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  • BAE, L3Harris Deliver 1st Next-Gen Electronic Warfare Aircraft to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, L3Harris Deliver 1st Next-Gen Electronic Warfare Aircraft to Air Force

    The U.S. Air Force has received the first EC-37B Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft from BAE Systems and L3Harris Technologies as part of efforts to enhance EW capabilities of air, surface and special operations forces. BAE said Tuesday the service branch will start combined developmental and operational testing of the next-generation aircraft designed to launch […] More

  • CRDF Global's Consortium Facilitates Public-Private Partnership to Boost Ukraine's Cyber Defense; Tina Dolph Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CRDF Global’s Consortium Facilitates Public-Private Partnership to Boost Ukraine’s Cyber Defense; Tina Dolph Quoted

    CRDF Global and its consortium of industry partners have mobilized support from the private sector to help the Ukrainian government build up its cyber defense and infrastructure in the wake of the Russian invasion. The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative has donated 1,600 cyber defense tools and provided over 800 training courses to help protect Ukraine’s […] More

  • Carahsoft Streamlines Palo Alto Networks' Product Distribution via AWS Marketplace; Eric Trexler Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Streamlines Palo Alto Networks’ Product Distribution via AWS Marketplace; Eric Trexler Quoted

    Carahsoft Technology has added Palo Alto Networks to its Distributor Seller of Record program to streamline the procurement process for the latter’s cybersecurity offerings available in Amazon Web Services’ digital catalog. The network and cloud security product suite of Palo Alto Networks is now available to public sector customers through AWS Marketplace with the company’s […] More

  • Culmen, Swiss Center to Help Secure Ukrainian Airports Under New Partnership; Dan Berkon Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Culmen, Swiss Center to Help Secure Ukrainian Airports Under New Partnership; Dan Berkon Quoted

    Culmen International and Switzerland’s Center for Adaptive Security Research and Applications will help secure airports across Ukraine under a partnership with Boryspil International Airport. Dan Berkon, CEO of Culmen, said in a statement published Tuesday that the company will build on its aviation security expertise and experience to help the airport upskill its staff “who […] More

  • Collins Aerospace Begins 1MW Generator Development Under AFRL Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collins Aerospace Begins 1MW Generator Development Under AFRL Program

    Collins Aerospace, an RTX subsidiary, has begun the production of a 1-megawatt electric generator to power future manned and unmanned military platforms as part of an Air Force Research Laboratory initiative. RTX said Tuesday the electric power generation system moved into the manufacturing phase after the company concluded engineering work and completed the detailed design […] More

  • Peraton's Amy Hopkins on Addressing Temporal Aspect of Space Superiority - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton’s Amy Hopkins on Addressing Temporal Aspect of Space Superiority

    Amy Hopkins, vice president and general manager of national security space at Peraton, said opportunities to achieve space dominance might come temporarily and require collaboration across the U.S. military to maximize those chances to the fullest, the Air and Space Forces Magazine reported Monday. Speaking at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & […] More

  • DOD to Discuss Biomanufacturing Investment Program in OUSD R&E Industry Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOD to Discuss Biomanufacturing Investment Program in OUSD R&E Industry Day

    The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering will host an industry day on Sept. 20 to provide details on its new investment program to advance the domestic production of bioproducts for defense and national security applications. The Biomanufacturing Industry Day will be held in Berkeley, California, and discuss the strategic […] More

  • Poland Declares Basic Operational Capability for Northrop's Integrated Battle Command System; Rebecca Torzone Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Poland Declares Basic Operational Capability for Northrop’s Integrated Battle Command System; Rebecca Torzone Quoted

    Poland has declared basic operational capability for the Northrop Grumman-manufactured Integrated Battle Command System that supports its WISLA medium-range air defense program. Following the completion of a series of integration and testing, the milestone underscores that the IBCS has achieved initial combat capability and is moving forward to achieving initial operational capability, Northrop said Friday. […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Concludes Testing on SSC's 1st WSF-M Next-Gen Environmental Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Concludes Testing on SSC’s 1st WSF-M Next-Gen Environmental Satellite

    Ball Aerospace has concluded the testing of the first space vehicle for Space Systems Command’s next-generation operational environmental satellite system. The company said Thursday the Weather System Follow–on–Microwave satellite is scheduled for launch in early 2024 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and will provide the Department of Defense with space-based environmental monitoring capabilities. […] More

  • LMI Books TRANSCOM Contract for Campaign Planning, Support; Jon Baba Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI Books TRANSCOM Contract for Campaign Planning, Support; Jon Baba Quoted

    U.S. Transportation Command’s Strategic Plans, Policy and Logistics Directorate has selected LMI to support strategic campaign planning for global deployment, distribution and capability development over a five-year period. LMI said Thursday it will help assess the Department of Defense’s Functional Campaign Plan for Global Deployment and Distribution and TRANSCOM’s Combatant Command Campaign Plan under a […] More

  • Navy Veteran Vince Dova Named Cyemptive Technologies' VP of Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Veteran Vince Dova Named Cyemptive Technologies’ VP of Security

    Vince Dova, a retired U.S. Navy commander and former branch chief for cyber policy and capabilities at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has joined Cyemptive Technologies as vice president of security. He will oversee the development of organizational and technical governance framework to ensure the secure delivery of cybersecurity products and services to Cyemptive’s customers […] More

  • Army's Integrated Visual Augmentation System Enters Phase 2 of Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System Enters Phase 2 of Development

    The updated version of the U.S. Army’s new augmented reality headset will enter the second stage of development following the completion of the user assessment phase conducted by the Program Executive Office Soldier, Army Times reported Thursday. The 1.2 prototype version of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System was evaluated to assess its navigation tools, weapons […] More