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  • CTC Obtains Patent for 3D Metal Product Manufacturing Process; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Obtains Patent for 3D Metal Product Manufacturing Process; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a method to produce three-dimensional products from metals in a gaseous state. Joe Pickens, a former chief scientist of CTC, worked with the company’s adviser engineers Juan Valencia and Mike Tims to invent the “Additive Manufacturing Using Metals from the Gaseous State” […] More

  • Saab to Establish US Manufacturing Facility for Proposed USAF Trainer Aircraft With Boeing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Establish US Manufacturing Facility for Proposed USAF Trainer Aircraft With Boeing

    Saab has announced plans to set up a production facility in the U.S. for a trainer aircraft the Sweden-based company and its partner Boeing proposed for the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X program. Saab said Monday it has begun to identify and assess potential sites for the new aircraft manufacturing facility to be established in the U.S. […] More

  • AeroVironment Delivers Updated UAS Platforms to Help DoD Address RF Spectrum Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment Delivers Updated UAS Platforms to Help DoD Address RF Spectrum Requirements

    AeroVironment has supplied two Defense Department customers with company-built Raven and Puma AE unmanned aircraft systems that are compatible with M1/M2/M5 radio frequencies. The company said Tuesday it will also begin to offer M1/M2/M5-configured Wasp AE micro air vehicles in December then conduct deliveries in spring 2018. David Sharpin, vice president of AeroVironment’s tactical UAS business unit, […] More

  • Kymeta to Develop Ka-Band CubeSat Antennas for NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kymeta to Develop Ka-Band CubeSat Antennas for NASA

    Kymeta‘s government solutions division has received a pair of NASA grants to produce Ka-band antennas for integration with CubeSats or other satellites designed to operate in low-Earth orbit. The company said Monday it aims to develop space-based antennas under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research program as part of efforts to help address for very low size, weight and […] More

  • In the News: Gary Wang, Deputy CIO/G-6 for the U.S. Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In the News: Gary Wang, Deputy CIO/G-6 for the U.S. Army

    As most industry professionals are aware, one of the major issues the Army is currently facing is how to most efficiently accelerate to a modern, secure and globally-available network, especially in the armed services, and how to capitalize on cloud-based infrastructure and all relevant processes. One man whose reputation preceeds himself in holding responsibilities for […] More

  • GA-ASI Launches First Test Flight from New North Dakota-Based Test and Training Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GA-ASI Launches First Test Flight from New North Dakota-Based Test and Training Center

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has conducted the first test flight from its new Flight Test and Training Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota. GA-ASI deployed a Block 5 Predator B/MQ-9 remotely piloted aircraft which flew approximately 1,075 nautical miles in Class A civilian airspace, General Atomics said Monday. The Federal Aviation Administration granted a […] More

  • Brian Krzanich: Intel Invests $1B in Startups to Help Drive AI Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brian Krzanich: Intel Invests $1B in Startups to Help Drive AI Tech Development

    Intel has invested more than $1 billion in startup companies to support the development of artificial intelligence technologies. CEO Brian Krzanich wrote in an article published Monday that Intel has funded AI-focused companies such as Mighty AI, Data Robot and Lumiata through the firm’s capital business. Krzanich added Intel developed suite of AI products to help customers manage workloads. The […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Demos Comms Network for Satellite-Denied Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Demos Comms Network for Satellite-Denied Environments

    Rockwell Collins has tested a high frequency network that the company currently develops for the U.S. Air Force to support communications in satellite-denied areas. The wideband HF communications system worked to transmit files of up to one megabyte over a 5,000-mile distance during the 30-day demonstration, Rockwell Collins said Monday. The technology is designed to support […] More

  • Battelle Updates Handheld Counter-UAS Device; Dan Stamm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Updates Handheld Counter-UAS Device; Dan Stamm Comments

    Battelle has updated a man-portable device the nonprofit designed to help the departments of Defense and Homeland Security protect national airspace from unmanned aerial system threats. DroneDefender V2 is equipped with a multifunction selector switch and miniaturized electronics, Battelle said Monday. The new design works to extend the range and capacity of the handheld counter-UAS platform to […] More

  • Austal USA-Led Team Delivers Omaha LCS to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA-Led Team Delivers Omaha LCS to Navy

    An Austal USA-led team has delivered the sixth of Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy for mine countermeasures, anti-submarine and surface warfare missions. The Navy said Monday its acceptance of USS Omaha represents the final milestone before the military branch commissions the new warship in early 2018. USS Omaha will be homeported in San Diego, California, […] More

  • Vencore to Conduct Oceanography R&D for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Conduct Oceanography R&D for Navy

    Vencore has won a potential five-year, $22.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to conduct a research and development project that will focus on ocean dynamics and prediction oceanography. The service branch received multiple offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through a broad agency announcement from the Naval Research Laboratory and obligated $741,951 in working capital funds at the time […] More

  • 4 Firms Win Navy Data Analytics Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4 Firms Win Navy Data Analytics Support Contracts

    The U.S. Navy has awarded four companies up to $22.6 million in contracts to perform data analytics services for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Altarum Institute, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte and Kennell and Associates will vie for task orders to help BUMED examine operational process efficiencies; populations health management strategies; and quality of medical care and […] More