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  • Carissa Christensen: Venture Capital Firms Show Increased Interest in Space Companies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carissa Christensen: Venture Capital Firms Show Increased Interest in Space Companies

    Carissa Christensen, CEO of Bryce Space and Technology, has said venture capital firms have made “consistent” investments in space companies amid the lack of “megadeals” involving space startups in 2017, Space News reported Tuesday. Christensen said Tuesday at the SpaceCom Expo in Houston, Texas, that the previous two years each recorded approximately $3 billion in total […] More

  • General Dynamics to Help Air Force Develop, Maintain Combat Simulation Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Help Air Force Develop, Maintain Combat Simulation Tech

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has received a potential five-year, $47 million to develop combat simulation hardware and software for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Wednesday it will also help the military service build and maintain a supplementary network infrastructure as well as integrate a live, virtual and constructive combat environment into warfighter training. Dan […] More

  • Lockheed Licenses Ubisense's Digital Platform to Aid F-35 Manufacturing Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Licenses Ubisense’s Digital Platform to Aid F-35 Manufacturing Process

    Lockheed Martin has licensed an industrial internet-of-things platform from Ubisense as part of efforts to increase F-35 manufacturing efficiency at Lockheed’s Fort Worth, Texas, facility. Ubisense said Wednesday it designed the SmartSpace system to help manufacturers address schedule, budget requirements for aircraft production, as well as boost transparency on the manufacturing process with location technology. SmartSpace employs an indoor […] More

  • Vencore Reports $375M in US Govt System Engineering, Integration Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Reports $375M in US Govt System Engineering, Integration Support Contracts

    Vencore has booked multiple contracts worth up to $375 million combined during the third quarter of 2017 to help several U.S. government customers engineer and integrate systems. The company said Wednesday it will perform work under the contracts over a span of more than seven years. Chantilly, Virginia-based Vencore offers a range of software, cyber and […] More

  • Viasat to Enter Production Phase for Air Force Cryptographic Data Module - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viasat to Enter Production Phase for Air Force Cryptographic Data Module

    Viasat and the U.S. Air Force have jointly completed a production readiness review of an cryptographic module for military handheld devices and unmanned systems that transmit sensitive and classified data. The embeddable Mini Crypto module passed the assessment and is slated to enter low-rate initial production, Viasat said Wednesday. Mini Crypto is designed to help accelerate the development of small […] More

  • Northrop, VX Aerospace Offer UAV Platform for Navy's Manned-Unmanned Teaming Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, VX Aerospace Offer UAV Platform for Navy’s Manned-Unmanned Teaming Effort

    Northrop Grumman has partnered with VX Aerospace on a proposal to equip the U.S. Navy‘s updated E/A-18G Growler aircraft with a canister-launched unmanned air vehicle platform, Flightglobal reported Thursday. JJ Thompson, naval aviation campaign director at Northrop’s mission systems business, told Flightglobal the service branch has expressed interest in adopting the Dash X UAV for a potential manned-unmanned teaming effort with the […] More

  • Battelle to Conduct Microelectronics Security Research Under Air Force Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Conduct Microelectronics Security Research Under Air Force Contracts

    Battelle has received a pair of contracts worth a combined $23 million to help the Air Force Research Laboratory conduct research on microelectronics security methods. The company said Wednesday both contracts build on Battelle’s previous experience in exploring technologies designed to help address the proliferation of fake integrated circuits and embedded systems in the U.S. military supply […] More

  • Leonardo DRS Lands Navy Tactical Data Link IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS Lands Navy Tactical Data Link IDIQ

    Leonardo DRS has received a potential five-year, $25 million contract to provide tactical data link products along with ancillary equipment to the U.S. Navy‘s fleet readiness directorate and PMW-150 Tactical Data Link program. The Defense Department said Wednesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also covers engineering and technical assistance, software trouble reports, equipment failure technologies and information assurance support services. […] More

  • NOAA Surveys Market for Satellite Ground IT Security Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Surveys Market for Satellite Ground IT Security Services

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration wants information on industry sources of information technology security services for ground-based satellite equipment. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says NOAA’s satellite and information acquisition division is conducting the market survey ahead of a potential upcoming procurement effort. SIAD will collect through Dec. 18, 2017 capability statements from interested contractors that have […] More

  • Cubic Mission Solutions Subsidiary Completes VMWare Compatibility Testing of New Virtual Server - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Mission Solutions Subsidiary Completes VMWare Compatibility Testing of New Virtual Server

    A virtual server made by a Cubic Mission Solutions subsidiary has completed VMware-standardized compatibility tests and evaluations needed to be listed within the VMware Compatibility Guide. The DTECH Labs-made M3-SE-VSVR-P virtual server has been demonstrated to be compatible with the VMware’s vSphere ESXi 6.5 platform, Cubic said Wednesday. “We are very pleased our M3-SE-VSVR virtual server is now listed in the […] More

  • Orbital ATK-Built Spacecraft to Deploy Cubesats in Orbit Following ISS Departure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-Built Spacecraft to Deploy Cubesats in Orbit Following ISS Departure

    An Orbital ATK-built spacecraft will begin to deploy cubesats in orbit and return to Earth’s atmosphere following the platform’s departure from the International Space Station. Orbital ATK said Thursday the Cygnus cargo delivery system dubbed as S.S. Gene Cernan supports the OA-8 mission which marks the fourth time the spacecraft dropped off NanoRacks cubesats in […] More

  • Mikros Installs Littoral Combat Maintenance System on USS Independence - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mikros Installs Littoral Combat Maintenance System on USS Independence

    Mikros Systems has completed the installation and testing of the company’s littoral combat maintenance system on the USS Independence. The company said Tuesday the ADEPT Distance Support Sensor Suite employs sensors to deliver maintenance that corresponds to the ship’s condition, and forecast on-ship errors. Data generated from the sensors are used as basis for maintenance and logistics […] More