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  • Inmarsat's Andy Start: Government Can Utilize Five A's Approach for Cost-Capability Balance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Andy Start: Government Can Utilize Five A’s Approach for Cost-Capability Balance

    Andy Start, president of Inmarsat‘s global government business unit, said the “five A’s” approach postulated by Gartner analysts Mark McDonald and Andy Rowsell-Jones can help the government balance operating capability and cost. Start wrote in a blog post published Thursday the “Augment, Apply, Accompany, Apply and Abstract” approach in the digital world can be modified into the […] More

  • Airbus Eyes Autonomous Flying Vehicle Concept to Address Urban Congestion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Eyes Autonomous Flying Vehicle Concept to Address Urban Congestion

    Airbus Group plans to develop an autonomous flying vehicle platform concept to fly over traffic jams in an effort to relieve urban congestion and address traffic concerns that resulted from urbanization in “megacities.” The aerospace conglomerate said in a report its A3 outpost has pursued an individual passenger and cargo transport autonomous flying vehicle platform project coined Vahana that has scheduled first vehicle […] More

  • DoD Orders Tactical Two-Way Sensor Data Transport Baseband Kits From Cubic Subsidiaries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Orders Tactical Two-Way Sensor Data Transport Baseband Kits From Cubic Subsidiaries

    The Defense Department has given initial purchase orders to Cubic‘s TeraLogics, DTECH Labs and GATR Technologies subsidiaries for the delivery of Tactical Two-way Sensor Data Transport baseband kits. Cubic said Monday the integrated T2SDT system to be delivered by its subsidiaries that operate within the Cubic Mission Solutions business division aims to help boost existing Digital Video Broadcasting-Return Channel via Satellite terminal capacity. […] More

  • DHS Taps JGW International, Reamda to Develop EOD Robot Operator Control Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Taps JGW International, Reamda to Develop EOD Robot Operator Control Unit

    The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a $422,330 contract to JGW International to produce a universal operator control unit for four explosive ordnance disposal robotic platforms. DHS’ science and technology directorate will collaborate with JGW International and its  partner Reamda to create a system that will work to help bomb technicians operate multiple robotic platforms using a single standardized control unit console, the […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Update USS Truman Shipboard Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Update USS Truman Shipboard Systems

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has landed a $52.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Navy to support modernization work for the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier’s fiscal 2016 planned incremental availability. The Defense Department said Friday Newport News will help the Navy modernize, replace or repair nuclear propulsion systems and specialized systems on the USS Truman. Work covers planning, material procurement, […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests SLS Engine at NASA Stennis Space Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests SLS Engine at NASA Stennis Space Center

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed additional tests on a development engine for a NASA launch vehicle at the Stennis Space Center to check the engine’s capacity to withstand a challenging operational environment. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday the RS-25 engine dubbed 0528 that NASA will use for the Space Launch System ran for 420 seconds on power levels that range from 80 percent to […] More

  • Endeavor Robotics' Ground Robots to Use Persistent Systems' Radio Comms Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Endeavor Robotics’ Ground Robots to Use Persistent Systems’ Radio Comms Tech

    Endeavor Robotics has partnered with Persistent Systems to install the latter’s radio communications system on the former’s product line of ground robots. Endeavor Robotics said July 12 the MPU5 radio will work to help increase the range of unmanned ground operations and support single-controller operations for multiple robot assets over the Wave Relay mobile ad hoc network technology. “Networked connectivity between the warfighter and all […] More

  • Boeing to Support U.K. P-8A Aircraft Production Under $68M Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Support U.K. P-8A Aircraft Production Under $68M Navy Contract Modification

    Boeing has landed a $68.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead parts needed for the production of P-8A Poseidon multimission maritime patrol aircraft for the U.K. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also provide manufacturing support for two full-rate production 4 Lot 8 P-8As under the foreign military sales program. The Naval Air Systems Command will […] More

  • Lovell Government Services to Offer Bodimetrics' Telehealth Devices Through VA Federal Supply Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lovell Government Services to Offer Bodimetrics’ Telehealth Devices Through VA Federal Supply Schedule

    Lovell Government Services and Bodimetrics have partnered to offer the latter’s portfolio of telehealth devices to the Department of Veterans Affairs and other federal agencies via the Federal Supply Schedule contracting vehicle. LGS will distribute Bodimetrics’ products through its FSS contract with the Veterans Health Administration or the General Services Administration‘s Advantage Online Catalog, Bodimetrics said Tuesday. “Our focus has been in furthering the development […] More

  • Report: Global Market for Law Enforcement Robots to Reach $5.7B in 2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Global Market for Law Enforcement Robots to Reach $5.7B in 2022

    A market report by WinterGreen Research predicts that the global market for law enforcement robots will reach a $5.7 billion value in 2022 due to an increased number of terrorist threats around the world, WhaTech said Saturday. Pramod Dige writes the “Law Enforcement Robots: Market Shares, Market Strategies, and Market Forecasts, 2016 to 2022” study attributes the growth of […] More

  • Woolpert to Help USGS Collect Lidar Elevation Data Across Tennessee - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Woolpert to Help USGS Collect Lidar Elevation Data Across Tennessee

    Woolpert has started to collect light detection and ranging elevation data across 49 Tennessee counties in support of three lidar projects managed by the U.S. Geological Survey. Two of the three contracts USGS awarded to Woolpert support the agency’s 3D Elevation Program that seeks to establish a national map through data collection with lidar technology, the company said Monday. Woolpert noted the third contract […] More

  • USS George Washington Hosts F-35C Test Pilots to Complete Dev't Testing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USS George Washington Hosts F-35C Test Pilots to Complete Dev’t Testing

    The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George Washington will host a Patuxent River integrated test force team for the Lockheed Martin-built F-35C fighter aircraft in support of developmental testing efforts. The USS George Washington office said Sunday the test pilot team will work to complete the third and final at-sea stage as part of preparations for the F-35 variant’s initial operational capability scheduled for […] More