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  • Hughes Presents Satcom Tech Prototype to Military Officials; Rick Lober Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes Presents Satcom Tech Prototype to Military Officials; Rick Lober Quoted

    Hughes Network Systems has demonstrated a hardware technology built to protect military communications from intentional or environmental interference and support interoperability between satellite communications platforms. The company said Monday it presented to top Department of Defense officials the Multi-modem Adaptor prototype that works to autonomously select modem, satellite and service providers to help users manage network operations […] More

  • Blue Origin to Send NASA-Sponsored Research, Tech Payloads Into Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blue Origin to Send NASA-Sponsored Research, Tech Payloads Into Space

    Blue Origin‘s New Shepard rocket is scheduled to launch Tuesday and carry nine NASA-backed research and technology payloads into space as part of the agency’s Flight Opportunities program. The NS-10 mission will mark the space vehicle’s 10th launch and the second time the company will fly a Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory experiment, Blue Origin said […] More

  • Air Force Research Lab, AFWERX Launch Microelectronics Design Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Research Lab, AFWERX Launch Microelectronics Design Challenge

    The Air Force Research Laboratory and the service branch’s innovation group AFWERX Vegas have launched a contest that seeks concepts for new system-on-a-chip platforms designed to operate and build up the capabilities of autonomous technologies. Selected projects will receive access to a potential $2B Department of Defense program under the Advanced Microelectronics Prototype and Design […] More

  • Chris Sambar: AT&T Expects FirstNet Subscriber Growth Amid Emergency Response Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Sambar: AT&T Expects FirstNet Subscriber Growth Amid Emergency Response Efforts

    Chris Sambar, a senior vice president at AT&T, has said the company’s efforts to fulfill communications support requests from FirstNet subscribers during 2018 attracted more public safety agencies to adopt the nationwide first-responder network, Urgent Communications reported Friday. He noted the telecommunications firm has resolved 90 requests this year, four to six times higher than the number recorded […] More

  • Former NSC Official Tracy McKibben Joins Huntington Ingalls Board; Thomas Fargo Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former NSC Official Tracy McKibben Joins Huntington Ingalls Board; Thomas Fargo Quoted

    Tracy McKibben, a former official at the White House’s National Security Council, has joined the board of directors of Huntington Ingalls Industries. She is the founder investment and consulting firm MAC Energy Advisors, which she also leads as its CEO, and has worked with government and industry clients throughout her professional career, HII said Friday. McKibben previously […] More

  • ULA Sets Dec. 18 as New Launch Date for NRO Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Sets Dec. 18 as New Launch Date for NRO Mission

    United Launch Alliance rescheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 18, the launch of a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket. The NROL-71 mission will still lift off from Space Launch Complex-6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as originally planned, the company said Thursday. ULA initially scheduled the launch for Dec. 7 but […] More

  • Virgin Galactic's Piloted Spacecraft Carries NASA Tech Payloads in Suborbital Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virgin Galactic’s Piloted Spacecraft Carries NASA Tech Payloads in Suborbital Flight Test

    Virgin Galactic has completed a flight test of a company-built manned space vehicle carrying four NASA technology experiments to suborbital space. The agency said Thursday SpaceShipTwo‘s payloads were designed to examine the behavior of dust particles on planetary surfaces, the effects of microgravity on life support systems and plant growth, and vibration during launch, re-entry […] More

  • Deloitte Study Details Challenges to DATA Act Implementation; Dave Mader Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Study Details Challenges to DATA Act Implementation; Dave Mader Quoted

    A new study by Deloitte and the Data Foundation predicts the federal government may face challenges in implementing a law to establish an open data set to improve federal spending transparency, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The study states the implementation of the Data Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 faces technical and cultural […] More

  • NASA Seeks Industry Partners to Build Human Lunar Landers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Industry Partners to Build Human Lunar Landers

    NASA aims to partner with U.S.-based companies to design and develop new reusable landing platforms designed to bring astronauts back to the lunar surface. The agency said Friday it plans to begin testing of new landers on the moon in 2024 through multiphase partnerships in support of its goal to launch a crewed mission in 2028. […] More

  • Fluor-Walsh JV to Provide Design-Build Services for $2.1B Chicago Rail Line Modernization Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fluor-Walsh JV to Provide Design-Build Services for $2.1B Chicago Rail Line Modernization Project

    A joint venture of Fluor and Walsh Construction Co. has received a contact to deisgn and build railway infrastructure under the first phase of the Chicago Transit Authority’s $2.1B Red and Purple Line Modernization Program. The project is scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 2019 and be completed by early 2025, Fluor said Wednesday. The industry team — […] More

  • NASA Seeks New Planetary Science Investigations for Discovery Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks New Planetary Science Investigations for Discovery Program

    NASA has released a draft funding opportunity that seeks new planetary studies to support the space agency’s Discovery Program. The agency said Wednesday it plans to allocate $500M for up to five projects in fiscal year 2019. The Discovery Program offers flight opportunities to science investigations that could help expand the agency’s understanding of planetary […] More

  • Cohesity Reports 200% Increase in Number of Public Sector Customers; Steve Grewal Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cohesity Reports 200% Increase in Number of Public Sector Customers; Steve Grewal Quoted

    Hyperconverged secondary storage vendor Cohesity saw the number of its public sector clients increase by nearly 200 percent during its fiscal third and fourth quarters. Cohesity said Monday it added 24 new federal customers in Q4 alone and the company attributes the growth of its government customer base to agencies’ data center consolidation initiatives. “IT modernization initiatives are […] More