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  • General Atomics Wraps Up Gray Eagle Drone's Flight Computer Tests for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Wraps Up Gray Eagle Drone’s Flight Computer Tests for Army

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has completed the first flight tests of a new computer system designed to enhance the performance of the Gray Eagle Extended Range unmanned aircraft in contested environments. The Flight Control Module system trials were held by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. on Sept. 13 and 14 at a testing facility in […] More

  • IARPA Enlists 6 Teams for Intell Data Analytics Tech Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Enlists 6 Teams for Intell Data Analytics Tech Project

    Six private and educational organizations have received contracts from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to design computer-based data analytic architectures. IARPA said Monday contractors for the Advanced Graphic Intelligence Logical Computing Environment program will explore mechanisms to help government analysts access, transfer and store different streams of complex data. Intel Federal, Advanced Micro Devices, Qualcomm […] More

  • Palantir to Help Army Optimize Supply Chain Under $85M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Palantir to Help Army Optimize Supply Chain Under $85M Contract

    Palantir Technologies has secured a five-year, $85.1 million contract to provide software services in support of the U.S. Army Materiel Command’s supply chain optimization efforts. The Denver-based contractor said Thursday its software will be used to develop and implement an artificial intelligence/machine learning-enabled prognostic and predictive maintenance models to enhance equipment availability. The award is […] More

  • Washington Business Dynamics Receives $67M DHA Admin Support Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Washington Business Dynamics Receives $67M DHA Admin Support Deal

    Washington Business Dynamics, a veteran-owned management consulting firm, has received a $66.9 million blank purchase agreement from the Defense Health Agency for business administrative services. The Department of Defense said Wednesday the Washington, D.C.-based contractor will support the agency’s finance, acquisition and business efforts across the military health system through the BPA. WBD will perform finance-related […] More

  • Inadev to Modernize Payroll System at HHS Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inadev to Modernize Payroll System at HHS Office

    Inadev was tapped by the Department of Health and Human Services to enhance the payroll operations of its Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health under a $33 million prime contract. The codeless architecture configuration contract calls for the migration of OASH’s current Commissioned Corps Integrated Personal and Payroll System to Unqork’s no-code software platform, Inadev said […] More

  • Axient Subsidiary Enters Missile Defense Research Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Axient Subsidiary Enters Missile Defense Research Partnership

    Axient’s Systems Engineering Group subsidiary has partnered with a Dutch research organization to perform analysis work that will center around air and missile defense programs. The partnership between SEG and the Netherlands-based applied scientific research entity TNO seeks to address customer priorities within NATO and joint forces, Axient said Tuesday. Both parties intend to create […] More

  • Army Tests Cubic-General Dynamics Mortar Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Tests Cubic-General Dynamics Mortar Training System

    U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Hood tested an instrumented mortar system built by a team of Cubic and General Dynamics business units for synthetic training use. Cubic said Monday its mission and performance solutions division developed the 81-millimeter indirect fire instrumentation with General Dynamics Mission Systems to support force-on-force drills. Recent demonstration and testing efforts […] More

  • Firefly-Built Rocket Sends Multiple Satellites to Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Firefly-Built Rocket Sends Multiple Satellites to Orbit

    Firefly Aerospace deployed three customer payloads to low Earth orbit early Saturday morning using the company-built Alpha launch vehicle. The Space Launch Delta 30 unit said Saturday the rocket lifted off at 3:01 a.m. Eastern time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as part of Firefly’s small vehicle demonstration effort. Alpha completed an elliptical […] More

  • Seerist Expands Services Under GEOINT Contract With NGA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Seerist Expands Services Under GEOINT Contract With NGA

    Seerist has expanded its existing contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to include augmented analytics-based geographic information system data services. The company said Wednesday the additional support via GIS mapping software Esri will allow NGA to access real-time dashboards that could help policymakers, warfighters and crisis responders formulate insights and threat forecasts. “The NGA team […] More

  • DCS Wins $100M Contract to Support USAF Aircraft Store Certification Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DCS Wins $100M Contract to Support USAF Aircraft Store Certification Process

    Professional services company DCS has won a five-year, $99.5 million contract to perform modeling, analysis and tools support work for the U.S. Air Force’s Seek Eagle aircraft-stores certification program.  Alexandria, Virginia-based DCS will help the service branch develop tools to ensure items for carriage are compatible with multirole aircraft platforms, the Department of Defense said Friday. […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Space Awarded $63M Air Force Contract for Payload Hardware, Software R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Space Awarded $63M Air Force Contract for Payload Hardware, Software R&D

    Lockheed Martin’s space business has won a $62.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee completion contract from the U.S. Air Force for flight-qualified vector research and development activities. The Department of Defense said Thursday Lockheed Martin Space will perform R&D, design, demonstration, testing, integration and delivery of software and payload hardware over a three-year period. The company will perform work in […] More

  • Boeing Secures Navy Funds to Prepare for MQ-25 Drone Low-Rate Initial Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Secures Navy Funds to Prepare for MQ-25 Drone Low-Rate Initial Production

    Boeing has received a four-year, $47.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to gear up for the low-rate initial production of unmanned MQ-25 Stingray refueling tankers. The service branch will use fiscal 2022 aircraft procurement funds for the advance acquisition contract to cover lot one LRIP production and delivery services, the Department of Defense said […] More