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    PAE Secures $65M Navy Test Range Support Contract Option

    PAE‘s applied technologies business has received a $64.7 million contract modification to help engineer, operate and maintain a U.S. Navy test range. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification exercises an option under a previously awarded contract for test range support services to the Atlantic Test Range and the Atlantic Targets and Marine Operations Division of […] More

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    Pivotal, Raytheon Form Partnership to Support DoD’s Software Devt, Cloud Adoption Efforts

    Raytheon has teamed up with Pivotal Software to help the Defense Department expedite the development of new software platforms and transition legacy applications to cloud environments. Raytheon said Tuesday it has joined the San Francisco, California-based software firm’s Pivotal Ready Partner Program as part of the partnership to deliver new technology capabilities to the military. […] More

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    AFCEA Selects Accenture Federal Services’ George Franz for Army Cyber Award

    George Franz, a managing director of Accenture‘s federal services business and retired U.S. Army major general, has received a Saint Isidore Army Cyber award from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association to acknowledge his cyberspace expertise. Accenture said Wednesday Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of the Army Cyber Command, presented AFCEA’s “Gold Level Medallion” to Franz and cited the […] More

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    Arnold Defense to Provide Missile Launcher Components to Air Force

    Arnold Defense and Electronics has received a $15.5 million contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with missile launcher parts. The Defense Department said Monday the company will supply 1,254 launcher 12X structural rail sections for use on the AIM-120 missile launcher. The contract includes foreign military sales and runs through Sept. 30, 2023, with $72,500 […] More

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    Northrop Gets $58M Air Force Support Services Contract

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $58.2 million contract to provide sustainment, logistics, and site support services to the U.S. Air Force. The company perform work in San Diego, California and in Qatar through March 10, 2023, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted the requirements-type, firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable contract is a sole-source acquisition. The Air Force Cycle Management Center […] More

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    DoD Adds RSA’s Threat Detection Platform to Approved Product List

    The Defense Department has placed RSA‘s security information and event management platform on the DoD Information Network Approved Product List. RSA said Monday its NetWitness Suite platform achieved APL certification following a testing process meant to determine whether the product meets DoD’s security standards. NetWitness Suite works to detect threats and provide visibility across logs and network […] More

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    Navy Awards T-45 Maintenance Contract Modification to L3 Subsidiary

    An L3 Technologies subsidiary has received a $37.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to provide additional engineering, logistics and maintenance services for 200 T-45 Goshawk trainer aircraft, systems and support equipment. Vertex Aerospace will also provide equipment, tools and direct and indirect materials to support the Navy’s T-45 flight and test and evaluation efforts, the Defense […] More

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    Tyonek Unit to Help Air Force Integrate UH-1N Performance Tracking System

    A business unit of Tyonek Native Corporation has received a potential $16 million contract to install a technology for the U.S. Air Force to monitor the performance of the military branch’s UH-1N Huey helicopter fleet. Tyonek Global Services will support the integration of a health and usage monitoring system into the utility helicopter platform under the firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable contract, the […] More

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    Leidos to Help Manage Navy’s Acoustic Signature Measurement Hub in Alaska

    Leidos has received a potential $41.9 million contract to help the U.S. Navy operate and maintain a Ketchikan, Alaska-based military facility that conducts acoustic engineering measurements. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide operations, maintenance, logistics and program management assistance services to support naval ship and undersea signature silencing programs at at the Southeast Alaska […] More

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    Leonardo DRS to Engineer Army Fighting Vehicle Targeting Subsystem

    The network and imaging business division of Leonardo DRS has received a $15.7 million contract to engineer a targeting subsystem designed for the U.S. Army‘s Bradley fighting vehicles. Work under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract covers engineering services for the Improved Bradley Acquisition Subsystem through March 31, 2022, the Defense Department said Friday. DoD noted the full obligated […] More

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    DoD Taps Lockheed to Design New Heavily Armed Surface Combatant for Saudi Arabia

    Lockheed Martin has received a $22.7 million contract from the Defense Department to transform the design of current Freedom-class littoral combat ships into a heavily armed multi-mission surface combatant, USNI News reported Thursday. The contractor secured the award via a potential $20 billion foreign military sales deal with Saudi Arabia for various arms such as […] More

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    Carey Smith Talks About Parsons’ Williams Electric Purchase, Control System Business Expansion

    Carey Smith, federal group president at Parsons, has said the company expects the acquisition of control system integration company Williams Electric to create new opportunities as the Pasadena, California-based engineering services contractor operates in the Middle East and other regions, the Pasadena Star-News reported Thursday. Smith told Pasadena Star-News she believes Parsons’ contractual relationships with federal […] More