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  • Virgin Galactic, Italian Space Agency Ink Letter of Intent for Suborbital Research Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virgin Galactic, Italian Space Agency Ink Letter of Intent for Suborbital Research Flight

    Virgin Galactic and Italy’s space agency have signed a letter of intent to perform suborbital flight on the company’s SpaceShipTwo spaceplane. The Italian space agency will conduct scientific research and suborbital experiments during the planned mission, which is scheduled to occur in 2019 at Spaceport America in New Mexico, Virgin Galactic said Monday. The partnership will also include on-site […] More

  • Indonesia Receives First Apache Attack Helicopter Under FMS Agreement With US - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Indonesia Receives First Apache Attack Helicopter Under FMS Agreement With US

    Indonesia has received its first Boeing-built AH-64E Apache Guardian attack helicopter as part of the country’s foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. government, Defense News reported Monday. The report said the Apache helicopter was delivered to the city of Semarang in Java, Indonesia using a U.S. Air Force C-17A Globemaster III airlifter. Indonesia requested to buy eight Apache […] More

  • Orbital ATK-Built Cygnus Spacecraft Completes 8th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-Built Cygnus Spacecraft Completes 8th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    An Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere Monday at 7:54 a.m. Eastern time after it delivered approximately 7,400 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station and completed secondary space missions. The re-entry of the spacecraft, also known as S. S. Gene Cernan, marked the conclusion of Orbital ATK’s eighth ISS cargo supply mission under its Commercial Resupply […] More

  • Army Taps 4 Firms to Build Equipment Transport UGV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps 4 Firms to Build Equipment Transport UGV

    The U.S. Army has selected four companies to move to the second phase of a program that seeks to develop unmanned ground vehicles for equipment transport, Defense News reported Thursday. General Dynamics‘ land systems business, HDT Expeditionary Systems, Howe & Howe and a team of Polaris Defense and Applied Research Associates will build 20 UGVs each […] More

  • Leidos, SecurityMatters to Combine Industrial Control System Mgmt, Threat Monitoring Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, SecurityMatters to Combine Industrial Control System Mgmt, Threat Monitoring Platforms

    Leidos and SecurityMatters have partnered to add passive monitoring features into a technology platform designed to help operators monitor and secure industrial control systems. SecurityMatters said Thursday it will integrate its SilentDefense continuous threat detection and response platform with Leidos’ Industrial Defender Automation Systems Manager offering. Leidos will resell the integrated product to current and future Industrial Defender ASM customers. […] More

  • Google Machine Learning Tool Aids Discovery of 8th Planet Around 'Sun-Like' Star - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Machine Learning Tool Aids Discovery of 8th Planet Around ‘Sun-Like’ Star

    NASA has discovered an eighth planet orbiting a Sun-like star named Kepler-90 using Google‘s machine learning tool. The space agency said Friday the machine learning platform identified the Kepler-90i planet by searching through data from the Kepler Space Telescope. Researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg trained a computer, called an artificial neural network, to detect exoplanets in light readings recorded by […] More

  • CSRA CEO Larry Prior Wins 'Tech Executive of the Year' Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA CEO Larry Prior Wins ‘Tech Executive of the Year’ Award

    CSRA President and CEO Larry Prior has been recognized as “Tech Executive of the Year” by the Northern Virginia Technology Council during an awards ceremony held Monday. Recipients of the annual award are selected based on executive leadership; the company’s financial growth; personal contributions to the local technology community; and the individual’s vision for the company’s […] More

  • Cubic Business Unit Opens New Office in Tampa, Florida; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Business Unit Opens New Office in Tampa, Florida; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic‘s mission solutions business unit has opened a new office in Tampa, Florida, in a push to expand support for U.S. military customers. The company said Thursday the office will be led by Lawrence Hollister, executive director of Cubic Mission Solutions, and will aid the delivery of military command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies. […] More

  • Boeing's Aurora Flight Sciences Flies Autonomous UH-1H Helicopter in Cargo Resupply Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences Flies Autonomous UH-1H Helicopter in Cargo Resupply Demo

    Aurora Flight Sciences has demonstrated an autonomous version of the UH-1H helicopter as part of the Office of Naval Research‘s Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System program. The Boeing subsidiary said Wednesday the AACUS-Enabled UH-1H helicopter, or AEH-1, performed multiple flights at the Marine Corps Base Quantico to verify its capacity to conduct resupply missions autonomously in operationally relevant […] More

  • BAE, University of Manchester Test Small UAV With Blown-Air System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, University of Manchester Test Small UAV With Blown-Air System

    BAE Systems and the University of Manchester have jointly conducted the first phase of flight tests with a small unmanned aerial vehicle that works to maneuver using a blown-air system. The company said Wednesday that MAGMA UAV’s blown-air system is designed to eliminate the need for mechanical moving parts used to control aircraft during flight, as well as optimize the speed […] More

  • Leidos, Claroty Partner on Industrial Control System Network Protection Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, Claroty Partner on Industrial Control System Network Protection Offering

    Leidos and Claroty have teamed up to offer an industrial control systems network protection technology equipped with passive monitoring features. Leidos said Wednesday it will integrate the company’s Industrial Defender Automation Systems Manager offering with Claroty’s passive monitoring platform to help customers monitor, detect and respond to infrastructure network security threats. Current and future customers of Industrial […] More

  • NASA Backs Launch of Orbital Medicine-Made Space Medical Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Backs Launch of Orbital Medicine-Made Space Medical Tech

    NASA has funded the launch of an Orbital Medicine-built space medical technology aboard Blue Origin‘s New Shepard reusable space vehicle on Tuesday. The Evolved Medical Microgravity Suction Device is designed to help treat chest trauma in a space environment, NASA said Thursday. Treatment of astronauts’ traumatic injuries currently needs to be performed on Earth using gravity-dependent tools that […] More