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  • Iridium Automates ‘NEXT’ Satellite Positioning at Network Ops Facility in Virginia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Automates ‘NEXT’ Satellite Positioning at Network Ops Facility in Virginia

    Iridium Communications has begun to replace old satellites with Iridium NEXT satellites through its Leesburg, Virginia-based facility that works to automate the process of moving the new satellites into their positions, Space News reported Monday. The personnel at the company’s satellite network operations center in Virginia have written new commands to automate “slot swaps” in […] More

  • DARPA Holds Kickoff Meeting for IP Reuse Strategy-Based 'Chiplets' Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Holds Kickoff Meeting for IP Reuse Strategy-Based ‘Chiplets’ Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency held a kickoff meeting with approximately 100 participants from commercial, academic and military sectors for the Common Heterogeneous Integration and Intellectual Property Reuse Strategies program. The CHIPS program aims to create a community of technologists and researchers as well as establish a technological framework designed to facilitate the segregation of […] More

  • Orbital ATK-Built Minotaur Rocket Sends Air Force ORS-5 Satellite to Low-Earth Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-Built Minotaur Rocket Sends Air Force ORS-5 Satellite to Low-Earth Orbit

    The U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space-5 satellite took off Saturday aboard the Orbital ATK-built Minotaur IV rocket that launched at 2:04 a.m. Eastern time from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The ORS-5 satellite that launched into low-Earth orbit is designed to provide space-based situational awareness data to the U.S. Strategic Command through […] More

  • CTC Unveils Nuclear Reactor Design Hub in Pennsylvania; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Unveils Nuclear Reactor Design Hub in Pennsylvania; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has opened at its Richland Township, Pennsylvania-based facility a new center that will work to design compact modular reactors in support of small-scale nuclear plants, GovTech.com reported Friday. CTC President and CEO Ed Sheehan said the Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing at the company’s Richland campus will employ approximately 30 people from the […] More

  • DigitalGlobe's Tony Frazier: Govt-Industry Partnership Helps Accelerate GEOINT Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe’s Tony Frazier: Govt-Industry Partnership Helps Accelerate GEOINT Innovation

    Tony Frazier, a senior vice president at DigitalGlobe|Radiant, has said several geospatial intelligence efforts seek to reflect how collaboration between industry and government can help address challenges in the intelligence community and advance GEOINT innovation. Frazier wrote in a blog post published Thursday some of these initiatives include DigitalGlobe’s SpaceNet online satellite imagery repository and […] More

  • Report: Northrop Plans Global Hawk Upgrade to Address MDA HALE UAV Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop Plans Global Hawk Upgrade to Address MDA HALE UAV Requirements

    Northrop Grumman plans to update its RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle in an effort to meet the Missile Defense Agency’s requirements for the high-altitude, long-endurance drone program, FlightGlobal reported Thursday. Northrop responded to a request for information MDA published on FedBizOpps in June. MDA is interested in a HALE UAV designed to carry a high-energy […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium Eyes 2018 for Certus Communications Service Commercial Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Eyes 2018 for Certus Communications Service Commercial Launch

    Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company expects its Certus multi-service communications platform to enter the commercial market in 2018 before the complete Iridium NEXT satellite network becomes fully operational. Desch told Runway Girl Network in an interview published Thursday that Iridium eyes the maritime sector for Certus 350 with plans to introduce Certus 700 to the commercial […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Hands Over GPS Anti-Jam Tech to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Hands Over GPS Anti-Jam Tech to Air Force

    Rockwell Collins has delivered to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command a GPS platform designed to provide anti-jam protection capability to various aerial platforms. The Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver is based on open systems architecture that works to provide jamming resistance and anti-spoofing functionality to fixed-wing aircraft, transport planes, bombers, unmanned aircraft systems and other […] More

  • VMware’s Bill Rowan: DoD, DOJ IT Execs Agree on Hybrid Cloud’s Value - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMware’s Bill Rowan: DoD, DOJ IT Execs Agree on Hybrid Cloud’s Value

    Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, has said information technology leaders from U.S. service branches and the Justice Department agree when it comes to the value of hybrid cloud technology, WTOP reported Wednesday. He participated in a Federal News Radio-hosted panel discussion with Daniel Corbin, chief technology adviser at the U.S. Marine Corps‘ C4 Headquarters; Randall Conway, […] More

  • Report: Orbital ATK, Air Force Set Aug. 25 Launch for ORS-5 Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Orbital ATK, Air Force Set Aug. 25 Launch for ORS-5 Satellite

    A U.S. Air Force satellite is scheduled Friday to launch into orbit aboard the Orbital ATK-built Minotaur IV rocket that will lift off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Spaceflight Insider reported Wednesday. The Operationally Responsive Space 5 satellite will work to provide situational awareness capabilities as the U.S. military […] More

  • Kratos Launches Geolocation Tool for Satellite Interference Mitigation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Launches Geolocation Tool for Satellite Interference Mitigation

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has unveiled a new geolocation platform that works to determine the physical location of very small aperture terminals in an effort to mitigate satellite interference. The satID platform comes with a time division multiple access geolocation module designed to classify, process and filter signals from VSATs and provide signal removal […] More