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  • Cubic Subsidiary Unveils Portable Satellite Ground Terminal; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Subsidiary Unveils Portable Satellite Ground Terminal; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic‘s GATR Technologies subsidiary has developed a portable ground station for public and private sector customers to download satellite imagery for tactical applications. The GATR TRAC station works to help users download imagery and data from low-Earth orbit satellites such as Eros A and B, Pleiades 1A and 1B, RADARSAT 2, Spot 6 and 7, TanDEM-X, TerraSAR-X, WORLDVIEW 1 […] More

  • Harris Maritime Surveillance Tech Begins Worldwide Vessel Tracking Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Maritime Surveillance Tech Begins Worldwide Vessel Tracking Operations

    Four Harris-built maritime vessel tracking receivers have begun to track nearly 250,000 ships around the world as part of hosted payloads onboard Iridium‘s NEXT satellites that were launched in January. Harris said Monday the receivers are designed to offer global automatic identification system information and ship tracking capacity for government and commercial users. Iridium’s NEXT satellite constellation is scheduled to reach full […] More

  • Gryphon Technologies to Support Expeditionary Systems Unit at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gryphon Technologies to Support Expeditionary Systems Unit at Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division

    Gryphon Technologies has secured a $25.5 million contract to offer support services for the expeditionary systems unit of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City division. The company said Monday that it will evaluate, test and fabricate prototypes of NSWC PCD’s landing craft air cushion and naval assault craft units. Gryphon will also perform special studies and […] More

  • NASA Taps Northrop Subsidiary to Provide Optics Tech for Future Space Observatory - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Northrop Subsidiary to Provide Optics Tech for Future Space Observatory

    A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has received a contract from NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop an optical technology platform for integration with an infrared space observatory. Northrop said Monday Adaptive Optics Associates will design and produce an adaptive optics tool for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope designed to capture images of exoplanets throughout the platform’s mission. AOX will integrate adaptive […] More

  • CTC Lands GSA Task Order Under OASIS Contract Vehicle to Provide NWDTP Instructors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Lands GSA Task Order Under OASIS Contract Vehicle to Provide NWDTP Instructors

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a potential two-year, $1.8 million task order from the General Services Administration to provide instructors for the National Weapons Detection Training Program for the Federal Protective Service National Academy. CTC said Thursday that the instructors will offer training services for law enforcement personnel and protective security officers to help provide […] More

  • Orbital ATK-Built Cygnus Spacecraft Departs from ISS to Perform Secondary Payload Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-Built Cygnus Spacecraft Departs from ISS to Perform Secondary Payload Missions

    An Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft has departed from the International Space Station to conduct three secondary payload missions as part of its next mission phase. The company said Sunday that the S.S. John Glenn will perform NASA‘s Spacecraft Fire Experiment-III experiment which will monitor the behavior of fires in microgravity. “The experiment will intentionally ignite and record a large-scale […] More

  • DARPA Eyes Cyber Hunting Tools for Enterprise Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes Cyber Hunting Tools for Enterprise Networks

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks proposals for the development of cyber hunting tools that will help boost the defenses of enterprise networks and offer cyber threat characterization, detection and protection capacity. DARPA said in a release published Wednesday on the FedBizOpps website that the agency expects to award multiple procurement contracts for proposals that support four out of […] More

  • Carahsoft to Serve as Govt Sector Distributor of Seagate-Developed Encryption Tech; Craig Abod Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Serve as Govt Sector Distributor of Seagate-Developed Encryption Tech; Craig Abod Comments

    Carahsoft will offer encryption devices from Seagate‘s government solutions business unit in the government market as a public sector distributor. The two companies said Thursday that Seagate’s Trade Agreements Act-compliant self-encrypting drives were developed to help clients address security risks meet regulatory compliance and provide transparency. Seagate offers disk drives that have received the FIPS 140-2 Level 2 […] More

  • Boeing Taps Germany-Based COTESA to Supply Chinook Helicopter Parts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Taps Germany-Based COTESA to Supply Chinook Helicopter Parts

    Boeing has selected Germany-based composite component supplier COTESA for a five-year contract to produce various parts for the aerospace and defense company’s heavy-lift helicopter platform. COTESA, which now joins Boeing’s supply chain in Germany, will provide parts of the H-47 Chinook tunnel cover section for the worldwide fleet of Chinook aircraft, the latter said Thursday. Boeing has produced more than […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Hands Over USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Hands Over USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier to Navy

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding unit has delivered a first-of-class aircraft carrier to the U.S. Navy following the platform’s completion of acceptance trials. The company said Thursday the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier, dubbed CVN 78, is the first in the Ford class of carriers that serves as successor to the Nimitz-class ships. CVN 78 is equipped […] More

  • Army Tests Proximity Fuze-Equipped Raytheon Stinger Missiles; Kim Ernzen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Tests Proximity Fuze-Equipped Raytheon Stinger Missiles; Kim Ernzen Comments

    The U.S. Army used a pair of Raytheon-developed anti-air missiles equipped with proximity fuzes to engage small unmanned airborne systems at a recent testing event. Raytheon said Thursday that the proximity fuzes added to the Stinger missiles helped eliminate targets which included an MQM-170C and another small UAS platform. Kim Ernzen, vice president of Raytheon’s land warfare systems products, said […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Delivers HC-130J Personnel Recovery Aircraft to National Guard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Delivers HC-130J Personnel Recovery Aircraft to National Guard

    The U.S. National Guard has received the first of four Lockheed Martin-developed fixed-wing personnel recovery aircraft that will support operations in Alaska and the Pacific Theater. Lockheed said Thursday that the HC-130J aircraft will help users respond to disaster scenarios, evacuate aeromedical personnel, support humanitarian outreach programs, disseminate aviation advisories and perform security cooperation missions. HC-130J, which will succeed […] More