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  • Honeywell Business Merges With Cambridge Quantum to Form Quantinuum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Business Merges With Cambridge Quantum to Form Quantinuum

    Honeywell‘s quantum solutions business and Cambridge Quantum have merged into Quantinuum, after receiving regulatory approval to execute the business combination. Quantinuum will offer quantum software, hardware and research and development as a full-stack quantum computing company, Honeywell said Tuesday. The combined company will also provide customers with quantum-based applications for cybersecurity, encryption, material science, drug […] More

  • Rocket Lab to Attempt Aerial Capture of Space Rocket Booster - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocket Lab to Attempt Aerial Capture of Space Rocket Booster

    Rocket Lab plans to retrieve a rocket booster mid-air using a helicopter during a mission scheduled to take place in the first half of 2022. The company said Tuesday it will deploy a helicopter to attempt to catch a falling booster in support of its goal to market Electron as a reusable small rocket. “A […] More

  • BAE Systems Intros Marine Propulsion System for Reduced Carbon Emissions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Intros Marine Propulsion System for Reduced Carbon Emissions

    BAE Systems will offer a new power and propulsion system made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of marine vehicles. The company said Tuesday it designed its HybriGen system to boost a marine vehicle’s electrical efficiency, propulsion power and vessel range as well as to streamline installation processes. HybriGen features smaller, lighter components and modular accessory […] More

  • Planet Supports Planning, Environmental Efforts at State Governments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Planet Supports Planning, Environmental Efforts at State Governments

    Planet is looking to expand its presence as a provider of satellite-based Earth monitoring services in the state government market through new partnerships with Alaska and Mississippi. The company said Tuesday it provided PlanetScope images to help Alaska plan aircraft trips and boost employee safety amid the state’s climate and location challenges. The images helped […] More

  • Navy Christens Lockheed-Made USS Marinette - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Christens Lockheed-Made USS Marinette

    The littoral combat ship to be named USS Marinette underwent christening in Marinette, Wisconsin as a Lockheed Martin-led team prepares for the LCS 25’s acceptance trials in 2022. The U.S. Navy christened the Freedom-variant ship at Fincantieri Marinette Marine’s shipyard more than a year after the vessel splashed into the water on Oct. 31, 2020, […] More

  • Northrop to Help USAF Implement New Mission Planning Software for Global Hawk UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help USAF Implement New Mission Planning Software for Global Hawk UAS

    Northrop Grumman has secured a contract from the U.S. Air Force to enable flight rerouting for the military service branch’s RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system. The company said Monday it will apply the Dynamic Mission Operations or DYNAMO software update designed to allow for in-flight rerouting. According to Northop, the function allows operators to […] More

  • TulsaLabs Stands up Aerospace Division for Military, Commercial Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TulsaLabs Stands up Aerospace Division for Military, Commercial Projects

    TulsaLabs, a next generation technology research laboratory, has established a division that will focus on aerospace projects of military and commercial customers. The new aerospace division will run a center that houses testing and research activities in Oklahoma for commercial and military aerospace technologies, AppSwarm said Friday. The division will also help startups adopt new […] More

  • Army Taps Eaton, University of Toledo to Evaluate Large Format 3D Printing Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps Eaton, University of Toledo to Evaluate Large Format 3D Printing Tech

    The U.S. Army’s Engineer Research and Development Center has selected Eaton and the University of Toledo to jointly study the feasibility of using large format 3D printing machines to produce high-strength engineering components. The power management company said Friday it will perform work under the Intelligent and Resilient Infrastructure effort to help the U.S. Army […] More

  • Red Hat's Eamon McCormick on Government's Increasing Focus on Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s Eamon McCormick on Government’s Increasing Focus on Data

    Eamon McCormick, go-to-market director for North America public sector at Red Hat, has talked about data-enabled transformation and flexibility in support of government needs and cited how state, local and federal governments are focusing on investments that harness data to support operations. He said in an interview with Fedscoop that Red Hat is aligning its […] More

  • L3Harris Adding New ISR Aircraft Production Line in Oklahoma - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3Harris Adding New ISR Aircraft Production Line in Oklahoma

    L3Harris Technologies will add a new production line in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to meet increasing military needs for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft. The company said Friday it will ramp up its production capacity to deliver the AT-802U Sky Warden aircraft under an anticipated contract award from the U.S. Special Operations Command’s Armed Overwatch Program. A […] More

  • Air National Guard Tests New Northrop-Made Radar Pod Onboard F-16 Jet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air National Guard Tests New Northrop-Made Radar Pod Onboard F-16 Jet

    The Air National Guard has demonstrated the performance of a Northrop Grumman-made active electronically scanned array radar pod using an F-16 aircraft. The AN/ASQ-236 Dragon’s Eye radar pod is designed to help pilots detect, track and engage multiple targets regardless of the weather, Northrop said Thursday. Dragon’s Eye uses a Ku-band radar to provide situational […] More