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  • Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ

    Rocky Research has landed a five-year, $49.1 million contract to supply the U.S. Navy with navigation and ship control system hardware components. The company will perform contract work in Huntsville, Alabama through September 2022, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division is the contracting office and will obligate $137,559 at the […] More

  • Sky and Space Global Conducts Voice Calls, Data Transfer via Nanosatellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sky and Space Global Conducts Voice Calls, Data Transfer via Nanosatellites

    Sky and Space Global has conducted phone calls, instant messaging, voice recording and image transfers through the company’s constellation of three nanosatellites. SAS said Tuesday the test run of its 3 Diamonds constellation marked the first time that a voice call was delivered using nanosatellites. The company demonstrated the “store and forward” function of its satellite […] More

  • 20 US States, Territories Join FirstNet Public Safety Broadband Network Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    20 US States, Territories Join FirstNet Public Safety Broadband Network Program

    Twenty U.S. states and territories so far have agreed to participate in the First Responder Network Authority’s collaborative project with AT&T to establish a nationwide emergency broadband network. FirstNet aims to release updated state plans to states and territories later this month to address additional stakeholder feedback, AT&T said Friday. The company will build and operate a wireless communications network […] More

  • DLA Orders Elbit Systems Night Vision System Spares - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Orders Elbit Systems Night Vision System Spares

    An Elbit Systems subsidiary has received a $31.5 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to supply spares and components for the U.S. Army‘s night vision imaging and heads up display systems. EFW is scheduled to complete deliveries by Nov. 20, 2019, the Defense Department said Friday. DLA’s land and maritime unit is the contracting activity and […] More

  • SpaceX Named Launch Service Provider for 1st Kacific Broadband Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Named Launch Service Provider for 1st Kacific Broadband Satellite

    Kacific has chosen SpaceX to launch a broadband satellite designed to provide internet service coverage for customers in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Kacific-1 satellite is scheduled to lift off aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sometime in 2019, Kacific said Tuesday. Boeing will manufacture the condominium satellite for Kacific and SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. based on the 702 spacecraft platform under a […] More

  • Leidos Wins $50M Army Contract for Radioactive Waste Investigation Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Wins $50M Army Contract for Radioactive Waste Investigation Services

    Leidos has won a potential $49.5 million contract to help the U.S. Army conduct toxic radioactive waste investigations. The Defense Department said Friday Leidos will support the military branch’s Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program through Feb. 28, 2023 under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The Army established FUSRAP in 1974 as part of efforts to identify, investigate and clean […] More

  • Bohemia Interactive Simulations Receives Army Contract for Video Game-Based Training Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bohemia Interactive Simulations Receives Army Contract for Video Game-Based Training Platform

    Bohemia Interactive Simulations has landed a five-year contract from the U.S. Army to provide perpetual licenses of the company’s Virtual Battlespace 3 desktop training platform. BISim said Tuesday it will also deliver upgraded versions of VBS3; provide online training course support; develop additional features; and update existing VBS3 functions under the contract. VBS3 is based on […] More

  • Lockheed Breaks Ground on New Satellite Production Facility; Rick Ambrose Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Breaks Ground on New Satellite Production Facility; Rick Ambrose Comments

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a satellite manufacturing facility that will be built at the company’s Colorado campus, Denver Business Journal reported Wednesday. The company announced in early August it made a $350 million investment to build the 266,000-square-foot Gateway Center, which is scheduled to open in 2020. Rick Ambrose, executive […] More

  • Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission to Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fifth Air Force Spaceplane Mission to Launch Aboard SpaceX Rocket

    The U.S. Air Force has entered final launch preparations for the fifth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ahead of its scheduled Sept. 7 deployment aboard SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket. The service branch said Thursday the Boeing-built X-37B OTV spaceplane will carry ride-sharing small satellites and perform on-orbit tests of new space technologies. X-37B will also demonstrate experimental electronics and oscillating heat pipe […] More

  • Universal Switching to Supply Data Distribution Systems for Canada WGS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Universal Switching to Supply Data Distribution Systems for Canada WGS Program

    General Dynamics has awarded Universal Switching a contract to provide data distribution for satellite command and control systems that will help connect Canada’s military to the Wideband Global SATCOM satellite constellation. Universal Switching said Aug. 22 it will supply its S64530 Digital RS-530 switching system to aid Canada’s participation in the WGS constellation, called the Mercury Global project. In […] More

  • White House Tech Council Seeks Industry Feedback on Proposed Federal IT Modernization Plan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    White House Tech Council Seeks Industry Feedback on Proposed Federal IT Modernization Plan

    The American Technology Council wants feedback on the targeted vision and proposed implementation plan of a draft report on federal information technology modernization. ATC is tasked with coordinating an IT modernization report that the heads of the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Management and Budget and General Services Administration must submit to President Donald Trump in accordance […] More