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  • Small Business LI2 Lands Contract for Admin Support at NASA Armstrong - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Small Business LI2 Lands Contract for Admin Support at NASA Armstrong

    Texas-based small business Logical Innovations Inc. will provide technical and administrative support to NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California under a potential five-year, $26.6 million contract. NASA said Thursday the one-year base period of performance for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Center Administrative Technical Support Services II contract commences Nov. 1. CATSS II covers support services for Armstrong’s resource, acquisition and financial management offices; […] More

  • BAE, IDT Offer RapidIO Microchip for Data Transfer in Space; Ian McDonald Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, IDT Offer RapidIO Microchip for Data Transfer in Space; Ian McDonald Comments

    The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems and Integrated Device Technology have collaborated to develop a space-grade microchip that works to support high-speed, high-volume data transfers during space operations. IDT said Wednesday its 240 Gbps CPS-1848 RapidIO switch serves as the foundation for BAE Systems Inc.’s RADNET1848-PS technology. Ian McDonald, director of space products and processing at BAE Systems Inc., noted that the microchip supports efforts […] More

  • Coalition Forces Demo SM-3 Intercept in European Theater - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coalition Forces Demo SM-3 Intercept in European Theater

    Coalition forces have completed a new at-sea demonstration of integrated air and missile defense capability with the interception of a ballistic missile target using a Raytheon-built Standard Missile-3 fired from USS Ross. The U.S. Navy said Tuesday the Maritime Theater Missile Defense Forum’s ASD-15 event featured a scenario in which an SM-3 Block IA guided interceptor engaged the missile target over the […] More

  • Lockheed's F-16V Completes 1st Flight With Northrop's Fire Control Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s F-16V Completes 1st Flight With Northrop’s Fire Control Radar

    Lockheed Martin‘s Viper variant of the F-16 fighter jet has completed its first flight while equipped with Northrop Grumman‘s APG-83 active electronically scanned array Scalable Agile Beam Radar. Lockheed said Wednesday the F-16V features a common global sustainment infrastructure and an updated cockpit center pedestal display, mission computer and Ethernet data bus. Northrop’s APG-83 SABR AESA avionics works to provide […] More

  • GCN: Lockheed, Battelle, NEC Work on Drone Defense Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GCN: Lockheed, Battelle, NEC Work on Drone Defense Tech

    Companies continue to explore new drone defense technologies to address the potential threat from unmanned aircraft systems as they prove hard to detect using existing radar technologies, GCN reported Tuesday. Mark Pomerleau writes that NEC, Battelle and Lockheed Martin currently have programs that seek to bolster drone defense through capabilities ranging from detection to disruption. […] More

  • Lockheed's Parking Lot Solar Array in Florida Now Operational - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Parking Lot Solar Array in Florida Now Operational

    Lockheed Martin has powered up the solar array over the parking lot of its facility in Florida in support of efforts to achieve energy efficiency as a 12,000-employee industrial company in the state. The company said Tuesday the project covers an area of 151,400 square feet and is the largest private solar array in Florida. “It is a […] More

  • Paul Christman: Dell Survey Shows Agencies Need Context-Aware Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Christman: Dell Survey Shows Agencies Need Context-Aware Security

    A survey by Dell indicates the need for agencies to adopt a context-aware approach to security to avoid the potential risks in the usual password-centric approach as users experience password overload, according to company executive Paul Christman. Christman, vice president for the public sector business in Dell’s software group, wrote in a blog entry posted Sept. 30 that password […] More

  • Booz Allen, Florida Center for Cybersecurity Hold C-Suite Cyber Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Florida Center for Cybersecurity Hold C-Suite Cyber Exercise

    Booz Allen Hamilton and the Florida Center for Cybersecurity hosted a cybersecurity breach simulation exercise for more than 60 senior public- and private-sector leaders at the University of South Florida on Oct. 13. The partners said Tuesday the exercise sought to highlight the relevance of cybersecurity to C-level and boardroom executives and efforts to bolster internal communications and cross-sector coordination in support […] More

  • NASA Launches Website for Earth Images From Lockheed's EPIC Camera - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Launches Website for Earth Images From Lockheed’s EPIC Camera

    NASA has unveiled a new website to provide daily color images of Earth captured by the Lockheed Martin-built Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory. The space agency said Tuesday the website will show a sequence of images that show the sunlit side of the Earth as it rotates and will allow visitors to access […] More

  • CrowdStrike: China-Affiliated Cyber Attacks Continued After Pact Signed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CrowdStrike: China-Affiliated Cyber Attacks Continued After Pact Signed

    Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, says his company has identified several attempted intrusions by China-affiliated threat actors on U.S. companies over the past month. Alperovitch wrote in a blog entry posted Monday that the company used its cloud-based CrowdStrike Falcon technology to detect and combat the attacks, which focused mainly on the technology […] More

  • Orbital ATK Opens Ramjet Test Facility With Supersonic Flight Simulation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Opens Ramjet Test Facility With Supersonic Flight Simulation

    Orbital ATK has opened its new Ramjet Test Facility at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia to provide a clear-air testing environment that simulates supersonic flight conditions. The company said Monday it has also completed the final validation and tests for the facility, which replicates up to Mach 4.5 in air mass flow and up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit […] More

  • Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Missile Against EW Interference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Missile Against EW Interference

    Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force have conducted flight tests on the High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile inventory’s HARM Control Section Modification product on an F-16 aircraft. The company said Monday the HARM upgrade works to operate against electronic warfare systems such as enemy radars. Mike Jarrett, vice president of Raytheon’s air warfare systems unit, said the missile features updates that aim […] More