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  • Raytheon Opens Tucson Facilities for Missile Systems Business Expansion Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Opens Tucson Facilities for Missile Systems Business Expansion Push

    Raytheon has dedicated new facilities in Tucson, Ariz., as part of efforts to increase the operational capacity of the company’s mission systems business. Construction of the unit’s new testing facility, customer access center and multipurpose building is scheduled for completion this year, Raytheon said Thursday. “Our expansion supports the nation’s military, the security of America’s allies and the U.S., state […] More

  • Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum Announces 10th Annual Government Contractor Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum Announces 10th Annual Government Contractor Awards

    The Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum has announced the finalists under the 10th Annual Government Contractor Awards, an event giving recognition to emerging government contractors. Candidates will be divided into six categories from which the winners will be selected, SECAF said Thursday. The Government Contractor of the Year segment focuses on companies working to boost financial performance. […] More

  • Orbital ATK, IMI Systems Partner on Bomb Tech Offering for US Defense Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK, IMI Systems Partner on Bomb Tech Offering for US Defense Sector

    Orbital ATK has signed a teaming agreement with IMI Systems to produce and offer a bomb technology to the U.S. defense market. The partnership seeks to manufacture a variant of IMI’s Multi-Purpose Rigid Bomb weapon designed with precision, collateral damage reduction and penetration capacities, Orbital ATK said Wednesday. Pat Nolan, vice president and general manager of missile products at Orbital […] More

  • Former Army Chief of Staff Raymond Odierno Joins Oshkosh Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Army Chief of Staff Raymond Odierno Joins Oshkosh Board

    Raymond Odierno, former chief of staff at the U.S. Army, has joined Oshkosh‘s board of directors as its 12th member. The retired Army general brings leadership experience, military and international expertise to the specialty vehicle manufacturing company, Wilson Jones, Oshkosh president and CEO, said in a statement released released Wednesday. Odierno’s 39-year military career includes service during the Persian Gulf and […] More

  • MTSI to Help Air Force Procure Aircraft Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MTSI to Help Air Force Procure Aircraft Systems

    Modern Technology Solutions Inc. has secured a contract to provide technical and management support for the U.S. Air Force‘s efforts to acquire aircraft systems and subsystems. MTSI said Tuesday it will help the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center address its objectives to study, develop, test and field new aeronautical platforms at the early stages of the acquisition lifecycle. […] More

  • Intelleuron Secures DHS Funds to Build, Test UAS Reconnaissance Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelleuron Secures DHS Funds to Build, Test UAS Reconnaissance Tech

    Intelleuron will design, build and test a reconnaissance technology to aid in Customs and Border Protection operations as part of a $199,977 contract from the Department of Homeland Security. DHS said Tuesday the company aims to produce a portable small UAS designed to help CBP agents detect potential threats across different types of terrain and weather. The department awarded the project using […] More

  • General Atomics to Demo Guardian RPA in Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Demo Guardian RPA in Japan

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business will demonstrate a remotely piloted aircraft in Japan over the next three weeks in an effort to promote the vehicle’s civil and scientific applications. Demonstration flights of the Guardian RPA will take place on Iki Island and aim to gather data for multiple government agencies as part of scientific research efforts, General Atomics […] More

  • Made in Space Secures Phase 2 NASA Contract for Space Manufacturing Machine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Made in Space Secures Phase 2 NASA Contract for Space Manufacturing Machine

    Made in Space has landed a NASA contract to continue developing a new machine that would manufacture products using a variety of base materials in space, Space.com reported Tuesday. The Vulcan manufacturing system is being designed to produce items out of various feedstock materials such as metal, in contrast to the International Space Station‘s two existing manufacturing machines […] More

  • AeroVironment Delivers Maritime UAS to German Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment Delivers Maritime UAS to German Navy

    AeroVironment has delivered a NATO-compliant maritime unmanned aircraft system to Germany’s navy. The company said Monday the Puma UAS is designed to be used with existing naval vessels without the need for extensive modifications. The units are fitted with the Mantis i45 sensor and remote video terminals to provide surveillance capabilities. Germany will receive Pumas co-produced with […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Starts to Build Navy's 1st Flight III Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Starts to Build Navy’s 1st Flight III Destroyer

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has begun to fabricate the first guided missile destroyer that will employ the U.S. Navy‘s Flight III design upgrade. The company said Tuesday it cut the first 100 tons of steel needed to construct the future Arleigh Burke-class Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) ship. HII will equip DDG 125 with an Advanced Missile Defense […] More

  • Army Taps Charles River Analytics to Develop Medical Simulation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps Charles River Analytics to Develop Medical Simulation System

    Charles River Analytics has received a $1.5 million U.S. Army contract to develop a medical simulation and tutorial platform aimed at improving the service branch’s medical training and patient care. The company said Monday the effort to develop the Virtual Intelligent Tutor for the Andragogy of Military Medicine Integrated Skills is done in collaboration with Frank Ritter and Chris Garrison of the […] More

  • Navy Receives Northrop-Built F-35 Electronic Warfare Simulation Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Receives Northrop-Built F-35 Electronic Warfare Simulation Platform

    The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of a Northrop Grumman-built multispectral test platform designed to prepare the service branch’s F-35 aircraft for complex missions in electromagnetic spectrum environments. Northrop said Tuesday it shipped the Combat Electromagnetic Environment Simulator, Signal Measurement System and the Synchronizer Controller System to the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division in Point Mogu, Calif. CEESIM is designed to […] More