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  • DroneShield Releases Counter-Drone System Demo Video - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DroneShield Releases Counter-Drone System Demo Video

    Droneshield has released a video that features the company’s new multi-method systems designed to detect and counter unmanned aerial system threats. The company said Sunday its DroneSentry employs software and user interface designed to integrate acoustic, optical camera, radar, radio frequency, thermal camera and optical sensor detection functions. DroneSentinel is equipped with a multi-sensor detection technology and built for customers […] More

  • Vericor to Produce Engines for Navy Amphibious Landing Craft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vericor to Produce Engines for Navy Amphibious Landing Craft

    Vericor Power Systems has been awarded a potential $32.1 million contract to manufacture, test and deliver marine gas turbine engines for the U.S. Navy‘s Landing Craft Air Cushion vehicles. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Vericor will provide ETF40B engines for the LCAC service life extension program. DoD added the engines will be supplied to the program’s prime contractor for […] More

  • Raytheon Lands $60M Air Force Laser-Guided Weapons Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands $60M Air Force Laser-Guided Weapons Support Contract

    Raytheon has received a potential $59.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide support equipment and services for the service branch’s Enhanced Paveway II laser-guided bombs. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s missile systems business will perform work under the sole-source contract in Tucson, Arizona through Feb. 28, 2019. Modern variants of the Raytheon-built Paveway bomb […] More

  • Northrop to Update Navy H-1 Aircraft Mission Computers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Update Navy H-1 Aircraft Mission Computers

    Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $10.7 million delivery order to help the U.S. Navy update mission computers of the H-1 aircraft fleet. The company will incorporate 54 technical refresh mission computers into the H-1 production line, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The firm-fixed-price order falls under a previously issued basic ordering agreement and work runs […] More

  • DoD's Innovation Unit Taps ICEYE for Earth Observation Data Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD’s Innovation Unit Taps ICEYE for Earth Observation Data Support

    ICEYE‘s U.S. subsidiary has secured a contract to provide Earth observation data support services to the Defense Department‘s innovation unit. Mike Lyons, CEO of ICEYE U.S., said in a statement published Monday the company aims to help the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental address national security challenges through the use of data. ICEEYE is headquartered in Espoo, […] More

  • Saab to Build South African Military Field Feeding Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Build South African Military Field Feeding Systems

    Saab has secured a two-year contract to build mass field fielding platforms for South Africa’s national defense force. The company said Monday it will provide a 200-man system consists of expandable kitchen, reefer and utility units along with a 50-man system comprised of a fully equipped expandable unit and water storage bladders. Both systems will feature diesel […] More

  • IAP to Support Navy Base Operations in Annapolis, Maryland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IAP to Support Navy Base Operations in Annapolis, Maryland

    The U.S. Navy has awarded IAP Worldwide Services a potential $19.4 million contract to help operate the Naval Support Activity base in Annapolis, Maryland. IAP will provide management, supervision and labor services as well as training, equipment and supplies to NSA Annapolis under the contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work covers facility investment, service calls, pest control, […] More

  • Red Hat Unveils Updated Enterprise Container Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Unveils Updated Enterprise Container Platform

    Red Hat has introduced an updated version of its enterprise-grade Kubernetes container application platform. The company said Thursday its OpenShift Container Platform 3.7. works to help information technology organizations develop and manage applications that use services from data centers and public clouds. Matt Yanchyshyn, director of partner solution architecture at Amazon Web Services, said AWS partnered with Red Hat […] More

  • L3 Micreo Unveils Wideband Radio Frequency Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Micreo Unveils Wideband Radio Frequency Tech

    L3 Micreo, a subsidiary of L3 Technologies, has developed a new wideband radio frequency technology designed to support military communications. The modular optical link is built to operate in frequencies ranging from 10 megahertz to 40 gigahertz and transmit converted broadband RF signals through a fibre-optic link, L3 Micreo said Tuesday. Sarah Eary, general manager at L3 Micreo, said the […] More

  • General Dynamics Gets Contract Option for Navy Ship Planning Yard Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Gets Contract Option for Navy Ship Planning Yard Services

    General Dynamics has been awarded a $44.3 million contract modification to provide planning yard services for the U.S. Navy‘s guided missile destroyers and frigates. The Navy exercised an option under a previously awarded contract for the company to support integrated planning yard efforts for Arleigh Burke-class and Oliver Hazard Perry-class vessels, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD […] More

  • Reports: Virgin Orbit Lands DoD Contract to Demo Air Launch System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Virgin Orbit Lands DoD Contract to Demo Air Launch System

    Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch venture spun out of commercial space company Virgin Galactic, has secured a contract to demonstrate its air-launched rocket technology through the Defense Department‘s Space Test Program, TechCrunch reported Thursday. The report said Long Beach, California-based Virgin Orbit expects the LauncherOne prototype flight to take place as early as January 2019. LauncherOne […] More

  • Boeing Subsidiary to Distribute Rolls-Royce Engine Products in Defense Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Subsidiary to Distribute Rolls-Royce Engine Products in Defense Market

    Boeing‘s subsidiary Aviall has signed a sales and distribution agreement to offer a suite of Rolls-Royce-made engines to the defense sector. Aviall will market AE 2100 turboprop, AE 3007 turbofan and AE 1107C turboshaft engine variants that are designed to power multiple types of military aircraft, Boeing said Thursday. Eric Strafel, Aviall president and CEO, said the company seeks to help […] More