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  • Summit Technical Solutions Lands USAF Contract for Radar Operations & Maintenance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Summit Technical Solutions Lands USAF Contract for Radar Operations & Maintenance

    Summit Technical Solutions has received a potential $35.5 million prime contract from the U.S. Air Force for the operations, maintenance and logistical support of a missile warning and space surveillance phased-array radar system. The contract for work on the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System has a base performance period of seven months starting October and one-year […] More

  • Leidos to Sponsor Army-Navy Soccer Cup; Gerry Fasano Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Sponsor Army-Navy Soccer Cup; Gerry Fasano Comments

    Leidos has entered a three-year agreement with Keystone Sports and Entertainment, owner of soccer club The Philadelphia Union, to become a local presenting sponsor of an annual soccer competition between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. The Army-Navy Cup VI is scheduled to take place on Oct. 15 at the Talen Energy Stadium in Pennsylvania, Leidos said Monday. Gerry […] More

  • Navy Seeks Lead System Integrator Support for AIRWorks Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Seeks Lead System Integrator Support for AIRWorks Division

    The U.S. Navy has released a request for proposals on an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for lead systems integrator support services to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s AIRWorks organization. The contract is structured as a small business set-aside program with an ordering period of five years and includes support for new and existing manned and unmanned aircraft […] More

  • GE to Repair T64 Engine Components Under Potential $81M Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE to Repair T64 Engine Components Under Potential $81M Navy Contract

    General Electric‘s aviation segment has received a one-year, $80.5 million “undefinitized” contract from the U.S. Navy to repair and replace 32 head-of-family items and other components utilized on the T64 engine. The contractor will also provide configuration management support as well as help the service branch meet delivery metrics and operate a T64 logistics management system […] More

  • Navy Taps Boeing, Lockheed for Extra Large UUV Design Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Boeing, Lockheed for Extra Large UUV Design Contracts

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $42.3 million contract to Boeing and a $43.2 million contract to Lockheed Martin to design an extra large unmanned undersea vehicle platform as well as deliver a technical data package. The contracts represent the first phase of the competitive Orca XLUUV acquisition program and include priced options for the project’s second phase, the Defense […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Lands Navy C4ISR Training Support IDIQ; Andy Green Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Lands Navy C4ISR Training Support IDIQ; Andy Green Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ technical solutions division has secured a potential five-year, $43 million contract to provide training support for multiple U.S. Navy tactical systems. HII said Thursday it is one of four contractors selected by the Navy to support training efforts for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems used on tactical afloat shipboard, ashore and submarine platforms. […] More

  • Navy Asks Lockheed to Identify F-35 Air System Cost Reduction Measures - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Asks Lockheed to Identify F-35 Air System Cost Reduction Measures

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has landed a potential $60 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to identify and implement measures to reduce the cost of producing the F-35 air system. The Defense Department said Monday the full obligated amount at the time of award is from Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force aircraft procurement funds. Work […] More

  • Raytheon to Build Replacement Shelters for Navy Surveillance Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Build Replacement Shelters for Navy Surveillance Radar System

    Raytheon has received a potential five-year, $45.4 million contract action to replace current shelters for the transmit array, transmit site monitors and receive site monitors of the U.S. Navy‘s Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar system. The Defense Department said Monday Raytheon will perform contract work in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Virginia and Texas through September 2022. The Naval Supply […] More

  • Vice Adm. Frederick Roegge Named National Defense University President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vice Adm. Frederick Roegge Named National Defense University President

    U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Frederick Roegge, former commander of submarine forces at the U.S. Pacific Fleet, has assumed duties as president of the National Defense University. NDU said Monday Roegge will lead the university’s efforts to train future joint warfighters and national security leaders with the use of whole-of-nations and whole-of-government educational programs, research and engagement activities. […] More

  • General Dynamics Hands Navy's Future USS Colorado Submarine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Hands Navy’s Future USS Colorado Submarine

    The U.S. Navy has accepted a General Dynamics-built Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarine designed to provide the service branch with additional undersea capacities. General Dynamics said Monday that USS Colorado (SSN 788) is the fifth of eight ships under the Block III Virginia-class submarine group. The Naval Sea Systems Command said Thursday that the Block III submarines […] More

  • Raytheon Tests Air & Missile Defense Radar Against Multiple Targets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Tests Air & Missile Defense Radar Against Multiple Targets

    Raytheon has demonstrated a company-made air and missile defense radar against multiple missile targets at the U.S. Navy‘s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. AN/SPY-6(V) worked to simultaneously detect and track a short-range ballistic missile target and multiple anti-ship cruise missile targets during the demonstration, which marks the radar’s third flight test, Raytheon said Friday. Navy Capt. Seiko […] More

  • BAE to Supply 'Friend or Foe' ID Systems for Navy F/A-18 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Supply ‘Friend or Foe’ ID Systems for Navy F/A-18 Aircraft

    BAE Systems‘ information and electronic systems integration unit has received $23.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to supply AN/APX-111 identification friend-or-foe systems for installation on  the F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers up to 142 AN/APX-111 Mode 5 interrogator/transponder devices, 195 Mode 5 upgrade kits, 52 integrations of Mode 5 upgrade […] More