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Nichols Martin

a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, produces articles on the federal government's technology and business interests. The coverage of these articles include government contracting, cybersecurity, information technology, health care and national security.

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  • L3 to Demo Manned-Unmanned Teaming Approach at International Airshow - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 to Demo Manned-Unmanned Teaming Approach at International Airshow

    L3 Technologies has announced it will demonstrate a new weapon systems synchronization approach on Tuesday at the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow. The company said Friday it will perform Manned-Unmanned Teaming, the integration of different combat systems in aims to reduce sensor-to-shooter time and boost situational awareness. The approach works to facilitate the sharing of high-bandwidth […] More

  • Accenture, Thales Demonstrate Blockchain System at Farnborough Air Show - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture, Thales Demonstrate Blockchain System at Farnborough Air Show

    Accenture and Thales have partnered to demonstrate a blockchain-based supply chain security platform at the Farnborough Air Show. The prototype system, based on Linux‘s Hyperledger Fabric project, uses blockchain, internet-of-things and other technologies to detect, trace and authenticate aircraft components, Accenture said Monday. The system is intended to provide a unified view of the supply […] More

  • Air Force, Boeing Complete All KC-46 Flight Tests; Will Roper Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Boeing Complete All KC-46 Flight Tests; Will Roper Comments

    Boeing and the U.S. Air Force have completed all flight tests required for the company to deliver the first KC-46 tanker aircraft to the service branch in October. The aircraft’s military type and receiver certification tests with the KC-135, F-16 and C-17 aircraft platforms concluded last week, Boeing said Friday. KC-46 receiver testing activity kicked off in […] More

  • Northrop Demos MQ-8C Helicopter Tech at International Military Air Show - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos MQ-8C Helicopter Tech at International Military Air Show

    Northrop Grumman exhibited the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with anti-submarine warfare equipment at the Royal International Air Tattoo in Fairford, U.K., Flightglobal reported Monday. The aircraft featured a sonobuoy mission pod developed by U.K.-based firm Ultra Electronics. The event comes in a week after the helicopter’s completion of operational testing on the USS Coronado. […] More

  • Army Selects 5 Firms to Develop Automatic Rifle Prototypes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Selects 5 Firms to Develop Automatic Rifle Prototypes

    Five companies have won separate 12-month other transaction agreements to develop automatic rifle prototypes for the U.S. Army. The OTAs announced Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice will cover the development and production of a system demonstrator representative of level 6 technology and manufacturing readiness under the Next Generation Squad Automatic Rifle program. The Army seeks an NGSAR […] More

  • Lockheed, DARPA Demonstrate Integrated Multi-Platform Operation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, DARPA Demonstrate Integrated Multi-Platform Operation

    Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works business unit and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency conducted flight tests that aimed to demonstrate integrated operation between air, space, land, sea and cyber platforms in austere environments. The company said Friday the system of systems-based demonstrations took place in China Lake, Calif., and consisted of C-12 and flight test […] More

  • General Atomics to Update Cryofracture System for Army; Scott Forney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Update Cryofracture System for Army; Scott Forney Comments

    A General Atomics business unit has received a contract of an undisclosed value to update a portable cryofracture system prototype for future installation at Crane Army Ammunition Activity in Crane, Ind. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will also conduct design and procurement efforts to integrate the system with a rotary kiln incinerator under the contract from Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering […] More

  • Vectrus to Help Maintain US Army Installation in Germany; Chuck Prow Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vectrus to Help Maintain US Army Installation in Germany; Chuck Prow Comments

    A Vectrus subsidiary has received a potential five-year, $43 million contract to provide maintenance services at a U.S. Army base located in the southwest German city of  Stuttgart. Vectrus Systems will administer, operate, maintain, repair and build structures for government-owned facilities and equipment at U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart, the company said Thursday. Chuck Prow, president and CEO […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposer's Day for Simplified Machine Learning Training Approaches - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposer’s Day for Simplified Machine Learning Training Approaches

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a proposer’s day in search of expertise to support Learning with Less Label, a program aiming to reduce amounts of information needed to train machine learning models. The event will run on July 12 at the DARPA Conference Center in Arlington, Va., the agency said Wednesday. “Under LwLL, we are […] More

  • Microsoft to Launch Chat-Based Workspace for US Government Cloud Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Launch Chat-Based Workspace for US Government Cloud Users

    Microsoft is scheduled to roll out on July 17 a chat-based workspace designed to help government cloud users communicate, collaborate, manage tools and access files. Chantal De Menezes, a senior product marketing manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted June 28 that US Government Cloud Community customers will have access to the Microsoft Teams hub by the end of August. The […] More

  • KBRwyle to Provide Education, Research Support for AF Institute of Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBRwyle to Provide Education, Research Support for AF Institute of Technology

    KBR‘s government services business has received a 50-month, $41.7 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology Graduate School of Engineering and Management deliver continuing education and research. KBRwyle said Thursday it will analyze, study, advise and construct materials on military and commercial research and development. Services will aim to progress scientific and technical […] More

  • Iridium Revises 7th 'NEXT' Satellite Mission Launch Date - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Revises 7th ‘NEXT’ Satellite Mission Launch Date

    Iridium Communications has changed its target launch date for a seventh batch of NEXT communications satellites to July 25. The company said Tuesday it rescheduled the Iridium-7 mission in order to give SpaceX more time to prepare the rocket that will carry the satellites into orbit. SpaceX launched the sixth NEXT batch May 22 from Vandenberg Air Force Base […] More