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  • SparkCognition to Help DoD's Innovation Unit Develop AI Tech for Air Force Enterprise Processes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SparkCognition to Help DoD’s Innovation Unit Develop AI Tech for Air Force Enterprise Processes

    SparkCognition has received a contract from the Defense Department‘s innovation office to provide artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to support the U.S. Air Force‘s planning, programming, budgeting and execution system. The company said Thursday it will carry out the first stage of Project Quantum to help quantitatively augment decision-making for senior officials under the contract with Defense […] More

  • Telephonics to Supply Weapon System Comms Equipment for Army Chinooks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telephonics to Supply Weapon System Comms Equipment for Army Chinooks

    Griffon‘s Telephonics subsidiary has secured a three-year, $23.3 contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide weapon system communication equipment for U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopters. The Defense Department said Thursday Telephonics is scheduled to complete work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by July 31, 2020. DLA’s aviation unit is the contracting activity and the Army will use its fiscal 2017 through […] More

  • Lockheed Releases 1st Images From Experimental Optical Instrument - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Releases 1st Images From Experimental Optical Instrument

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a first set of images captured by an experimental ultra-thin optical instrument as the company aims to demonstrate the possibility of reducing the size and weight of space telescopes. Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance generated a standard bar test pattern and an overhead view of a rail yard with […] More

  • Romania to Buy F-16s, Rocket Launchers in Support of NATO Spending Commitment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Romania to Buy F-16s, Rocket Launchers in Support of NATO Spending Commitment

    Romania has announced plans to purchase 36 F-16 fighter aircraft and High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems by 2022, Defense News reported Thursday. “These acquisitions are in the interest of safeguarding the security needs of Romania, but also to respect the government’s commitments in relation to NATO’s structures,” said Adrian Tutuianu, Romania’s defense minister. The European […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Aims to Help Advance Natl Security Innovation Through 'Asymmetric Threat' Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Aims to Help Advance Natl Security Innovation Through ‘Asymmetric Threat’ Forum

    Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, has said he believes asymmetric threat discussions and representatives from federal agencies, industry and academia could help advance the development of strategies and capabilities to combat global national security threats. “Such thought leadership also reinforces our commitment to our customers’ critical missions,” Asbury, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Initial Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Initial Flight

    Lockheed Martin has completed the initial flight of a VH-92A test aircraft as part of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Presidential Helicopter Replacement Program. The test aircraft’s first flight on July 28 at Sikorsky Aircraft in Connecticut involved an airfield pass, low speed flight and hover control checks and marked the start of the test flight program […] More

  • Esri GIS Platform Supports Navy Unmanned System Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri GIS Platform Supports Navy Unmanned System Demo

    The Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command has used an Esri-built geographic information system during an operational demonstration of unmanned systems designed to map the ocean floor and collect raw data, Defense Systems reported Thursday. William Burnett, deputy commander and technical director to the commander NMOC’s Task Group 80.7, told Defense Systems that Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise platform works […] More

  • Bell Boeing to Retrofit Navy MV-22 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Boeing to Retrofit Navy MV-22 Aircraft

    A joint venture of Boeing and Bell Helicopter has received a potential $57.1 million contract modification to engineer and retrofit one MV-22 Osprey aircraft for the U.S. Navy. The Defense Department said Thursday Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office will provide non-recurring engineering and retrofitting services under the V-22 Common Configuration-Readiness and Modernization program. DoD noted the service branch aims to reconfigure the MV-22 […] More

  • AECOM Subsidiary to Support Army Pre-Positioned Stocks in Kuwait, Germany - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Subsidiary to Support Army Pre-Positioned Stocks in Kuwait, Germany

    An AECOM subsidiary has received two contract modifications from the U.S. Army to supply, maintain and provide logistics services for the military branch’s pre-positioned stocks. The Defense Department said Thursday URS Federal Services will support Army pre-positioned stock-5 in Kuwait under a $14.2 million modification that runs through Jan. 2, 2018. URS Federal Services will also support APS-2 […] More

  • LMI Secures $50M Follow-On CMS Marketplace Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI Secures $50M Follow-On CMS Marketplace Support Contract

    The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded LMI a potential four-year, $49.7 million contract to continue to support the marketplace plan management group at CMS’ Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight. The company said Wednesday it will help manage, analyze and review issuer operations within CCIIO MPMG under the follow-on contract with an $11.9 million […] More

  • MIL Corp. Unveils New Tysons Corner, VA Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIL Corp. Unveils New Tysons Corner, VA Office

    MIL Corp. has opened a new office in McLean, Virginia, to house the government services contractor’s accounting, contracts, business development, human resources and proposals and marketing teams. MIL said Tuesday the 10,000-square-foot office located at 8401 Greensboro Drive in Tysons Corner will accommodate employees who manage corporate operations for cyber, engineering, financial and information technology contracts. […] More

  • Charles Woodburn: BAE to Maintain Macroenvironment-Backed Strategy Amid Rise in Half-Year Profits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles Woodburn: BAE to Maintain Macroenvironment-Backed Strategy Amid Rise in Half-Year Profits

    BAE Systems CEO Charles Woodburn has said the company will continue to stick to its strategy that works to build up strengths and focuses on “evolution,” Reuters reported Wednesday. “It’s very much a case of evolution not revolution,” Woodburn told reporters Wednesday. “It’s a good strategy bolstered by the macro environment we now operate in.” His […] More