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  • ULA's Delta IV Rocket Launches 9th Boeing-Built WGS Military Comms Satellite Into Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Delta IV Rocket Launches 9th Boeing-Built WGS Military Comms Satellite Into Space

    United Launch Alliance launched a Boeing-built satellite into orbit Saturday aboard a Delta IV rocket to provide military communications support for the U.S. military and six of the country’s allies. The ninth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite with  updated digital channelizers that are designed to nearly double the bandwidth of earlier satellites in the WGS system, Boeing said Saturday. Boeing is contracted to build 10 WGS […] More

  • Vectrus Unit Secures Recompete Contract for Maxwell AFB Base Operations Support; Chuck Prow Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vectrus Unit Secures Recompete Contract for Maxwell AFB Base Operations Support; Chuck Prow Comments

    A Vectrus subsidiary has secured a $37 million recompete contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide base operations support services at the Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base in Alabama. The company said Friday Vectrus Systems‘ contract covers support for foreign object damage, transient and static display maintenance; resource management; communications and information technology; publishing; installation management and […] More

  • Mythics to Deploy Oracle Products, Services to Virginia's Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mythics to Deploy Oracle Products, Services to Virginia’s Public Sector

    Mythics has received a contract from Virginia’s information technologies agency to deploy a range of Oracle products and services to various public organizations across the state. The contract is intended to give participating agencies in Virginia a streamlined acquisition process for Oracle database, applications, support, maintenance, training and professional service offerings, Mythics said Wednesday. Doug Altamura, executive vice […] More

  • Report: Air Force Will Invite Companies to Demo Light Attack Aircraft This Summer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force Will Invite Companies to Demo Light Attack Aircraft This Summer

    Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, the U.S. Air Force‘s military deputy for acquisition, has said the service branch could formally invite companies on Friday to join a light-attack aircraft demonstration in the summer, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Oriana Pawlyk writes Bunch told reporters that the military service aims to keep the OA-X light attack program “as broad as we can so […] More

  • Leidos' RPA Operations Center Receives AFA Recognition; Mike Hile Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ RPA Operations Center Receives AFA Recognition; Mike Hile Comments

    The Air Force Association’s Martin H. Harris Chapter has recognized Leidos for its efforts to support armed unmanned aerial vehicle systems through a remotely piloted aircraft operations center. Leidos said Tuesday the association also designated the company-operated RPA ROC as a Jimmy Doolittle Educational Fellow. The company used the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s risk management framework to install […] More

  • Air Force Kicks Off F-22 Weapon Software, Hardware Upgrades - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Kicks Off F-22 Weapon Software, Hardware Upgrades

    The U.S. Air Force has begun to update weapons software and hardware systems as well as sensors aboard the Lockheed Martin-built F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft, Defense Systems reported Tuesday. Kris Osborn writes that 1st Lt. Carrie Volpe, action officer for the Air Combat Command Public Affairs, said the service branch will begin to integrate the […] More

  • Honeywell to Help Implement Energy Efficiency Systems at Los Angeles AF Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell to Help Implement Energy Efficiency Systems at Los Angeles AF Base

    The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army have partnered with Honeywell to implement renewable energy measures and energy efficiency improvements at Los Angeles Air Force Base as part of a 23-year energy savings performance contract. Honeywell said it will install 3,400 rooftop solar photovoltaic modules designed to generate approximately 1,275 kilowatts of power in four buildings at the military base […] More

  • General Dynamics Orders Rocket Illuminating Flares From Orbital ATK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Orders Rocket Illuminating Flares From Orbital ATK

    Orbital ATK has secured a contract modification from General Dynamics‘ ordnance and tactical systems business to supply visible and infrared illuminating flares for Hydra-70 rockets. The follow-on order is meant to address the U.S. government’s requirement for M257 and M278 rocket warheads that work to provide tactical illumination in visible and infrared spectra, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. General Dynamics awarded Orbital […] More

  • Boeing to Continue Sustainment Work on South Korea's F-15 Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Continue Sustainment Work on South Korea’s F-15 Jets

    Boeing has been awarded a five-year contract to extend the company’s ongoing sustainment efforts for the F-15K aircraft fleet of South Korea. The company said Monday it aims to help the country’s air force to boost its F-15K aircraft readiness through the contract. Tim Buerk, Boeing’s director of F-15 sustainment in the Far East region and the U.S., said […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order

    Lockheed Martin has secured a two-year, $64.7 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to perform work on integrated core processor of the company-built F-35 fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday Lockheed will help address manufacturing sources constraints projected under F-35 Lot 15 production in support of the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and international partners. […] More

  • Boeing Taps Rockwell Collins to Supply KC-46A Tanker Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Taps Rockwell Collins to Supply KC-46A Tanker Systems

    Rockwell Collins has been chosen to provide integrated flight displays, communications, navigation, surveillance, networking and flight control systems for KC-46A tankers that Boeing will build for the U.S. Air Force. Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins said Wednesday its Remote Vision System  comprises two- and three-dimensional vision technologies that will work to aid the KC-46A aircraft’s refueling function. RVS is designed to […] More

  • QinetiQ NA to Develop Wind Measurement Radar for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ NA to Develop Wind Measurement Radar for Air Force

    QinetiQ North America has been awarded a $3 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force design and build an airborne wind profiling portable radar prototype. QNA said Wednesday the WiPPR unit will be designed to demonstrate wind measurement in near real-time. The Air Force will use the radar to help the service branch’s C-130 and C-17 aircrews drop supplies accurately to […] More