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  • OST Global Seeks to Offer Mentoring Support to Small Businesses Via ‘GovCon Incubator’ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OST Global Seeks to Offer Mentoring Support to Small Businesses Via ‘GovCon Incubator’

    OST Global Solutions has unveiled an incubator program that seeks to help small businesses secure federal contracts and transition into prime contractors. The GovCon Incubator will work to provide member companies networking and mentoring services through its in-house consulting personnel, the company said Wednesday. The incubator also has a curriculum in entrepreneurship, business development, operations and […] More

  • BAE Unit Awarded DARPA Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit Awarded DARPA Program Support Contract

    BAE Systems‘ information and electronic systems integration business has received a $7.9 million contract to support a research program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA is obligating $1.3 million in fiscal 2017 research and development funds at the time of award., the Defense Department said Wednesday. Contract work will occur at various locations […] More

  • Report: Turkey Solicits Bids for F-35 Info System Integration Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Turkey Solicits Bids for F-35 Info System Integration Project

    Turkey has launched a bidding process for a project to link information systems of the country’s future F-35 aircraft to an information network of the Turkish air force, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. The report said Turkey’s undersecretariat for defense industries will accept proposals for the F-35/Air Force Information System Integration Project through Feb. 28. The country intends to buy 116 units of […] More

  • TWD & Associates to Develop Updated CRM Tool to Boost DHS Communications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TWD & Associates to Develop Updated CRM Tool to Boost DHS Communications

    TWD & Associates looks to create and deploy a customer relationship management tool that can help the Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Partnership and Engagement upgrade stakeholder communications and collaboration capacities. The company said Tuesday it will integrate agile Scrum methodologies and cloud capacities on the new CRM platform to help boost the effectiveness […] More

  • Ray Duquette: CAE to Develop Abrams Tank Maintenance Trainers for US Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ray Duquette: CAE to Develop Abrams Tank Maintenance Trainers for US Army

    CAE‘s U.S subsidiary has received a contract to produce engine training systems for the  U.S. Army‘s fleet of Abrams M1A2 main battle tanks. CAE USA will build two Abrams tank driver stations equipped with live-engine maintenance trainers under the contract from the Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, the company said Tuesday. The […] More

  • AT&T to Offer Smart City Structure Monitoring Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Offer Smart City Structure Monitoring Platform

    AT&T has begun to develop a structure monitoring platform that is designed to help organizations remotely inspect structures such as roads and railways. The company said Tuesday it is currently testing the AT&T Smart Cities Structure Monitoring system, which will support the evaluation of structural and environmental factors affecting infrastructure in near real time. The offering includes LTE-powered sensors designed […] More

  • Andreas Bernhard: Sikorsky Uses New Digital Tools in CH-53K Devt Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andreas Bernhard: Sikorsky Uses New Digital Tools in CH-53K Devt Process

    Andreas Bernhard, CH-53K chief engineer at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky business, has said Sikorsky has adopted software tools such as LCA and CATIA V5 and other digital technologies to produce a paperless design of the CH-53K helicopter, Rotor & Wing International reported Monday. “It’s all model based; there are no more drawings,” he said at the SciTech […] More

  • Saab to Demo Anti-Submarine Warfare Training System for US Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Demo Anti-Submarine Warfare Training System for US Navy

    The U.S. Navy is set to evaluate an anti-submarine warfare training system from Saab as part of the military branch’s Foreign Comparative Testing Program. Saab said Tuesday it will demonstrate the AUV62-AT system this summer as the Navy looks to replace the service branch’s current platform for an undersea warfare training range. Gorgen Johansson, a senior vice president at Saab and head […] More

  • Mike Chagnon: Leidos to Support Air Force Research Lab's Sensor Tech R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Chagnon: Leidos to Support Air Force Research Lab’s Sensor Tech R&D Program

    Leidos has received an initial task order under a potential 87-month, $47 million contract to develop sensing technology as part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Electro-Optical Combined Hyperspectral Imaging, Infrared Search and Track, and Long Range Imaging program. The EO-CHIL program aims to counter anti-access and area denial threats environments with the use of extended-range […] More

  • Curtiss-Wright to Produce Aerospace Instrumentation Tech for Air Force Test Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright to Produce Aerospace Instrumentation Tech for Air Force Test Center

    Curtiss-Wright has received a potential $86 million contract to produce aerospace instrumentation tools to support data acquisition program at a U.S. Air Force test center. The company said Tuesday it will provide network switches, data acquisition systems, recorders, telemetry systems and ground station systems to the Edwards Air Force Base’s AFTC as part of the High Speed Data Acquisition […] More

  • CTC, Affiliate Get Aerospace Quality Recertification; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC, Affiliate Get Aerospace Quality Recertification; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. and its affiliate Enterprise Ventures Corp. have renewed their AS9100D aerospace quality management system accreditation that seeks to recognize the companies’ product design, production, assembly and testing processes. CTC said Tuesday ABS Quality Evaluations conducted comprehensive audits to assess the companies’ compliance with the AS9100 standard. AS9100 seeks to supplement the International Organization […] More

  • Battelle to Develop Biological Threat Assessment Software Under IARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Develop Biological Threat Assessment Software Under IARPA Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has selected Battelle to create a software platform that can help thwart development of synthetic biological threats. Battelle said Tuesday it will develop the threat assessment platform in support of IARPA’s Functional Genomic and Computational Assessment of Threats program that aims to counter various threats from biotechnological advancements. Ginkgo Bioworks, […] More