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  • Leidos CEO Roger Krone Gets AUSA's 2018 John W. Dixon Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos CEO Roger Krone Gets AUSA’s 2018 John W. Dixon Award

    The Association of the U.S. Army has selected Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, to receive AUSA’s 2018 John W. Dixon Award in recognition of his contributions to national defense programs. “I dedicated my own career to ensuring our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines were able to do their jobs with the best technology,” Krone said in a […] More

  • Michael Gray Talks SAIC-Led Team’s Efforts on Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Gray Talks SAIC-Led Team’s Efforts on Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Prototype

    Michael Gray, a senior director at Science Applications International Corp., has said the company has worked on 10 various directives to come up with an experimental combat vehicle prototype for the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, National Defense reported Friday. A SAIC-led industry team received a potential eight-year, $237M contract in […] More

  • Alion Introduces AI Tools for Defense, Security Missions; Todd Borkey Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alion Introduces AI Tools for Defense, Security Missions; Todd Borkey Quoted

    Alion Science and Technology has launched artificial intelligence tools designed to aid human-machine teaming in defense and security operations. The company said Friday it will use agile engineering approaches in efforts to help clients implement new AI-based technology platforms. Todd Borkey, chief technology officer at Alion, said the company wants to focus more on engineering […] More

  • DoD OKs Operational Test of Lockheed-Built F-35 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD OKs Operational Test of Lockheed-Built F-35

    Lockheed Martin has received approval from the Defense Department to start full combat testing of its F-35 fighter aircraft, Bloomberg reported Friday. Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, cleared the plan for the fighter jet to begin operational tests after “concurring” with the recommendation of the program manager to kick off testing in […] More

  • Raytheon-Saab Team to Demo Guided Munition Tech Under Army Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Saab Team to Demo Guided Munition Tech Under Army Contract

    The team of Raytheon and Saab has secured a contract from the U.S. Army to demonstrate a new guided munition technology for the man-portable, shoulder-launched Carl-Gustaf weapon system. Both companies plan to conduct firing tests of the guided munition in 2020 as part of efforts to address U.S. Special Operations Command’s requirement for an updated multirole weapon, Raytheon said Friday. The partnership intends […] More

  • Oshkosh to Install Autonomous Tech on Army Resupply Vehicles in Early 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh to Install Autonomous Tech on Army Resupply Vehicles in Early 2019

    Oshkosh’s defense business will begin to install by-wire active safety kit on 60 of the U.S. Army’s Palletized Load System vehicles in early 2019 under the service’s Expedient Leader Follower program. C4ISRNET reported Monday. The company aims to complete the installation on time to allow the federal government to perform an operational task demonstration of […] More

  • John Shannon: Boeing Explores Design Options to Boost SLS Upper Stage Performance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Shannon: Boeing Explores Design Options to Boost SLS Upper Stage Performance

    NASA has directed Boeing to identify approaches to increase the performance and payload capacity of a key structure for the Space Launch System, Space News reported Friday. The company will work to modify SLS’s Exploration Upper Stage to carry an additional one or two tons of co-manifested payload such as NASA’s proposed Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, […] More

  • Serco's US Arm to Extend Army Training Support; Dave Dacquino Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco’s US Arm to Extend Army Training Support; Dave Dacquino Quoted

    The North American subsidiary of U.K.-based Serco Group will continue to provide web-based, full-life cycle training support to the U.S. Army‘s Joint Munitions Command and the Defense Ammunition Center under a potential five-year, $22M contract. Serco Inc. will design, build, test and maintain learning tools, applications and services to help the Army and the Defense Department strengthen mission systems, the […] More

  • NGA, Industry Partners Release Final Arctic 3D Digital Elevation Models - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA, Industry Partners Release Final Arctic 3D Digital Elevation Models

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has released the seventh and final set of 3D digital elevation models covering the Arctic region. NGA said Friday the ArcticDEM Project‘s latest iteration consists of time-stamped and 2-meter resolution DEM strips encompassing 10 percent of the planet’s surface. The new models also underwent filtering to increase resolution of densely-forested areas […] More

  • Willard Williams Appointed 9th Way Solutions COO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Willard Williams Appointed 9th Way Solutions COO

    Willard Williams, a 26-year federal information technology market veteran, has joined 9th Way Solutions as chief operating officer of the Fairfax, Va.-based company. The company said Friday Williams will oversee operations in the enterprise and health IT services, systems and program management, and cyber and information security areas. He previously led enterprise IT projects for AECOM, ManTech, […] More

  • Lockheed Partners With NanoRacks to Seek Commercial Payload Concepts for Orion Capsule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Partners With NanoRacks to Seek Commercial Payload Concepts for Orion Capsule

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with NanoRacks to seek concepts of commercial payloads that could fly on upcoming missions of NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Lockheed said Friday the market assessment marks the initial step toward its vision to deliver commercial opportunities to deep space. Mike Hawes, Orion program manager and vice president of human space exploration […] More

  • Report: Northrop Targets Oct. 26 Launch for ICON Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop Targets Oct. 26 Launch for ICON Spacecraft

    Northrop Grumman plans to launch on Oct. 26 the Ionospheric Connection Explorer spacecraft aboard the Pegasus rocket, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. The rocket will launch from the Stargazer L-1011 aircraft that will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. ICON was originally scheduled to launch in June, but Northrop postponed the take-off after Pegasus sent off-nominal data […] More