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  • Michael Gray Talks SAIC-Led Team’s Efforts on Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Gray Talks SAIC-Led Team’s Efforts on Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Prototype

    Michael Gray, a senior director at Science Applications International Corp., has said the company has worked on 10 various directives to come up with an experimental combat vehicle prototype for the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, National Defense reported Friday. A SAIC-led industry team received a potential eight-year, $237M contract in […] More

  • Raytheon-Saab Team to Demo Guided Munition Tech Under Army Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Saab Team to Demo Guided Munition Tech Under Army Contract

    The team of Raytheon and Saab has secured a contract from the U.S. Army to demonstrate a new guided munition technology for the man-portable, shoulder-launched Carl-Gustaf weapon system. Both companies plan to conduct firing tests of the guided munition in 2020 as part of efforts to address U.S. Special Operations Command’s requirement for an updated multirole weapon, Raytheon said Friday. The partnership intends […] More

  • Oshkosh to Install Autonomous Tech on Army Resupply Vehicles in Early 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh to Install Autonomous Tech on Army Resupply Vehicles in Early 2019

    Oshkosh’s defense business will begin to install by-wire active safety kit on 60 of the U.S. Army’s Palletized Load System vehicles in early 2019 under the service’s Expedient Leader Follower program. C4ISRNET reported Monday. The company aims to complete the installation on time to allow the federal government to perform an operational task demonstration of […] More

  • Army Seeks Potential Acquisition Consulting Service Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Potential Acquisition Consulting Service Sources

    The Army Contracting Command seeks information on potential industry providers of consulting services to the U.S. Army in the acquisition, logistics, science and technology areas. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the market research effort seeks to identify a contractor to operate the Board on Army Systems and Technologies that will be tasked to conduct up to five […] More

  • CACI to Showcase Electronic Warfare Tech at 2018 AUSA Exposition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Showcase Electronic Warfare Tech at 2018 AUSA Exposition

    CACI International has been selected to demonstrate its electronic warfare offerings for the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting and exposition in Washington, D.C. The event will run from Oct. 8 to 10 and feature discussions with land power specialists, U.S. Army officials, industry representatives and members of the academe, CACI said Thursday. The company […] More

  • NCI Gets Army IT Infrastructure Upgrade Contract; Paul Dillahay Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI Gets Army IT Infrastructure Upgrade Contract; Paul Dillahay Comments

    NCI Information Systems has received a $22M contract to modernize information technology infrastructure at the U.S. Army‘s Home Station Mission Command Centers located at nine domestic and international sites. The service’s program executive office for enterprise information systems awarded the contract that has three base years along with eight optional tasks, NCI said Thursday. HSMCCs support mission command operations […] More

  • Report: Boeing-Sikorsky Team Eyes December for SB>1 Defiant’s First Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing-Sikorsky Team Eyes December for SB>1 Defiant’s First Flight

    Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary expect the SB>1 Defiant compound helicopter to have the initial flight in December, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The two companies have teamed up to design and propose the aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program. The service considers Defiant and the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor for the FVL initiative. Randy Rotte, director of FVL […] More

  • Army Issues Solicitation for Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Issues Solicitation for Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft Prototype

    The U.S. Army has asked industry to submit proposals for a program to design, build and test a future attack reconnaissance aircraft prototype. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says Army Contracting Command plans to use an “other transaction” authority for the prototype initiative in support of the cross-functional team responsible for the service’s future vertical lift […] More

  • Alion Secures Army Tech Development Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alion Secures Army Tech Development Support Contract

    Alion Science and Technology has received a potential five-year, $49.9M contract to explore tools and methods for the U.S. Army to develop agile and adaptive systems. The Defense Department said Monday the company will work to increase knowledge and understanding of new technology development approaches that can support future Army missions. The Army Contracting Command received […] More

  • ECS Federal Secures $79M Army Machine Learning Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ECS Federal Secures $79M Army Machine Learning Contract

    ECC Federal has received a potential $78.8M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Army to provide computer vision engineering and machine learning services. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the contract via an online solicitation process and will obligate $40M in fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award, the […] More

  • Raytheon Unveils Battlefield Intelligence Processing Software for Army; Greg Hansel Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Unveils Battlefield Intelligence Processing Software for Army; Greg Hansel Quoted

    Raytheon has introduced a new software that aims to help help modernize the way the U.S. Army gathers intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data from the battlefield. The company said Tuesday its portable Force Multiplier Tactical Edge Node is designed to integrate and simplify the features of the service’s existing Distributed Common Ground System – Army […] More

  • ManTech Subcontracts C5 Cyber Partners for Army Training Platform Development Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Subcontracts C5 Cyber Partners for Army Training Platform Development Work

    ManTech International has awarded C5 Cyber Partners a subcontract to provide technology expertise and services to the U.S. Army’s Persistent Cyber Training Environment project. C5 Cyber said Tuesday it will apply the software-based Cypherpath infrastructure operating system under the first phase of PCTE development. Cypherpath is designed to integrate computing,  storage, networking and virtualization functions into a software stack intended for deployment […] More