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  • General Atomics to Develop Capacitors for DoD Non-Lethal Vehicle Stopper Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Develop Capacitors for DoD Non-Lethal Vehicle Stopper Platform

    A business unit of General Atomics has been selected by the Defense Department Ordnance Technology Consortium to produce high-energy density capacitors for a non-lethal platform designed to stop and disable vehicles as part of force protection and checkpoint operations. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will supply the capacitors to DoD’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate for integration into the Pre-Emplaced […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Begin Full-Rate Void Sensing Fuze Production for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Begin Full-Rate Void Sensing Fuze Production for Air Force

    Orbital ATK has received a $23 million initial contract from the U.S. Air Force to commence full-rate production of hard target void sensing fuze assemblies. FMU-167/B HTVSF is a cockpit programmable fuze designed to help the service branch destroy hard and deeply-buried targets, the company said Wednesday. The award follows a low-rate initial production contract that the […] More

  • Marvin Test Solutions Joins BAE's Air Force Armament Tester Development Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marvin Test Solutions Joins BAE’s Air Force Armament Tester Development Team

    Marvin Test Solutions is part of a BAE Systems-led industry team that won a potential $64.5 million contract to design and build a common armament testing platform for U.S. Air Force bomber aircraft. The team will produce the Bomber Armament Tester for the service branch to evaluate B-1B, B-2A and B-52H weapons and equipment such as bomb ejector […] More

  • Viasat to Help Modernize NATO Satcom Control Stations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viasat to Help Modernize NATO Satcom Control Stations

    Viasat has secured a contract to update NATO control stations for ultra-high-frequency satellite communications systems in an effort to help address the international alliance’s integrated waveform baseline requirement. The company said Wednesday it will modernize NATO’s UHF communications infrastructure to the Visual Integrated SATCOM Information, Operation and Networking software package designed to increase flexibility, interoperability and […] More

  • Navy Exercises Raytheon Contract Options for Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Exercises Raytheon Contract Options for Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Support

    Raytheon has received a one-year, $37.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to support the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile design agent. The modification exercises options under a previously awarded ESSM program support contract and covers missile technical engineering and in-service support, the Defense Department said Wednesday. ESSM is an international cooperative effort that seeks to increase […] More

  • IARPA Awards 4 Language Processing Software R&D Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Awards 4 Language Processing Software R&D Contracts

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded separate contracts to Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies business, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University and University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute to develop language processing software platforms. All five awardees will aim to produce systems designed to identify and comprehend media documents written in foreign languages under the Machine Translation for English […] More

  • General Atomics to Supply USAF MQ-9 UAS Block 5 Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Supply USAF MQ-9 UAS Block 5 Kits

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $14.2 million contract modification to a business unit of General Atomics for the supply of Block 5 MQ-9 unmanned aerial system kits. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will provide MQ-9 extended-range and beyond-line-of-sight kits as well as Barrett Asymmetrical Digital Datalink Computer Routers under the modification, the Defense Department said Wednesday. GA-ASI […] More

  • BAE, University Partner for Postgraduate Engineering Apprenticeship Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, University Partner for Postgraduate Engineering Apprenticeship Program

    BAE Systems has partnered with Cranfield University in the U.K. to offer an apprenticeship program that aims to help graduate engineers obtain a masters-level qualification. BAE’s level 7 apprenticeship program’s academic activities are scheduled to commence Monday and will cover topics such as operations management, design-based innovation and cost engineering, the company said Thursday. An initial group of 76 […] More

  • DSA Chair, Chief Exec Frances Pierce Among Philadelphia's Most Admired CEOs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DSA Chair, Chief Exec Frances Pierce Among Philadelphia’s Most Admired CEOs

    Frances Pierce, chairperson, president and CEO of Data Systems Analysts, has received recognition from the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the 2017 Most Admired CEOs in Philadelphia. The editorial board of the publication selected Pierce for the award, which aims to commend CEOs in areas such as innovation, financial activity, commitment to diversity in the […] More

  • 12 Leidos Employees to Accept Awards at 32nd BEYA STEM Conference; Roger Krone Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    12 Leidos Employees to Accept Awards at 32nd BEYA STEM Conference; Roger Krone Comments

    Twelve employees of Leidos will receive numerous awards at the 32nd annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards science, technology, engineering and math conference to be held from Feb. 8-10 in Washington D.C. Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, said in a statement published Wednesday he believes this year’s BEYA award recipients are problem solvers who will […] More

  • Intel's Melvin Greer to Discuss Deep Learning Tech at NVTC Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel’s Melvin Greer to Discuss Deep Learning Tech at NVTC Event

    Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for Intel‘s public sector in the Americas, will serve as a panelist at the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Titans event on Jan. 31 at The Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. Greer and his co-panelist John Kaufhold, CEO of data analytics company Deep Learning Analytics, will discuss how deep learning technologies can […] More

  • Parsons Selected for Indiana Bridge Project; Mike Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Selected for Indiana Bridge Project; Mike Johnson Comments

    The Indiana Department of Transportation has selected Parsons to provide design services for the SR 249 bridge replacement project that will cross over U.S. 12 and two railroads in Portage, Indiana. Parsons said Tuesday it will also design a roadway and a traffic maintenance system as well as conduct National Environmental Policy Act studies, topographic survey and geotechnical investigations under the […] More