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  • DCS Wins $100M Contract to Support USAF Aircraft Store Certification Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DCS Wins $100M Contract to Support USAF Aircraft Store Certification Process

    Professional services company DCS has won a five-year, $99.5 million contract to perform modeling, analysis and tools support work for the U.S. Air Force’s Seek Eagle aircraft-stores certification program.  Alexandria, Virginia-based DCS will help the service branch develop tools to ensure items for carriage are compatible with multirole aircraft platforms, the Department of Defense said Friday. […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Space Awarded $63M Air Force Contract for Payload Hardware, Software R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Space Awarded $63M Air Force Contract for Payload Hardware, Software R&D

    Lockheed Martin’s space business has won a $62.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract from the U.S. Air Force for flight-qualified vector research and development activities. The Department of Defense said Thursday Lockheed Martin Space will perform R&D, design, demonstration, testing, integration and delivery of software and payload hardware over a three-year period. The company will perform work in […] More

  • Boeing Secures Navy Funds to Prepare for MQ-25 Drone Low-Rate Initial Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Secures Navy Funds to Prepare for MQ-25 Drone Low-Rate Initial Production

    Boeing has received a four-year, $47.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to gear up for the low-rate initial production of unmanned MQ-25 Stingray refueling tankers. The service branch will use fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement funds for the advance acquisition contract to cover lot one LRIP production and delivery services, the Department of Defense said […] More

  • National Renewable Energy Lab-led Consortium Releases Roadmap, RFP to Advance Heliostat Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    National Renewable Energy Lab-led Consortium Releases Roadmap, RFP to Advance Heliostat Tech

    A National Renewable Energy Laboratory-led international consortium has launched a five-year roadmap for the advancement of heliostat technology. NREL said Tuesday the Heliostat Consortium’s study flagged the issues related to research and use of heliostat technologies and laid out efforts on how to address them. The Advancing Heliostat Technologies for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power: HelioCon Roadmap seeks to […] More

  • Aleut-Geosyntec JV Books DOE Paducah Site Staff Augmentation Subcontract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aleut-Geosyntec JV Books DOE Paducah Site Staff Augmentation Subcontract

    A joint venture of Aleut Federal‘s environmental remediation subsidiary and Geosyntec Consultants has received a three-year subcontract to outsource personnel for cleanup efforts at the Department of Energy’s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky. The A2RGC JV will deploy staff to provide technical and professional services to Four Rivers Nuclear Partnership, the prime contractor responsible for PGDP’s […] More

  • Northrop Unveils New Long-Endurance Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Unveils New Long-Endurance Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Design

    Northrop Grumman has revealed the unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator it is building in support of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that aims to develop a new class of UUVs. The company said Monday the Manta Ray UUV is envisioned to be able to conduct long-range missions, carry large payloads, recharge autonomously using energy from its […] More

  • Lockheed Delivers USS Cooperstown Littoral Combat Ship to Navy; Andy Gold Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Delivers USS Cooperstown Littoral Combat Ship to Navy; Andy Gold Quoted

    Lockheed Martin handed over to the U.S. Navy the future USS Cooperstown littoral combat ship on Sept. 20, bringing the total deliveries of Freedom-class LCS to the service branch to 12 overall and four for the fiscal year 2022. The Naval Sea Systems Command said Friday LCS 23, which honors the Village of Cooperstown in Otsego […] More

  • Seacorp Books $79M Navy Contract to Build Modular Suite for Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Seacorp Books $79M Navy Contract to Build Modular Suite for Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare

    Seacorp has received a five-year, $79 million contract from the Office of Naval Research to create a battle management system to help enhance the U.S. Navy’s combat capabilities within the electromagnetic spectrum. The company said Thursday it will work with subcontractors on the design, development and integration of the Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare Modular Suite as an […] More

  • CTC to Support Air Force 3D Printer Development Project; Ed Sheehan Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC to Support Air Force 3D Printer Development Project; Ed Sheehan Quoted

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a $5.2 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a 3D printer intended to support the production of metal components for defense use. The North American subsidiary of Germany-based additive manufacturing equipment builder SLM Solutions will serve as a subcontractor on the project, CTC said Thursday. Under […] More

  • Spire Provides Satellite Service for NASA Mission to Capture Soil Moisture Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spire Provides Satellite Service for NASA Mission to Capture Soil Moisture Data

    Spire Global has secured a contract extension from NASA and supported an agency technology demonstration effort to acquire soil moisture data from space for use in agricultural production forecasting and flood prediction. The company said Tuesday it specifically collected ultra high frequency and P-band data needed to inform the SigNals Opportunity: P-band Investigation mission. A Purdue University […] More

  • Ensco to Showcase Cybersecurity Offerings at National Cyber Summit; Jeff Stevens Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco to Showcase Cybersecurity Offerings at National Cyber Summit; Jeff Stevens Quoted

    Ensco will highlight its cybersecurity services and operations during 2022 National Cyber Summit, a two-day cybersecurity technology event kicking off on Sept. 21 in Huntsville, Alabama. The engineering and technology company said Tuesday its representatives will be available at the gathering to talk about Ensco offerings for the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and […] More