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  • Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue Design Work on Vertical Lift Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aurora Flight Sciences to Continue Design Work on Vertical Lift Aircraft

    Aurora Flight Sciences, along with its parent company Boeing, will develop the preliminary design review of a high-speed, vertical lift X-plane following a conceptual design review for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For the PDR phase, the team will create a low-drag, fan-in-wing demonstrator that integrates a blended wing body platform, Aurora said Monday. The FIW […] More

  • Carahsoft-SolCyber Partnership Launches Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Readiness Program; Alex Whitworth Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft-SolCyber Partnership Launches Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Readiness Program; Alex Whitworth Quoted

    Carahsoft Technology and SolCyber have partnered for a managed cybersecurity initiative to help defense industrial base organizations streamline their operations and stay ahead of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements. In a statement Tuesday, Alex Whitworth, sales director at Carahsoft, said: “Carahsoft is excited to collaborate with SolCyber and our reseller partners on the launch of the CMMC Readiness […] More

  • NETS-VMD Joint Venture Books Air Force Task Order for Advisory Services; Xcelerate’s Mark Drever Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NETS-VMD Joint Venture Books Air Force Task Order for Advisory Services; Xcelerate’s Mark Drever Quoted

    The joint venture of Nelson Enterprise Technology Services and VMD has secured a five-year, $23 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide advisory and subject matter expertise support for the service branch’s Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Cyber Effects Operations. Under the award, 1 Mission Partners will provide the Air Force […] More

  • Anduril Debuts Latest Autonomous Surveillance Tower System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anduril Debuts Latest Autonomous Surveillance Tower System

    Anduril Industries has unveiled an 80-foot surveillance tower developed for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to autonomously detect intrusions at extended ranges. The company said Monday the Extended Range Sentry Tower, which features a sensor head capable of classifying and tracking objects up to seven and a half miles away and autonomously detecting objects beyond […] More

  • Austal USA Christens Last Independence-Variant Littoral Combat Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA Christens Last Independence-Variant Littoral Combat Ship

    Austal’s U.S. business arm has christened the 19th Independence-variant littoral combat ship, USS Pierre, which was named in honor of South Dakota’s capital.  Larissa Thune Hargens, a South Dakota native and daughter of Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., sponsored the event, Austal USA said Sunday. Designated LCS 38, USS Pierre is the final ship of its variant […] More

  • Carahsoft to Serve as Public Sector Distributor for Iron Mountain - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Serve as Public Sector Distributor for Iron Mountain

    Carahsoft Technology and Iron Mountain have inked an agreement allowing the former to offer the latter’s machine learning-based content services platform to the government sector. In a statement Thursday, Melissa Carson, vice president and general manager of Iron Mountain Government Solutions, said, “Iron Mountain InSight has assisted numerous Public Sector agencies with highly secure intelligent digitalization of everything […] More

  • General Atomics, USMC Wrap Up MQ-9A Block 5 Drone Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, USMC Wrap Up MQ-9A Block 5 Drone Training

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business and the U.S. Marine Corps have completed the MQ-9A Block 5 unmanned aircraft system training for the Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron One. The company said Thursday the seven-week Weapons and Tactics Instructor program, held at the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma, Arizona, utilized the SkyTower I pod, which extends airborne communication capabilities for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force.

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  • EchoStar Subsidiaries to Provide Wireless Mobility Services Under Potential $2.7B Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EchoStar Subsidiaries to Provide Wireless Mobility Services Under Potential $2.7B Navy Contract

    EchoStar’s subsidiaries, Hughes Network Systems and Boost Mobile, will deliver 5G wireless services and devices to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies under a potential 10-year, $2.7 billion U.S. Navy contract. As part of the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command Spiral 4 program, the companies will facilitate DOD 5G usage across all 50 U.S. states […] More

  • 2F-Microsoft Partnership to Expedite SaaS Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    2F-Microsoft Partnership to Expedite SaaS Delivery

    Second Front Systems and Microsoft have joined forces to accelerate software as a service delivery for government agencies. Under the partnership, 2F said Tuesday it will integrate its Game Warden platform with Microsoft’s Azure Government cloud service to allow agencies to adopt innovative services faster and more securely while meeting government security standards. Tyler Sweatt, CEO of […] More

  • Carahsoft to Serve as Public Sector Distributor for Prophecy International; Alex Whitworth Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Serve as Public Sector Distributor for Prophecy International; Alex Whitworth Quoted

    Carahsoft Technology will distribute the security and compliance products of Australian software developer Prophecy International to its government clients under a partnership agreement. Prophecy’s Snare security data engine offerings are designed to bolster government systems against cyber attacks and help agencies meet audit requirements and security standards, Carahsoft said Tuesday. “Given the escalation of cyber threats and […] More

  • T-Rex Solutions Books $52M Education Department Contract for IT Modernization Program Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    T-Rex Solutions Books $52M Education Department Contract for IT Modernization Program Support

    T-Rex Solutions has secured a five-year, $52 million prime contract from the Department of Education’s Office of the Chief Information Officer to support the Portfolio of Integrated Value-Oriented Technologies program, a project that aims to integrate and secure the department’s information technology services. The IT firm said Tuesday it will develop a crucial part of the […] More

  • BAE Systems Hosts Hackathon Featuring GEOINT Capabilities; Peder Jungck Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Hosts Hackathon Featuring GEOINT Capabilities; Peder Jungck Quoted

    BAE Systems has hosted a hackathon to advance geospatial intelligence technology in a bid to improve artificial intelligence-enabled missions. The company said Monday the event is part of its Mission Advantage Program and includes leading AI and data fusion companies such as Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft. Participants demonstrated GEOINT capabilities, with companies identifying services and frameworks to […] More