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  • Echodyne to Provide Radar Tech for DOT UAS Integration Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Echodyne to Provide Radar Tech for DOT UAS Integration Program

    Echodyne has been selected to provide radars to the North Dakota Department of Transportation under a federal project that aims to test drone integration into the national airspace. NDDOT will use the Metamaterial Electronically Scanning Array technology for weather detection and tracking as part of the state’s Integration Pilot Program, Echodyne said Thursday. The U.S. Transportation Department selected […] More

  • PAE Joins Consortium to Help Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction; John Heller Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE Joins Consortium to Help Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction; John Heller Comments

    PAE has joined a consortium of companies, nonprofit organizations and academic institutions with the goal to develop technology platforms designed to counter weapons of mass destruction. John Heller, PAE CEO, said in a statement published Thursday the company seeks to collaborate with providers and gain access to new technologies as a member of the  Countering Weapons of […] More

  • Marines Use Aurora-Built Autonomous Flight Platform in Cargo Delivery Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marines Use Aurora-Built Autonomous Flight Platform in Cargo Delivery Mission

    Aurora Flight Sciences has helped the U.S. Marine Corps deliver cargo through an autonomous flight platform during the service branch’s recent integrated training exercise. A UH-1H helicopter equipped with the Aurora-built Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System delivered 520 pounds of water, gasoline, ready-to-eat meals, communications equipment and a cooler that contained urgent necessities to the California-based Marine Corps Air Ground Combat […] More

  • Pennsylvania DOT Taps Woolpert to Deliver Photogrammetry Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pennsylvania DOT Taps Woolpert to Deliver Photogrammetry Services

    Woolpert is set to receive a five-year, $2 million contract to provide photogrammetry services for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The company said Thursday it will conduct geodetic survey and photogrammetric mapping for stereo-compliant aerial and mobile lidar collections under the contract. Services will also encompass vertical and oblique aerial photography acquisition, aerial lidar and mobile lidar acquisition, geodetic mapping, conventional surveys, global […] More

  • DARPA Taps SRI International to Develop Adaptive AI System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps SRI International to Develop Adaptive AI System

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected SRI International to construct an artificial intelligence platform with machine learning features to gradually improve task performance. The company said Wednesday it will perform this work under DARPA’s Lifelong Learning Machines Program. Modern AI systems may be prone to catastrophic forgetting that occurs when new content disrupts previous information, SRI […] More

  • NASA Taps Alutiiq to Provide Security Services Under $76M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Alutiiq to Provide Security Services Under $76M Contract

    Alaska-based Alutiiq‘s Advance Security Solutions business has received a potential $75.9 million contract to provide physical security services for multiple NASA sites. The company will work to secure Goddard Space Flight Center, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Wallops Flight Facility and the Independent Verification and Validation Facility, the space agency said Wednesday. The contract has a base of $18.1 million, with $15 million covering the […] More

  • Sparton to Support Raytheon's Navy Mine Neutralizer System Development; Jim Lackemacher Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sparton to Support Raytheon’s Navy Mine Neutralizer System Development; Jim Lackemacher Comments

    Sparton will collaborate with Raytheon to design, test and deploy a mine neutralization system as part of the latter company’s potential $363 million contract with the U.S. Navy. De Leon Spring, Fla.-based Sparton said Wednesday it will produce a deployment packaging technology and a wireless communications buoy for Raytheon’s Barracuda  mine neutralizer vehicle. Jim Lackemacher, vice president of […] More

  • WidePoint's Telecom Lifecycle Mgmt Platform Gets CBP Recertification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint’s Telecom Lifecycle Mgmt Platform Gets CBP Recertification

    The Customs and Border Protection has re-certified a WidePoint technology platform designed to help government customers manage telecommunications systems. WidePoint said Wednesday its ITMS telecommunications life cycle management platform received CBP recertification for compliance with the Section 508 amendment to law mandating that electronic and information technology offerings for the federal government are accessible to people with disabilities. “ITMS supports the management […] More

  • Polaris Alpha to Work With Raytheon BBN-Led Team to Support DARPA AI Development Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Polaris Alpha to Work With Raytheon BBN-Led Team to Support DARPA AI Development Efforts

    Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has awarded a $2.3 million subcontract to Polaris Alpha for assistance in developing new artificial intelligence tools for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The team aims to develop semantic-based technologies for abductive reasoning under the agency’s Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives program that seeks to construct an adaptive engine that would interpret dynamic, dangerous situations, Polaris Alpha said Tuesday. […] More

  • Kymeta, Microsoft to Perform Demonstrations at 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kymeta, Microsoft to Perform Demonstrations at 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference

    Kymeta and Microsoft will simultaneously perform demonstrations for land mobile, maritime defense and first responder technologies during the 2018 Special Operations Forces Industry Conference and Connectivity Expo. Demonstrations will feature Kymeta’s KyWay satellite terminal connecting Microsoft’s land vehicles to the Internet-of-Things, the former said Tuesday. The tactical and patrol vehicles will make use of Windows Apportals and Azure Cloud integration during the […] More

  • Insitu, University Team Up to Support FAA UAS Integration Pilot Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu, University Team Up to Support FAA UAS Integration Pilot Program

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has partnered with the University of Alaska Fairbanks for an effort to help state, local and tribal governments integrate the use of unmanned aircraft systems into the country’s airspace. The partnership will work to support the Federal Aviation Administration‘s UAS Integration Pilot Program, which aims to develop new aviation regulations for unmanned aircraft usage, Insitu said Tuesday. The […] More

  • General Dynamics Lays Keel for Arleigh Burke-Class 'Daniel Inouye' Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Lays Keel for Arleigh Burke-Class ‘Daniel Inouye’ Ship

    General Dynamics‘ Bath Iron Works subsidiary has laid the keel on the U.S. Navy‘s future Arleigh Burke-class destroyer ship that will be called USS Daniel Inouye. The ship, designated as DDG 118, is named after the former senator who earned a Medal of Honor for his U.S. Army service during World War II, General Dynamics said Tuesday. Irene Hirano […] More