Tony Bardo: Hughes Network Systems Receives GSA Schedule Contract Extension Sep 25, 2014 12:15 pm Hughes Network Systems has been awarded a General Services Administration schedule contract renewal to offer government customers a range of managed networking and digital media services. GSA extended the company’s Schedule 70 GS-35F-0907P account through Sept…

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Boeing Wins $102M to Build Army’s Next-Gen Automatic Test System Sep 25, 2014 12:11 pm Boeing (NYSE: BA) has won a six-year, $102 million contract to build a system for the U.S. Army to facilitate test technology integration. The Army received three bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to produce the Next Generation Automatic Test System, the Defense Department saidWednesday…

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IronPlanet Launches Online Marketplace for Surplus DoD Assets; Gregory Owens Comments Sep 25, 2014 11:01 am IronPlanet has unveiled an online marketplace for users to buy and sell surplus Defense Department assets. The first online auction of surplus trucks, trailers, generators, wheel loaders, cranes, crawler tractors and other government equipment on the GovPlanet marketplace is scheduled for Nov…

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MITRE to Operate NIST’s Rockville Cyber R&D Center; Penny Pritzker Comments Sep 25, 2014 10:56 am MITRE Corp. has received a potential 25-year, $5 billion contract to operate the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s cybersecurity research and development center in Rockville, Maryland…

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Boeing Subcontracts Dynetics to Build SLS Hardware, Simulators; David King Comments Sep 25, 2014 10:22 am Boeing has chosen aerospace engineering firm Dynetics to provide a thrust vector control exhaust gas heat exchanger and three structural simulators for the NASA Space Launch System program. Dynetics said Wednesday it will manufacture the flight hardware and simulation platforms for the SLS core stage at its Huntsville, Alabama facility, and then deliver the systems to Boeing at the space agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans…

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Navy Orders $251M in Raytheon Tomahawks for US, UK Forces Sep 25, 2014 09:37 am Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) will deliver a total of 231 Tomahawk Block IV All-Up-Round missiles by August 2016 to the U.S. Navy under a $251.1 million contract. The Defense Department saidWednesday the company will provide 147 vertical launch systems and 64 capsule launch systems to the U…

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