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  • Cubic Defense Segment Awarded Marine Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Defense Segment Awarded Marine Training Support Contract

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has received an $11.6 million contract to provide training systems support for U.S. Marine Corps‘ air-ground task force. The Defense Department said Thursday MTSS will utilize a computer-based simulation platform designed to train Marines in the command, control, computers, communications, intelligence, surveillance, staff training and reconnaissance areas. DoD added the program will also cover MAGTF tactical warfare training and […] More

  • Lockheed's Marillyn Hewson, Rick Ambrose Host VP Mike Pence at Colorado Space Systems Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson, Rick Ambrose Host VP Mike Pence at Colorado Space Systems Facility

    Vice President Mike Pence toured the Colorado campus of Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business to visit NASA‘s future Mars probe and the U.S. Air Force‘s latest global positioning system satellites, the Denver Business Journal reported Thursday. Company CEO Marillyn Hewson and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Executive Vice President Rick Ambrose joined Pence and Air Force Secretary Heather […] More

  • Battelle Concludes Carbon Dioxide Storage Project at AEP Power Plant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Concludes Carbon Dioxide Storage Project at AEP Power Plant

    Battelle has completed a 15-year project to store carbon dioxide at American Electric Power‘s coal-fired power plant in West Virginia. The nonprofit research and development organization said Thursday it initiated the carbon capture and storage project at Mountaineer Plant in 2002 with funds from the Energy Department‘s National Energy Technology Laboratory. Neeraj Gupta, Battelle senior research […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, Partners Prepare NOAA Polar Orbiting Weather Satellite for Nov. 10 Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace, Partners Prepare NOAA Polar Orbiting Weather Satellite for Nov. 10 Launch

    Ball Aerospace and other Joint Polar Satellite System-1 team members are preparing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration polar orbiting weather satellite for a scheduled Nov. 10 launch. The JPSS-1 team pressurized the propulsion system, fueled the satellite, cleaned the spacecraft and finished a final thermal blanket closeout in preparation for launch, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. JPSS-1 was […] More

  • BAE Systems, Milspec to Demo Offering for Australian Army's Military Vehicle Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems, Milspec to Demo Offering for Australian Army’s Military Vehicle Replacement Program

    Milspec Manufacturing will help demonstrate BAE Systems-built military vehicle which will be offered for an Australian army vehicle replacement program. BAE Systems said Friday the AMV35 Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle, built alongside Patria, will be bid for the LAND 400 Phase 2 program established to replace the aging Australian Light Armored Vehicles. The company selected Milspec to manufacture Complex […] More

  • Raytheon Supports Caltech Research Hub for 'Bio-Inspired' Autonomous Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Supports Caltech Research Hub for ‘Bio-Inspired’ Autonomous Tech

    Raytheon has announced its lead sponsorship for Caltech’s new research center that seeks to advance the development of biologically-inspired autonomous systems. The Center for Autonomous Systems and Technology covers 10,000 square feet of laboratory space for scientists and researchers from Caltech and NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Raytheon said Thursday. CAST features an assembly room equipped with 85-foot robot track; an […] More

  • General Atomics, University of Mississippi Form UUV Tech Devt Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, University of Mississippi Form UUV Tech Devt Partnership

    General Atomics has partnered with the University of Mississippi on a project to build acoustic-based navigation and sensing technologies for unmanned underwater systems designed to aid deep-sea operations. The company’s electromagnetic systems group will work in UM’s Insight Park facility and support efforts to develop acoustic-based UUV navigation and control techniques, the university reported Thursday. “Over the course of the […] More

  • Lockheed Renews Partnership With Spain-Based Shipbuilder Navantia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Renews Partnership With Spain-Based Shipbuilder Navantia

    Lockheed Martin and Spain-based shipbuilding company Navantia have agreed to extend their partnership and jointly explore potential business opportunities in the surface ship and naval combat technology markets. The alliance commemorates the 20th anniversary of a collaborative effort to integrate the Aegis Combat System onto the Spanish navy’s F-100 frigates, Lockheed said Thursday. F-100 is the first frigate to […] More

  • Northrop Deploys Sunshield Subsystem for NASA James Webb Space Telescope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Deploys Sunshield Subsystem for NASA James Webb Space Telescope

    Northrop Grumman has deployed a sunshield subsystem and tensioned five sunshield layers for the NASA James Webb Space Telescope at the company’s highbay facilities in Redondo Beach, California. The company said Thursday the sunshield subsystem will work to divide the JWST observatory into a warm sun-facing side and a cold space-facing side that features optics and […] More

  • Air Force Taps Charles River Analytics to Build Satellite Probabilistic Reasoning Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Charles River Analytics to Build Satellite Probabilistic Reasoning Tools

    Charles River Analytics has received a $750,000 contract to develop probabilistic reasoning tools for U.S. Air Force satellites over a 27-month period. The company said Tuesday it will use the Figaro open source probabilistic programming language as part of the Probabilistic Reasoning for Enhanced Course of Action Generation program. The project seeks to create algorithms designed to help a satellite autonomously […] More

  • USDA Taps Attain for Agricultural System Modernization Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USDA Taps Attain for Agricultural System Modernization Support Contract

    Attain has secured a contract to help the Agriculture Department‘s Farm Service Agency develop enterprise system applications for the agency to manage agricultural programs in the country. The company said Wednesday it will implement an SAP platform in efforts to help optimize FSA business operations and apply agile methodology to develop applications under the Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agriculture […] More

  • Army Invites Firms, Agencies to Participate in C4ISR/EW Interoperatbility Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Invites Firms, Agencies to Participate in C4ISR/EW Interoperatbility Initiative

    The U.S. Army has issued a special notice inviting non-members to join the Vehicular Integration for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance/Electronic Warfare interoperability program. According to a notice published Tuesday on the FedBizOpps website, the initial set of VICTORY standard specifications have started to be implemented on commercial vendors, U.S. Army and Marine […] More