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  • Northrop Grumman Receives Nunn-Perry Award for Mentor-Protégé Program Participation With QTEC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Receives Nunn-Perry Award for Mentor-Protégé Program Participation With QTEC

    The Defense Department has given a team from Northrop Grumman the Nunn-Perry award for supporting QTEC Aerospace with its business operations for three years under the Missile Defense Agency’s Mentor-Protégé Program. Northrop Grumman said Monday QTEC saw its business and workforce expand during the effort. The Va.-based firm also worked on the program in collaboration […] More

  • Orbital ATK Sets May 20 for 9th ISS Resupply Mission Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Sets May 20 for 9th ISS Resupply Mission Launch

    Orbital ATK has set May 20 as target date to launch its ninth cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The space agency said Monday Orbital ATK moved Cygnus from a payload processing facility to a spacecraft fueling facility Monday at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. After […] More

  • Cubic Expands GATR Facility in Alabama; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Expands GATR Facility in Alabama; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic has unveiled an expanded facility in Huntsville, Ala., that consolidates the development, production, engineering and administrative functions of its GATR Technologies subsidiary. The 100,000-square-foot GATR facility at Cummings Research Park will support the unit’s growth efforts, Cubic said Monday. GATR produces satellite communication terminals designed to help military customers transmit data and voice transmissions. “With the expansion of […] More

  • DARPA Seeks New Tools, Concepts to Secure DoD Space Systems, Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks New Tools, Concepts to Secure DoD Space Systems, Satellites

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Tactical Technology Office has issued a request of information on cybersecurity tools and methods for the Defense Department’s national security space systems and low-Earth orbit satellite networks. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says DARPA seeks new platforms to secure space information systems built to collect, store, process and transmit national security […] More

  • Report: Marine Corps, Sikorsky Negotiate CH-53K Batch 2 Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Marine Corps, Sikorsky Negotiate CH-53K Batch 2 Contract

    The U.S. Marine Corps and Sikorsky aim to finalize in the coming months a contract for the helicopter manufacturer to produce six more CH-53K units, Reuters reported Thursday. Col. Hank Vanderborght, CH-53K program manager for the Marine Corps, said the additional order would increase the number of Marines’ CH-53K helicopters to 14. The contract is potentially […] More

  • Sea Hunter Anti-Submarine Vessel Joins Naval Fleet; Nevin Carr Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sea Hunter Anti-Submarine Vessel Joins Naval Fleet; Nevin Carr Comments

    Leidos’ Sea Hunter autonomous anti-submarine vessel has passed nearly two years of testing with the U.S. Navy and joined the service’s fleet of warships, CNBC reported Wednesday. The report said almost all of Sea Hunter’s elements are now classified. Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, vice president and Navy strategic account executive at Leidos, stated that Sea […] More

  • Sixth Batch of Iridium NEXT Satellites Arrives at SpaceX Site in VAFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sixth Batch of Iridium NEXT Satellites Arrives at SpaceX Site in VAFB

    Five Iridium NEXT satellites that are scheduled for launch on May 19 have arrived at SpaceX’s launch site in Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to go through pre-launch processing procedures. Iridium Communications said Wednesday each satellite will be mated in the dispenser, fueled, stacked on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s payload adapter and encapsulated […] More

  • South Korea to Launch Maritime Helicopter Solicitation for Foreign Manufacturers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    South Korea to Launch Maritime Helicopter Solicitation for Foreign Manufacturers

    South Korea’s defense acquisition program administration plans to buy more than 10 anti-submarine helicopters via a competitive acquisition process that will be open to interested foreign bidders, Defense News reported Monday. DAPA said it will kick off a solicitation next month and select a preferred bidder based on the cost and operational features of a manufacture’s helicopter […] More

  • Bloomberg Government: Fiscal 2017 Spending on GSA's Telecom GWACs Reached Nearly $2B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg Government: Fiscal 2017 Spending on GSA’s Telecom GWACs Reached Nearly $2B

    Federal agencies collectively spent $1.9 billion on telecommunications products and services during fiscal 2017 through the General Services Administration’s Networx Enterprise and Universal contracts, Bloomberg Government reported Monday. BGOV analyzed billing data from GSA and found that Networx spending over the past decade. The report said AT&T and Verizon have secured approximately 85 percent of total contract obligations on the two […] More

  • Raytheon Completes SDB II Developmental Test; Mike Jarrett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Completes SDB II Developmental Test; Mike Jarrett Comments

    Raytheon has finished the development testing phase for its Small Diameter Bomb II technology and started integrating the weapon on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet planes. The company said Thursday fighter pilots dropped and assessed 44 SDB II units to destroy maneuvering targets during the test. “SDB II can eliminate a wider range of targets with fewer […] More

  • Lockheed, Rovsing Partner on Solar Array Simulator Test Project; Brad Holland Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Rovsing Partner on Solar Array Simulator Test Project; Brad Holland Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Rovsing have partnered to test the Denmark-based space engineering firm’s Solar Array Simulator as both companies aim to help address a demand for new test equipment in the satellite industry. The Danish Business Authority approved the project in accordance with the country’s Guidelines for Industrial Co-Operation, Lockheed said Thursday. Brad Holland, senior manager for electronic ground support equipment testing […] More