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  • Octo Consulting Opens New Reston Corporate HQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting Opens New Reston Corporate HQ

    Octo Consulting Group has moved to a new 25,000-square-foot corporate headquarters in Reston, Virginia, as part of the digital services provider’s expansion efforts. The company said Tuesday its newly opened HQ at 10780 Parkridge Blvd. will house the OLabs Innovation center designed to foster collaboration opportunities for Octo employees, partners and government customers. Mehul Sanghani, CEO […] More

  • Report: Microsoft Demos AI-Powered Autonomous Sailplane - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Microsoft Demos AI-Powered Autonomous Sailplane

    Researchers from Microsoft have tested an unmanned aircraft system designed to use artificial intelligence to fly autonomously without relying on a motor, UASweekly.com reported Thursday. The UAS employs AI algorithms to detect naturally occurring thermals that can keep the system afloat in the same way that birds stay in the air, the report noted. Microsoft carried out a four-day test […] More

  • CACI Gets Air Force Contract for Software Modification & Configuration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Gets Air Force Contract for Software Modification & Configuration

    CACI International has received a $15 million contract to modify and configure new commercial software in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s NexGen IT information technology modernization program. The Defense Department said Thursday CACI will perform contract work in Florida, Ohio, Texas, North Carolina and New Jersey through March 12, 2019. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center obligated $7,654,981 […] More

  • CACI’s Ken Asbury: US Natl Security Spending Increase Leads to Defense-Related Contract Wins - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI’s Ken Asbury: US Natl Security Spending Increase Leads to Defense-Related Contract Wins

    Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, has said the Trump administration’s increased spending on military efforts against the Islamic State militant organization has led to a number of contract wins for the company in the defense space, CRN reported Thursday. “We have already seen a number of key wins in areas that are impacted by […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Supports Trump Admin's Efforts to Protect US Intellectual Property - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed Supports Trump Admin’s Efforts to Protect US Intellectual Property

    Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin, has said the company welcomes President Donald Trump’s memorandum that seeks to examine if China’s trade policies lead to the theft of intellectual property from U.S. businesses. Hewson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, said in a statement published Monday on the White House […] More

  • Navy Asks 4 Defense Contractors to Submit Concepts for MQ-25A Stingray Tanker Drone Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Asks 4 Defense Contractors to Submit Concepts for MQ-25A Stingray Tanker Drone Program

    The U.S. Navy has asked General Atomics, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to submit proposed concepts for a carrier-based unmanned aerial refueling tanker through an updated draft request for proposals issued in July, USNI News reported Thursday. The service branch plans to release the final RFP for the MQ-25A Stingray program in the fall of 2017 […] More

  • Onvia Launches Sales Intell Platform for Govt Contract Lead Management - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Onvia Launches Sales Intell Platform for Govt Contract Lead Management

    Onvia has introduced a sales intelligence platform designed to help sales and marketing professionals identify and manage government contract leads as well as share information on those leads with distributors and channel partners. Onvia 8 is a software-as-a-service platform that works to allow users to access data related to request for proposals and government bids, […] More

  • Jacobs to Help Design Navy, Marine Facilities in NAVFAC Pacific Region - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help Design Navy, Marine Facilities in NAVFAC Pacific Region

    Jacobs Engineering Group‘s government business has won a potential five-year, $30 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide architect-engineer services to the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Pacific area of responsibility. The Defense Department said Thursday Jacobs Government Services will help design, engineer, estimate costs and write specifications for construction projects at multiple U.S. Navy and Marine Corps facilities as well as […] More

  • BAE Marks F-35 Component Production Milestone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Marks F-35 Component Production Milestone

    BAE Systems has accomplished 10 percent of its global production requirement under the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft program. BAE said Wednesday the milestone was reached when the company delivered the 318th aft fuselage for an F-35 aircraft from its Samlesbury, Lancashire-based manufacturing facility to Lockheed Martin‘s final assembly and check out line in Fort Worth, Texas. Lockheed will […] More

  • Bloomberg Government Unveils New Dashboard for Expiring 8(a) Federal Contracts, Task Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg Government Unveils New Dashboard for Expiring 8(a) Federal Contracts, Task Orders

    Bloomberg Government has introduced a new dashboard designed to help users view expiring government contracts and task orders awarded through the 8(a) set-aside program. Approximately 9,500 expiring federal contracts worth $14 billion combined will be available by Sept. 1 for recompetition as 3,300 small disadvantaged businesses that won contracts through the 8(a) program will no longer […] More

  • Lockheed Completes $1B Investment Obligation to Canadian Industry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes $1B Investment Obligation to Canadian Industry

    Lockheed Martin has invested a total of $1.4 billion in the Canadian industry to meet conditions under the 2007 sale of 17 Lockheed-built CC-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft to Canada. The company said Wednesday it fulfilled commitments under Canada’s Industrial Regional Benefits policy a year ahead of schedule. Companies that receive defense or security contracts from the Canadian government are […] More

  • Leidos Tests Unmanned Maritime Vessel at Navy Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Tests Unmanned Maritime Vessel at Navy Exercise

    Leidos has showcased an unmanned test vessel designed to autonomously navigate and gather data at sea during the U.S. Navy‘s Advanced Naval Technology Exercise 2017. The company said Wednesday its R/V Pathfinder autonomous ship operated in the waters near Panama City, Florida, where it surveyed the sea floor and sent ocean and meteorological data to the Naval Undersea Warfare Center […] More