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    TechTrans Wins Multi-Country Cessna Aircraft Maintenance Training IDIQ

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded TechTrans International a potential four-year, $45 million contract to provide Cessna 208 aircraft maintenance training support to multiple foreign military sales customers. TechTrans will work with the Air Force Security Assistance Training Squadron under the  indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through Oct. 18, 2021, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will take pace in Houston, Texas […] More

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    Navy Selects American Electronics for NAWCAD Engineering Support IDIQ

    American Electronics has won a potential $27.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering, technical and management services to the the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division. The company will support NAWCAD’s Rapid Capability Engineering Department and the Engineering, Prototyping and Business Operations Division under the indefinite-deliver/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Work […] More

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    Microsoft Unveils New Azure Govt Cloud Offerings

    Microsoft has introduced a range of new offerings on the Azure Government cloud platform for public sector customers. Tom Keane, global infrastructure lead at Microsoft’s Azure segment, wrote in an article published Tuesday that the company will launch the Azure Government Secret service for government clients that handle secret-level classified data. Azure Government Secret is designed to […] More

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    Lockheed Gets Navy Order to Support UK’s F-35B Carrier Flight Tests

    Lockheed Martin has received an $11.6 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to support the first round of flight tests and issuance of military permit for an F-35B aircraft to launch from the U.K’.s Queen Elizabeth-class carriers. The Defense Department said Tuesday international partner funds worth $5.7 million will be obligated at the time of award and will not […] More

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    Orbital ATK to Modify Italy’s Anti-Radiation Missile System Under Navy FMS Contract Option

    Orbital ATK has received an $18 million U.S. Navy contract option to convert AGM-88 anti-radiation missiles from a high-speed configuration into a guided all-up-round model for the Italian government. The exercised option is for the conversion of lot 6 AGM-88B High Speed Anti-Radiation Missiles to 25 AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile All-Up-Rounds, the Defense Department said […] More

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    Report: India Sends Formal ISTAR Aircraft Procurement Request to Pentagon

    India has sent a letter to the Defense Department requesting to buy a pair of intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance aircraft from Raytheon through a foreign military sales transaction, Defense News reported Monday. The report said an Indian defense ministry official estimates the value of the proposed government-to-government ISTAR procurement deal could reach $1 billion. India’s […] More

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    Air Force Taps Orbital ATK for Rocket Motor Tech IDIQ Contract

    Orbital ATK has received a five-year, $20 million contract to help U.S. Air Force researchers advance solid rocket booster technology and address technical requirements for spacecraft, tactical and strategic propulsion systems. The Defense Department said Monday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will provide a means for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s aerospace systems and rocket propulsion division to procure […] More

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    Tri-Cor Industries to Support DLA Enterprise System Tests Under JETS Task Order

    Tri-Cor Industries has won a task order to assist the Defense Logistics Agency‘s J62LB enterprise test directorate in efforts to secure the integrity of DLA information technology assets as well as evaluate software and systems for agency customers. The order was issued under the unrestricted portion of the J6 Enterprise Technology Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth $6 billion over eight years, […] More

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    ULA’s Atlas V Carries NRO Natl Security Payload to Orbit

    United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has deployed a National Reconnaissance Office payload into space aboard its Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The NROL-52 payload lifted off Sunday at 3:28 a.m. Eastern time to support NRO’s national security mission, ULA said Sunday. The company launched NROL-52 using an Atlas […] More

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    Northrop Receives Additional Navy Funds for EA-18G Tactical Jamming Receiver Upgrades

    Northrop Grumman‘s systems business has secured an additional $20 million in contract funds from the U.S. Navy to update tactical jamming receivers designed to support airborne signals intelligence collection. The Defense Department said Friday the modification falls under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and covers upgrades to AN/ALQ-218(V) 2 radar warning receivers for the EA-18G electronic attack aircraft. AN/ALQ-218 SIGINT […] More

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    Huntington Ingalls Gets $65M Contract Modification for USS Helena Dry Docking Services

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a $65.1 million contract modification to provide dry docking services for the U.S. Navy‘s Los Angeles-class submarine USS Helena. The Defense Department said Friday HII will modernize, repair and maintain SSN 725 systems at a company shipyard in Newport News, Virginia, through April 2018. The Navy obligated $62.7 million at the time of award […] More

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    L3 Subsidiary to Design, Develop Gamma Simulator for Army Nuclear Effects Lab

    An L3 Technologies subsidiary has won a potential three-year, $18.5 million contract to design and develop a simulation technology for the U.S. Army‘s nuclear effects laboratory located at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. L3 Applied Technologies will also help the service branch integrate, test, manage and document the Prompt Gamma Simulator under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the  Defense Department […] More