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  • SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft to Bring Back Science Samples From ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft to Bring Back Science Samples From ISS

    A SpaceX-built Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to leave the International Space Station on Sept. 17 to bring approximately 3,800 pounds of cargo back to Earth. NASA said Monday the cargo will include science samples from human, animal, biology, biotechnology and physical science studies as well as education activities. SpaceX launched Dragon from the Kennedy Space Center […] More

  • Comtech Helps Civil Air Patrol Develop Web-Based SAR Aircraft Monitoring Portal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Helps Civil Air Patrol Develop Web-Based SAR Aircraft Monitoring Portal

    Comtech Telecommunications‘ enterprise technologies unit has created an online portal designed to help the Civil Air Patrol simultaneously track search-and-rescue aircraft in real time. The company said Monday it used the Location Studio technology to develop the web-based CAP platform that works to monitor flight patterns, altitude, speed and global positioning system location of SAR planes. […] More

  • Boeing to Help SES Build 7 Medium Earth Orbit Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Help SES Build 7 Medium Earth Orbit Satellites

    Boeing has signed a deal to design and build seven medium earth orbit satellites for SES to deliver data communications services for clients worldwide. O3b mPOWER satellites will feature Boeing’s digital payload technologies along with customized electronics from the 702 satellite platform, the company said Monday. Paul Rusnock, chairman and CEO of Boeing Satellite Systems International, […] More

  • Report: Lockheed’s Sikorsky Links Raider Aircraft Hard Landing Incident to Flight Software Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed’s Sikorsky Links Raider Aircraft Hard Landing Incident to Flight Software Issues

    Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary has found that issues associated with the flight control software caused the Aug. 2 hard landing incident involving the S-97 Raider aircraft prototype, Vertical Magazine reported Monday. The incident occurred as the prototype carried out a vertical take-off operation at the start of the test flight at the company’s flight center […] More

  • Northrop Unit to Provide Navy RF Signal Generation Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Unit to Provide Navy RF Signal Generation Platform

    Northrop Grumman‘s Amherst Systems business has received a contract to supply radio frequency signal generation technology in support of the U.S. Navy‘s Next-Generation Electronic Warfare Environment Generator program. The NEWEG program aims to incorporate threat laboratory and free space simulation features into the Navy’s generator, Northrop said Monday. Northrop’s RF generation platform is equipped with an advanced pulse generation […] More

  • MBDA Taps Harris for Missile Carriage & Release Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA Taps Harris for Missile Carriage & Release Systems

    Harris has received a contract from MBDA to supply carriage and release technology for the latter’s SPEAR precision strike missiles. Harris said Tuesday it will deliver four internal bay-compatible SCORPION lightweight ejection rack units for each of the weapon bays of two U.K. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. “The MBDA SPEAR weapon, combined with our delivery system, […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Support Navy Cruiser, Destroyer Long Lead Materials Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Support Navy Cruiser, Destroyer Long Lead Materials Procurement

    Huntington Ingalls Industries will help the U.S. Navy procure and manage long lead-time materials for cruiser and destroyer ships under a one-year, $12.8 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Monday the company will help plan yard services for the service branch’s CG-47 cruisers and DD 63 destroyers. HII currently provides engineering, technical, planning, ship configuration, data and […] More

  • SAIC to Help MDA Update Analysis Tech for Ballistic Missile Defense System Modeling - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC to Help MDA Update Analysis Tech for Ballistic Missile Defense System Modeling

    Science Applications International Corp. has secured a $34.6 million contract to help the Missile Defense Agency further develop an analysis technology to support modeling of the Ballistic Missile Defense System‘s expected performance. The Defense Department said Monday SAIC will support analysis efforts by the MDA director for engineering’s quick reaction team and the agency’s BMDS research, development and […] More

  • Intermap Lands Task Order for US Govt Geospatial Infrastructure Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intermap Lands Task Order for US Govt Geospatial Infrastructure Services

    Intermap Technologies has secured a $3.3 million task order modification to provide geospatial three-dimensional infrastructure services to the U.S. government. The company said Monday it will update a digital elevation model to help government users collect, edit and provision elevation and image layers into a high-resolution geospatial database. Intermap will use its proprietary airborne sensor and processing […] More

  • Homeland Security Solutions Awarded Marine Program Mgmt, HR, Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Homeland Security Solutions Awarded Marine Program Mgmt, HR, Training Support Contract

    Homeland Security Solutions Inc. has received a $17.1 million contract for program management, human resources and training services to the U.S. Marine Corps. HSSI will also provide non-guard security support to the military branch and is scheduled to complete work under the sole-source contract by March 10, 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted that USMC will […] More

  • Orbital ATK's Satellite Servicing Vehicle Enters Assembly Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Satellite Servicing Vehicle Enters Assembly Phase

    Orbital ATK has begun assembly work on an in-space satellite servicing vehicle after the company received approximately 75 percent of payload and platform components through its Virginia-based manufacturing facility. Orbital ATK said Monday it is scheduled to launch the Mission Extension Vehicle-1 in late 2018 to provide satellite extension services to Intelsat by early 2019 […] More

  • John Launchbury Returns to Galois as Chief Scientist - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Launchbury Returns to Galois as Chief Scientist

    John Launchbury, formerly director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s information innovation office, has rejoined technology research and development company Galois as chief scientist. Galois said Thursday Launchbury will work with government and industry stakeholders in efforts to craft a road map to address security challenges related to cyber-physical systems. He will also lead the company’s partnership […] More