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  • AT&T to Design, Build Mobile Radio Comm Towers for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Design, Build Mobile Radio Comm Towers for Navy

    AT&T has won an $11.3 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to design and build five land mobile radio communication towers throughout the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California. The company’s government solutions business unit will construct 70- to 150-foot-high towers that can operate as standalone facilities in remote areas within the Sierra Nevada […] More

  • US Navy, Canada's Defense Dept Ink Blackjack UAS Sale Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy, Canada’s Defense Dept Ink Blackjack UAS Sale Agreement

    The U.S. Navy has signed an agreement with Canada’s defense department to establish the first-ever foreign military sales transaction for the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned air system. The Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office plans to deliver one Blackjack UAS system to Canada’s army in 2017, the Navy said Monday. Marine Corps Col. Eldon Metzger, PMA-263 […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy's Future LXR Amphibious Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy’s Future LXR Amphibious Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls shipbuilding division has secured a potential $13.7 million contract to provide design services for the U.S. Navy‘s LX(R) amphibious warfare ship replacement effort. HII said Tuesday LX(R) will replace the military branch’s Harpers Ferry– and Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships and use the same hull design as the San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks. Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said the […] More

  • Raytheon, Navy Collaborate to Update Mine-Hunting Sonar Tech; Paul Ferraro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Navy Collaborate to Update Mine-Hunting Sonar Tech; Paul Ferraro Comments

    Raytheon has partnered with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport to update a sonar system that the company developed to help U.S. Navy personnel recognize mines. The AN/AQS-20A mine-hunting sonar has been updated through a Raytheon-NUWC collaboration that began in August last year as part of a “work for private party” contract funded by the company, Raytheon said Tuesday. The technology captured […] More

  • ManTech to Help Analyze Navy Aircraft Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Help Analyze Navy Aircraft Systems

    ManTech International has been awarded an $8 million contract to provide engineering and technical support services for all U.S. Navy aircraft platforms and associated systems. The company will conduct reliability, maintainability, testability, quality assurance, diagnostic and system safety analyses throughout the life cycle of naval aircraft systems, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will occur through May […] More

  • Cubic Awarded Navy, Marine Corps Aviation Training Support Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Awarded Navy, Marine Corps Aviation Training Support Task Order

    Cubic Corp. has received an estimated five-year, $80 million task order from the Naval Air Warfare Center to support aviation training functions across the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps a.e The company said Monday it will deliver F/A-18 and EA-18G aviation training device and simulator operations and maintenance support at Naval Air Station Oceana, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, NAS […] More

  • Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Multi-Vehicle Collaborative Autonomous System at Annual Naval Technology Exercise

    Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a cross-domain anti-submarine warfare approach for autonomous undersea, surface and air vehicles during the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Annual Naval Technology Exercise in Newport, Rhode Island. The company said Thursday the demonstration featured mission management and control of a multi-vehicle collaborative autonomous system-of-systems designed to search, detect, track, classify and engage submerged targets. Multiple sensors on autonomous undersea, surface […] More

  • Raytheon to Supply MK 54 Torpedo Equipment to US Navy, Thailand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Supply MK 54 Torpedo Equipment to US Navy, Thailand

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a potential $448.7 million contract to provide MK 54 lightweight torpedo parts and equipment to the U.S. Navy and the government of Thailand under the foreign military sales program. The contract, which contains a base value of $37.7 million, covers MK 54 common parts kits and MK 54 Mod 0 kits as well as exercise […] More

  • Navy Taps Progeny Systems for C5I Systems Engineering, Technical Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Progeny Systems for C5I Systems Engineering, Technical Support Contract

    Progeny Systems has landed a potential five-year, $31.1 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to perform engineering and technical support work on the U.S. Navy‘s command, control, communications, computers, combat and intelligence systems. The Defense Department said Thursday Progeny will modify and develop engineering tools and software as well as integrate hardware for non-propulsion electronic subsystems and submarine C5I data collection systems. DoD noted the contract […] More

  • Alliance BioEnergy Eyes Military Applications for Cellulose-to-Sugar Biofuel Production Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alliance BioEnergy Eyes Military Applications for Cellulose-to-Sugar Biofuel Production Process

    Alliance BioEnergy Plus plans to demonstrate the potential military applications of its cellulose-to-sugar conversion process for the production of aviation biofuels and biodiesels. The company said Monday its patented CTS process works to convert biomass into sugar or phospholipids to produce biodiesel, bio-jet and other types of biofuels that could be used by the military, commercial and transportation industries. […] More

  • Raytheon to Continue Logistics Support for Navy Phalanx Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Continue Logistics Support for Navy Phalanx Weapon System

    Raytheon has received an 18-month, $45.4 million delivery order to supply repaired and new units of the Phalanx close-in-weapon system to the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Wednesday the Navy issued the order as a bridge action under a previously awarded contract for performance-based logistics support of Phalanx to procure line-item units in compliance with the service branch’s fleet […] More

  • QinetiQ Unit to Provide MK2 Robotic System Post-Production Support to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ Unit to Provide MK2 Robotic System Post-Production Support to Navy

    A business unit of QinetiQ has been awarded a potential $31.7 million contract perform post-production support work on the Man Transportable Robotic System MK2 for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract carries a one-year base value of $10.3 million and work could extend through August 2019 if all options are exercised. QinetiQ unit Foster Miller will perform […] More