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  • FLIR to Build Ship Imaging, Fire Control Sensors for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FLIR to Build Ship Imaging, Fire Control Sensors for Navy

    FLIR Systems has been awarded a potential five-year, $13.3 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide electro-optics sensors for integration with the military branch’s Sea Star Safire III and Brite Star II EOS systems. The Defense Department said Friday FLIR will also deliver spares as well as perform repair, training, data and technical support services under the firm-fixed-price contract. Work will occur […] More

  • Raytheon Gets Navy Contract Modification for Planar Array Antenna Assemblies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Gets Navy Contract Modification for Planar Array Antenna Assemblies

    Raytheon has received a $30.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide radar absorbing material-equipped planar array antenna assemblies for the transmission processing sets of the Cooperative Engagement Capability. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract also covers delivery of CEC sensor netting system antennas to Japan under the foreign military sales program. DoD noted the Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate the full […] More

  • CTC-Run Center Completes 1K Site Visits Under DoD’s Safety Management Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC-Run Center Completes 1K Site Visits Under DoD’s Safety Management Program

    A center that Concurrent Technologies Corp. operates for the Defense Department has completed at least 1,000 visits to DoD agencies and installations as part of the department’s safety management efforts. CTC’s Safety Management Center of Excellence personnel conduct visits to various DoD agencies and military bases in order to identify and recognize those that comply with the […] More

  • CACI to Help Update Navy's Supply Chain, Logistics IT Infrastructure; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Help Update Navy’s Supply Chain, Logistics IT Infrastructure; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a three-year, $60.7 million task order to modernize a set of information technology systems the U.S. Navy uses to manage the military branch’s supply chain and logistics activities ashore and afloat. The company said Thursday it will provide life cycle development and engineering services for the Naval Tactical Command Support System modernization effort. NTSS is […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Help Navy Develop Seasonal Weather Forecasting Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Help Navy Develop Seasonal Weather Forecasting Tool

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles River Analytics a follow-on contract to help the Office of Naval Research develop a tool for the military branch to generate probability forecasts of weather. Charles River Analytics said Tuesday it aims to produce big data-based machine learning software for an extended-range weather prediction tool through the Climatological Observations for Maritime Prediction and Analysis Support Service initiative. The company will […] More

  • Raytheon-Kongsberg Partnership Plans US Hub for Naval Strike Missile, Launcher Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Kongsberg Partnership Plans US Hub for Naval Strike Missile, Launcher Production

    Raytheon plans to collaborate with Norway-based Kongsberg Defence Systems to manufacture the Naval Strike Missile system and launchers in the U.S. Raytheon wants to carry out integration and testing work on NSM at its factory in Tucson, Arizona, and produce the NSM launchers at its Louisville, Kentucky-based facility under the partnership with Kongsberg, Raytheon said Wednesday. NSM is […] More

  • Raytheon’s Thomas Kennedy: DoD Eyes Next-Gen Tech Against ‘Peer Nation-Type Threats’ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Thomas Kennedy: DoD Eyes Next-Gen Tech Against ‘Peer Nation-Type Threats’

    Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy told Defense News in an interview published Monday the U.S.’ and other countries’ efforts to protect sovereignty and address concerns linked to what he called “peer nation-type threats” have spurred a change in the defense industry. “The Department of Defense is realizing we have to get to the next generation of […] More

  • Reuters: Norway Eyes Purchase of Up to 6 Boeing-Built Maritime Surveillance Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Norway Eyes Purchase of Up to 6 Boeing-Built Maritime Surveillance Aircraft

    Norway could purchase five to six units of a Boeing-built maritime surveillance aircraft as the country seeks to expand its military cooperation with the U.S., Reuters reported Monday. Andrea Shalal writes U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dean Peters, program executive officer for anti-submarine warfare, assault and special missions programs, has asked potential P-8 Poseidon customers to place orders by summer 2017. Peters has indicated […] More

  • US Navy Halts Transfer Maneuver for Fifth MUOS Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy Halts Transfer Maneuver for Fifth MUOS Satellite

    The U.S. Navy has temporarily halted the fifth Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite’s transfer maneuver to its test location on geosynchronous Earth orbit following discovery of an anomaly in the process. The Navy said Friday its Program Executive Office for Space Systems has moved the satellite into an intermediate orbit from orbital transfer […] More

  • Raytheon Selects CPI Aerostructures to Supply EW Jammer Pod Housings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Selects CPI Aerostructures to Supply EW Jammer Pod Housings

    Raytheon has awarded an estimated $4 million contract to CPI Aerostructures to supply structural pod housings for tests and airworthiness certification activities on Raytheon’s new electronic warfare jammer pods. CPI Aero said Friday it will provide the jammer pod structures through 2018 to aid the engineering and manufacturing development phase of Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer program with the U.S. Navy. Raytheon secured […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a potential $34.8 million contract to demonstrate an updated electronic warfare technology for the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer. Raytheon said Sunday it is scheduled to complete development of MALD-X, successor of the current MALD-J model, within a 24-month period and will conduct two flight demonstrations to showcase the aerial decoy’s EW upgrades. MALD-X will feature an EW payload, a low-altitude flight mode and […] More

  • 5 Veteran-Owned Firms Win Spots on Navy Construction IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    5 Veteran-Owned Firms Win Spots on Navy Construction IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded five service-disabled, veteran-owned small businesses positions on a potential five-year, $30 million contract to perform construction work in Guam. Global Engineering Services, M-80 Systems, Pacific Industrial Coatings, Pearl Construction Environmental Service and Relyant Global will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Navy said Wednesday. The multiple-award contract […] More