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  • Cisco Invests in India-Based Venture Capital Fund Stellaris Venture Partners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Invests in India-Based Venture Capital Fund Stellaris Venture Partners

    India-based investment firm Stellaris Venture Partners has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Cisco‘s investments unit, Live Mint reported Monday. The technology venture capital fund invests in business- and consumer-centric start-ups that offer analytics, cloud, enterprise application and Internet of Things products and services. Sameer Garde, president of Cisco India, said the company supports […] More

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    NASA, Media Fusion Develop SLS Flight Virtual Reality Software

    NASA has collaborated with Media Fusion to produce a virtual reality software platform that will allow users to experience the scale of the Space Launch System. The software is designed to run on Oculus Rift VR headsets and simulate the SLS rocket’s Exploration Mission-1 flight from a launch pad located at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the agency said Saturday. Anyone […] More

  • DARPA to Hold OpFires Program Event for Potential Bidders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold OpFires Program Event for Potential Bidders

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct an information drive for parties interested to participate in a program that seeks a ground-launched weapon system that can utilize different payloads. DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office will sponsor a Proposers Day to detail the objectives of the OpFires program ahead of a planned broad agency announcement, DARPA said through a […] More

  • DOE to Hold Contest on Solar Manufacturing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE to Hold Contest on Solar Manufacturing

    The Department of Energy has announced that it will launch a competition to push U.S. entrepreneurs for new developments on solar manufacturing. The $3 million American Made Solar Prize competition seeks to augment the U.S.’ presence in the solar energy market, and form partnerships between industry players and DOE laboratories, the department said Wednesday. Participants will be given […] More

  • Orbital ATK Confirms Al Yah 3 Satellite's Good Condition After Recent Deviation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Confirms Al Yah 3 Satellite’s Good Condition After Recent Deviation

    Orbital ATK has confirmed the Al Yah 3 commercial communications satellite’s good operational status, following a launch on Thursday wherein the unit entered an unplanned route. Al Yah Satellite Communications commissioned the satellite that was initially launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 rocket, in aims to provide Ka-band coverage over Africa, Orbital ATK said Friday. “Based on […] More

  • Gen. Carlton Everhart: Boeing-Built KC-46 Tanker On Track for Military Equipment Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gen. Carlton Everhart: Boeing-Built KC-46 Tanker On Track for Military Equipment Certification

    Gen. Carlton Everhart, head of the U.S. Air Force‘s Air Mobility Command, has said that the Boeing-built KC-46 tanker aircraft is slated to obtain approval for its military equipment, Military Times reported Thursday. Everhart told Air Force Times during a visit to Boeing’s Washington state facility that the company and the Federal Aviation Administration could finish the required […] More

  • Report: SpaceX Targets Feb. 6 Maiden Falcon Heavy Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: SpaceX Targets Feb. 6 Maiden Falcon Heavy Launch

    SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said the company aims to launch a heavy-lift variant of its  Falcon rocket at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida by Feb. 6, Spaceflight Now reported Sunday. The report noted SpaceX set a three-hour window beginning at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time for the Falcon Heavy liftoff from launch pad 39A. Falcon Heavy will carry a used Tesla-built Roadster sports […] More

  • Kratos Aims to Meet Tactical, Target Drone Demand With New Oklahoma Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Aims to Meet Tactical, Target Drone Demand With New Oklahoma Facility

    A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions division has opened an 8,800-square-foot facility in Oklahoma City to house engineering, production and administrative operations as the company anticipates an increased demand for target and tactical unmanned aerial systems. The company said Friday the new facility unveiled by its unmanned systems division will accommodate the production of new tactical […] More

  • Navy Picks 3 Small Businesses to Support Waterfront Surface Trainers Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks 3 Small Businesses to Support Waterfront Surface Trainers Program

    Sonalysts, Systems Engineering Associates and Transtecs have won spots on a potential $49.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to build classrooms, laboratory environments and training systems. The Defense Department said Friday all three small businesses will vie for Waterfront Surface Trainers Program support orders from the Navy and the Philippine government through a foreign military […] More

  • Lockheed to Implement Air Force GPS Control Segment Upgrade's 3rd Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Implement Air Force GPS Control Segment Upgrade’s 3rd Phase

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $10.8 million modification under a U.S. Air Force contract to provide hardware necessary to implement the third phase of the service branch’s GPS control segment upgrades. The company will also engineer, install and test resources under phase 3 of the Combined Hardware and Software Commercial-Off-The Shelf Upgrade and Ground Antenna/Air Force Satellite Control […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Supply Military-Grade SSDs for Airborne Mission Mgmt Application - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems to Supply Military-Grade SSDs for Airborne Mission Mgmt Application

    Mercury Systems has received a $3.9 million follow-on order from a defense company to produce solid-state drives for use in airborne mission management efforts. Andover, Massachusetts-based Mercury Systems said Thursday it booked the order during the second quarter of its 2018 fiscal year and scheduled to deliver military-grade SSDs to the customer over the next several quarters. The […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Opens Autonomous Ship Tech R&D Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Opens Autonomous Ship Tech R&D Facility

    Rolls-Royce has opened a facility in Finland to research and develop autonomous technology for shipping operations. The company said Thursday it aims to conduct R&D projects in the areas of autonomous navigation, land-based control and artificial intelligence at the new center. The facility includes a Remote and Autonomous Experience Space designed as a venue for showcasing autonomous technology platforms […] More