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    Lockheed to Extend Support for South Korea’s Tactical Reconnaissance Aircraft, Mission Equipment

    Lockheed Martin has secured a potential $33.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to support prime mission equipment for South Korea’s Peace Krypton reconnaissance aircraft system. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also help sustain South Korean RC-800 aircraft and provide technical manuals in support of airborne reconnaissance missions under the foreign military […] More

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    DynCorp to Support US Army, Dutch Military Aircraft Maintenance Operations

    DynCorp has received a $17.4 million contract modification to provide aviation field maintenance services to the U.S. Army and Netherlands through a foreign military sales deal. The Defense Department said Friday that DynCorp will support operations of the Army Aviation and Missile Command’s aviation field maintenance division outside the continental U.S. The company will perform […] More

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    Tetra Tech-Maytag Aircraft JV to Maintain DLA Petroleum Systems

    A Tetra Tech–Maytag Aircraft joint venture has won a one-year, $7.7 million contract to help the Defense Logistics Agency maintain DLA’s capitalized petroleum systems. The Defense Department said Friday the contract was awarded by the U.S. Army and covers recurring maintenance and minor or emergency repair services The JV perform work at various locations in Arizona, California and Washington […] More

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    DHA to Award EHR Sustainment Support Task Order to Leidos

    The Defense Health Agency plans to award Leidos a potential $25 million task order to provide sustainment services for the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application-Composite Health Care System. DHA will issue the fixed-price task order under a blanket purchase agreement to be awarded following a full-and-open competition initiated by the General Services Administration, the […] More

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    Air Force Research Laboratory, American Semiconductor Develop Flexible Circuit Chip

    A partnership between the research arm of the U.S. Air Force and a private company in the semiconductor business has resulted in the development of a pliable microchip. The Air Force Research Laboratory and American Semiconductor have collaborated to create a flexible silicon-on-polymer chip featuring an onboard memory designed to be 7,000 times larger compared […] More

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    Air Force Taps Northrop for Large Aircraft IR Countermeasure FMS Contract

    Northrop Grumman has received a $15.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures systems to an unnamed foreign military sales customer. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will perform work under the firm-fixed-price contract in Rolling Meadows, Illinois through April 1, 2024. LAIRCM is equipped with an ultraviolet missile warning sensor, a laser […] More

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    Riverbed’s Davis Johnson: Planning, Migration Among ‘Four Pillars’ of Network Modernization

    Davis Johnson, vice president of U.S. public sector at Riverbed Technology, has said federal agencies should advance network modernization efforts as they move to the cloud. Johnson wrote in a FedTech article published Wednesday that agencies seeking to build up end-user experiences with cloud-based services should implement the “four pillars” of network modernization that include planning, migration, management […] More

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    UTC Subsidiary to Supply Tactical Reconnaissance Pods to Foreign Military Customers

    A United Technologies Corp. subsidiary has received a one-year, $22.9 million contract to supply U.S. partner nations with tactical reconnaissance pods through the foreign military sales program. The Defense Department said Wednesday that UTC Aerospace Systems will provide DB-110 pods, program infrastructure, airborne data link terminals, surface terminal equipment, fixed and transportable ground stations and data to FMS […] More

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    Army Engineers Select AECOM-Inquip JV for Levee Improvement Project

    An AECOM–Inquip joint venture has won a potential $30.7 million contract to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers carry out a levee construction project in West Sacramento, California. The American River Common Features-Natomas Basin Reach H improvement effort is scheduled for completion in March 14, 2020, the Defense Department said Wednesday. USACE received two bids for the project via an online-based competitive […] More

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    SCI Technology Gets DLA Signal Data Processor IDIQ

    SCI Technology has received a three-year, $9.2 million Defense Logistics Agency contract to produce signal data processors for the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company is scheduled to finish work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by Dec. 30, 2020. The Army will use its fiscal 2018 working capital funds to finance the purchase. Hunstville, Alabama-based SCI […] More

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    Boeing-Bell JV Gets Navy Osprey Fleet Software Sustainment Order

    A joint venture of Boeing and Bell Helicopter has received a $20.6 million order from the U.S. Navy to maintain software of the V-22 Osprey joint service, multimission aircraft fleet. The Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will engineer and provide technical support for  the V-22 flight control system and avionics software, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work also covers flight control […] More

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    Northrop to Implement Army ‘Hunter’ UAV Engineering Change Proposal

    Northrop Grumman has secured a $12.7 million contract modification to incorporate an engineering change proposal into the payload technology of the U.S. Army‘s Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle. The Defense Department said Wednesday Northrop will perform work in Sierra Vista, Arizona through Oct. 20, 2018. The Army Contracting Command obligated $6.2 million at the time of award from the military branch’s fiscal year […] More