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  • Orbital ATK Sets May 20 for 9th ISS Resupply Mission Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Sets May 20 for 9th ISS Resupply Mission Launch

    Orbital ATK has set May 20 as target date to launch its ninth cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The space agency said Monday Orbital ATK moved Cygnus from a payload processing facility to a spacecraft fueling facility Monday at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. After […] More

  • Cubic Expands GATR Facility in Alabama; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Expands GATR Facility in Alabama; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic has unveiled an expanded facility in Huntsville, Ala., that consolidates the development, production, engineering and administrative functions of its GATR Technologies subsidiary. The 100,000-square-foot GATR facility at Cummings Research Park will support the unit’s growth efforts, Cubic said Monday. GATR produces satellite communication terminals designed to help military customers transmit data and voice transmissions. “With the expansion of […] More

  • Navy Selects tiag to Support ONR IT Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Selects tiag to Support ONR IT Operations

    The Informatics Applications Group has won a potential five-year, $47.1 million task order from the U.S. Navy to help the Office of Naval Research establish an information technology network operation. Virginia-based tiag will also support ONR’s business process as part of the task order awarded under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Monday. The order has a one-year […] More

  • Lockheed CEO Marillyn Hewson Talks Public-Private Partnerships at Global Aerospace Summit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed CEO Marillyn Hewson Talks Public-Private Partnerships at Global Aerospace Summit

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said partnerships that focus on growth and shared opportunities play a key role in global security. “Public-private partnerships are most effective and most transformative when they are focused on making a strong, long-term impact,” Hewson, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, said Monday at the Global Aerospace Summit in Abu Dhabi, United […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils New F-35 Parts Manufacturing Facility in Florida - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils New F-35 Parts Manufacturing Facility in Florida

    Lockheed Martin has opened a facility in Pinellas Park, Florida, to manufacture canopies and bulkheads for F-35 fighter jets. The company said Monday it will commence operations at the manufacturing facility in mid-May and aims to create more than 80 new jobs there through mid-2019. Nearly 270 employees currently work at Lockheed’s Pinellas Park site, which the company expanded to add […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Helps NASA Test UAS Traffic Mgmt Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Helps NASA Test UAS Traffic Mgmt Tech

    Rockwell Collins has provided systems and services to aid testing efforts under NASA‘s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management program. The company said Monday it served as a UAS service supplier to help the agency manage safety of a UAS operating beyond visual line of sight during flight tests. The two-week test series demonstrated the consecutive, repetitive use of […] More

  • Sagetech to Provide Transponder for NASA's UAS Safety Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sagetech to Provide Transponder for NASA’s UAS Safety Research Project

    NASA has selected Sagetech to provide a transponder technology in support of the agency’s initiative to explore detect-and-avoid methods to ensure safety of unmanned aircraft system operations in national airspace. Sagetech said Monday it will provide the company’s MXS transponder for the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System Project of NASA with other government […] More

  • HII Installs Main Deck Forward Section on JFK Aircraft Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Installs Main Deck Forward Section on JFK Aircraft Carrier

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has installed the forward section of the main deck on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the company is building for the U.S. Navy. HII said Monday its Newport News Shipbuilding division has completed approximately 75 percent of USS John F. Kennedy structures through a “modular” building process, wherein smaller sections of a ship are consolidated into […] More

  • Comms Tech Vet Chris McGugan Rejoins Avaya as Chief Technology Strategist - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comms Tech Vet Chris McGugan Rejoins Avaya as Chief Technology Strategist

    Chris McGugan, a more than 25-year communications technology veteran, has returned to Avaya as chief technology strategist. Avaya said Monday McGugan will work to assess customer requirements, market trends and the potential of new and emerging digital platforms to create value for clients. He served as vice president of emerging products and technology at the communications technology provider from […] More

  • General Dynamics to Repair, Replace Navy Aircraft Computer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Repair, Replace Navy Aircraft Computer Systems

    A business unit of General Dynamics has secured a potential 10-year, $36.3 million contract to repair or replace mission systems installed on multiple U.S. Navy aircraft platforms. General Dynamics Mission Systems will also provide program support for Advanced Mission Computer systems onboard F/A-18 E/F, EA 18G and AV-8B, the Defense Department said Friday. The performance-based logistics contract […] More

  • Leonardo DRS to Produce Sensor Tech for BAE-Developed Aircraft Missile Warning System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS to Produce Sensor Tech for BAE-Developed Aircraft Missile Warning System

    Leonardo DRS has been selected to provide sensors for an aircraft missile warning system BAE Systems is developing for the U.S. Army under a $97.9 million contract awarded in December. BAE will build the 2-Color Advanced Warning System to increase threat detection and protection capacities of Army rotary-wing aircraft through the Limited Interim Missile Warning System Quick Reaction Capability program, Leonardo DRS said Friday. 2C-AWS is […] More