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  • 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

  • CAE Extends UK Military Helicopter Aircrew Training Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Extends UK Military Helicopter Aircrew Training Support

    CAE has received an eight-year contract modification from the U.K. ministry of defense to continue the provision of aircrew training services for the British air force at the company’s Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility. The modification extends a partnership between CAE and MOD that commenced in 1997 as part of a private finance initiative […] More

  • A-Tek to Provide IT Support Services to Commerce Dept's ITA Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A-Tek to Provide IT Support Services to Commerce Dept’s ITA Agency

    A-Tek has received a contract of an undisclosed value to provide information technology architecture, strategy and design services to the U.S. Department of Commerce‘s  International Trade Administration. The company said Thursday it will support ITA in efforts to design, build and update services that support the agency’s missions and business lines. ITA aims to increase global competitiveness of U.S. […] More

  • SPA Gets DoD Innovation Support Order; William Vantine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SPA Gets DoD Innovation Support Order; William Vantine Comments

    Systems Planning and Analysis has secured a potential $26 million task order to continue to support Defense Department innovation efforts. SPA said Tuesday it will provide expert analysis and assessment support to DoD’s Office of Net Technical Assessment as the department works to establish a new research and engineering organization. The company will also support the Research, Development, and […] More

  • SSL's Rob Zitz: Maxar Technologies to Grow US Govt Business via ISR Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL’s Rob Zitz: Maxar Technologies to Grow US Govt Business via ISR Offerings

    Rob Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral‘s government systems business, has said Maxar Technologies will work to grow its business with the U.S. government through “persistent” intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance offerings, Via Satellite reported Wednesday. SSL’s parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates acquired DigitalGlobe earlier this month to create Maxar, […] More

  • Pratt and Whitney Tests F135 Engine Cold Section - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pratt and Whitney Tests F135 Engine Cold Section

    United Technologies Corp.‘s Pratt and Whitney subsidiary has tested the cold segment of an engine technology designed to power the F-35 Lightning II aircraft. Pratt and Whitney said Wednesday its F-135 engine demonstrated full-life capability  during an accelerated mission test that occurred at the Arnold Air Force Base’s engineering development complex in Tennessee. The test sought to validate the reliability and […] More

  • Army to Issue RFP for Lightweight Armored Combat Vehicle Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army to Issue RFP for Lightweight Armored Combat Vehicle Devt Program

    The U.S. Army will issue a request for proposals in November for the service branch’s Mobile Protected Firepower lightweight armored combat vehicle development program. The MPF vehicle will feature a 105mm gun and offer a long-range direct-fire capacity for infantry brigade combat teams to support forcible entry and breaching missions, the service branch said Wednesday. […] More