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  • BAE Unit to Modernize USS Bataan Amphibious Assault Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit to Modernize USS Bataan Amphibious Assault Ship

    BAE Systems‘ Norfolk Ship Repair business has secured a potential $45.8 delivery order to maintain, repair and modernize the U.S. Navy‘s amphibious assault ship USS Bataan. Norfolk Ship Repair will execute phased maintenance availability of the vessel also called LHD 5 at a facility in Virginia and is scheduled to complete work in July 2018, the Defense Department said Thursday . The Navy […] More

  • Robert Work Named CNAS Senior Fellow for Defense, National Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Work Named CNAS Senior Fellow for Defense, National Security

    Robert Work, former deputy secretary of the Defense Department, has returned to the Center for a New American Security as distinguished senior fellow for defense and national security. CNAS said Wednesday Work will support research initiatives, advise future national security leaders and contribute to discussions on the modern threat landscape and the future force. He led […] More

  • Lockheed's Sikorsky to Produce Helicopter Tail Rotor Blades for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Sikorsky to Produce Helicopter Tail Rotor Blades for Navy

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has received a potential $38.7 million order to supply tail rotor blades for the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of CH/MH-53E helicopters. Sikorsky is scheduled to complete deliveries under the firm-fixed-price, sole-source order by Sept. 30, 2023, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Defense Logistics Agency‘s aviation unit is the contracting activity. MH-53E is based […] More

  • Raytheon to Develop Incremental Software for Air Force AIM-120D Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Develop Incremental Software for Air Force AIM-120D Missiles

    Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $38.6 million contract to develop  incremental software that will work to increase the performance of the U.S. Air Force‘s  advanced medium-range air-to-air missile system. The company will provide AIM-120D AMRAAM software to the military branch as part of the System Improvement Program 3- Engineering Manufacturing, Development program,  the Defense Department […] More

  • Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ

    Rocky Research has landed a five-year, $49.1 million contract to supply the U.S. Navy with navigation and ship control system hardware components. The company will perform contract work in Huntsville, Alabama through September 2022, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division is the contracting office and will obligate $137,559 at the […] More

  • Black Hills Ammunition Secures Navy Special Ball, Long Range Ammo IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Black Hills Ammunition Secures Navy Special Ball, Long Range Ammo IDIQ

    Black Hills Ammunition has won a potential five-year, $49.9 million contract from to supply the U.S. Navy with 5.56mm special ball, long range ammunition rounds. The Defense Department said Friday the Navy will deploy the weapons to support various operations of U.S. forces overseas. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also includes foreign military sales to the government of Jordan. […] More

  • Curtiss-Wright to Supply Propulsion Plant Valves for Navy Submarines, Aircraft Carriers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright to Supply Propulsion Plant Valves for Navy Submarines, Aircraft Carriers

    Curtiss-Wright has received a $49 million contract to manufacture propulsion plant valves for the U.S. Navy‘s Ford-class aircraft carriers and Virginia-class attack submarines. The contract with Bechtel Plant Machinery covers fiscal 2017 orders for propulsion plant valves and supports construction of both submarine and aircraft carrier classes, Curtiss-Wright said Thursday. Work will be performed in New York and is […] More

  • Lockheed-Fincantieri Marinette Marine Team Supports Navy USS Little Rock LCS Acceptance Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Fincantieri Marinette Marine Team Supports Navy USS Little Rock LCS Acceptance Trials

    An alliance between Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine has helped the U.S. Navy Board of Inspection and Survey perform acceptance trials on the service branch’s future Freedom-variant littoral combat ship. Lockheed said Thursday that USS Little Rock, the Navy’s fifth Freedom-class LCS, completed the five-day trials in port and at sea to demonstrate its […] More

  • Honeywell Gets $65M Modification on Navy Aircraft Power Tech Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Gets $65M Modification on Navy Aircraft Power Tech Support Contract

    Honeywell International has been awarded a $64.9 million contract modification to repair, replace and provide program support for auxiliary power units of the U.S. Navy’s  F/A-18 A/G, P-3 and C-2 auxiliary power units. The company will also support F/A-18 main fuel controls and electronic control technology and P-3 engine driven compressor, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD said the modification will increase […] More

  • ManTech to Support Navy Aircraft Safety Testing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Support Navy Aircraft Safety Testing

    ManTech International has secured a potential $39.6 million contract to help the Naval Air Systems Command integrate, diagnose and test safety hazards associated with aircraft systems. The company said Thursday it will provide reliability, maintainability and system safety services for US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft and subsystems under the contract. Work covers the full life cycle of naval […] More

  • Lockheed Gets $72M Contract Modification for Navy Submarine EW Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets $72M Contract Modification for Navy Submarine EW Equipment

    Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business has received a $71.5 million undefinitized contract action modification to deliver electronic warfare equipment for the U.S. Navy‘s Virginia-class attack submarines. The Naval Sea Systems Command obligated $34.6 million at the time of award from the service branch’s procurement, shipbuilding and conversion funds in fiscal years 2016 and […] More

  • Navy, MDA Launch Raytheon SM-6 Missiles Using Lockheed's Aegis Combat System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, MDA Launch Raytheon SM-6 Missiles Using Lockheed’s Aegis Combat System

    The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency have test-fired two Raytheon-made Standard Missile-6 Dual I missiles using the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis Combat System  installed on the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones. Lockheed said Wednesday its Aegis platform helped the SM-6 missile detect, track and intercept a ballistic missile target in flight during the Flight Test Standard Missile–27 Event 2. […] More