said […] More

  • Navy Test-Fires Orbital ATK AARG Missile from F/A-18F Super Hornet; Bill Kasting Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Test-Fires Orbital ATK AARG Missile from F/A-18F Super Hornet; Bill Kasting Comments

    The U.S. Navy has test-fired an Orbital ATK-built Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile against a moving ship at Point Mugu Sea Range in California. Orbital ATK said Wednesday the service branch launched the AGM-88E AARGM system from an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet during the first Block 1 upgrade test held on Aug. 18. The test sought […] More