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  • General Dynamics' Mission Systems Unit Expands Canberra, Australia Office; Chris Marzilli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics’ Mission Systems Unit Expands Canberra, Australia Office; Chris Marzilli Comments

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business has expanded its business and  engineering resource center in Canberra, Australia, as part of growth efforts. The expanded GDMS facility at Brindabella Park is close to the Australian defense department’s capability, acquisition and sustainment group office and houses the company’s Mediaware digital video processing operations, General Dynamics said Friday. Chris Marzilli, GDMS president […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on Nonsurgical Human-Machine Comms Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on Nonsurgical Human-Machine Comms Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on April 3 in Arlington, Virginia to discuss a program that seeks to develop human-machine communications technologies that will not require surgery. DARPA said Friday the Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology program, or N3, will explore noninvasive ways to connect able-bodied service members’ neurons with devices. Existing brain-machine […] More

  • Report: Marine Corps Partners With Industry to Demo Drone Supply Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Marine Corps Partners With Industry to Demo Drone Supply Delivery

    The U.S. Marine Corps has collaborated with companies to develop a supply delivery system that uses unmanned aerial vehicles, GCN reported Thursday. The Hive Final Mile project, a joint program of the Marine Corps’ Next Generation Logistics arm and the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Rapid Reaction Technology Office, seeks to automate the delivery of […] More

  • Howard Berry: Boeing Eyes New Partnerships, Acquisitions to Meet Growth Target - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Howard Berry: Boeing Eyes New Partnerships, Acquisitions to Meet Growth Target

    Howard Berry, director of global sales and marketing for international government services at Boeing’s global services business, has said the company plans to buy businesses and establish new partnerships in a move to support defense platforms in Europe and Russia and meet its growth target, Defense News reported Friday. “Today we are about a $16 […] More

  • Navy Taps Vigor Subsidiary for Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Dry Docking Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Vigor Subsidiary for Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Dry Docking Support

    A Vigor Industrial subsidiary has secured a $35 million to help the U.S. Navy address repair and alteration requirements for the dry-docking selected restricted availability of Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers. Vigor Marine will support DSRA office spaces, warehousing, lay-down, security, crane operation, utilities, galley services and other ship assets under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work […] More

  • Turner-AC Martin Team to Design, Build Office Tower for California's Environmental Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Turner-AC Martin Team to Design, Build Office Tower for California’s Environmental Agencies

    The California Department of General Services has selected a Turner Construction– AC Martin team to design and build a “net zero energy” office building for the state’s environmental agencies. The 20-storey tower will be situated in Sacramento and accommodate more than 3,500 employees from the state departments of Natural Resources, Water Resources and Forestry and Fire Protection […] More

  • Oshkosh Defense to Supply Missile Transport Equipment to Qatar, Kuwait Through FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh Defense to Supply Missile Transport Equipment to Qatar, Kuwait Through FMS Contract

    An Oshkosh subsidiary has received a $15.4 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide missile transport equipment and training support to Qatar and Kuwait. Oshkosh Defense will deliver M985A4 guided missile transporters with cranes, M985A4 Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck, Multiple-Launch Rocket System resupply trucks, M984A4 HEMTT wreckers and M983A4 HEMTT tractors to the two FMS […] More

  • Navy to Commission GDEB-built USS Colorado Submarine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Commission GDEB-built USS Colorado Submarine

    The U.S. Navy has announced it will commission the SSN 788 to be named USS Colorado during a ceremony that will take place Saturday at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) will serve as the commissioning ceremony’s principal speaker, while Annie Mabus, daughter of Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, will order the USS Colorado’s activation as ship […] More

  • Small Businesses Secured 47% of Strategically-Sourced DHS Contracts in FY 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Small Businesses Secured 47% of Strategically-Sourced DHS Contracts in FY 2017

    Small businesses served as prime contractors for 47 percent of all contracts that the Department of Homeland Security awarded through strategic sourcing procurement vehicles in fiscal year 2017, Signal Magazine reported Wednesday. DHS Industry Liaison Carla Thomas said that DHS issued a total of 21,250 contracts in 2017 and 8,500 of those agreements went to small businesses. She […] More

  • Accenture: 54% of Adults Back Use of AI in Government Service Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture: 54% of Adults Back Use of AI in Government Service Delivery

    A new Accenture survey indicates that 54 percent of adults aged 18 and older across six countries have expressed interest to adopt artificial intelligence systems used by the government to deliver public services. Accenture said Thursday it polled 6,000 citizens in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Germany, France and Singapore through an online survey performed from October through […] More

  • Sikorsky, Romaero Enter Black Hawk Assembly, Maintenance Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky, Romaero Enter Black Hawk Assembly, Maintenance Partnership

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary and Romaero have signed a partnership agreement with the goal to encourage Romanian defense companies to support in-country assembly and maintenance of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. Romaero said Wednesday Lockheed authorized the Bucharest-based aerospace company to host a regional center that will assemble, equip, customize and maintain the multimission aircraft in Central Europe. Eric Schreiber, a […] More

  • Orbital ATK Gets NASA OK to Commence Landsat 9 Development Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Gets NASA OK to Commence Landsat 9 Development Work

    Orbital ATK has received the green light to begin development work on NASA’s land remote sensing satellite designed to gather space-based images and data that can support agriculture, disaster relief and land use mapping research efforts. The company said Thursday the approval came after it completed a critical design review, which showed that the Landsat […] More