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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Starts Manufacturing Facility Construction in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Starts Manufacturing Facility Construction in Alabama

    Aerojet Rocketdyne held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for a new manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The 136,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Facility is scheduled to start operations in late 2019 and will support the production of various aerospace platforms as well as additive manufacturing work, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday. The company will also conduct advanced rocket propulsion research and development activities at the new […] More

  • ManTech Lands Navy IDIQ to Provide Training Services for SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Lands Navy IDIQ to Provide Training Services for SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific

    ManTech International has secured a potential five-year, $45.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to offer training support services to the U.S. Navy‘s the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. The company said Tuesday it aims to develop and implement online computer-based virtualized tools to aid SSC Pacific training on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and […] More

  • Caltech Opens Autonomous Tech Research Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Caltech Opens Autonomous Tech Research Hub

    California Institute of Technology has opened a new facility to help further research efforts on drones, driverless cars, robotics and machine learning technologies. Caltech said Tuesday it established the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies to serve as a hub for university, industry and government researchers, such as NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory experts, to collaborate in efforts […] More

  • Johns Hopkins Laser Communications Platform Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins Laser Communications Platform Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been recognized at the 2017 Defense Innovation Summit in Tampa, Florida for its high-bandwidth, free space optical communications system. The APL laser communications system landed TechConnect‘s defense innovation award which recognizes potential benefits of technologies to national and warfighter security, Johns Hopkins said Tuesday. JHUAPL also had an opportunity […] More

  • Davis Johnson: Riverbed Hosts Discussions on Govt Cloud Adoption, Digital Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Davis Johnson: Riverbed Hosts Discussions on Govt Cloud Adoption, Digital Transformation

    Riverbed Technology has facilitated discussions on government cloud adoption at the company’s first annual “Disrupt” event for public sector leaders in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The event featured a keynote speech from Hansang Bae, Riverbed chief technology officer, where he discussed how federal agencies can deploy software-defined wide area network to simplify cloud systems, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Leidos’ Roger Krone: Georgia Tech Engineered Biosystems Facility to Seek Chronic Disease Treatments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ Roger Krone: Georgia Tech Engineered Biosystems Facility to Seek Chronic Disease Treatments

    Georgia Tech officially named the engineered biosystems building after Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, and his wife Helen during the university’s homecoming festivities held Friday in Atlanta. The Roger A. and Helen B. Krone Engineered Biosystems Building has a 219,000-square-foot space for offices and laboratories to facilitate research across systems biology, cell and developmental biology and chemical […] More

  • Lockheed Taps Orbital ATK to Produce F-35 Composite Parts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Taps Orbital ATK to Produce F-35 Composite Parts

    Lockheed Martin has awarded Orbital ATK a three-year, $24 million initial contract to manufacture composite components for the F-35 aircraft. Orbital ATK said Tuesday it will produce bullnose and blade seals in addition to upper and lower wing skins, engine nacelles and access covers the company is manufacturing under the Joint Strike Fighter program. Production of the composite […] More

  • Cobham Gets Contract for KF-X Conformal Antenna Suite Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham Gets Contract for KF-X Conformal Antenna Suite Production

    Korean Aerospace Industries has awarded Cobham‘s antenna systems business a contract to provide conformal antenna for South Korea’s future multirole fighter aircraft. The antenna suite is designed to provide communication, navigation and identification functionalities to the KF-X jet, Cobham said Oct. 17. David Bulley, vice president and general manager at Cobham Antenna Systems, noted the strategic […] More

  • IAI to Produce Radars for Canada's Maritime Patrol Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IAI to Produce Radars for Canada’s Maritime Patrol Aircraft

    Airbus Group‘ defense and space business has awarded Israel Aerospace Industries a contract to supply multimode radar systems for integration into Canada’s future maritime surveillance aircraft. The Canadian government ordered 16 C295 MSA units from Airbus that will be equipped with ELM-2022A radars from IAI’s ELTA Systems subsidiary, IAI said Monday. ELM-2022 works to detect, track, classify and identify maritime […] More

  • Engility Secures Navy Frigate Cybersecurity Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Secures Navy Frigate Cybersecurity Contract; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has received a potential five-year, $15 million contract to provide cybersecurity architecture and engineering services for the U.S. Navy‘s next-generation frigates. The project marks the first time the Navy will incorporate cybersecurity and network technologies into the core design of naval ships, Engility said Tuesday. Lynn Dugle, Engility CEO, said the Navy partnered with the company to drive […] More

  • CACI Gets $55M Army R&D, Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Gets $55M Army R&D, Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a potential $54.5 million task order to deliver research and development and systems engineering services in support of a U.S. Army division. The task order was issued through the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – 2 Services contract vehicle and includes support for the the Systems Engineering, Architecture, Modeling and Simulation Division of the […] More

  • Report: Orbital ATK Develops Medium-Calibre Munition for Bushmaster Chain Guns - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Orbital ATK Develops Medium-Calibre Munition for Bushmaster Chain Guns

    Orbital ATK has begun to create a line of medium-caliber ammunition for MK44 XM813 and XM914 Bushmaster Chain Guns, Jane’s 360 reported Friday. The new ammunition variants are designed to feature command-guided, proximity fuze and air burst functions as well as deliver support for various land and air combat platforms, the report noted. Orbital ATK is producing new munition types […] More