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  • Textron's Aerosonde Subsidiary Rebrands to Reflect Asia-Pacific Region Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron’s Aerosonde Subsidiary Rebrands to Reflect Asia-Pacific Region Push

    Textron‘s subsidiary called Aerosonde has adopted the new name of Textron Systems Australia in a push to reflect the business unit’s broader service offering and efforts in the Asia-Pacific region. The company said Thursday Textron Systems Australia will specialize in all aspects of unmanned aviation such as ground control technologies, training and simulation systems, logistical, engineering and support services. “For the past 25 […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Test on Jettison Motor for NASA Orion Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Test on Jettison Motor for NASA Orion Spacecraft

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested a third development jettison motor built to support the launch abort system of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft at the company’s Rancho Cordova, California facility. The company said Wednesday its jettison motor will be integrated alongside an attitude control and abort motor on the spacecraft’s next test flight called Exploration Mission-1 which covers travel of about 40,000 miles beyond the moon and return to […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Secures $65M Navy Contract Modification for USS Enterprise Long Lead-Time Materials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Secures $65M Navy Contract Modification for USS Enterprise Long Lead-Time Materials

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding business has landed a potential $65.3 million undefinitized contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the purchase of long lead-time materials for a Ford-class aircraft carrier. The Defense Department said Wednesday Newport News Shipbuilding will provide the materials for the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier and perform work in Newport News, Virginia, through December 2018. […] More

  • Sapient, Luminoso Technologies Form AI Tech Partnership for Federal Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sapient, Luminoso Technologies Form AI Tech Partnership for Federal Clients

    Sapient Government Services, a Publicis.Sapient subsidiary, and Luminoso Technologies have forged a marketing alliance that aims to use artificial intelligence technology to help federal customers transform data into actionable insights. SGS said Tuesday Luminoso’s software utilizes natural language processing and machine learning to analyze text data and transform language into mathematical vectors using the ConceptNet open-source semantic knowledge base, which was developed at […] More

  • Infinity Secures NASA SBIR Phase 3 Contract for Air Independent Fuel Cell Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Infinity Secures NASA SBIR Phase 3 Contract for Air Independent Fuel Cell Devt

    Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen has been awarded a phase three contract under NASA‘s Small Business Innovation Research program to develop air independent fuel cells for potential use in the Space Launch System. Infinity said Tuesday it will use contract funds to help advance the company’s patented Non Flow Through fuel cell stack and update its Advanced Product Water Removal technology. “The need […] More

  • Lockheed Taps Microsemi to Produce Master Reference Oscillator for Air Force Infrared Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps Microsemi to Produce Master Reference Oscillator for Air Force Infrared Satellites

    Lockheed Martin has chosen Microsemi to supply master reference oscillators for integration into the next two Space Based Infrared System satellites for the U.S. Air Force. Microsemi said Wednesday it will start to deliver production models of the company’s master reference oscillators that include discrete devices and radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays to Lockheed, the SBIRS’ prime contractor, in late 2016. SBIRS is […] More

  • Versar to Provide Operations, Engineering Services to Army Reserve Support Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Versar to Provide Operations, Engineering Services to Army Reserve Support Command

    Versar has secured a five-year, $37 million task order from the General Services Administration to provide operations, plans, engineering and environmental support for the U.S. Army Reserve 88th Regional Support Command. Versar said Tuesday its professional services group will perform support services across the 88th RSC’s 19-state area of responsibility. Tony Otten, Versar CEO, said the […] More

  • HHS' ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS’ ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge

    The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform and foster transformative change, creativity […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy's Future LXR Amphibious Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy’s Future LXR Amphibious Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls shipbuilding division has secured a potential $13.7 million contract to provide design services for the U.S. Navy‘s LX(R) amphibious warfare ship replacement effort. HII said Tuesday LX(R) will replace the military branch’s Harpers Ferry– and Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships and use the same hull design as the San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks. Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said the […] More

  • Air Force Taps Ohio Aerospace Institute for Computational R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Ohio Aerospace Institute for Computational R&D Contract

    The Ohio Aerospace Institute has won a $13.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide computational research and development services to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Monday OAI will work to integrate fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, physics, mathematics and computer science concepts to computationally simulate canonical configuration flows and real-world applications of current and future aerospace and weapons systems and […] More

  • Day & Zimmermann Nabs Potential 10-Year $950M Contract to Supply Temporary Help for Tennessee Valley Authority - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Day & Zimmermann Nabs Potential 10-Year $950M Contract to Supply Temporary Help for Tennessee Valley Authority

    Pennsylvania-based engineering and construction company Day and Zimmermann has secured a potential 10-year, $950 million contract to supply workers and temporary personnel in case of outages at the Tennessee Valley Authority‘s nuclear power plants, Times Free Press reported Friday. Dave Flessner writes the contract workers will serve to help TVA address increased workloads at the nuclear plants during refueling and […] More

  • Utah State University Research Foundation to Support MDA's Ballistic Missile Defense Tech R&D Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Utah State University Research Foundation to Support MDA’s Ballistic Missile Defense Tech R&D Initiative

    The Defense Department has awarded a potential five-year, $99.4 million contract to the Utah State University Research Foundation to help the Missile Defense Agency develop and field an integrated, layered ballistic missile defense system. The USU Research Foundation and its affiliate Space Dynamics Laboratory will research, engineer, analyze and test systems designed to protect the U.S. and allies against ballistic […] More