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  • Honeywell, NASA Demo Software, Cockpit Displays for Sonic Boom Prediction; Brett Pauer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell, NASA Demo Software, Cockpit Displays for Sonic Boom Prediction; Brett Pauer Comments

    Honeywell and NASA have developed and flight-tested a software tool and cockpit displays designed to help supersonic jet pilots predict sonic booms under a two-year contract with the space agency. Honeywell said Tuesday the contract was awarded in 2015 as part of the space agency’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project that aims to mitigate sonic booms’ impact on […] More

  • DOJ Requests Info on Body-Worn Cameras for Market Survey - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOJ Requests Info on Body-Worn Cameras for Market Survey

    The Justice Department has issued a request for information in support of the National Institute of Justice’s upcoming market survey that aims to identify commercial body-worn cameras designed for use in law enforcement operations. DOJ’s justice programs office said in a Federal Register notice posted Thursday the survey will work to help law enforcement agencies’ purchasing agents […] More

  • Raytheon BBN-Led Team Seeks to Extend Mobile Apps’ Viability Under Air Force Contract; Partha Pal Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon BBN-Led Team Seeks to Extend Mobile Apps’ Viability Under Air Force Contract; Partha Pal Comments

    A team led by a Raytheon subsidiary will work to develop techniques that seek to extend the functionality of mobile applications for up to a century under a four-year, $7.8 million contract with the U.S. Air Force. Raytheon BBN Technologies will collaborate with Securboration, Syracuse University, Vanderbilt University and Oregon State University on the project as part of the Defense Advanced […] More

  • Finmeccanica Shareholders Approve Name Change to 'Leonardo' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Finmeccanica Shareholders Approve Name Change to ‘Leonardo’

    A near-unanimous majority of shareholders at Italy-based defense and industrial conglomerate Finmeccanica have approved the company’s proposal to officially change its name to Leonardo from Jan. 1, 2017 after the famous scientist Leonardo Da Vinci. Finmeccanica said Thursday it will operate under the name Leonardo-Finmeccanica through Dec. 31, 2016 in an effort to facilitate continuity of relationships with other […] More

  • Vencore to Launch Updated Flight Data Software at Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Launch Updated Flight Data Software at Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore will launch version 7.0 of its flight data applications at the three-day Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit that kicked off Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia. Vencore’s FlightViz and FlightAnalyst applications work to determine trends, events and deviation through analysis and visualization of both real and simulated flight information, the company said Friday. Mac Curtis, president and […] More

  • CSRA Subsidiary Lands Navy Contract Modification for IT Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Subsidiary Lands Navy Contract Modification for IT Support Services

    CSC Government Solutions, a subsidiary of technology services contractor CSRA, has been awarded a potential $55.4 million contract modification to continue to provide information technology services for the U.S. Navy’s Naval Education and Training Command. The modification to the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also covers IT support services for all organizations under the service branch’s manpower, personnel, training […] More

  • DoD's Finance Org Taps immixGroup Subsidiary for Business Activity Monitoring Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD’s Finance Org Taps immixGroup Subsidiary for Business Activity Monitoring Services

    ImmixTechnology, a subsidiary of immixGroup, has received a potential $39 million contract to provide business activity monitoring support to the Defense Finance Accounting Service. The labor-hour, firm-fixed-price contract covers the identification of improper payments in legacy payment platforms and reconciliation services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s audit assertion efforts with regard to its funds balance with the Treasury, the […] More

  • NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne for $67M Solar Electric Propulsion System Devt Contract; Julie Van Kleeck Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne for $67M Solar Electric Propulsion System Devt Contract; Julie Van Kleeck Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has received a potential $67 million contract to develop an electric propulsion system for integration with NASA’s Solar Electric Propulsion space vehicles. The company said Thursday the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded under the Advanced Electric Propulsion System program and covers development and qualification work on five 12.5-kilowatt Hall thruster subsystems for the Solar Electric […] More

  • Firstec, KJF Deliver Components to Northrop for South Korea’s Global Hawk - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Firstec, KJF Deliver Components to Northrop for South Korea’s Global Hawk

    Northrop Grumman has received component parts from Korea Jig and Fixture and Firstec for integration with South Korea’s RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial system. Northrop said Thursday it received deliveries of KJF-built aerospace-grade machine parts after Firstec handed the wire harnesses designed to transmit electrical signals for the UAS early this year. Firstec and KJF started producing […] More

  • HII Division Starts Fabrication on Navy DDG 121 Destroyer; George Nungesser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Division Starts Fabrication on Navy DDG 121 Destroyer; George Nungesser Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun the fabrication process for the U.S. Navy’s Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) ship named after the first African-American pilot and U.S. Marine Corps general officer. HII said Wednesday the process suggests that the company has already cut 100 tons of steel for integration with the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile […] More

  • General Atomics' Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson: C4ISR Sector Should Address RPA Technology Gaps

    Chris Pehrson, a senior executive at General Atomics, has told Bloomberg Government that the vast amounts of intelligence data that remotely piloted aircraft’s sensors collect pose a challenge to the command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sector. Pehrson said in an interview published Thursday that General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business seeks to address that challenge through […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Gets Int’l Defense Agency Letter of Intent for WorldView-4 Access; Jeffrey Tarr Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Gets Int’l Defense Agency Letter of Intent for WorldView-4 Access; Jeffrey Tarr Comments

    DigitalGlobe has entered into a tentative agreement to provide an unidentified international defense and intelligence agency with direct access to a commercial Earth observation satellite with the receipt of a letter of intent. The company said Wednesday the agreement will cover access to high-resolution Earth imagery from DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 satellite for a period of three […] More