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  • Victory Media Recognizes IBM as 2018 Military Friendly Employer; Sam Gordy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Victory Media Recognizes IBM as 2018 Military Friendly Employer; Sam Gordy Comments

    IBM has received the 2018 Military Friendly Employer of the Year Award from Victory Media for the company’s efforts to hire military veterans. Recipients of the 2018 Military Friendly Employer award will be featured in Victory Media’s G.I. Jobs and Military Spouse magazines, IBM said Monday. Sam Gordy, IBM general manager of IBM’s federal business, wrote in a blog […] More

  • ANSI Seeks Members for Group Supporting Drone Integration in US Airspace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ANSI Seeks Members for Group Supporting Drone Integration in US Airspace

    The American National Standards Institute seeks participants for a recently launched collaborative effort that will support the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the U.S. national airspace system. ANSI said Monday the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Standardization Collaborative aims to coordinate and advance the creation of UAS integration standards and compliance assessment programs as well as foster international […] More

  • Aerospace Industries Association Unveils 2018 Board of Governors Members - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerospace Industries Association Unveils 2018 Board of Governors Members

    The Aerospace Industries Association has named at least 20 executives from the government contracting sector to its board of governors for 2018. Thomas Kennedy, chairman and CEO of Raytheon, will succeed Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg as chairman of AIA, the trade group said Monday. William Brown, chairman, president and CEO of Harris, will serve as […] More

  • Ben Gibson Appointed Nutanix Chief Marketing Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ben Gibson Appointed Nutanix Chief Marketing Officer

    Ben Gibson, formerly chief marketing officer at F5 Networks, has been appointed to the same position at California-based cloud computing software company Nutanix. Nutanix said Tuesday Gibson will be responsible for developing and implementing a global marketing strategy intended to drive adoption of company-built enterprise cloud technology offerings. Gibson said he aims to help expand the company’s customer base […] More

  • Lockheed Selects OSI Maritime Systems to Develop LCS Navigation Mgmt Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects OSI Maritime Systems to Develop LCS Navigation Mgmt Tech

    Lockheed Martin has chosen OSI Maritime Systems to produce a navigation management system for use on the U.S. Navy‘s future Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships, for which Lockheed is the prime contractor. OSI said Wednesday it will provide the Integrated Bridge and Navigation System that is designed to integrate with warships and comply with the American Bureau of Shipping Class Rules for Navigational Integrated Bridge System. Chris […] More

  • GSA Taps Capstone Corp to Deliver Professional Services Under Multi-Award Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Taps Capstone Corp to Deliver Professional Services Under Multi-Award Schedule

    The General Services Administration has awarded Capstone Corporation a spot under the agency’s Professional Services Schedule award contract. The company said Friday the PSS indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract was made to support and simplify the procurement of services in the areas of advertising, marketing, business, finance, environment, languages and logistics. “This new contract consolidates seven formerly separate […] More

  • Kongsberg to Provide U.S. Army with Additional Weapon Stations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kongsberg to Provide U.S. Army with Additional Weapon Stations

    Kongsberg signed a $39.8 million order to further furnish the U.S. Army with a battle tank remote weapon station system. The company said Friday that it will deliver additional PROTECTOR Remote Weapon Station Low Profile Commonly Remotely Operated Weapon Station configuration for the U.S. Army’s M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank spare parts and engineering services […] More

  • NASA to Ship Webb Telescope to Northrop Facility for Spacecraft Tech Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Ship Webb Telescope to Northrop Facility for Spacecraft Tech Integration

    NASA engineers have removed the James Webb Space Telescope from the space agency’s thermal vacuum testing platform installed at the Johnson Space Center following completion of a 100-day cryogenic test. The agency said Saturday it tested JWST’s optical structure and scientific instruments at Chamber A to determine if the future space observatory could function in a simulated space environment. NASA […] More

  • Air Force Offers Industry Access to ISR Pod Technical Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Offers Industry Access to ISR Pod Technical Data

    The U.S. Air Force has opened up its technical data package for a prototype multi-intelligence pod system to the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance industry as part of an effort to encourage developers to build compatible sensor platforms. AgilePod is designed with multiple modules that can be configured to support ISR and non-ISR missions, the Air Force said Thursday. The […] More

  • Orbital ATK-Built Cygnus Spacecraft to Leave ISS, Conduct Secondary Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-Built Cygnus Spacecraft to Leave ISS, Conduct Secondary Missions

    An Orbital ATK-built spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Wednesday after a cargo delivery effort to perform secondary missions. NASA said Friday Cygnus will be detached from ISS’ Unity module with the Canadarm2 robotic arm, then the vehicle will be maneuvered over the Harmony module to collect data that will support future rendezvous and docking […] More

  • Tyonek Unit to Help Air Force Integrate UH-1N Performance Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tyonek Unit to Help Air Force Integrate UH-1N Performance Tracking System

    A business unit of Tyonek Native Corporation has received a potential $16 million contract to install a technology for the U.S. Air Force to monitor the performance of the military branch’s UH-1N Huey helicopter fleet. Tyonek Global Services will support the integration of a health and usage monitoring system into the utility helicopter platform under the firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable contract, the […] More

  • Arvizio Demos Enterprise Mixed Reality Training Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Arvizio Demos Enterprise Mixed Reality Training Platform

    Arvizio has demonstrated its enterprise mixed reality platform during the I/ITSEC 2017 conference that took place in Orlando, Florida, last week. The MR Studio platform works to help trainees view, interact with and understand products and machinery without the need for physical objects, manuals and paperwork, Arvizio said Friday. MR Studio is designed to deliver three-dimensional visualization with computer-aided design project […] More