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  • CTC to Manufacture Prototype Combat Vehicle Hulls for Army; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC to Manufacture Prototype Combat Vehicle Hulls for Army; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has won a potential five-year, $7.5 million contract to help the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center design and manufacture prototype hulls for the military branch’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle. CTC said Tuesday it will support the production of Hull Frame Body Cab hulls and help TARDEC perform ballistic, […] More

  • Vector to Perform Orbital Launches at Virginia Space Launch Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vector to Perform Orbital Launches at Virginia Space Launch Site

    Tucson, Arizona-based nanosatellite launch firm Vector will perform three orbital launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island in Virginia over the next two years under an agreement with the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority. The deal with Virginia Space includes an option for Vector to conduct five additional orbital launches at MARS, Virginia […] More

  • Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment

    A technology trade group has issued policy principles that aim to advance responsible design and adoption of artificial intelligence platforms, The Hill reported Tuesday. “As we develop and design AI, human safety will be at the center of that deployment,” said Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council. The policy principles […] More

  • Comtech Gets Army Troposcatter Equipment Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Gets Army Troposcatter Equipment Order

    A business group within Comtech Telecommunications‘ government solutions segment has received a $7.5 million order to provide troposcatter equipment for deployment to U.S. Army operations across the Korean Peninsula. Comtech said Tuesday its systems unit will produce major components of the troposcatter equipment that the command and control technologies group will deliver to the service branch. Fred Kornberg, Comtech […] More

  • 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