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  • HII Division Starts Fabrication on Navy DDG 121 Destroyer; George Nungesser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Division Starts Fabrication on Navy DDG 121 Destroyer; George Nungesser Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun the fabrication process for the U.S. Navy’s Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) ship named after the first African-American pilot and U.S. Marine Corps general officer. HII said Wednesday the process suggests that the company has already cut 100 tons of steel for integration with the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile […] More

  • General Dynamics Receives Navy Common Aviation C2 System Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Receives Navy Common Aviation C2 System Contract Modification

    General Dynamics has received a $9.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce five Common Aviation Command and Control System. The company will provide limited deployment units of the aviation command-and-control system, with work performed in Arizona, Maryland, Alabama and California through September 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. The award exercises a contract […] More

  • Phacil Lands Marine Corps IT Operations Contract; Bill Grabner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phacil Lands Marine Corps IT Operations Contract; Bill Grabner Comments

    Phacil has been awarded a five-year, $17.4 million contract to provide information assurance, networking and maintenance services to the U.S. Marine Corps. The company will perform enterprise service desk, connectivity services, asset management, enterprise directory, Adobe Experience Manager support, cloud, unified communications and mobility services for the Marine Corps Recruiting Command, Phacil said Wednesday. Bill […] More

  • Navy Orders Additional Laser-Guided Training Rounds From Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Additional Laser-Guided Training Rounds From Lockheed

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $25.8 million contract to Lockheed Martin to deliver live-fire training rounds of its laser-guided bombs. Lockheed said Thursday the Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds award is the last of four options under an $84.5 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract originally awarded in 2013. The company added it will also refurbish reusable shipping containers and provide […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Unveils T-45 Engine Repair Support Facility in Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Unveils T-45 Engine Repair Support Facility in Texas

    Rolls-Royce has unveiled a new facility at Naval Air Station Kingsville in Texas to provide engine repair support for the T-45 trainer jet of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday the service delivery center will also provide service operations support for the Rolls-Royce-built F405 Adour engines of the aircraft. A BAE Systems–Boeing partnership […] More

  • Sikorsky Completes Flight Test of Second CH-53K Helicopter for Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Completes Flight Test of Second CH-53K Helicopter for Marine Corps

    Lockheed Martin-owned Sikorsky has completed the flight test of its second CH-53K King Stallion helicopter for the U.S. Marine Corps heavy-lift rotorcraft program. Lockheed said March 14 the second helicopter first flew on Jan. 22 while the initial CH-53K carried out its flight on Oct. 27 to account for 35 flight hours combined. Sikorsky will add two more CH-53K units during the projected three-year flight test program in […] More

  • SAIC Hands First Assault Amphibious Vehicle Upgrade to Marine Corps; Tom Watson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Hands First Assault Amphibious Vehicle Upgrade to Marine Corps; Tom Watson Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. has given its first assault amphibious vehicle survivability upgrade to the U.S. Marine Corps‘ base in Quantico, Virginia. The vehicle is the first of 10 AAV SU vehicles scheduled for tests by May, SAIC said Friday. “We are honored to support the Marine Corps in this historic endeavor to upgrade vehicles that have […] More

  • Marine Corps Orders 166 Meggit Small Arms Training Systems; Kathleen Wilson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Orders 166 Meggit Small Arms Training Systems; Kathleen Wilson Comments

    Meggitt Training Systems has received a $5.8 million order from the U.S. Marine Corps to produce 166 small arms training systems for use in marksmanship, collective and judgmental scenarios. The company said Tuesday this third order makes a total of $25 million worth of awards placed so far for the Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainers system under a $32.7 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. Kathleen […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Contributes Software to Naval Academy, Presents Sperry Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Contributes Software to Naval Academy, Presents Sperry Award

    Northrop Grumman contributed $3.17 million worth of its Voyage Management System software to the U. S. Naval Academy Foundation to support midshipman training at the U.S. Naval Academy. The company said Monday the donation of 135 software licenses seeks to improve the education and development of future U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps officers. VMS software features the Electronic […] More

  • Lockheed Expands STEM Program to Singapore; Doug Greenlaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Expands STEM Program to Singapore; Doug Greenlaw Comments

    Lockheed Martin has introduced the company’s science, technology, engineering and mathematics program to Singapore in partnership with UN Women Singapore. Lockheed Martin said Monday it hosted a STEM event in Biopolis, Singapore, where more than 300 students engaged with U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Carrie Howe, Facebook’s Claire Deevy and Guo Huili, Institute of Molecular and […] More

  • Meggitt to Build Virtual Firearms Training System for Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Meggitt to Build Virtual Firearms Training System for Marine Corps

    The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded Meggitt Training Systems a $7.19 million delivery order to build a virtual small-arms training platform to USMC’s systems command. Meggitt said Tuesday it will produce Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer systems in an effort to help Marines hone their marksmanship, judgment and collective skills. “Utilizing simulation in these three training arenas minimizes range time and ammunition […] More

  • Tony Moraco: SAIC, Marine Corps Maintain 'Open Dialogue' in Assault Vehicle Upgrade Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Moraco: SAIC, Marine Corps Maintain ‘Open Dialogue’ in Assault Vehicle Upgrade Program

    Science Applications International Corp. unveiled its first updated amphibious assault vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps at a company facility in Hanahan, South Carolina last week, the Post and Courier reported Friday. David Wren writes SAIC was awarded a potential five-year, $194 million contract to equip 10 prototype AAVs with new blast-resistant seats armor protection, transmission and suspension systems. SAIC […] More