Navy Awards Alion Science $145M DDG 51 Shipbuilding Program Support Contract Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a potential five-year, $145 million contract to provide various support services to the U.S. Navy’s DDG 51 shipbuilding program. The contract covers ship production planning and engineering, systems engineering, combat systems test engineering, post delivery planning, configuration and data management and logistics services, Alion Science said Monday…

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DISA Posts RFP for Potential $902M Communication Services Contract The Defense Information Systems Agency has posted a request for proposals on a potential 10-year, $902 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for communication infrastructure services…

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NRO, CIA Vet Bob Brodowski Joins Orbital ATK Space Systems as Advanced Tech Dev’t Director Bob Brodowski, formerly director of the National Reconnaissance Office‘s advanced systems and technology directorate, has joined Orbital ATK‘s (NYSE: OA) space systems group as director for advanced technology development…

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Air Force Seeks Proposals for Radiation Detector Repair Services The U.S. Air Force looks to issue a sole-source contract for repair work on the military branch’s radiation detector equipment. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps stated the Air Force seeks a contractor to inspect and fix three Cryo-Pulse 5 detectors as well as provide one coaxial field effect transistor for detector…

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NNSA, DOE, Argonne, WSU to Unveil Nuclear Stockpile Security Research Facility The National Nuclear Security Administration, Energy Department, Argonne National Laboratory and Washington State University will launch a research facility that will help NNSA secure the U.S. nuclear stockpile…

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Granite Construction to Repave, Repair Fort Campbell Army Airfield The U.S. Army Mission and Installation Contracting Command has awarded Granite Construction a $29 million contract to repair and refurbish the airfield at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Granite said Friday the contract covers asphalt repair and repaving for the two main runways, portland cement concrete and asphalt concrete repairs on 14 ramps and taxiways as well as airfield lighting and marking updates for the entire Campbell Army Airfield…

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Cubic Receives $52M Joint Readiness Training Center Support Contract Modification Cubic‘s global defense business segment has received a new $52 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to support rotational and pre-deployment training exercise at the service branch’s Joint Readiness Training Center…

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Lockheed Transports Missile Warning Satellite to Cape Canaveral AF Station; David Sheridan Comments Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Air Force‘s next missile warning satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Aug. 2. The Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 3 satellite was shipped to Florida aboard a C-5 Galaxy aircraft at nearby Moffett Federal Air Field in preparation for its October launch, Lockheed said Friday…

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Air Force Research Lab, Intelligent Automation Develop Aircraft Damage Characterization Tool The Air Force Research Laboratory and Intelligent Automation Inc. have developed and tested a sensor that works to automate the inspection of aircraft inlet and exhaust damage under a $4 million contract…

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ManTech to Support Navy Ship Maintenance, Logistics Info Systems ManTech International has been awarded a potential $47 million bridge contract modification to provide sustainment and operation support services for the U.S. Navy‘s Ship Maintenance and Logistics Information Systems program…

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Reuters: US Releases Declassified Drone Strike Policy Document The Obama administration has published a declassified form of the government’s drone strike policy overseas in response to federal court order in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2015, Reuters reported Saturday…

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