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  • NASA, Sierra Nevada Put Dream Chaser Spacecraft Through Captive Carry Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Sierra Nevada Put Dream Chaser Spacecraft Through Captive Carry Test

    A Sierra Nevada Corp-built spacecraft has been subjected to a captive carry test at NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center under the second phase of flight tests designed to prepare the vehicle for a future orbital flight. SNC said Wednesday Dream Chaser tests are part of a Space Act Agreement the company and the space agency signed through the Commercial […] More

  • Lockheed Gets $72M Contract Modification for Navy Submarine EW Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets $72M Contract Modification for Navy Submarine EW Equipment

    Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems business has received a $71.5 million undefinitized contract action modification to deliver electronic warfare equipment for the U.S. Navy‘s Virginia-class attack submarines. The Naval Sea Systems Command obligated $34.6 million at the time of award from the service branch’s procurement, shipbuilding and conversion funds in fiscal years 2016 and […] More

  • Navy, MDA Launch Raytheon SM-6 Missiles Using Lockheed's Aegis Combat System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, MDA Launch Raytheon SM-6 Missiles Using Lockheed’s Aegis Combat System

    The U.S. Navy and Missile Defense Agency have test-fired two Raytheon-made Standard Missile-6 Dual I missiles using the Lockheed Martin-built Aegis Combat System  installed on the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones. Lockheed said Wednesday its Aegis platform helped the SM-6 missile detect, track and intercept a ballistic missile target in flight during the Flight Test Standard Missile–27 Event 2. […] More

  • Altamira Debuts Big Data Platform on Microsoft Azure Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Altamira Debuts Big Data Platform on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

    Altamira has started to offer its big data fusion, analysis and visualization platform on the Microsoft Azure marketplace as part of efforts to help customers transform information into actionable intelligence. Altamira said Tuesday the integration of its Lumify platform with Azure services seeks to accelerate deep learning and data analytics in real time. Lumify is designed to help users […] More

  • CACI Gets $51M Air Force Software Devt Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Gets $51M Air Force Software Devt Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has won a three-year, $51 million task order under the Network-Centric Solutions-2 contract vehicle to provide software development support for the U.S. Air Force‘s 90th Cyberspace Operations Squadron. The company said Wednesday it will also continue to help 90th COS manage software for the Air, Space, and Cyberspace Constructive Environment–Information Operations Simulation suite. CACI President and […] More

  • IARPA Selects Crossmatch-FlexEnable-ISORG Team as Fingerprint Capture Tech Challenge Finalist - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Selects Crossmatch-FlexEnable-ISORG Team as Fingerprint Capture Tech Challenge Finalist

    A multinational industry team composed of Crossmatch, FlexEnable and ISORG has been chosen as a finalist of an Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity prize challenge that seeks biometric technology for fingerprint capture. Crossmatch said Tuesday the team has developed a proof-of-concept automated capture system under IARPA’s Nail-to-Nail Fingerprint Challenge to help the agency eliminate the need for human operators to […] More

  • General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat and mission systems businesses have showcased multiple mission command, control and communication capacities that connected a simulated submarine combat control center with unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles. General Dynamics said Tuesday it linked Bluefin Robotics-built UUVs and AeroVironment‘s Blackwing UAV to the AN/BYG-1 submarine control facility during the 2017 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took […] More

  • Phoenix Logistics to Help Army Deploy Common Battle Command Simulation Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phoenix Logistics to Help Army Deploy Common Battle Command Simulation Equipment

    Phoenix Logistics has won a potential five-year, $44.5 million contract to procure and deploy common battle command simulation equipment, hardware and software licenses on behalf of the U.S. Army‘s Program Executive Officer for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will support a program of record that involves the Program Manager for Integration […] More

  • Roboteam Lands Orders for 75 Micro Tactical Ground Robot Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roboteam Lands Orders for 75 Micro Tactical Ground Robot Systems

    Roboteam has received two orders to deliver 75 micro tactical ground robot designed to support U.S. and international military missions. The company said Tuesday that it has begun to produce and deliver the all-terrain MTGR units which can help conduct explosive ordnance disposal as well as chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear material-related missions. “We are […] More

  • DXC-VMware Alliance to Offer Hybrid Cloud-Powered Digital Transformation Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DXC-VMware Alliance to Offer Hybrid Cloud-Powered Digital Transformation Services

    DXC Technology has expanded a partnership with VMware to provide managed hybrid cloud services to support digital transformation projects of mutual customers. VMware said Monday DXC will be one of the first companies to offer the former’s Cloud on AWS services alongside associated managed services. Clients will also have an option to port workloads between VMware-based data centers, DXC data […] More

  • Derco, Universal Synaptics Extend Avionics Fault Detector Distribution Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Derco, Universal Synaptics Extend Avionics Fault Detector Distribution Agreement

    Lockheed Martin‘s Derco subsidiary will continue to serve as the exclusive distributor of a Universal Synaptics technology designed to help operators detect intermittent errors in electronic equipment or wiring on multiple aircraft platforms. Derco will distribute the Intermittent Fault Detection and Isolation System as well as the portable Voyager Intermittent Fault Detector system to customers worldwide under a […] More

  • Rolls-Royce to Continue Sustainment Support for Air Force C-130J Propulsion Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce to Continue Sustainment Support for Air Force C-130J Propulsion Systems

    Rolls-Royce has received a $40 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Air Force sustain propulsion systems of the service branch’s C-130J transport aircraft fleet. The Defense Department said Monday that Rolls-Royce will provide inventory control point management, sustaining engineering, repair, sustainment and technical data support services under the modification. The Air Force Life Cycle […] More