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  • Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program

    Engility has won a five-year, $49 million contract to provide research and development support for the U.S. Air Force‘s weapon systems testing technology program. The Defense Department said Friday Engility will develop multi-spectral and multi-modal phenomenology modeling tools as well as help the Air Force build and transition weapon systems under the Kinetic Kill Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Technology […] More

  • Navy Orders Lockheed Periscope Detection Radar Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Lockheed Periscope Detection Radar Kits

    Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems unit has secured a four-year, $27 million contract modification to supply the U.S. Navy with periscope detection and discrimination radar kits. The Defense Department said Friday Lockheed will deliver 16 standard and SEED retrofit kits to the Navy’s H-60 Automatic Radar Periscope Detect and Discrimination program. Work under the modification […] More

  • Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System

    Northrop Grumman has secured a potential three-year, $37 million task order to develop and deploy a cyber operations system for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it will continue to develop, integrate, field and sustain the Cyber Mission Platform under the contract, which has a one-year base period valued at $9.4 million. The Air Force […] More

  • UK to Acquire New General Purpose Frigates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK to Acquire New General Purpose Frigates

    The U.K. government has issued a National Shipbuilding Strategy that calls for the procurement of new general purpose frigates. The first five Type 31e frigates would cost less than $329 million each and are slated to enter service by 2023, the British government said in a press release posted Wednesday. Type 31e vessels will be built in […] More

  • SpaceX Launches Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Launches Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission

    SpaceX launched the fifth mission of the U.S. Air Force‘s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on Thursday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. OTV-5 lifted off at 10:00 am Eastern time aboard a Falcon 9 rocket equipped with a first stage booster that landed at Cape Canaveral AF Station after stage separation, according to SpaceX. Brig. Gen. Wayne […] More

  • ManTech Cyber Training Platform Achieves Full Operational Capability; Kevin Phillips Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Cyber Training Platform Achieves Full Operational Capability; Kevin Phillips Comments

    ManTech International has achieved full operational capability for a military-grade cyber range designed to help government customers test, evaluate and train with cybersecurity tools. The company said Wednesday it developed the Advanced Cyber Range Environment to examine preparedness of customer networks to defend against security threats. Kevin Phillips, president and chief operating officer of ManTech and […] More

  • Red Hat-Kryptowire Team to Support DHS' Mobile App Security Project; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat-Kryptowire Team to Support DHS’ Mobile App Security Project; Paul Smith Comments

    A Red Hat–Kryptowire team has received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security to develop methods to automate compliance of mobile applications with government security and privacy standards. Both companies aim to create a framework for security and privacy compliance automation in the mobile app life cycle as part of the Mobile Application Security project managed by […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Develops Aerial-Aquatic Drone Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Develops Aerial-Aquatic Drone Prototype

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a working prototype of an unmanned vehicle that can operate underwater and in the air. APL said Wednesday it plans to install sensor systems into the Flying Fish unmanned aerial-aquatic vehicle to support underwater data collection. The Flying Fish UAAV is designed to fly at approximately 30 miles an […] More

  • IBM, MIT to Establish AI Research Laboratory - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, MIT to Establish AI Research Laboratory

    IBM plans to invest $240 million in the construction of a new artificial intelligence research laboratory that the company will operate in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The company said Thursday its 10-year investment in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab will aid research efforts of scientists from both institutions. The partnership aims to further develop […] More

  • SAIC, Vazata Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Cloud Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC, Vazata Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Cloud Platform

    Science Applications International Corp. and Vazata have partnered to offer government agencies a cloud technology platform certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. SAIC can distribute Virtual Secure Cloud Platform, for which Vazata secured provisional authority to operate through FedRAMP, as part of the partnership deal, Vazata said Wednesday. The agreement also designates Vazata as the exclusive […] More

  • Orbital ATK Conducts SLS Rocket Booster Avionics Qualification Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Conducts SLS Rocket Booster Avionics Qualification Test

    Orbital ATK has finished a qualification test on the avionics system of solid rocket boosters that the company is producing for NASA‘s Space Launch System. The test series validated the avionics system’s performance in expected and abnormal conditions as well as the platform’s capacity to start booster ignition, control the booster during flight and terminate the flight, […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Brings NOAA Weather Satellite to Vanderberg AFB Launch Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Brings NOAA Weather Satellite to Vanderberg AFB Launch Site

    Ball Aerospace has transported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s polar orbiting weather satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ahead of the platform’s scheduled launch on Nov. 10. The company said Tuesday it delivered the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 following a pre-ship review at Ball’s Boulder, Colorado-based manufacturing facility. JPSS-1 is part of the JPSS series of […] More