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  • Rhoads Industries Gets Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rhoads Industries Gets Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program Support Contract

    Rhoads Industries has received a potential $31.2 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to support the service branch’s Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. The Naval Surface Warfare Center received one proposal during the solicitation process on FedBizOpps and will obligate $100,000 in fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion funds at the time of award, the Defense Department said […] More

  • Lockheed, Saudi Arabia-Based Company Form Bomb Tailkit Production Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Saudi Arabia-Based Company Form Bomb Tailkit Production Alliance

    Lockheed Martin has teamed with a Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based engineering company to produce laser guided bomb tailkits, Saudi Gazette reported Wednesday. Wahaj, a subsidiary of Saudi International Petrochemical Company, agreed to co-manufacture the air foil group for Lockheed-made Paveway II Plus LGBs under a teaming agreement. “We are dedicated to supporting the Kingdom’s national security objectives defined […] More

  • KBR Govt Business to Support Australia's Military Tech Acquisition, Sustainment Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR Govt Business to Support Australia’s Military Tech Acquisition, Sustainment Efforts

    KBR‘s government services arm has landed a potential 11-year contract to provide support services to the capability acquisition and sustainment group of the Australian defense department. The company said Wednesday KBRwyle will serve as one of the four major service providers to CASG through the contract that has a five-year base period and six option years. Ernst & Young will collaborate […] More

  • Amazon Web Services Releases New Text-to-speech Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Web Services Releases New Text-to-speech Service

    Amazon Web Services has released a new service designed to convert text into realistic voice audio applicable to multiple languages. The Amazon Polly service is available through the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, the company said Wednesday. The text-to-speech service makes use of deep learning technologies to help users construct speech-enabled applications. Amazon Polly’s API may be integrated with other applications to […] More

  • Boeing Lands $73M IDIQ to Help Extend Navy Super Hornet Service Life - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Lands $73M IDIQ to Help Extend Navy Super Hornet Service Life

    Boeing has secured a $73.2 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to perform modifications on four F/A-18E/F Super Hornets in an effort to extend the aircraft’s service life. The company will aim to extend the operational service life of the service branch’s F/A-18E/F fleet from 6,000 to 9,000 flight hours, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Seventy-five percent of the work will […] More

  • Air Force Taps Lockheed for GPS On-Orbit Sustainment Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Lockheed for GPS On-Orbit Sustainment Services

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $18.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to help sustain the military branch’s GPS satellites currently in orbit. Work covers on-orbit and anomaly resolution support, constellation performance analysis, space vehicle end-of-life test and training and SV subsystem analysis, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DoD noted the Space and Missile Systems […] More

  • Fortinet Unveils AI-Powered Threat Analysis & Detection Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fortinet Unveils AI-Powered Threat Analysis & Detection Platform

    Fortinet has introduced an artificial intelligence platform designed to automate analysis and detection of cyber threats. The cybersecurity company said Tuesday the FortiGuard AI threat intelligence tool was produced through a five-year effort of Fortinet’s research group, FortiGuard Labs, to develop automated threat analysis and detection. FortiGuard AI uses machine learning and continuous training to constantly update itself and autonomously gather, […] More

  • Iron Mountain Debuts Federal Records Storage Facility in Maryland; Michael Lewis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Debuts Federal Records Storage Facility in Maryland; Michael Lewis Comments

    Iron Mountain has opened a facility in Suitland, Maryland, that is built to store records for federal customers and comply with National Archives and Records Administration  standards. The company said Monday its new 125,000-square-foot federal records facility is close to Joint Base Andrews and has approximately 1.5 million cubic feet of storage. Michael Lewis, vice president and general manager of […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Supply Updated Avionics for Coast Guard MH-65 Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Supply Updated Avionics for Coast Guard MH-65 Helicopters

    Rockwell Collins has been chosen to supply new avionics to the U.S. Coast Guard for integration with the service branch’s fleet of Airbus-built MH-65 helicopters. The updated avionics will be integrated into MH-65 aircraft beginning late 2019 as part of an effort to extend the helicopters’ service life, Rockwell Collins said Tuesday. The effort will change the fleet’s […] More

  • LifePort to Supply Helicopter Ballistic Protection Tech to Middle Eastern Customer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LifePort to Supply Helicopter Ballistic Protection Tech to Middle Eastern Customer

    LifePort, a business unit of Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary, has received a contract from a Middle Eastern customer to provide systems that work to protect Black Hawk helicopter crew and passengers against ground-based ballistic threats. The order is for 25 customized Black Hawk Ballistic Protection Systems, Lockheed said Tuesday. Noah Zuckerman, general manager at LifePort, said the company […] More

  • Harris Orders Sypris Electronic Assemblies for US, Foreign Military Munition Dispensers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Orders Sypris Electronic Assemblies for US, Foreign Military Munition Dispensers

    A Sypris Solutions subsidiary has secured multiple contracts from Harris to produce electronic assemblies for munition dispensing systems of U.S. and foreign military customers. Sypris Electronics will manufacture the munition dispenser electronics for military customers that include the U.S. Navy, the company said Monday. Harris also awarded Sypris Electronics contracts last year to provide electronic assemblies for two weather satellite programs, […] More

  • BAE Awarded $50M for US Forces-Afghanistan Intell Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Awarded $50M for US Forces-Afghanistan Intell Services

    A BAE Systems business unit will provide intelligence-related services to U.S. forces in Afghanistan under a $50.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Army. BAE’s information solutions team will perform work in Afghanistan through Oct. 27, 2018, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Army Contracting Command will obligate $15 million at the time of award from the […] More