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  • Gerrit Burke Joins MartinFederal as Engineering & Technical Solutions Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gerrit Burke Joins MartinFederal as Engineering & Technical Solutions Director

    Gerrit Burke, former business development lead for enterprise information technology and cybersecurity at Dynetics, has been appointed director of MartinFederal Consulting‘s engineering and technical solutions group. Burke has more than one decade of experience supporting multiple defense software development and engineering projects in the defense sector, MartinFederal said Monday. His work included support for customers […] More

  • General Atomics' Aircraft Launch, Recovery Systems Exceed Navy Goal in Post-Delivery Testing Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Aircraft Launch, Recovery Systems Exceed Navy Goal in Post-Delivery Testing Phase

    The U.S. Navy has surpassed its goal of completing 8,000 aircraft launches and recoveries with General Atomics-built systems for the post-delivery test and trial phase of USS Gerald R. Ford carrier without causing safety incidents. General Atomics said Monday its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear beat the military branch’s target for cats […] More

  • Air Force Vet Maryanne Miller Joins Bristow Group Board; Christopher Bradshaw Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Vet Maryanne Miller Joins Bristow Group Board; Christopher Bradshaw Quoted

    Maryanne Miller, former head of the Air Mobility Command and the Air Force Reserve, has joined the board of directors at aviation services provider Bristow Group. Her nearly four-decade military career included command experience in global airlift, aerial refueling, aeromedical evacuation and presidential transportation support, Bristow said Monday. She logged more than 4.800 flight hours […] More

  • DARPA Program Aims to Help Autonomous System Operators Understand AI Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Program Aims to Help Autonomous System Operators Understand AI Process

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a program that seeks to help operators of highly automated and artificial intelligence systems respond to unexpected off-nominal behavior of technology. DARPA said Friday it aims to explore human-machine interface tools that could offer users a basic understanding of the processes, performance and environmental context of an […] More

  • General Dynamics Reaches Milestone With F-35 Radome Delivery; Carlo Zaffanella Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Reaches Milestone With F-35 Radome Delivery; Carlo Zaffanella Quoted

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has completed the delivery of the 500th radome for fifth-generation aircraft radar antenna protection to F-35 prime contractor Lockheed Martin. The two companies originally developed wideband nose radomes in a joint effort to protect active electronically scanned array radars on domestic and foreign military F-35 jets, General Dynamics Mission Systems […] More

  • GSA to Evaluate Five Building Tech Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA to Evaluate Five Building Tech Proposals

    The General Services Administration has chosen five U.S.-made technologies that will undergo assessments to determine the impact of each offering on energy performance and environmental quality inside agency facilities. GSA said Monday it will evaluate the technical and operational functions of the building management systems through its Green Proving Ground program in partnership with the […] More

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    Air Force, Navy Put Raytheon’s New AMRAAM Variant Through Free-Flight Tests

    A joint U.S. Air Force-Navy program office tested new guidance hardware of Raytheon Technologies' Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile at a live fire demonstration that took place Wednesday at Point Mugu Sea Test Range in California. Preliminary data from Raytheon, the AMRAAM prime contractor, showed the AIM-120D-3D variant met separation autopilot and free-flight navigation objectives during the missile shot test with an F/A-18F Super Hornet jet, Naval Air Systems Command said Thursday.

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