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  • CACI Subsidiary Lands IDIQ Contract to Support Navy SIGINT Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Subsidiary Lands IDIQ Contract to Support Navy SIGINT Systems

    A CACI International subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $29.8 million contract to provide life cycle support for Red Falcon signals intelligence systems currently installed on U.S. Navy ships and shore facilities. BIT Systems will engineer, update and maintain software, repair and provide technical services for the military branch’s foreign instrumentation SIGINT sensors as part of the […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Division to Help Maintain, Modernize USS Dwight Eisenhower Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Division to Help Maintain, Modernize USS Dwight Eisenhower Carrier

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has secured a $36.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy to support maintenance and modernization work on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. NNS will aid nuclear ship alterations and propulsion plant maintenance during the fiscal 2017 planned incremental availability of USS Dwight Eisenhower at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, the Defense […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Initial Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Initial Flight

    Lockheed Martin has completed the initial flight of a VH-92A test aircraft as part of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Presidential Helicopter Replacement Program. The test aircraft’s first flight on July 28 at Sikorsky Aircraft in Connecticut involved an airfield pass, low speed flight and hover control checks and marked the start of the test flight program […] More

  • MIL Corp. Unveils New Tysons Corner, VA Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIL Corp. Unveils New Tysons Corner, VA Office

    MIL Corp. has opened a new office in McLean, Virginia, to house the government services contractor’s accounting, contracts, business development, human resources and proposals and marketing teams. MIL said Tuesday the 10,000-square-foot office located at 8401 Greensboro Drive in Tysons Corner will accommodate employees who manage corporate operations for cyber, engineering, financial and information technology contracts. […] More

  • Sabre Helps Navy Conduct Arrested Aircraft Landing, Electromagnetic Launch Aboard USS Gerald Ford - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sabre Helps Navy Conduct Arrested Aircraft Landing, Electromagnetic Launch Aboard USS Gerald Ford

    Sabre Systems has helped the U.S. Navy perform the first arrested aircraft landing and electromagnetic launch aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier. The company said an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft landed on USS Gerald Ford using the Advanced Arresting Gear system and subsequently launched from the flight deck through the ship’s Electromagnetic Launch System. […] More

  • PAE Secures Navy F-5 Maintenance, Logistics Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE Secures Navy F-5 Maintenance, Logistics Contract Option

    PAE has received a one-year, $43.7 contract modification to carry out organizational, intermediate and depot-level maintenance and logistics support for the U.S. Navy‘s F-5F Tiger II and F-5N Freedom Fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday PAE’s aviation and technical services business will support F-5 aircraft stationed at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada; Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, […] More

  • Navy Taps Joint Tactics and Technologies for Network Defense Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Joint Tactics and Technologies for Network Defense Support IDIQ

    Joint Tactics and Technologies has won a potential five-year, $18 million contract to provide cyber support for the U.S. Navy‘s computer network defense efforts. JTT will help the Navy configure and sustain networks as well as analyze, evaluate, integrate and implement security products under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will occur in San […] More

  • Lockheed Demos Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Variant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Variant

    Lockheed Martin conducted an initial flight test of a surface-launch variant of its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Wednesday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Thursday it used a topside canister with an angled launch platform to deploy the surface-launched LRASM and simulate a ship-launched environment. LRASM, booster adapter and the Mk-114 booster […] More

  • Navy Awards Lockheed $51M Contract Modification for Trident II Missile Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Awards Lockheed $51M Contract Modification for Trident II Missile Production

    Lockheed Martin will continue to produce Trident II D5 submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles for the U.S. Navy and provide support for deployed D5 systems under a  $51.1 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Wednesday work will primarily occur in California, Florida, Georgia, Washington, Utah, Virginia, Maryland and Georgia through Sept. 30, 2017. The Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs […] More

  • Boeing to Extend Navy P-8A Aircraft Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Extend Navy P-8A Aircraft Engineering Services

    Boeing has secured a two-year, $24.6 million modification to a previously awarded delivery order to perform additional engineering work on the U.S. Navy‘s P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft. The Defense Department said Thursday Boeing will support systems engineering technical and critical design reviews for P-8A’s Increment 3 Block 2 upgrades under the modification. Work will occur in Seattle, Washington and Greenlawn, New […] More

  • HII Subsidiary Completes Builder's Sea Trials of 'Ralph Johnson' Destroyer Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Subsidiary Completes Builder’s Sea Trials of ‘Ralph Johnson’ Destroyer Ship

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding unit has conducted builder’s sea trials on an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer built for the U.S. Navy. HII said Tuesday it tested the combat, main propulsion and other systems of USS Ralph Johnson for more than three days in the Gulf of Mexico. “DDG 114’s sea trials showcase the skill of our […] More

  • Navy, SkySafe to Test Mobile Anti-Drone Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, SkySafe to Test Mobile Anti-Drone Platform

    The U.S. Navy‘s Special Warfare Command has awarded SkySafe a $1.5 million contract to test the company’s counter-unmanned aerial systems platform, FCW reported Thursday. SkySafe CEO Grant Jordan told FCW that the company’s anti-UAS system is designed to support installation on vehicles and use early detection and radio signal jamming to protect against enemy drones. Jordan added […] More