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  • Northrop Subsidiary Eyes 2024 Launch for Mission Robotic Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary Eyes 2024 Launch for Mission Robotic Vehicle

    Northrop Grumman’s Space Logistics subsidiary plans to launch a robotic satellite servicing vehicle in 2024, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The Mission Robotic Vehicle is equipped with a robotic arm developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and is designed to install small propulsion equipment to extend the lives of satellites in the geostationary orbit by […] More

  • Raytheon Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Texas; Roy Azevedo Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Opens New Manufacturing Facility in Texas; Roy Azevedo Quoted

    Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business has unveiled a 178,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in McKinney, Texas, and announced plans to open a larger facility in the city by 2025 to provide new offices, production and laboratory spaces. “Our new Advanced Integration and Manufacturing Center and plans for greater expansion reflect a deliberate strategy to transform ourselves […] More

  • Northrop Demos Next-Gen Electronic Warfare Tech's Interoperability With AESA Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Next-Gen Electronic Warfare Tech’s Interoperability With AESA Radar

    Northrop Grumman tested the interoperability of the Next Generation Electronic Warfare system and an active electronically scanned array radar aboard a demonstrator aircraft during the Northern Lightning Air Force exercise held in August at Volk Field Air National Guard Base in Wisconsin, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday. NGEW is an ultrawideband system designed for use aboard the […] More

  • Raytheon Builds Explainable AI Tools to Predict Weather, Satellite Issues; David Appel Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Builds Explainable AI Tools to Predict Weather, Satellite Issues; David Appel Quoted

    Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business is building explainable machine learning and artificial intelligence systems that could support the missions of users in national security, space, cybersecurity, weather prediction and other high-stakes environments. The company said Tuesday its AI platforms could help weather forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predict the path of […] More

  • Govini Issues Report on DOD’s JADC2 Spending; Billy Fabian Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govini Issues Report on DOD’s JADC2 Spending; Billy Fabian Quoted

    A new Govini report has found that the Department of Defense’s spending on technologies meant to advance the Joint All Domain Command and Control concept rose between fiscal years 2017 and 2020, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. Govini found that DOD spending on “large and stovepiped” command, control, communications, computers and information programs that are specific […] More

  • ThycoticCentrify’s Bill O’Neill: Government Should Work Cohesively to Protect Critical Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ThycoticCentrify’s Bill O’Neill: Government Should Work Cohesively to Protect Critical Infrastructure

    Bill O’Neill, vice president of public sector at ThycoticCentrify, said protecting U.S. critical infrastructure from cybersecurity threats demands a whole-of-nation effort. O’Neill wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on GCN about the Biden administration’s recent efforts to secure critical infrastructure and one of those is the release of a national security memorandum, which he said […] More

  • AWS Launches Customer Responsibility Matrix to Help Contractors Speed Up CMMC Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Launches Customer Responsibility Matrix to Help Contractors Speed Up CMMC Compliance

    Amazon Web Services has unveiled a customer responsibility matrix to help contractors accelerate their compliance with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The AWS CMMC CRM tool outlines the CMMC practices that could be inherited by customers from AWS and provides descriptions that could be used in systems security plans and other […] More

  • Hybrid Cloud Service From VMware, AWS Gets FedRAMP ATO at High Impact Level - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hybrid Cloud Service From VMware, AWS Gets FedRAMP ATO at High Impact Level

    The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted the VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) service an authority to operate at the High Impact level. The FedRAMP High certification, which was sponsored by the U.S. Marshals Service, will enable government agencies to protect and migrate highly sensitive workloads to the cloud, implement remote workforce […] More

  • Lockheed Launches ‘LMXT’ Tanker - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Launches ‘LMXT’ Tanker

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a new tanker designed to meet the requirements of the U.S. Air Force’s KC-Y program. The company said Friday its LMXT strategic tanker comes with a fly-by-wire boom capability, air-to-air refueling system, advanced camera and vision system, open system architecture and a multidomain operations node to improve onboard situational awareness and […] More

  • John Mengucci on CACI’s M&A Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Mengucci on CACI’s M&A Strategy

    John Mengucci, president and CEO of CACI International and a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, said that when it comes to mergers and acquisitions, the Reston, Virginia-based government services contractor is interested in buying assets that could fill gaps in capabilities, past performance and customer relationships, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. “We’re going to be […] More

  • AT&T, Naval Postgraduate School Sign Agreement to Explore 5G, Edge Computing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T, Naval Postgraduate School Sign Agreement to Explore 5G, Edge Computing

    AT&T and the Naval Postgraduate School will conduct research and build 5G and edge computing-based maritime platforms in support of defense, national security, shipping and other commercial industries under a three-year collaborative research and development agreement. NPS and AT&T will conduct experiments using 5G and edge computing to develop maritime applications that can link crewed […] More

  • Lt. Gen. Eric Fick: DOD Eyes Tech Data Access Under F-35 Performance-Based Logistics Contract With Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lt. Gen. Eric Fick: DOD Eyes Tech Data Access Under F-35 Performance-Based Logistics Contract With Lockheed

    Lt. Gen. Eric Fick, head of the F-35 joint program office at the Department of Defense, said DOD could be ready to enter into a performance-based logistics contract with Lockheed Martin for the fighter jet program once the recently signed agreement for F-35 sustainment support services expires in fiscal year 2023, Defense News reported Thursday. […] More