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  • Rocket Lab to Provide Space Vehicle Separation Hardware for SDA Transport Layer Constellation Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocket Lab to Provide Space Vehicle Separation Hardware for SDA Transport Layer Constellation Demo

    Rocket Lab has secured hardware supply contracts worth $14 million combined from two satellite builders under the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Transport Layer prototype development program. Lockheed Martin and another T1TL contractor ordered lightband separation systems that will work to connect and detach satellites from rockets once the launch vehicles get into orbit, Rocket […] More

  • Former GDIT Officer Colleen Timmer Named Contracts & Procurement Director at Ensco - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former GDIT Officer Colleen Timmer Named Contracts & Procurement Director at Ensco

    Colleen Timmer, a former contract professional at General Dynamics‘ information technology business, has joined engineering company Ensco as director of contracts and procurement, according to a LinkedIn post by Timmer on Wednesday.  Timmer brings to her new role close to two decades of experience in contract handling and management. At General Dynamics Information Technology, she […] More

  • Engineering Services Network Obtains $50M Naval Warfare Center Support Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engineering Services Network Obtains $50M Naval Warfare Center Support Services Contract

    Engineering Services Network will help the U.S. Navy’s Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic conduct capability sustainment, transfer and integration under a potential five-year, $50 million contract. ENS will provide program management, modernization, training as well as logistics, sustainment and hardware engineering support to three NIWC Atlantic operations in Charleston, Chesapeake and Washington D.C., the engineering […] More

  • VMD Lands EPA Contract for IT Ecosystem Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VMD Lands EPA Contract for IT Ecosystem Support

    VMD, a Fairfax, Virginia-based government services provider, will provide the Environmental Protection Agency with information technology support for its Fuels and Fuels Additives Registration and Compliance Information Systems under a five-year, $22 million contract. The company said Tuesday it will assist in fuel compliance operations through Agile delivery, cloud services, data analytics, DevSecOps and robotic […] More

  • Momentus to Help NASA Deploy CubeSats for Ionosphere-Thermosphere Research Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Momentus to Help NASA Deploy CubeSats for Ionosphere-Thermosphere Research Mission

    NASA’s Kennedy Space Center has awarded Momentus a contract modification to send a pair of nanosatellites into orbit for a potential 2023 mission to observe the Earth’s upper atmosphere at night. Momentus said Monday it will provide an orbital service vehicle for two CubeSats that Aerospace Corp. developed to help the agency carry out the Low-Latitude Ionosphere/Thermosphere […] More

  • SimX Receives Air Force Contract for Medical Simulation Training R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SimX Receives Air Force Contract for Medical Simulation Training R&D

    The U.S Air Force has tapped medical device manufacturing company SimX to work under a research and development contract and support a medical simulation training program focused on tactical combat casualty care. SimX said Tuesday the program will adapt its existing virtual reality medical simulation system and modernize it with capacities for medical and clinical […] More

  • Northrop Lands Navy Torpedo Propellant Manufacturing Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Lands Navy Torpedo Propellant Manufacturing Contract

    Northrop Grumman has received a three-year, $9 million contract to produce an initiating propellant for the U.S. Navy’s MK 48 torpedo, an underwater weapon equipped with sonar technology for anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare missions. The Navy solicited services from only one company to address the requirement and issued a $2.2 million initial delivery order […] More

  • LookingGlass Adds CIA Vet Terry Burruss to Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LookingGlass Adds CIA Vet Terry Burruss to Advisory Board

    William “Terry” Burruss, a national security and intelligence expert who was with CIA’s Directorate of Digital Innovation, has joined LookingGlass Cyber Solutions‘ advisory board. He and other board members will advise LookingGlass on strategic efforts to grow its public sector footprint, the global cybersecurity company said Monday. Burruss has over 32 years of experience working […] More

  • Axim Geospatial Books Delivery Order Under NGA Economic Monitoring Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Axim Geospatial Books Delivery Order Under NGA Economic Monitoring Contract

    Axim Geospatial, formerly named Continental Mapping Consultants, will utilize synthetic aperture radar data to identify and assess change detection of transportation assets and equipment in support of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Economic Indicator Monitoring initiative. Sun Prairie, Wisconsin-headquartered Axim said the delivery order awarded under NGA’s EIM contract vehicle requires the company to provide commercial […] More

  • New Rocket Lab Engine Testing Facility at NASA Stennis Space Center Begins Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Rocket Lab Engine Testing Facility at NASA Stennis Space Center Begins Operations

    Rocket Lab has commenced operations on its new testing facility at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi where it will develop and test the Archimedes reusable engine.  The aerospace manufacturer’s Archimedes Test Complex will see testing work on 165,000 pound-force of engines, which will be utilized for the production of its reusable Neutron launch vehicle, […] More

  • Dynetics Taps Kratos to Assist in Hypersonic Flight Test Bed Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics Taps Kratos to Assist in Hypersonic Flight Test Bed Development

    Leidos subsidiary Dynetics has subcontracted Kratos Defense & Security Solutions to support the development of a hypersonic flight test bed under a Department of Defense initiative for advancing national hypersonic testing capability. As a subcontractor in the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonics Test Bed program, Kratos will utilize the expertise of its defense and rocket support […] More

  • USCIS Extends Fingerprint Biometric Tech Deal With Idemia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USCIS Extends Fingerprint Biometric Tech Deal With Idemia

    Idemia‘s North American business has secured an award from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to extend the deployment of its Livescan fingerprint scanning technology to assist in conducting identity verification and criminal background checks.  Under the potential five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Idemia’s existing Livescan technology will be updated, which includes an option to use document […] More