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  • Tetra Tech to Support EPA Environmental Assessments Under $60M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tetra Tech to Support EPA Environmental Assessments Under $60M Contract

    Tetra Tech has received a potential five-year, $60 million contract for comprehensive technical and analytical services to the Environmental Protection Agency‘s research and development office. The company said Monday it will help EPA assess the ecological and human health risks present in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems under the single-award contract. Dan Batrack, chairman and CEO of […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Navy Order for F-35 Supplies, Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Navy Order for F-35 Supplies, Services

    Lockheed Martin has received a three-year, $28.8 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide supplies and services in support of F-35 Lightning II milestone events. The Defense Department said Monday the company’s aeronautics business will deliver and install retrofit modification kits for the U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and other non-DoD participants under the […] More

  • CSRA to Support NAVSEA Research & Systems Engineering Directorate Under $59M Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Support NAVSEA Research & Systems Engineering Directorate Under $59M Task Order

    CSRA has secured a potential five-year, $59 million task order from the Naval Sea Systems Command to support NAVSEA’s research and systems engineering directorate. The company said Monday it will continue to provide engineering services intended to help NAVSEA build, design, deliver and maintain U.S. Navy amphibious, auxiliary and fleet support ships and systems. “We are proud […] More

  • Raytheon to Continue MDA Ballistic Missile Defense Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Continue MDA Ballistic Missile Defense Support

    Raytheon‘s missile systems business has received a $66.4 million contract modification to continue to help the Missile Defense Agency integrate and test a ballistic missile defense system as part of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA program. The Defense Department said Monday the company will support BMD 5.1 engineering, integration, certification and testing efforts as well as provide post-event […] More

  • Cubic to Support Australian Navy's Simulated Training Activities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Support Australian Navy’s Simulated Training Activities

    Cubic‘s global defense business has received a potential four-year, $7.11 million contract to develop and deliver simulation-enabled training events for the Australian navy. The company said Monday it will provide simulation planning and technical support services as well as professional interactors to support multisite synthetic training at the Australian navy’s synthetic warfighting center. The center is […] More

  • SpaceX Targets Aug. 13 Launch Date for 12th ISS Cargo Delivery Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Targets Aug. 13 Launch Date for 12th ISS Cargo Delivery Mission

    SpaceX aims to launch its Dragon spacecraft on Sunday to deliver approximately 6,000 pounds of crew supplies, equipment, science and research investigations to the International Space Station as part of the company’s 12th commercial resupply mission with NASA. Dragon is scheduled to blast off atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 12:56 p.m. Eastern time Sunday from Kennedy Space […] More

  • Air Force Taps Rockwell Collins for JSTARS Aircrew Training Device Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Rockwell Collins for JSTARS Aircrew Training Device Logistics Support

    Rockwell Collins has received a $7.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide contractor logistics support services for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System‘s aircrew training device. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide simulation and training services for the JSTARS aircrew training device under the sole-source contract. Northrop Grumman built […] More

  • NASA-Brazilian Research Team Plans CubeSat Mission to Study Ionosphere Phenomena - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA-Brazilian Research Team Plans CubeSat Mission to Study Ionosphere Phenomena

    NASA will collaborate with a team of space researchers in Brazil to conduct a joint CubeSat mission as part of efforts to study phenomena that occur within the Earth’s upper atmosphere. The Scintillation Prediction Observations Research Task mission aims to observe the equatorial plasma bubbles and scintillation in the ionosphere that affect radio communications, satellite technologies […] More

  • Raytheon to Update Integrated Sensor Suite for Air Force Global Hawk UAV Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Update Integrated Sensor Suite for Air Force Global Hawk UAV Fleet

    Raytheon has received a potential $25.9 million contract to modify the Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suite and retrofit the Enhanced Electro-Optical Receiver Unit on the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also provide non-recurring engineering and retrofitting support for EISS upgrades to Global Hawk Block 30 UAS. Work under the contract […] More

  • SparkCognition to Help DoD's Innovation Unit Develop AI Tech for Air Force Enterprise Processes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SparkCognition to Help DoD’s Innovation Unit Develop AI Tech for Air Force Enterprise Processes

    SparkCognition has received a contract from the Defense Department‘s innovation office to provide artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to support the U.S. Air Force‘s planning, programming, budgeting and execution system. The company said Thursday it will carry out the first stage of Project Quantum to help quantitatively augment decision-making for senior officials under the contract with Defense […] More

  • Lockheed Releases 1st Images From Experimental Optical Instrument - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Releases 1st Images From Experimental Optical Instrument

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a first set of images captured by an experimental ultra-thin optical instrument as the company aims to demonstrate the possibility of reducing the size and weight of space telescopes. Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance generated a standard bar test pattern and an overhead view of a rail yard with […] More

  • Esri GIS Platform Supports Navy Unmanned System Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri GIS Platform Supports Navy Unmanned System Demo

    The Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command has used an Esri-built geographic information system during an operational demonstration of unmanned systems designed to map the ocean floor and collect raw data, Defense Systems reported Thursday. William Burnett, deputy commander and technical director to the commander NMOC’s Task Group 80.7, told Defense Systems that Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise platform works […] More