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  • BAE Receives Army Contract to Boost Combat Vehicle EW Defenses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Receives Army Contract to Boost Combat Vehicle EW Defenses

    BAE Systems has secured a follow-on contract from the U.S. Army to enhance the electronic warfare capabilities of its combat vehicle protection systems to bolster vehicle survivability against guided missiles and nearby threats. The company said Tuesday the contract calls for developing its Multi-Class Soft Kill System countermeasures such as advancing its Stormcrow and Terra Raven […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Business Books $83M Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Business Books $83M Navy Contract

    Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, a business segment of Lockheed Martin, has secured a firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Navy to provide support services for 161 AEGIS MK-41 vertical launch systems valued at $83.3 million. The Department of Defense said Monday the performance-based, logistics requirements, supply contract includes services for logistics, repair and spare support for […] More

  • AeroVironment to Acquire BlueHalo for $4.1B to Advance Defense Capabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment to Acquire BlueHalo for $4.1B to Advance Defense Capabilities

    AeroVironment will acquire BlueHalo for $4.1 billion in an all-stock transaction to broaden the company’s defense capabilities portfolio. AV announced Tuesday that a definitive agreement had already been executed and that the transaction is expected to close in the first half of calendar year 2025. AV and BlueHalo will collaborate to form a diversified defense technology […] More

  • VAST Data's Government Arm, MITRE Partner to Strengthen Federal AI Sandbox - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VAST Data’s Government Arm, MITRE Partner to Strengthen Federal AI Sandbox

    VAST Data‘s federal subsidiary and MITRE have formed a strategic partnership to field new data capabilities to support a sandbox environment that could be used to train artificial intelligence models designed for federal government applications. According to a joint release published Monday, MITRE has reinforced its Federal AI Sandbox by deploying VAST Data Platform capabilities […] More

  • New Partners Join Guidehouse Health Segment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Partners Join Guidehouse Health Segment

    Guidehouse has added Mark Korth and Angela Hunt as partners to its health segment to support the company in helping health care organizations advance their clinical and operational performance. Korth will focus on assisting health care providers in optimizing large-scale mergers and integrations, transformations and operating model implementation, while Hunt will help them improve quality, […] More

  • Elastic, Red Hat Offering Unified Data Management & AI Deployment Solution for Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elastic, Red Hat Offering Unified Data Management & AI Deployment Solution for Public Sector

    Search company Elastic is collaborating with software company Red Hat to offer a solution to public sector organizations that seek to make artificial intelligence and machine learning part of their operations. Elastic said Friday that it is bringing to the partnership its Search AI Platform while Red Hat will provide OpenShift AI. Elastic Search AI […] More

  • Gunnison Secures CDC Cybersecurity Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gunnison Secures CDC Cybersecurity Support Contract

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Gunnison Consulting Group a three-year, $14 million contract to provide cybersecurity support for the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s Cybersecurity Program Office. Gunnison said Monday it will work with the office to implement a cybersecurity program that fosters a zero trust security culture, enhances IT […] More

  • Pacific Defense Expands Manufacturing and Design Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pacific Defense Expands Manufacturing and Design Facility

    Pacific Defense, an innovative service provider specializing in Modular Open Systems Approach, has completed the expansion of its Sunnyvale, California, facility to enable the company to meet increasing demands. The company said Monday the Manufacturing Operations and Design Engineering Center in Silicon Valley now stretches over 20,000 square feet of space and has been ISO 9001-certified, […] More

  • Textron Systems Books New Navy UAS Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Systems Books New Navy UAS Task Order

    Textron has announced that its Textron Systems business will provide company-owned, company-operated, or COCO, services for unmanned aircraft systems to another three U.S. Navy littoral combat ships, also known as LCS, under a task order worth up to $47 million. The contract involves the company’s Aerosonde UAS that the Naval Air Systems Command earlier booked […] More

  • ANELLO Photonics to Advance Inertial Navigation Technology After Series B Round - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ANELLO Photonics to Advance Inertial Navigation Technology After Series B Round

    ANELLO Photonics, the developer of the Silicon Photonic Optical Gyroscope, or SiPhOG, closed its Series B funding round co-led by Lockheed Martin, Catapult Ventures and One Madison Group, and joined by various others, including Trousdale Ventures and Build Collective. In a press release Monday, Mario Paniccia, CEO and co-founder of ANELLO Photonics, said, “This investment […] More

  • State Department OKs Potential $70M Sale of Tactical Combat Training Systems to UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department OKs Potential $70M Sale of Tactical Combat Training Systems to UK

    The State Department has approved the U.K. government’s request to purchase 46 Tactical Combat Training System Increment II units under a $70 million foreign military sales agreement. The FMS package includes containers, testing support, spare parts, documentation, training, engineering, logistics services and related program support, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Monday.   TCTS II delivers realistic […] More

  • Databricks Analytics Platform Receives DOD IL5 Provisional Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Databricks Analytics Platform Receives DOD IL5 Provisional Authorization

    Databricks has received Impact Level 5 Provisional Authorization from the Department of Defense for its artificial intelligence-based data intelligence platform. The designation enables the DOD, the agency’s mission partners and other federal agencies to use the platform to securely handle unclassified information, the data analytics company said Monday. Built on a lakehouse foundation, the Databricks Data […] More