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  • NIST Awards Tech R&D Grants to 19 Small Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Awards Tech R&D Grants to 19 Small Businesses

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen 19 small businesses to receive grants worth a combined $3.3 million to research and develop a wide range of technology platforms. NIST chose the companies based on their submitted R&D proposals that seek to address advanced manufacturing, cybersecurity, biomanufacturing, cyber-physical, technology transfer and advanced sensing for manufacturing challenges, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. DOC noted grantees […] More

  • Louis Berger Forms US Operations Through Ammann & Whitney, Louis Berger Group Combination - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger Forms US Operations Through Ammann & Whitney, Louis Berger Group Combination

    Louis Berger has merged its Ammann & Whitney and Louis Berger Group operating companies to establish a new business entity that will serve U.S. clients worldwide. Louis Berger U.S. will maintain the Ammann & Whitney name for a division specialized in long-span bridge engineering, Louis Berger said Tuesday. “The integration follows many years of working together and an intensive period of […] More

  • Lockheed to Extend Support for Canada's Victoria-Class Submarine Fire Control Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Extend Support for Canada’s Victoria-Class Submarine Fire Control Tech

    Lockheed Martin has received a $14.5 million contract to perform support work on the fire control system of four Victoria-class submarines and ground-based team trainers for the Canadian navy. The company said Tuesday it will provide in-service and field service, obsolescence management and technical investigations support under the contract. Lockheed will also help the Canadian navy to integrate layer-based displays, sonar processing upgrades, search-and-attack […] More

  • Bill Van Dyke: Black & Veatch, Schneider Electric Partner for Microgrid Tech Project at USMC's San Diego Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Van Dyke: Black & Veatch, Schneider Electric Partner for Microgrid Tech Project at USMC’s San Diego Base

    Schneider Electric USA and Black & Veatch have formed a joint venture that will design and construct an energy security microgrid system at a U.S. Marine Corps air base in San Diego. Black & Veatch said Tuesday the system will be built to support facility operations across Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in the event of a utility power grid outage. […] More

  • Austal USA to Support Jackson LCS Shock Trials Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA to Support Jackson LCS Shock Trials Under Navy Contract Modification

    The U.S. subsidiary of Austal has received an $11.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to plan and conduct repairs to any damage the company-built USS Jackson littoral combat ship will sustain during full ship shock trials. Austal USA will also help remove FSST test equipment and instrumentation after the tests under the modification, the company said Monday. The Navy performed the […] More

  • IARPA to Host Proposers Day For Individual Evaluation Sensor Tool Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA to Host Proposers Day For Individual Evaluation Sensor Tool Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity plans to hold a Proposers Day on Aug. in Washington to discuss a program to develop multimodal sensors IARPA wants to help assess individuals across a range of factors. IARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday the event aims to answer questions on the Multimodal Objective Sensing to Assess Individuals with Context program that seeks to […] More

  • Lockheed-Built Juno Spacecraft Reaches Orbit Around Jupiter; Guy Beutelschies Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built Juno Spacecraft Reaches Orbit Around Jupiter; Guy Beutelschies Comments

    NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Lockheed Martin‘s mission support area have worked together to operate and place the company-built Juno spacecraft into a large elliptical polar orbit around Jupiter. Lockheed said Monday the probe reached Jupiter Monday evening after a 1.76-billion-mile journey in the last five years. A team of engineers from the company and the agency sent final commands to […] More

  • SRI International, Polish Agency Partner for Problem-Based Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI International, Polish Agency Partner for Problem-Based Research Project

    SRI International and a Polish research-and-development agency have formed a partnership with the goal to foster technological innovation and establish a community of scientists and researchers in Poland. The Menlo Park, California-based nonprofit said Wednesday it will collaborate with Poland’s National Centre for Research and Development to design and carry out a series of challenges and an advanced research projects initiative. Leszek Grabarczyk, NCBR deputy director, […] More

  • Navy, Applied Technology Associates to Collaborate on Electro-Optical IR Sensing Tech R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, Applied Technology Associates to Collaborate on Electro-Optical IR Sensing Tech R&D

    Applied Technology Associates has been awarded a potential five-year, $27 million contract to help the U.S. Navy research and develop electro-optical and infrared sensing technology. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will perform work in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is scheduled to finish by June 29, 2021. The Naval Research Laboratory obligated $2.3 million from the Navy’s fiscal […] More

  • DHA Taps ProSource360 for Military Pharmaceutical Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHA Taps ProSource360 for Military Pharmaceutical Services Contract

    ProSource360 Consulting Services has secured a prime contract of an undisclosed value to help the Defense Health Agency and the Air Force Medical Support Agency develop clinical and administrative management strategies and policies. The company said Friday it will provide analytical, conceptual, technical and project management services for the Air Force Pharmacy as well as monitor forecast requirements related […] More

  • Canadian Commercial Corp. to Help US Air Force Design Flight Safety Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Canadian Commercial Corp. to Help US Air Force Design Flight Safety Software

    Canadian Commercial Corp. has received a $7.8 million task order to design and install a flight safety software for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also provide software training, support and maintenance under the service branch’s Global Procedure Designer program. The software will be developed to help the Air Force […] More

  • DDN to Expand Paris Office for New Research & Development Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DDN to Expand Paris Office for New Research & Development Center

    DataDirect Networks will launch its new European Advance Technology Research and Development Center in an effort to meet the demand for big data storage services in the French and European markets. The R&D Center in Paris will work to develop technologies in areas ranging from end-to-end big data lifecycle management and accelerating time to insight through analytics and […] More