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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

  • Marine Corps Orders Vehicle-Mounted Comm Devices From LRAD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Orders Vehicle-Mounted Comm Devices From LRAD

    LRAD has received a $335,000 contract to provide 1000Xi long-range acoustic hailing devices that will be mounted on U.S. Marine Corps vehicles. The company said Tuesday the technology is designed to help military users signal and warn through broadcasts of attention-commanding voice messages and deterrent tones. “With these orders for the Marine Corps, LRAD systems will now be deployed by all branches of the […] 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

  • Oshkosh Defense to Enter Full-Rate Production for Marine Corps P-19R Aircraft Firefighting Trucks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh Defense to Enter Full-Rate Production for Marine Corps P-19R Aircraft Firefighting Trucks

    An Oshkosh Corp. subsidiary is set to proceed with the full-rate production of P-19R aircraft rescue firefighting vehicles for the U.S. Marine Corps after the company and the military branch received Milestone C approval from the Defense Department. Oshkosh Defense will produce and deliver 164 ARFFs through 2019 to replace the Marine Corps’ P-19 fleet under a potential $192 million […] More

  • Granite Construction to Help Build Marines Training Facility at Camp Pendleton - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Granite Construction to Help Build Marines Training Facility at Camp Pendleton

    The Naval Facilities Engineering Command-Southwest has awarded Granite Construction a $22 million contract to build an infantry training facility for the U.S. Marine Corps. Granite said Thursday it will construct a firing range, an access road, lighting, targeting systems, underground utilities, supporting buildings and asphalt pavements at Camp Pendleton in California under the contract. The two-year construction project, scheduled […] More

  • Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities

    A joint venture of Cardno and Amec Foster Wheeler has landed a five-year, $30 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to evaluate the state of U.S. Marine Corps-operated buildings. The Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV will use the Defense Department‘s BUILDER Sustainment Management System to conduct building condition assessments on USMC facilities worldwide, Cardno said Wednesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Construction […] More

  • Aware Delivers Biometric Services Platform to Support Marine Corps Identity Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aware Delivers Biometric Services Platform to Support Marine Corps Identity Operations

    Bedford, Massachusetts-based biometrics software company Aware has supplied its software and services line to the U.S. Marine Corps‘ in support of the service branch’s identity-related operations. Aware said Tuesday the company has provided its Biometric Services Platform to act as a portable biometric identity management platform that can help update, manage and share identity data between devices and databases in […] 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

  • Army Engineers Eye Industry Support for DoD's Post-Chattanooga Building Security Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Engineers Eye Industry Support for DoD’s Post-Chattanooga Building Security Initiative

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants industry partners to support a potential $80 million Defense Department investment for physical security updates at close to 900 recruiting centers across 70 metropolitan areas, Military Times reported Wednesday. Jeff Schogol writes the Corps plans to install cubical walls with ballistic protection at a capacity to stop 7.62-millimeter rounds as well as visual identification features, […] More

  • Bill Van Dyke: Black & Veatch, Schneider Electric Partner for Microgrid Tech Project at USMC's San Diego Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Van Dyke: Black & Veatch, Schneider Electric Partner for Microgrid Tech Project at USMC’s San Diego Base

    Schneider Electric USA and Black & Veatch have formed a joint venture that will design and construct an energy security microgrid system at a U.S. Marine Corps air base in San Diego. Black & Veatch said Tuesday the system will be built to support facility operations across Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in the event of a utility power grid outage. […] More

  • BAE to Help Navy Design, Build Airborne Reconnaissance Tech for Buried Threats Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help Navy Design, Build Airborne Reconnaissance Tech for Buried Threats Detection

    A BAE Systems subsidiary has secured a potential $12.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a soil-penetrating airborne reconnaissance prototype for threat assessment and neutralization. The Defense Department said Wednesday the cost-reimbursement contract has a base value of $9.5 million over two years and work could extend through December 28, 2020 if all options are exercised. BAE Systems’ spectral […] More

  • USNI News: ONR Nears Vehicle-Mounted Laser Weapon Program's 3rd Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USNI News: ONR Nears Vehicle-Mounted Laser Weapon Program’s 3rd Phase

    The Office of Naval Research is close to the third phase of its program to develop a vehicle-mounted laser weapon system for efforts to counter adversaries’ unmanned aerial vehicles, USNI News reported Thursday. Lt. Gen. Robert Walsh, U.S. Marine Corps deputy commandant for combat development and integration, said the third phase of the Ground-Based Air Defense Directed Energy […] More