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  • Lockheed Unveils New Colorado Site for Autonomous Systems Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils New Colorado Site for Autonomous Systems Business

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new location for its autonomous systems business unit to support the development of autonomous technologies for military customers, Denver Business Journal reported Wednesday. Greg Avery writes the new industrial space in Littleton, Colorado, can accommodate more than 100 employees and will support projects related to self-driving ground vehicles, drones as well as […] More

  • DISA Files Notice of Corrective Action With GAO Over Army Artillery Data System Contract Award to Leidos - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Files Notice of Corrective Action With GAO Over Army Artillery Data System Contract Award to Leidos

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has submitted a dismissal request and notice of corrective action to the Government Accountability Office after two companies protested the award of a contract to Leidos for a new joint and coalition command-and-control fires support platform, Defense News reported Thursday. A spokesman for DISA said the agency will release a public […] More

  • Former Commerce Dept Cybersecurity Adviser Clete Johnson Joins Wilkinson Barker Knauer as Partner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Commerce Dept Cybersecurity Adviser Clete Johnson Joins Wilkinson Barker Knauer as Partner

    Clete Johnson, former senior adviser for cybersecurity and technology to Commerce Department Secretary Penny Pritzker, has joined law firm Wilkinson Barker Knauer as a partner. The firm said Wednesday Johnson will be based at its Washington, D.C., office and bring experience from his work in the federal government, the national security and intelligence communities and the private […] More

  • Chris Devens Joins ACT I as Business Devt Director; Michael Niggel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Devens Joins ACT I as Business Devt Director; Michael Niggel Comments

    Chris Devens, formerly operations and business development director at Camber Corp., has been appointed director of business development at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International. He brings more than 30 years of military operations and program management experience to his new position and aims to help the company identify new business opportunities, establish customer relationships and support the firm’s capture and proposal […] More

  • Orbital ATK Books $50M DoD Non-U.S. Standard Ammo Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Books $50M DoD Non-U.S. Standard Ammo Order

    The U.S. government has awarded Orbital ATK a new $50 million order to produce non-U.S. standard ammunition for the Defense Department and its international allies. Orbital ATK said Monday it has booked more than $200 million in NSA orders during 2016 as part of previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity and basic ordering agreement contracts. The company operates the U.S. Army‘s Lake City Ammunition Plant in Independence, […] More

  • Orbital ATK Subsidiary Secures Army 120-Millimeter Tank Ammo Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Subsidiary Secures Army 120-Millimeter Tank Ammo Contract Option

    The U.S. Army has exercised a $45.6 million option on a previously awarded contract to an Orbital ATK subsidiary for the supply of 120-millimeter tank rounds with tracer cartridges. Orbital ATK’s Alliant Tech Systems Operations subsidiary will conduct work under the phase 2 engineering, manufacturing and development contract at multiple locations  through July 23, 2019, the Defense […] More

  • L3 Business Unit to Supply Army Hydromechanical Transmission Systems, Ancillary Hardware - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Business Unit to Supply Army Hydromechanical Transmission Systems, Ancillary Hardware

    A business unit of L3 Technologies has been awarded a $33.1 million contract modification to supply 96 hydro-mechanically propelled transmission systems to the U.S. Army. L3’s combat propulsion systems business will also provide 800-horsepower transmissions, associated ancillary hardware and operational reliability support under the modification, the Defense Department said Thursday Work will occur in Muskegon, Michigan, through Oct. 18, 2018. The […] More

  • DoD Solicits Proposals for Missile-Launched Quadcopter Swarm Payload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Solicits Proposals for Missile-Launched Quadcopter Swarm Payload

    The Defense Department has begun to solicit proposals for the development of a missile-launched payload comprised of multiple quadcopters. DoD said in a notice posted Nov. 30 on the Small Business Innovation Research program’s website the project aims to produce a swarm of smart quadcopters that will work to deliver explosively formed penetrators to various targets in support of the […] More

  • L3 Gets Army FMS Contract Modification for M783 Mortar Fuzes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Gets Army FMS Contract Modification for M783 Mortar Fuzes

    The U.S. Army has awarded L3 Technologies a $32 million contract modification to supply M783 Point Detonating/Delay mortar fuzes to an international customer as part of a foreign military sales deal. L3 said Thursday its fuzing and ordnance systems unit will perform work under the modification through February 2018. Rich Hunter, L3 FOS president, said the company […] More

  • Former SPAWAR Europe Director Jim Condon Named Principal at Deep Water Point's German Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former SPAWAR Europe Director Jim Condon Named Principal at Deep Water Point’s German Office

    Jim Condon, former vice president for business development at TRICON Defense International and a former director at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Europe, has been appointed as a principal for Deep Water Point‘s new office in Germany. Deep Water Point said Wednesday Condon will work to boost visibility of Europe-based activities for U.S.-owned and European […] More

  • Diligent Consulting to Support Air Force Logistics Data Security Module Implementation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Diligent Consulting to Support Air Force Logistics Data Security Module Implementation

    Diligent Consulting has been awarded a $1.6 million contract to support the implementation of a U.S. Air Force module within the U.S. Army‘s existing web-based Information Security Systems Program Application. The company said Friday it will provide engineering, logistics and technical support services for the Communications Secure and Controlled Cryptographic Items Accountability and Tracking Tool program. The module will work to deliver […] More