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  • Navy Holds Unmanned Systems Exercise With Industry, Academia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Holds Unmanned Systems Exercise With Industry, Academia

    The U.S. Navy has facilitated technology demonstrations of various unmanned systems alongside technology developers from industry and academia during the two-day Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017. The event dubbed “Battlespace Preparation in a Contested Environment” kicked off on Aug. 15  at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport in Rhode Island and at the Naval Surface Warfare […] More

  • Riverbed's Davis Johnson: Network Optimization Key to Cyber EO Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Riverbed’s Davis Johnson: Network Optimization Key to Cyber EO Compliance

    Davis Johnson, vice president of public sector at Riverbed Technology, has said he believes federal agencies should prioritize network optimization to meet deadlines under President Donald Trump’s cybersecurity executive order. Johnson wrote in an article published Friday on SIGNAL magazine that modernization of information technology networks can help increase the performance and strengthen the security of […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium Satcom Systems Support Caribbean, Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Satcom Systems Support Caribbean, Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Operations

    Iridium Communications continues to provide satellite communications services in the Caribbean and Puerto Rico to aid hurricane recovery efforts, NASASpaceflight.com reported Saturday. Iridium CEO Matt Desch, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, told the publication that Iridium saw an increase in satcom demand in the Carribean and Puerto Rico “on a scale that we have […] More

  • Battelle Concludes Carbon Dioxide Storage Project at AEP Power Plant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Concludes Carbon Dioxide Storage Project at AEP Power Plant

    Battelle has completed a 15-year project to store carbon dioxide at American Electric Power‘s coal-fired power plant in West Virginia. The nonprofit research and development organization said Thursday it initiated the carbon capture and storage project at Mountaineer Plant in 2002 with funds from the Energy Department‘s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Neeraj Gupta, Battelle senior research […] More

  • SSL's Rob Zitz: Maxar Technologies to Grow US Govt Business via ISR Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL’s Rob Zitz: Maxar Technologies to Grow US Govt Business via ISR Offerings

    Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral‘s government systems business, has said Maxar Technologies will work to grow its business with the U.S. government through “persistent” intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance offerings, Via Satellite reported Wednesday. SSL’s parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates acquired DigitalGlobe earlier this month to create Maxar, […] More

  • NGA Seeks Info on Potential Sources of Cloud Devt & Industry Collaboration Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Seeks Info on Potential Sources of Cloud Devt & Industry Collaboration Services

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants information on potential vendors that can provide unclassified cloud development support and industry collaboration services. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 18 that it needs to deliver cloud development and industry collaboration support for 40 individuals in St. Louis, Missouri. The agency plans to award a contract that […] More

  • UK Invests $119M in CAE-Operated Helicopter Training Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Invests $119M in CAE-Operated Helicopter Training Facility

    The U.K. defense ministry has invested $118.8 million in a helicopter simulation center to support the training of future U.K. navy and air force pilots. The British government said Tuesday the deal will maintain 70 jobs within the Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility at the RAF Benson air force station in South Oxfordshire, England. CAE […] More

  • Cubic to Update NYC Transport Fare Payment System Under Potential $573M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Update NYC Transport Fare Payment System Under Potential $573M Contract

    A Cubic subsidiary has received a potential $573.4 million contract from the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority to build a fare processing system to replace the current MetroCard payment method for subway and bus fares. Cubic Transportation Systems will design, integrate and implement a system for passengers to pay fares as well as create transit accounts to […] More

  • Fulcrum Eyes DoD, Intell Community Services Expansion via Army Contract; Jeff Handy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fulcrum Eyes DoD, Intell Community Services Expansion via Army Contract; Jeff Handy Comments

    Fulcrum seeks to expand research and development services and other offerings for Defense Department and intelligence community customers through the company’s position under a $480 million U.S. Army contract. The company said it won a spot under the Deployable Adaptive Global Responder Support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, which covers electronic and electro-optic equipment; software design; and technical development […] More

  • QTS Kicks Off Construction of Ashburn, VA Data Center Campus - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Kicks Off Construction of Ashburn, VA Data Center Campus

    QTS Realty Trust has begun to build a 52-acre data center campus in Ashburn, Virginia, in a push to grow the company’s Tier 1 data center offerings. QTS said Tuesday it bought a 24-acre land parcel and a 28-acre lot for $53 million in total to establish the mega facility. The company expects the new site to support […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Extended Continuing Resolution Would Affect 2018 Lockheed Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Extended Continuing Resolution Would Affect 2018 Lockheed Orders

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company’s 2018 orders and backlog levels could take a hit if Congress passes another stopgap measure to fund U.S. government operations, CNBC reported Tuesday. Hewson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, stated at Lockheed’s third-quarter earnings conference call that the company expects its 2017 financials to remain unaffected by the […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Starts Manufacturing Facility Construction in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Starts Manufacturing Facility Construction in Alabama

    Aerojet Rocketdyne held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for a new manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The 136,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Facility is scheduled to start operations in late 2019 and will support the production of various aerospace platforms as well as additive manufacturing work, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday. The company will also conduct advanced rocket propulsion research and development activities at the new […] More