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  • Raytheon to Design Air-Breathing Hypersonic Missile Demonstrator for US-Australia Experiment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Design Air-Breathing Hypersonic Missile Demonstrator for US-Australia Experiment

    Raytheon Technologies‘ missiles and defense business has received a $33.7 million U.S. Air Force contract to create a hypersonic cruise missile demonstration concept for a U.S.-Australian weapons program. Raytheon said Thursday it will work with Northrop Grumman under the Southern Cross Integrated Flight Research Experiment, an effort focused on advancing air-breathing hypersonic technologies. In support […] More

  • ICF Lands 3 HHS Awards for ACF Technical Assistance; Mark Lee Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Lands 3 HHS Awards for ACF Technical Assistance; Mark Lee Quoted

    ICF has received three awards worth $24 million in total from the Department of Health and Human Services for technical assistance services in support of several programs under the Administration for Children and Families. Mark Lee, executive vice president and private sector lead at ICF, said in a statement published Thursday the agreements extend the […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, Navy Test Operational Readiness of Future USS Fort Lauderdale Transport Dock Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls, Navy Test Operational Readiness of Future USS Fort Lauderdale Transport Dock Ship

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division and the U.S. Navy have completed the builder’s sea trials of the service branch’s 12th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock vessel. The team evaluated the readiness of the future USS Fort Lauderdale and its systems ahead of the ship’s acceptance trials and inclusion in the naval fleet, the Naval […] More

  • CGI Federal Books GSA Contract for Modernized Catalog Management Platform Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Federal Books GSA Contract for Modernized Catalog Management Platform Development

    CGI‘s federal business arm has secured a new General Services Administration contract for the development of a catalog data management application that is meant to replace the agency’s old desktop-based system. In comparison to the legacy Schedule Input Program, the Common Catalog Platform from CGI Federal will be web-based and application programming interface accessible, GSA […] More

  • Northrop Invests in Semiconductor Wafer Post-Processing Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Invests in Semiconductor Wafer Post-Processing Facility

    Northrop Grumman has established a packaging line in Apopka, Florida, to process semiconductor wafer products intended for use in defense equipment such as radio frequency and electro-optic infrared systems. The company said Tuesday it will use the Micro-Line facility to conduct passivation, testing and other post-processing work on microelectronics packaging technologies with a diameter of […] More

  • Excella to Provide Agile Coaching for DOJ's Spartan Case Management System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Excella to Provide Agile Coaching for DOJ’s Spartan Case Management System

    The Department of Justice has tapped Excella for agile coaching and comprehensive training required to further develop and maintain a case management system used to flag illegal operations focused on firearms, explosives and alcohol and tobacco products. The Arlington, Virginia-based company said Tuesday it will provide agile support services needed for continued usability and reliability […] More

  • BigBear.ai Subsidiary to Automate DIA's Foreign Force Tracking, Identification Work; Reggie Brothers Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BigBear.ai Subsidiary to Automate DIA’s Foreign Force Tracking, Identification Work; Reggie Brothers Quoted

    BigBear, a BigBear.ai subsidiary, has secured a one-year contract to implement artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms into the Defense Intelligence Agency’s foreign military force tracking framework. The company said Tuesday contract work will focus on the DIA framework being integrated with BigBear.ai’s Machine Assisted Rapid Repository Services technology that features proprietary data collection and […] More

  • Army Taps General Atomics-Boeing Team for High-Energy Laser Prototype Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps General Atomics-Boeing Team for High-Energy Laser Prototype Development

    The U.S. Army has selected a team of General Atomics‘ electromagnetics systems business and Boeing to develop and demonstrate a 300 kilowatt-class laser prototype with beam control technology. General Atomics said Monday the partnership will aim to demonstrate the Distributed Gain High Energy Laser Weapon System with a Boeing-made beam director and software designed to […] More

  • Former Peraton Exec Carrie Supko Named Federal Services VP at Allyon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Peraton Exec Carrie Supko Named Federal Services VP at Allyon

    Carrie Supko, a former business development executive at Peraton, was appointed as vice president of federal services at Allyon, an information technology and health care small business. The new VP will lead Allyon’s growth efforts and partnership initiatives to address the needs of the Department of Defense, U.S. intelligence agencies and other clients within the […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Opens New Partnership-Focused Research Facility in Maryland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Opens New Partnership-Focused Research Facility in Maryland

    Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has opened a new research facility at its campus in Laurel, Maryland, in an effort to further enable collaboration between its analysts and internal and external partners. The new Building 201 has 263,000 square feet of space and features a flexible and reconfigurable floor plan for meeting changing research […] More

  • DOE Funds R&D Projects on Photovoltaic, Solar-Thermal Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Funds R&D Projects on Photovoltaic, Solar-Thermal Technologies

    Forty solar technology-focused projects were awarded Department of Energy grants worth almost $40 million in total to support research and development initiatives that can provide power for fuel and chemicals production purposes. The projects will center on photovoltaic systems that transform direct sunlight into electricity and will concentrate solar-thermal power platforms that turn solar energy […] More

  • New IARPA Program to Develop Tech for Measuring Ionizing Radiation Exposure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New IARPA Program to Develop Tech for Measuring Ionizing Radiation Exposure

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has released a broad agency announcement for new capabilities in detecting and measuring exposure to lower-dose ionizing radiation. The Targeted Evaluation of Ionizing Radiation Exposure program is aimed at creating new biodosimetry approaches that enable the quantification of exposures from samples collected and tested through minimal or non-invasive means, […] More