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  • Lockheed Completes Australia MH-60R Seahawk Delivery Under Navy Foreign Military Sales Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Australia MH-60R Seahawk Delivery Under Navy Foreign Military Sales Deal

    Lockheed Martin has turned over Australia’s final MH-60R “Romeo” Seahawk multimission helicopter to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony held Wednesday at a company facility in Owego, New York. The company built a total of 24 Seahawks for the Australian navy under the foreign military sales program to replace the service branch’s fleet of S-70B-2 helicopters, Lockheed said Thursday. “From aircraft […] More

  • Lockheed Installs Optical Sensor on Navy Salvage Ship for NATO Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Installs Optical Sensor on Navy Salvage Ship for NATO Missions

    Lockheed Martin has installed a company-built vehicle optical sensor system on the U.S. Navy‘s USNS Grapple rescue and salvage ship to support NATO‘s patrol operations in the Aegean Sea. The company and the military branch chose a first-generation Gyrocam VOSS from the U.S. government’s inventory and completed system installation over a two-week period, Lockheed said Wednesday. “To support NATO’s security mission quickly, the U.S. Navy needed […] More

  • Hughes, Partners Demo Integrated Mobile Satcom Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes, Partners Demo Integrated Mobile Satcom Tech

    Hughes Network Systems, Klas Telecom, GetSAT and NexTech Solutions have collaborated to demonstrate a mobile satellite communications platform for voice, data and video connectivity. The integrated communications-on-the move satcom technology worked to facilitate high-definition video call among six participants located in different locations when the system was mounted on a sports utility vehicle as well as on a U.S. Navy watercraft during tests conducted June […] More

  • Q.E.D Systems to Provide Touch Labor Services for Non-Nuclear Production Trades on Navy Submarines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Q.E.D Systems to Provide Touch Labor Services for Non-Nuclear Production Trades on Navy Submarines

    Q.E.D. Systems has received a potential $30.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide non-nuclear production trade touch labor services onboard the Virginia-class and Los Angeles-class submarines. The company will supply non-nuclear welders, pipefitters, firewatchers, shipwrights, shipfitters, painters, electricians, weight handlers and outside machinists under the contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System

    The U.S. Navy has approved a countermeasure technology Lockheed Martin developed to help protect U.S. and coalition forces against improvised explosive devices. Lockheed said Tuesday its Symphony Block 40 platform is mounted on vehicles and designed to jam electronic trigger signals of radio-controlled IED threats. The company integrated an open architecture into the counter-IED system to provide continuous threat spectrum coverage for military users. Joe Ottaviano, […] More

  • Navy Taps Advanced Acoustic Concepts for P-8A, MH-60R Trainer Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Advanced Acoustic Concepts for P-8A, MH-60R Trainer Updates

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $13.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract to Advanced Acoustic Concepts for the procurement of the Common Acoustic Simulation Environment Fidelity Implementation system to support P-8A and MH-60R operators. The Defense Department said Monday CASE-FI works to provide tactical operational flight trainers and weapons tactics trainers updated anti-software warfare tactical environment platforms. The Naval Air Warfare Center […] More

  • Greece, Lockheed, HAI Start P-3B Maritime Patrol Aircraft Modernization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greece, Lockheed, HAI Start P-3B Maritime Patrol Aircraft Modernization Program

    Lockheed Martin, the Greek navy and Hellenic Aerospace Industry have officially launched Greece’s P-3B Orion maritime surveillance aircraft modernization program at a ceremony held Monday at an HAI facility in Athens. The event was attended by representatives from the Greek defense ministry, national defense general staff, navy, air force and general directorate for defense investment and armament as well as leaders from the U.S. Embassy […] More

  • PAE to Proceed With Navy F-5 Maintenance & Logistics Support; John Heller Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE to Proceed With Navy F-5 Maintenance & Logistics Support; John Heller Comments

    PAE is set to provide maintenance and logistics support services for 44 F-5 aircraft of the U.S. Navy after the service branch cancelled a stop-work order on the company. PAE said Tuesday it began contract transition performance on May 25 and will continue work through a four-year period if all options are exercised. The contract awarded by the […] More

  • Seyer Industries to Deliver V-22 Aircraft Support Equipment to Navy, Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Seyer Industries to Deliver V-22 Aircraft Support Equipment to Navy, Air Force

    Seyer Industries has won a potential five-year, $27.3 million contract to provide  support equipment for the V-22 Osprey multirole combat planes of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Monday that Seyer Industries will also supply spare parts, assorted adapters, kits and assemblies under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company will perform work in St. Peters, Missouri through […] More

  • Lockheed Completes VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Design Review; Spencer Elani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Design Review; Spencer Elani Comments

    Lockheed Martin is set to begin the assembly, test and evaluation for the VH-92A presidential helicopter replacement program after the company completed the program’s critical design review stage. The VH-92A is designed to transport the U.S. president and vice president and other officials and a team comprised of Sikorsky and the Naval Air Systems Command conducted the […] More

  • Peter Smith: American Systems to Continue Support for Navy 311 Call Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Smith: American Systems to Continue Support for Navy 311 Call Center

    American Systems has received a potential five-year, $42.5 million task order to continue to help the U.S. Navy operate the military branch’s support center for troops and families. The company said Monday it will extend operations support at the Navy 311 call center that works to provide a single entry point for sailors, military families and civilians that […] More