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  • Air Force Taps Lockheed to Design New Wing for JASSM-ER Cruise Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Lockheed to Design New Wing for JASSM-ER Cruise Missile

    Lockheed Martin has received a $37.7 million contract to continue design work on a wing that will help boost the range capacity of the U.S. Air Force‘s air-to-surface missile system. The company said Wednesday it aims to develop a new Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile–Extended Range wing for incorporation into JASSM-ER production lot 17. “We’ve developed a novel design that provides additional […] More

  • DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Autonomous Tech Safety Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Autonomous Tech Safety Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on Aug. 15 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that seeks to boost the safety of autonomous systems. DARPA said Monday it aims to develop design and analysis tools that can help guarantee the safety of autonomous platforms and support the use of such systems in “safety-critical” […] More

  • Leonardo DRS-Moog Team to Develop Counter-UAS Tech for Army MRAPs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS-Moog Team to Develop Counter-UAS Tech for Army MRAPs

    A team composed of Leonardo DRS and Moog has secured a $16 million contract to help the U.S. Army develop a technology for soldiers to identify, detect and track unmanned aerial system threats. The team will equip a mobile counter-UAS platform with Leonardo DRS’ surveillance and battlefield reconnaissance equipment, Moog’s reconfigurable integrated-weapons platform and government-provided technologies, […] More

  • Battelle to Help National Guard Train WMD, CBRNE Response Teams - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Help National Guard Train WMD, CBRNE Response Teams

    Battelle has received a three-year, $13.8 million task order to provide training support to the National Guard Bureau‘s Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Division. The nonproft organization said Wednesday it will help train WMD and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives response teams under the task order. The order falls under the Defense Technical Information Center’s Homeland Defense & […] More

  • Scott Davidson, Alan Fudge, Scott Reasoner Take New Leadership Roles at Hortonworks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Davidson, Alan Fudge, Scott Reasoner Take New Leadership Roles at Hortonworks

    Hortonworks has made a series of leadership changes as part of a push to drive growth strategy and operational performance at the Santa Clara, California-based open data technology firm. Chief Financial Officer Scott Davidson has assumed additional duties as chief operating officer of Hortonworks, the company said Tuesday. He succeeds the departing president and COO Rajnish Verma […] More

  • Lockheed Invests in AI Software Company Contextere - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Invests in AI Software Company Contextere

    Lockheed Martin has invested $1.1 million in Ontario, Canada-based artificial intelligence software company contextere to support the development of an intelligent personal assistant platform for aerospace and defense maintenance personnel. The platform is designed to aid field service and industrial inspection activities as well as maintenance, repair and overhaul efforts, contextere said Tuesday. Lockheed made the investment […] More

  • BAE to Design Submerged Vessel Detection Tech Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Design Submerged Vessel Detection Tech Under DARPA Program

    BAE Systems has received a $4.6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design a technology for submarines to detect other submerged vessels from a long distance. The company said Tuesday it aims to create sonar technologies designed to maximize the detection range, identification and tracking capacities of submarines under the first phase […] More

  • ManTech Lands Marine Systems Engineering Support Task Order; Daniel Keefe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Lands Marine Systems Engineering Support Task Order; Daniel Keefe Comments

    ManTech International has received a five-year, $21 million task order to support the U.S. Marine Corps‘ systems engineering, interoperability, architecture and technology programs. The company said Tuesday it will work to boost integration and interoperability of systems across Marine Corps, naval, joint and Defense Department programs under the task order. Daniel Keefe, president and chief operating officer […] More

  • Booz Allen Wins $50M Contract to Help Army Manage Chemical Warfare Materials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Wins $50M Contract to Help Army Manage Chemical Warfare Materials

    Booz Allen Hamilton has won a potential five-year, $50 million contract to support a U.S. Army directorate focused on the assessment and destruction of recovered chemical warfare materials. The company will provide program management, mission and operational support services to the Army’s Recovered Chemical Materiel Directorate, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work is scheduled to finish by July 12, […] More

  • FireEye Gets FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Email Security Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Gets FedRAMP Certification for Cloud-Based Email Security Service

    FireEye has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based email security service offering to federal agencies. The FedRAMP moderate-impact level authorization seeks to facilitate the adoption of FireEye Government Email Threat Prevention by federal agencies to protect against email-based attacks as they move to cloud environments, the company said Tuesday. FireEye […] More

  • VSE Receives US Military Orders to Provide Technical, Program Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Receives US Military Orders to Provide Technical, Program Support Services

     VSE has secured contracts worth up to $46.2 million combined to provide a range of technical and program support services to Defense Department customers. The company said Tuesday it received a potential three-year, $17.8 million task order through the U.S. Army‘s Rapid Response Third Generation contract, or R23G, to deliver support services for Army Reserve Command’s equipment, engineering, […] More

  • Booz Allen, Splunk Partner on Cyber Threat Intell Service Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Splunk Partner on Cyber Threat Intell Service Offering

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Splunk have teamed up to offer an analytics-based cybersecurity service designed to help organizations detect and protect networks from potential cyber attacks. The Booz Allen Cyber4Sight for Splunk service offering works to provide threat intelligence data to security analysts through the combination of analytics-based insights from Splunk Enterprise Security platform and […] More