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  • CAES to Equip Astrobotic Lunar Landers With Radiation Hardened Computing Tech; David Young Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAES to Equip Astrobotic Lunar Landers With Radiation Hardened Computing Tech; David Young Quoted

    CAES will deliver mission flight computer and radiation hardened microelectronics to Astrobotic for use on the space robotics company’s Peregrine and Griffin landers scheduled to conduct missions on the Moon in 2022 and 2023. GR712RC is a LEON3FT SPARC V8 flight control processor built by CAES to provide landers with low power, multi-core capability, the […] More

  • SAIC Books $98M Task Order for Air Force A10 Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Books $98M Task Order for Air Force A10 Support Services

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential five-year, $98 million task order for a range of services in support of the U.S. Air Force A10-S and its component branches and the missions of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Branch. The company will provide A10 strategic plans and policy support services, including analytical, operational, […] More

  • Industry Vet Pamela Fusco Named Splunk CISO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Vet Pamela Fusco Named Splunk CISO

    Pamela Fusco brings her over three-decade of global enterprise security experience in her new role as chief information security officer at Splunk where she will be responsible for the software company’s overall information security infrastructure. Fusco will collaborate with the Splunk team on implementing cloud-based security strategy and taking data-driven approach to help customers strengthen […] More

  • HII Christens Fort Lauderdale San Antonio-Class Amphibious Transport Dock Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Christens Fort Lauderdale San Antonio-Class Amphibious Transport Dock Ship

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has christened the 12th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship manufactured by its Ingalls Shipbuilding division for the U.S. Navy in support of its amphibious and expeditionary missions. HII said Saturday LPD 28 is named Fort Lauderdale in recognition of the Florida city’s decades-long contributions to the Navy, including serving as a […] More

  • Army Taps General Dynamics to Prototype Infantry Squad Vehicle's Electronic Warfare System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps General Dynamics to Prototype Infantry Squad Vehicle’s Electronic Warfare System

    General Dynamics has received a contract from the U.S. Army to build a prototype of its electronic warfare system for use aboard the new Infantry Squad Vehicle of the service branch’s Infantry Brigade Combat Team, C4ISRNET reported Saturday. The contractor will test how its Tactical Electronic Warfare System will use power from the ISV to […] More

  • Redwire to Provide Avionics, Optical Navigation System for Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lunar Lander - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Redwire to Provide Avionics, Optical Navigation System for Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lunar Lander

    Firefly Aerospace has tapped Redwire to deliver core avionics and optical navigation system for the former’s Blue Ghost lander, which will send science and technology payloads to the moon in 2023 as part of a NASA initiative. Under the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program, Firefly will deliver 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations […] More

  • Mercury Unveils Avionics Systems for Data Recording, Storage & Transfer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Unveils Avionics Systems for Data Recording, Storage & Transfer

    Mercury Systems has rolled out new data recorder, storage and transfer systems designed to facilitate secure data exchange for both rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. The new releases are the High Definition Video Recorder family, the Advanced Data Transfer Systems and the Data Storage Systems that all feature open architectures […] More

  • DLH Secures CDC Contract for HIV Data Management Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLH Secures CDC Contract for HIV Data Management Services

    DLH Holdings has received a potential five-year, $35 million contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide public health data management services to its HIV Prevention Division. Services include program monitoring, research and reporting support, surveillance, evaluation as well as management and analysis of qualitative and quantitative scientific and non-scientific data, the […] More

  • IRS Posts Draft RFP for Augmented Reality Capabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Posts Draft RFP for Augmented Reality Capabilities

    The Internal Revenue Service has released a draft request for proposal detailing its requirement for augmented reality capabilities in support of the Enterprise Digitalization and Case Management Office’s efforts in reducing manual processes and enhancing taxpayer services and compliance operations. EDCMO AR requirement, or Solution Challenge Seven under the Pilot IRS program, is meant to […] More

  • Former Blue Origin, SpaceX Exec Lauren Lyons Named Firefly's Chief Operating Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Blue Origin, SpaceX Exec Lauren Lyons Named Firefly’s Chief Operating Officer

    Lauren Lyons, former executive at Blue Origin and SpaceX, was appointed as chief operating officer at Firefly Aerospace where she will be responsible for driving efforts in scaling production and operations to support company growth. The new COO will focus on moving Firefly toward a production environment from its research and development setting to ensure […] More

  • Leidos to Manage IT Operations of 3 Shore-Based Navy Networks; Daniel Voce Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Manage IT Operations of 3 Shore-Based Navy Networks; Daniel Voce Quoted

    TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug 17, 2021 — Leidos has wrapped up the transition phase for the services segment of its $7.7 billion Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract and assumed information technology management responsibility for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, OCONUS Naval Enterprise Network and the Marine Corps Enterprise Network, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 3. “With […] More