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  • CAE Authorized to Link KC-135 Simulators With Air Force Distributed Training Center Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Authorized to Link KC-135 Simulators With Air Force Distributed Training Center Network

    CAE‘s U.S. subsidiary has received authorization from the U.S. Air Force to connect company-built KC-135 Stratotanker simulators to the service branch’s Distributed Training Center Network. The Air Force said Thursday CAE USA can link the KC-135 aircrew training system with other mobility platforms designed to support virtual-constructive training across multiple  Air Force bases. “What we are moving to next, and what the […] More

  • Capstone Gets Navy Task Order for CNIC Mobile Training, Course Devt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capstone Gets Navy Task Order for CNIC Mobile Training, Course Devt Services

    Capstone has received a task order to provide mobile training teams and formal course development services to regional or installation security and emergency management personnel at the Commander, Navy Installations Command headquarters. Work covers curriculum management, courseware facilitation, white-cell exercises, professional instruction and staff administration support, Capstone said Monday. The Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk’s Philadelphia […] More

  • Battelle, Nanotherapeutics Team Up to Develop Medical Countermeasures for DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, Nanotherapeutics Team Up to Develop Medical Countermeasures for DoD

    Battelle and Nanotherapeutics have forged an alliance to research, develop, test and evaluate medical countermeasures for the Defense Department to protect military personnel from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats. The partnership will focus on developing vaccines and therapeutic products against CBRN weapons that pose health risks to U.S. troops deployed worldwide, Battelle said Wednesday. Nanotherapeutics President and CEO Prasad Raje said the […] More

  • BAE to Help Maintain, Repair Estonia's Infantry Fighting Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help Maintain, Repair Estonia’s Infantry Fighting Vehicles

    Estonia’s center for defense investment has inked long-term contracts with BAE Systems for the company to help maintain and sustain the country’s fleet of infantry fighting vehicles. BAE said Wednesday the agreements will cover configuration management, maintenance, repair and spare parts production support services 44 CV9035 IFVs the Estonian government procured in 2014 from the Netherlands. The company noted that Estonia is one of […] More

  • Bunchball Engagement Platform Available via Carahsoft's Schedule, SEWP Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bunchball Engagement Platform Available via Carahsoft’s Schedule, SEWP Contracts

    Bunchball has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to offer an enterprise engagement platform and strategic services to agencies via the General Services Administration‘s Schedule and NASA‘s Solution for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle. John Gevisser, vice president of channel and alliances at Bunchball, said in a statement released Tuesday government customers and partner ecosystems can now avail the company’s Nitro software-as-a-service platform. “We are immensely […] More

  • NASA, Genesis Engineering Solutions Enter Processor Tech Licensing Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Genesis Engineering Solutions Enter Processor Tech Licensing Agreement

    Genesis Engineering Solutions and NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center have signed  a patent license agreement that authorizes the company to produce and market processors based on a Goddard-built onboard processing system. NASA said Wednesday Genesis Engineering Solutions will use the SpaceCube 2.0 design in efforts to create new space-based processors that can generate up to 100 times more computing power than current systems. […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Continue Test Range Instrumentation Tech Production for US Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Continue Test Range Instrumentation Tech Production for US Military

    Rockwell Collins will continue to support the production of a military test range instrumentation system under a two-year, $21.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will provide a second production lot of the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System for deployment at Air Force, Army and Navy test ranges. DoD awarded a $31 million contract […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate 3D-Printed Remote Interface Unit on 6th Air Force AEHF Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate 3D-Printed Remote Interface Unit on 6th Air Force AEHF Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has used a three-dimensional printing system to create a remote interface unit for integration onto a military communications satellite built for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Tuesday it developed the 3D-printed aluminum enclosure to hold avionic circuits on the military branch’s sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellite and reduce the amount of time required for the […] More

  • Navy Tests Updated Software of Northrop-Built Triton UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests Updated Software of Northrop-Built Triton UAS

    The U.S. Navy has conducted formal laboratory and initial flight tests on updated software for a Northrop Grumman-built unmanned aerial system. Northrop said Tuesday the new MQ-4C Triton software package modernized the platform’s traffic alert and collision avoidance system, multi-aircraft control technology and multifunction active sensor radar modes. The Navy aims to achieve early operational capability status for the […] More

  • Raytheon Evaluates Electric Gun for Phalanx Close-In Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Evaluates Electric Gun for Phalanx Close-In Weapon System

    Raytheon has tested an updated electric gun that will be integrated on a company-built radar-guided weapon system against ballistic missiles as part of a series of “tech refresh” projects. The company said Tuesday the updates to the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System were implemented to help sailors and soldiers fire weapons at varying rates and consume less ammunition. Phalanx uses […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Manufacture Projectile Fuze for Navy Ship Gun Ammunition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Manufacture Projectile Fuze for Navy Ship Gun Ammunition

    Orbital ATK has secured a $20.8 million contract to produce and support the first article test of a multifunction projectile fuze designed to increase the overall mission capacity of five-inch gun ammunition for U.S. Navy ships. The MK419 Mod 1 Multi-Function Fuze combines five modes of operation into a single fuze intended to be used on MK187 projectiles that support Navy 54 and […] More

  • MIL Corp to Continue State Dept Financial Support Services Under Recompete Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIL Corp to Continue State Dept Financial Support Services Under Recompete Contract

    MIL Corp. will extend its financial support services to the State Department under a recompete contract awarded through a blanket purchase agreement. The company said Monday it will continue to help the department manage applications, from the planning phase through the implementation of accounting, payroll and reporting systems. MIL will also analyze the department’s financial, budgeting and compensation systems as well as […] More