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  • Report: Air Force Plans Follow-On Military Satellite Program With Rapid Acquisition Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force Plans Follow-On Military Satellite Program With Rapid Acquisition Strategy

    The U.S. Air Force is considering using a rapid acquisition pathway to buy military communications satellites that would succeed the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system, National Defense Magazine reported Tuesday. Col. David Ashley, program manager of the Air Force’s AEHF system, said the service branch will seek approval from its senior acquisition executive in December to use […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Ideas to Build RF Phased Array Aperture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Ideas to Build RF Phased Array Aperture

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Microsystems Technology Office has issued a request for information on methods to develop radio frequency personality systems. DARPA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice it aims to build a phased array apperture for a backend digital receiver/exciter concept that the agency wants to integrate and test-fly with the Air Force […] More

  • Microsoft Adds InterSystems’ Unified Data Platform to Azure Cloud Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Adds InterSystems’ Unified Data Platform to Azure Cloud Marketplace

    InterSystems has started to offer a unified data platform on Microsoft‘s Azure Marketplace to help customers build and implement cloud-based information technology applications. The IRIS Data Platform is designed to manage workloads, process transactions and analyze data, InterSystems said Friday. Microsoft created Azure Marketplace for organizations to access certified cloud-based IT products. “To keep pace with continuously evolving market […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, Navy Collaborate on 3D Printing of Warship Metal Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls, Navy Collaborate on 3D Printing of Warship Metal Components

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has helped the U.S. Navy‘s Naval Sea Systems Command implement an additive manufacturing process to build metal parts for nuclear-powered vessels. The collaborative project aims to install a prototype piping assembly on the USS Harry S. Truman in early 2019 and subsequently test the structure onboard the warship over a one-year period, HII said Thursday. […] More

  • LexisNexis, Motorola Solutions Form Public Safety Tech Partnership; Haywood Talcove Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LexisNexis, Motorola Solutions Form Public Safety Tech Partnership; Haywood Talcove Quoted

    LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Motorola Solutions have partnered to develop a joint technology offering for government clients to gather, access and analyze public safety data. The partnership will incorporate data and analytics technology from LexisNexis into a Motorola-made software platform in an effort to accelerate the public information collection process, Motorola said Thursday. Both companies expect to launch the integrated platform in […] More

  • NASA Seeks Input on 'Tipping Point' Space Tech Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Input on ‘Tipping Point’ Space Tech Initiative

    NASA has asked industry to provide feedback on the space agency’s initiative to partner with companies to develop technology platforms that can support government and commercial space missions. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday, NASA’s space technology mission directorate seeks input on what additional topics the agency should consider for inclusion in “Industry-Developed Tipping Point Technologies” solicitations. […] More

  • Blue Prism Debuts Robotic Process Automation Tech on GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blue Prism Debuts Robotic Process Automation Tech on GSA Schedule

    Blue Prism has announced the availability of its robotic process automation software to federal agencies through the General Services Administration’s Information Technology Schedule 70 procurement vehicle. The company said Wednesday its technology employs artificial intelligence, machine learning, sentiment analysis and intelligent automation methods intended to help government customers automate business processes. Jim Fawcett, vice president of […] More

  • Draper Forms Team to Pursue NASA's Next Lunar Exploration Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Forms Team to Pursue NASA’s Next Lunar Exploration Project

    Draper has teamed up with three other companies to bid for a project to build small exploration vehicles and scientific instruments to help NASA explore the moon’s surface. Cambridge, Mass.-based Draper said Tuesday it will lead an industry team composed of General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems group, ispace and Spaceflight Industries to pursue the space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract. NASA asked industry […] More

  • MSi Raises Funds to Expand Market Reach With Cybersecurity Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MSi Raises Funds to Expand Market Reach With Cybersecurity Platform

    Mission Secure has completed a Series A financing round as the company aims to expand the reach of its cybersecurity software offering in the defense, transportation and energy markets. The MSi Platform is designed to help customers monitor and secure industrial-grade control systems within protected facilities, the company said Wednesday. Energy Innovation Capital and Chevron Technology Ventures […] More

  • Northrop Explores New Platforms for Black Hawk Helicopter Avionics System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Explores New Platforms for Black Hawk Helicopter Avionics System

    Northrop Grumman is looking at other possible applications of an avionics system used on the U.S. Army’s UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter, Rotary & Wing International reported Tuesday. The company designed its Integrated Avionics Suite with an open architecture intended to support future system adjustments without having to involve the original equipment manufacturer. Robert Fleming, vice president of […] More

  • Raytheon, Army Develop Excalibur Projectile Variant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Army Develop Excalibur Projectile Variant

    Raytheon and the U.S. Army have updated a precision-guided projectile built to operate with multiple artillery systems and help warfighters engage targets in secluded locations. Excalibur Shaped Trajectory is designed to reach a multistory facility via the building side, a bunker situated on a mountain slope’s opposite side or adversarial assets located under an overpass, Raytheon said Tuesday. The Army […] More

  • Accenture Federal Services’ Mary Legere Bestowed AFCEA Gold Medallion Army Cyber Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Federal Services’ Mary Legere Bestowed AFCEA Gold Medallion Army Cyber Award

    Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mary Legere, a managing director at Accenture Federal Services, has received the Saint Isidore Army Cyber award from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association in recognition of her initiative, leadership, insight and cyber intelligence skills. Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, commander general of the Army Cyber Command, awarded AFCEA’s “Gold […] More