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  • Orbital ATK to Help MDA Sustain Trident, Orion Rocket Motors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Help MDA Sustain Trident, Orion Rocket Motors

    Orbital ATK has secured a five-year, $48 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to help sustain Trident I and Orion rocket motors the agency intends to use in target and interceptor vehicles. The company said Wednesday it will provide engineering, test and analysis, motor logistics storage and disposal static test, and flight test motor preparation support under the […] More

  • Northrop to Maintain E-11A Battlefield Airborne Comms Node for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Maintain E-11A Battlefield Airborne Comms Node for Air Force

    Northrop Grumman has won a potential $41.3 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force maintain the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node of the military branch’s Bombardier E-11A aircraft. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop will also provide logistics support for four Bombardier E-11A planes as well as subsystems and support equipment for overseas contingency operations. E-11A […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Installs Final Cockpit Update on Air Force KC-10 Tanker Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Installs Final Cockpit Update on Air Force KC-10 Tanker Fleet

    Rockwell Collins has installed new avionics into the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of KC-10 tanker aircraft as part of a larger effort to bring the fleet to compliance with global standards for communications, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management systems. The company said Thursday the Flight2 integrated avionics system is the 59th and final cockpit update on […] More

  • Mitre Elects Former DoD Official Paul Kaminski to Board of Trustees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Elects Former DoD Official Paul Kaminski to Board of Trustees

    Paul Kaminski, a former Defense Department undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, has joined Mitre‘s board of trustees. The nonprofit said Thursday he currently serves as president and CEO of Technovation, a consulting company that helps clients develop business and investment strategies related to aerospace and defense technology. Jason Providakes, Mitre president and CEO, said Kaminski will contribute […] More

  • Kratos to Produce Aerial Target Systems Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Produce Aerial Target Systems Under Navy Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Kratos Defense & Security Solutions a $34.6 million contract modification for the low-rate initial production of subsonic aerial target drone systems. Kratos said Wednesday the fiscal 2017 LRIP is the first annual production order for the BQM-177A drone system. The company also secured a $2.5 million contractor logistics support contract […] More

  • General Atomics Subsidiary Lands USAF MQ-9 Gen 4 Data Link Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Subsidiary Lands USAF MQ-9 Gen 4 Data Link Contract

    A General Atomics subsidiary has received a $27.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to address diminishing manufacturing sources for the primary data link of MQ-9 Gen 4 Predator remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will perform work under the sole-source contract in Poway, California through Nov. 29, 2019, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

  • Defense Security Service Picks 36 Company Facilities for Industrial Security Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense Security Service Picks 36 Company Facilities for Industrial Security Award

    The Defense Security Service has given the 2017 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award to 36 company facilities for maintaining high standards for industrial security. DSS said Thursday the winning facilities represent various large and small companies such as BAE Systems, Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Camber subsidiary, CGI Group, Concurrent Technologies Corp., General Dynamics, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Modern Technology […] More

  • Strategic Mission Systems to Support Air Force E-4B Fleet Comms Under $73M IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Strategic Mission Systems to Support Air Force E-4B Fleet Comms Under $73M IDIQ

    Strategic Mission Systems has secured a seven-year, $73.1 million contract to provide national and nuclear communications support for the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of E-4B command-and-control aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers management, engineering services, field service representatives, facilities operations and management, software engineering services and material support. Work will occur at Offutt Air Force […] More

  • iGov Mobile Comms System Completes Production Acceptance Test & Evaluation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    iGov Mobile Comms System Completes Production Acceptance Test & Evaluation

    Reston, Virginia-based information technology company iGov has wrapped up production acceptance test and evaluation on its mobile communications system that is designed to support the U.S. Air Force‘s tactical air control party. The company said Thursday the Tactical Air Control Party-Mobile Communications System was tested for more than 200 system requirements such as line-of-sight operations and range for […] More

  • Lockheed Adds Sierra Nevada to Skunk Works JSTARS Recap Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Adds Sierra Nevada to Skunk Works JSTARS Recap Team

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has joined a Lockheed Martin-led industry team that is working on the U.S. Air Force‘s recapitalization effort for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft. Lockheed’s aeronautics business said Tuesday SNC will be part of the Skunk Works JSTARS Recap team and modify the Global 6000 business jet built by teammate Bombardier in efforts to achieve Air […] More