Draper Lab Awarded Potential $393M Trident Missile Guidance Support Contract The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles Stark Draper Laboratory a potential five-year, $393 million contract to help repair, test and maintain guidance systems and support equipment for Trident D5 missiles…

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Lockheed Lands $147M Navy Trident II D5 Missile Engineering Support Contract Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured a potential three-year, $147 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide navigation subsystem engineering support related to Trident II D5 missiles for the U…

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France Orders 3rd General Atomics Reaper Drone From US France has placed an order for a third General Atomics-built Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle under a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. Air Force, the French defense ministry said Thursday. The French government made the order through the country’s directorate general of armaments and under a military program that aims to equip its air force with four Reapers by 2019…

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Engility Lands $14M Navy C2 System Contract Extension; Tony Smeraglinolo Comments Engility Holdings has received a $14 million contract extension to keep its upgrade and technical support for the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s command-and-control systems. The company will continue to explore potential technology upgrades and provide support for the Deployable Joint Command and Control system for an additional five years, Engility said Tuesday…

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Jason Hannah Joins MIL as Corporate Business Development VP; Marisa Daley Comments Jason Hannah, formerly executive director of mission support solutions at ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT), has joined MIL Corp. as vice president of corporate business development. Hannah will be responsible for the company’s program management, contracts and business strategy, MIL said Tuesday…

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Air Force to Hunt Cyber Threats With Endgame’s Automated Cyber Ops Platform Cybersecurity software vendor Endgame has received a sole-source contract to provide its automated Cyber Operations Platform to help the U.S. Air Force detect, hunt and respond to cyber adversaries…

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GSA Taps SolarCity for Renewable Energy Project at 9 Federal Buildings SolarCity will build and operate photovoltaic technology at nine government facilities under a power purchase agreement with the General Services Administration as part of the Federal Aggregated Solar Procurement Pilot initiative…

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December 15 Market Close: GovCon Index, US Stocks Rise as Investors Await Fed’s Interest Rate Call The GovCon Index rebounded with the larger U.S. stock market Thursday to record a gain of 0.165 points to 75.932 on the last trading day before the Federal Reserve‘s two-day meeting. Navistar International (NYSE: NAV) led Index gainers at 7…

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