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  • Boeing Invests in Cuberg Via HorizonX to Back Battery Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Invests in Cuberg Via HorizonX to Back Battery Tech Development

    Boeing has invested in Cuberg to help the Berkeley, California-based startup further develop its battery cell technology for potential applications within the industrial and aerospace sectors. Boeing said Monday it made the investment through its ventures arm HorizonX, which spearheaded a seed funding round that included HPC Energy Services. Former researchers at Stanford University founded […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Industry Backs Military Via Protected Satcom Tech Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Industry Backs Military Via Protected Satcom Tech Investments

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said warfighters seek and use protected tactical waveforms as adversaries target satellite communications through jamming. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a two-part blog post published Monday that the private sector continues to invest in new technology capabilities that seek to provide protected satcom and anti-jamming […] More

  • Matt Desch Talks Iridium’s Partnership With SpaceX, Growth of Internet of Things - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch Talks Iridium’s Partnership With SpaceX, Growth of Internet of Things

    Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, told Motherboard’s Daniel Oberhaus in an interview published Sunday about the company’s reason for partnering with SpaceX to launch its constellation of Iridium NEXT communications satellites into orbit. “In many ways, the Falcon 9 was built around the Iridium payload because we were the first ones to work with […] More

  • Kratos Aims to Meet Tactical, Target Drone Demand With New Oklahoma Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Aims to Meet Tactical, Target Drone Demand With New Oklahoma Facility

    A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions division has opened an 8,800-square-foot facility in Oklahoma City to house engineering, production and administrative operations as the company anticipates an increased demand for target and tactical unmanned aerial systems. The company said Friday the new facility unveiled by its unmanned systems division will accommodate the production of new tactical […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Ka-Band Satcom Tech Essential for Airborne ISR Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Ka-Band Satcom Tech Essential for Airborne ISR Missions

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said she believes the adoption of Ka-band satellite communications technology can help the military address interoperability requirements for airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a two-part blog post published Thursday that Ka-band’s capacity to cover frequencies that civilian and military […] More

  • GAO Issues RFI on Potential IT Modernization Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GAO Issues RFI on Potential IT Modernization Support Sources

    The Government Accountability Office has asked information on potential vendors that can offer information technology, software development and related support to GAO’s information systems and technology services office as part of the IT Transformation, Modernization and Operational Support Services program. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says GAO intends to solicit industry feedback as part of its […] More

  • Jerry Hogge: Leidos Team On Track to Complete 2-Month Optimization Period for DoD EHR System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jerry Hogge: Leidos Team On Track to Complete 2-Month Optimization Period for DoD EHR System

    Jerry Hogge, senior vice president of Leidos’ health business, has said the Leidos-led team is on schedule to implement the optimization process for the Defense Department’s commercial electronic health records system over a two-month period, Nextgov reported Wednesday. The report said DoD and the industry team will address the remaining “trouble tickets” received from four test […] More

  • SpaceX Completes Falcon Heavy Initial Static Fire Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Completes Falcon Heavy Initial Static Fire Test

    SpaceX on Wednesday carried out the first static fire test of its Falcon Heavy rocket at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for its initial launch that CEO Elon Musk said could occur in a “week or so,” Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday. The company conducted a hold-down firing test of the rocket’s 27 Merlin 1D main engines […] More

  • Reports: Boeing to Mull Participation in Canada’s Fighter Jet Replacement Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Boeing to Mull Participation in Canada’s Fighter Jet Replacement Competition

    Boeing has not yet decided whether to propose its F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft for a potential $14.5 billion contract to replace Canada’s fleet of CF-18 fighter planes, Flightglobal reported Tuesday. The Chicago-based aerospace company said in a statement it will assess its participation in Canada’s Future Fighter Capability Project once the Canadian government provides the […] More

  • Air Force Renews Telos’ System Security Review Licenses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Renews Telos’ System Security Review Licenses

    Telos will continue to carry out system security assessments to support the Defense Department’s cybersecurity authorization process after the U.S. Air Force renewed the company’s licenses. The renewal of the firm’s General Agent of the Security Control Assessor and Special ASCA certifications by the Air Force Space Command’s SCA would allow Telos to test networks, […] More

  • Lt. Gen. John Thompson: SpaceX’s USAF Certification for Falcon 9 to Remain - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lt. Gen. John Thompson: SpaceX’s USAF Certification for Falcon 9 to Remain

    Lt. Gen. John Thompson, commander of the U.S. Air Force’s space and missile systems center, has said his team did not find any information that would alter SpaceX’s certification status for its Falcon 9 rocket based on available data, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Thompson told Bloomberg the decision was based on an initial telemetry review associated […] More