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  • Raytheon Offers Cybersecurity Scholarship Opportunities for Historically Underrepresented Population; Jon Check Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Offers Cybersecurity Scholarship Opportunities for Historically Underrepresented Population; Jon Check Quoted

    Raytheon Technologies will award three cybersecurity scholarships through a partnership with the International Information System Security Certification Consortium’s charitable foundation to qualified candidates considered historically underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.  ISC(2) said Thursday the Center for Cyber Safety and Education will evaluate applications based on a set of criteria, including financial […] More

  • Air Force Taps Cubic Unit to Provide R&D Support for Aerial Connectivity Tech Advancement; Scott Rosebush Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Cubic Unit to Provide R&D Support for Aerial Connectivity Tech Advancement; Scott Rosebush Quoted

    Cubic‘s mission and performance solutions business has received a software and hardware prototyping contract from the U.S. Air Force to help advance network connectivity among joint forces across the aerial layer. CMPS’ prototyping initiative involving the Halo-Enabled Resilient Mesh software and hardware is in support of enhancing the service branch’s High-Capacity Backbone system, Cubic said Wednesday. […] More

  • Microsoft Vet Brian LaMacchia Joins QCI’s Technical Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Vet Brian LaMacchia Joins QCI’s Technical Advisory Board

    Brian LaMacchia, a Microsoft who previously led its security and cryptography team, has joined Quantum Computing Inc. as a technical advisory board member. He was the second appointee named to the panel, which was created in February to guide and advance QCI’s technology commercialization and product rollouts, the company said Tuesday. LaMacchia worked with Microsoft for over […] More

  • SpiderOak, LinQuest Forge Space System Security Partnership; John Moberly Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpiderOak, LinQuest Forge Space System Security Partnership; John Moberly Quoted

    SpiderOak and LinQuest have partnered to help government and commercial customers secure systems that support national security space missions. The partnership centers on a software product with a key management system and seeks to protect satellite services and communications in space, SpiderOak said Tuesday. SpiderOak’s OrbitSecure platform is designed to automate the security of commands […] More

  • AWS' Clint Crosier, Maxar's Tony Frazier on Commercialization of Space Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS’ Clint Crosier, Maxar’s Tony Frazier on Commercialization of Space Tech

    Space sector is increasingly becoming “a viable business proposition” as industry players are now dominating the delivery of Earth observation, data analytics and positioning, navigation and timing requirements, according to a Geospatial World report published Tuesday. “Commercial organizations are developing new space technologies and driving innovation across various mission areas,” Clint Crosier, director of aerospace and […] More

  • Air Force E-7 Aircraft to Use Northrop-Built Surveillance Radar Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force E-7 Aircraft to Use Northrop-Built Surveillance Radar Tech

    Northrop Grumman will manufacture and supply its active electronically scanned array surveillance radar system to the U.S. Air Force for integration into its E-7 aircraft. The company said Monday it will begin production of the Multi-role Electronically Scanned Array sensor to provide the aircraft with long-range sensing, detection and identification features. MESA was designed to enable simultaneous […] More

  • Atlas Air Worldwide CEO John Dietrich Named to AAR Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atlas Air Worldwide CEO John Dietrich Named to AAR Board

    John Dietrich, president and CEO of Atlas Air Worldwide, has joined the board of directors of aviation services provider AAR. AAR Chairman, President and CEO John Holmes said in a statement published Friday Dietrich’s leadership and industry insights will help the board advance the company’s capabilities. At Atlas Air, Dietrich is in charge of executing strategies and expanding […] More

  • Poland’s $150M Hellfire Missile Purchase Request Gets State Department Clearance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Poland’s $150M Hellfire Missile Purchase Request Gets State Department Clearance

    The State Department has approved the Poland government’s request to procure 800 AGM-114RR2 Hellfire missiles under a foreign military sales agreement valued at approximately $150 million. Lockheed Martin will serve as the principal contractor in the FMS deal, which includes four M36 Hellfire Captive Air Training Missiles as well as technical, spare, repair, storage, logistics and […] More

  • Debra Curley Joins NetImpact as Capture Management Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Debra Curley Joins NetImpact as Capture Management Director

    NetImpact Strategies has appointed software industry veteran Debra Curley as director of capture management to help drive the company’s strategy and process for winning business pursuits. Curley will act as a partner to business development and executive management teams in her new position, NetImpact said Tuesday. “I am thrilled to join the NetImpact team at this exciting […] More

  • NASA Taps Iceye to Provide Satellite Data for Earth Science Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Iceye to Provide Satellite Data for Earth Science Research

    Iceye has inked a blank purchase agreement with NASA to supply high-resolution synthetic aperture radar commercial earth observation data products. A comprehensive suite of the Finnish microsatellite manufacturer’s SAR products including small constellation satellite data, evaluation and assessment, data cadence, data latency, area coverage and data usage policy will be delivered to the space agency in support […] More

  • State Department OKs Romania’s Additional JLTV Procurement Request - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department OKs Romania’s Additional JLTV Procurement Request

    The State Department has cleared Romania’s request to buy 95 more Joint Light Tactical Vehicles equipped with a protected gun mount under an approximately $104 million foreign military sale deal. Romania originally ordered 34 Oshkosh-built M1278A1 JLTV heavy gun carriers from the U.S. government for approximately $43.7 million, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday. […] More

  • Axiom Space Selected for 3rd NASA Private Astronaut Station Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Axiom Space Selected for 3rd NASA Private Astronaut Station Mission

    NASA has picked Axiom Space to carry out the third private manned mission to the International Space Station. Axiom Mission 3 is set to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than November 2023 to support private astronauts’ in-orbit activities for two weeks with the help of ground flight controllers and crew members aboard […] More