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  • Northrop Flies Hawkeye Aircraft Equipped With Aerial Refueling System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Flies Hawkeye Aircraft Equipped With Aerial Refueling System

    Northrop Grumman has conducted the first flight of an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye  jet fitted with a new aerial refueling system that company designed to extend the aircraft’s mission time capacity. The company said Thursday the updated E-2D airborne early warning aircraft includes new electrical and lighting, endurance seats, probe and associated piping to support aerial refueling capacity as well […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Gets Navy Contract Funds for Amphibious Transport Dock Engineering Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Gets Navy Contract Funds for Amphibious Transport Dock Engineering Work

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has secured a $51 million contract modification to provide life cycle engineering services for the U.S. Navy‘s San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks. HII said Friday its Ingalls Shipbuilding business will also provide post-delivery planning, integration, research, material support, supply chain management, maintenance and training support for certain San Antonio-class shipboard systems. Ingalls Shipbuilding President Brian Cuccias said the company […] More

  • SAIC to Sustain MH-60 Helicopter Weapon Systems for US Navy, Intl Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC to Sustain MH-60 Helicopter Weapon Systems for US Navy, Intl Clients

    Science Applications International Corp. has secured a five-year, $11.8 million contract to support and sustain weapon systems of the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of MH-60 Seahawk helicopters. The Defense Department said Friday the Naval Surface Warfare Center will obligate $100,000 in fiscal 2017 working capital funds at the time of award for support and sustainment work on MH-60R […] More

  • Azure Summit Technology to Support SIGINT Mission Sensor for Navy Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Azure Summit Technology to Support SIGINT Mission Sensor for Navy Platforms

    Azure Summit Technology has secured a potential five-year, $48.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to support a mission sensor developed for the military branch’s manned and unmanned platforms. The Defense Department said Friday the Common Chassis Signals Intelligence mission sensor will be used to facilitate collection of identification and localization intelligence data from electronic […] More

  • Metron to Design Autonomous Tech for Navy UUVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Metron to Design Autonomous Tech for Navy UUVs

    Metron has won a potential four-year, $33.9 million contract to help the U.S. Navy design, test and implement software to facilitate autonomous operation of unmanned undersea vehicles. The company will also design and integrate government-provided hardware to help address autonomy goals for various military missions, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work will occur in Virginia, California and Maine […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL, Navy Conduct Swarming Unmanned Surface Vehicles Demonstration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL, Navy Conduct Swarming Unmanned Surface Vehicles Demonstration

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has partnered with the U.S. Navy to conduct an at-sea demonstration of swarming unmanned surface vehicles in an effort to advance collaborative behaviors of autonomous USVs. The lab said Monday the activity used six surface target boats equipped with boat control systems from the Naval Air Warfare Center weapons division’s surface […] More

  • PAE to Support Maritime Surveillance, C3/S Functions in Tunisia; Kenneth Myers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE to Support Maritime Surveillance, C3/S Functions in Tunisia; Kenneth Myers Comments

    PAE has received a contract to provide maritime surveillance support to the government of Tunisia in North Africa as part of the U.S. Navy‘s Regional Maritime Awareness Capability program that looks to bolster the maritime domain awareness of host nations. The company said Monday it will help provide command, control, communications and surveillance services through the program […] More

  • Lockheed to Supply Navy Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Supply Navy Integrated Submarine Imaging Systems

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $13.2 million contract modification to supply six AN/BVY-1 integrated submarine imaging systems and spare parts. Lockheed will deliver the systems for Navy users to acquire all-weather, visual and electronic search, digital image management, indication, warning and platform architecture interfaces, the Defense Department said Friday. The system is designed to help facilitate […] More

  • Academi Wins Navy Security Force Counterterrorism Training IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Academi Wins Navy Security Force Counterterrorism Training IDIQ

    Academi Training Center has won a potential $10 million indefinite/delivery-indefinite/quantity contract for turnkey antiterrorism training services to the U.S. Navy‘s Center for Security Forces. The contract has a $9.1 million base value over five years and a six-month option, the Defense Department said Friday. Work will occur in Groton, Connecticut and in San Diego, California. The Naval Supply Systems Command […] More

  • Raytheon Secures Navy Contract Option for LPD 17 Shipboard Electronic System Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Secures Navy Contract Option for LPD 17 Shipboard Electronic System Engineering Services

    Raytheon has received a one-year, $34.3 million contract option from the U.S. Navy to provide life cycle engineering and support services for the integrated shipboard electronic systems on San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships. The Defense Department said Friday the exercised option covers post-delivery planning, homeport technical support, integrated product data environment, data maintenance, equipment management, systems integration, software support and research […] More

  • Navy Plans Hawkeye Lots 7-11 Full-Rate Production Contract Award to Northrop - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Plans Hawkeye Lots 7-11 Full-Rate Production Contract Award to Northrop

    The U.S. Navy plans to award a sole-source contract to Northrop Grumman for the full-rate production of lots 7 to 11 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The fixed-price contract to be awarded by the Naval Air Systems Command covers 20 aircraft and contains a “variation in quantity” option that could bring the total number of planes to 40, […] More

  • Deltek’s Alex Rossino: DoD Recorded $19M in Cloud Spending in First Half of FY 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: DoD Recorded $19M in Cloud Spending in First Half of FY 2016

    A new Deltek report says the Defense Department spent nearly $19 million on cloud computing platforms and services during the first two quarters of fiscal year 2016. Deltek’s analysis of easily identified cloud contracts at DoD also showed that the U.S. Air Force landed the top spot when it comes to cloud spending from Oct. 1, 2015 through […] More