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  • PacStar to Begin Full-Rate Communications Module Production for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PacStar to Begin Full-Rate Communications Module Production for Army

    Pacific Star Communications has received authorization from the U.S. Army to begin full-rate production of deployable and tactical communications modules in support of the service’s Transportable Tactical Command Communications program. PacStar’s 400-Series small form factor communication modules are designed to provide baseband networking support for the T2C2 program’s Heavy and Lite satellite terminals that work to provide […] More

  • DARPA, Consortium Pick 6 University Research Centers for $200M Microelectronics Tech Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Consortium Pick 6 University Research Centers for $200M Microelectronics Tech Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and an industry consortium have selected six university research centers to conduct research efforts that seek to address challenges related to microelectronic technologies under a potential five-year, $200 million cost-sharing program. Linton Salmon, manager of DARPA’s Joint University Microelectronics Program, said in a statement published Wednesday JUMP and the […] More

  • Orbital ATK Demos Counter-Drone Tech at Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Demos Counter-Drone Tech at Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment

    Orbital ATK demonstrated its anti-unmanned aerial system defense system at the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment held at Fort Sill in Oklahoma in an effort to gather feedback and address short-range air defense capability gaps. The company said Wednesday the AUDS platform worked to help soldiers detect, track and target hostile UAS during the demonstration. AUDS […] More

  • CSRA to Lead Supercomputing Capacity Expansion Effort for NASA Climate Simulation Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Lead Supercomputing Capacity Expansion Effort for NASA Climate Simulation Center

    CSRA will work with Supermicro Computer and Edge Solutions & Consulting to expand the computing capacity at NASA’s Center for Climate Simulation under a contract with the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. CSRA said Wednesday it will update NASA’s Discover supercomputer to increase the system’s high-performance computing capacity to approximately 5 petaFLOPS as part of the […] More

  • KBR: Carillion’s Liquidation Would Not Impact Aspire Defence JV’s Work on UK Defense Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR: Carillion’s Liquidation Would Not Impact Aspire Defence JV’s Work on UK Defense Project

    KBR has announced that it does not expect the liquidation of British construction and facilities management provider Carillion to result in any disruption in the delivery of services for a U.K. defense project being carried out by its joint venture with the latter company. “We’ve been aware of Carillion’s challenges for some time and have […] More

  • Orbital ATK Backs ULA's NRO Mission With Rocket Motors, Composite Structures - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Backs ULA’s NRO Mission With Rocket Motors, Composite Structures

    Orbital ATK supplied composite structures, motors and other components for a Delta IV rocket that United Launch Alliance launched Friday to bring a National Reconnaissance Office payload into space. Orbital ATK said Friday the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s Delta IV rocket that took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as part of the NROL-47 national defense mission has […] More

  • Report: CSRA Eyes February Launch for DoD's milCloud 2.0 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: CSRA Eyes February Launch for DoD’s milCloud 2.0

    CSRA announced that it aims to introduce the second version of the Defense Department‘s cloud computing platform on February 1, three months ahead of the initially scheduled launch date. The unclassified sections of MilCloud 2.0 will be rolled out at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma and Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, the Washington Business Journal reported Saturday. […] More

  • ULA’s Delta IV Sends NRO National Defense Payload to Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Delta IV Sends NRO National Defense Payload to Space

    A National Reconnaissance Office payload lifted off Friday at 2:11 p.m. Pacific time aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket as part of the NROL-47 national defense mission. Will Crawford, NRO program manager at ULA, said in a statement published Friday the payload’s launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California marks the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s 27th NRO mission in partnership with the […] More

  • Lynn Dugle: Engility Seeks to Address Clearance Issues Via Continuous Monitoring - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lynn Dugle: Engility Seeks to Address Clearance Issues Via Continuous Monitoring

    Engility CEO Lynn Dugle has said the company has started to pilot continuous evaluation initiatives in an effort to address issues related to security clearances. “What we know from a community is about 80 percent of people who lose clearances do so for financial reasons,” Dugle told Defense One in an interview published Thursday. “Under continuous monitoring, instead […] More

  • Lockheed Configures Solid State Radar With Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Configures Solid State Radar With Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System

    Lockheed Martin has integrated its solid state radar platform with the Aegis Ashore system in an effort to demonstrate the capability of the combined systems to detect and counter ballistic missile threats. Tony DeSimone, vice president and chief engineer at Lockheed’s integrated warfare systems and sensors, said in a statement published Thursday the combination of […] More

  • Shaun Bierweiler: Hortonworks to Back 2020 Census With Data Processing Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shaun Bierweiler: Hortonworks to Back 2020 Census With Data Processing Tools

    Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, has said the company will work to provide several data technology platforms for the U.S. Census Bureau in support of the 2020 Census project under a contract awarded in 2017. Bierweiler told Datanami in an interview published Tuesday that the software company will offer its Hortonworks […] More