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  • General Dynamics Performs Ajax Armored Vehicle Live-Fire Tests; Kevin Connell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Performs Ajax Armored Vehicle Live-Fire Tests; Kevin Connell Comments

    General Dynamics‘ land systems unit in the U.K. has conducted manned live-fire trials for its armored vehicle program using CTA International-built weapons including a 40mm autocannon, chain gun and smoke grenade launchers, UPI reported Friday. The company will continue to perform testing activities on the Ajax armored vehicles which will range from static firing on […] More

  • DHS Selects Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute to Study Cyber Threats in Mobile Devices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Selects Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute to Study Cyber Threats in Mobile Devices

    The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute has received a $640,000 contract from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to conduct research work on prepositioned cyber threats in mobile devices. CIRI, a DHS S&T Center of Excellence, will establish a framework for mobile device operating systems that can help automatically determine threats that sprout from personal […] More

  • BAE Selects Konstrukta to Produce Barrels for Swedish Combat Vehicle Mortar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Selects Konstrukta to Produce Barrels for Swedish Combat Vehicle Mortar System

    Slovakia-based company Konstrukta Defense has received a contract of an undisclosed value from BAE Systems to manufacture barrels for Sweden’s Mjolner mortar system. Konstrukta will deliver 84 120mm barrels to the Swedish armed forces from December 2017 through July 2020, BAE said Wednesday. Sweden’s defense materiel administration awarded a $68 million contract to BAE Systems in December […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Showcases Jamming-Resistant Directional Communication Link Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Showcases Jamming-Resistant Directional Communication Link Tech

    Rockwell Collins has showcased the capacities of a jamming-resistant directional communication link designed to send signals 10 times farther than current omnidirectional systems. The company said Thursday that the communication link system uses technologies built through Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Arrays at Commercial Timescales programs to aid operations of military unmanned aerial systems […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Wants to Offer Engine Tech for Air Force B-52 Bomber Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Wants to Offer Engine Tech for Air Force B-52 Bomber Aircraft

    Rolls-Royce seeks to pitch the company’s BR725 engine technology offering to the U.S. Air Force as a potential replacement for current B-52 bomber engines, FlightGlobal reported Thursday. Tom Hartmann, senior vice president of customer business at Rolls Royce’s North American arm, told FlightGlobal the company will prepare for a potential bomber engine modernization program as the service branch […] More

  • NASA, BoldlyGo Sign Agreement to Study Potential Habitable Exoplanets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, BoldlyGo Sign Agreement to Study Potential Habitable Exoplanets

    NASA and the BoldlyGo Institute have entered into a Space Act Agreement to build and deploy a purpose-built space telescope to determine potentially habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system. BoldlyGo said Tuesday the public-private collaboration seeks to open up opportunities for NASA personnel and staff members of the Project Blue mission to review mission designs […] More

  • BAE Unit to Support US, UK Trident II Missile Programs Under $64M Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit to Support US, UK Trident II Missile Programs Under $64M Contract Modification

    BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services business has received a $63.6 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to support strategic weapon systems for U.S. and U.K. Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missile programs. The modification also covers services for the Navy’s SSGN guided-missile submarine attack weapons, nuclear weapon surety and future concepts, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD […] More

  • Verizon's Federal Arm to Help Maintain Naval Computer, Telecom Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon’s Federal Arm to Help Maintain Naval Computer, Telecom Systems

    Verizon‘s federal business has secured a potential five-year, $23.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to maintain and support switched voice and data telecommunications systems for the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic. The Defense Department said Thursday the service branch awarded the contract after a competitive solicitation process on FedBizOpps with one bid received. NCTAMS […] More

  • Virtustream Seeks to Expand Cloud Footprint Through Iron Mountain Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virtustream Seeks to Expand Cloud Footprint Through Iron Mountain Data Center

    Dell Technologies‘ Virtustream business will co-locate enterprise cloud services in a Northern Virgina-based Iron Mountain data center under an expanded partnership between the two companies. Virtustream selected the Northern Virginia-based facility based on its security, scalability and compliance with FISMA High, HIPAA, PCI-DSS Level 1, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 and ISO 27001 requirements, Iron Mountain […] More

  • BAE Designs Augmented Reality Wearable Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Designs Augmented Reality Wearable Tech

    BAE Systems has demonstrated its concept of an augmented reality wearable display that would integrate advanced display, tracking and sensing technologies intended for military and commercial applications. AR glasses are designed to fit like normal glasses and feature free-space tracking tools that will work to help users view sensor video, guidance, targeting and mission data, BAE said Wednesday. […] More

  • SAIC to Extend Army Computer, Systems Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC to Extend Army Computer, Systems Support

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a one-year, $25.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Army to provide systems and computer resources support for the software engineering directorate of the service branch’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center. The Defense Department said Wednesday it expects SAIC to complete work under the modification by Sept. 11, […] More

  • NASA Conducts First Ground Demo of Dragonfly Robotic Self-Assembly System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Conducts First Ground Demo of Dragonfly Robotic Self-Assembly System

    NASA has completed an initial ground demonstration of a robotic system designed to autonomously assemble satellites and space infrastructure components in orbit. The space agency said Wednesday that the Dragonfly system was used to install and reconfigure large antenna reflectors on a simulated geostationary satellite. Dragonfly is equipped with a robotic arm that will work […] More