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  • Inmarsat's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Leads Panel on Integrated Satcom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch Leads Panel on Integrated Satcom

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, led a panel discussion on integrated satellite communications strategies and platforms at this year’s DoD Commercial SATCOM Workshop. Cowen-Hirsch served as moderator of the discussion, titled “Business Models and the Future of Integrated SATCOM” and hosted by the Satellite Industry Association, Inmarsat said Monday. She […] More

  • PSC Unveils 2018 Executive Panel, Board Members; Parsons’ Carey Smith Re-Elected Secretary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PSC Unveils 2018 Executive Panel, Board Members; Parsons’ Carey Smith Re-Elected Secretary

    The Professional Services Council has appointed new members and re-elected several executives to its 2018 executive committee and board of directors. Carey Smith, president of Parsons’ federal business unit, was re-elected secretary of the board of directors during the trade group’s annual meeting held Thursday, PSC said Monday. Smith will join Ken Asbury, president and […] More

  • HII’s Andy Green to Join PSC Board in January - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII’s Andy Green to Join PSC Board in January

    Andy Green, president of technical solutions division at Huntington Ingalls Industries, has been elected to the Professional Services Council’s board of directors. Green is one of the 11 newly elected members who will serve three-year terms on the trade group’s board starting Jan. 1, PSC said Monday. He will work with other new and re-elected […] More

  • ACT I CEO Michael Niggel Elected to PSC Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I CEO Michael Niggel Elected to PSC Board

    Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, has been appointed as a member of the Professional Services Council’s board of directors. PSC said Monday Niggel is one of 11 newly-elected members who will each serve a three-year term on the council’s board effective Jan. 1. He will collaborate with other board members to provide policy […] More

  • Al Thompson of KBR's Govt Arm Elected to PSC Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Al Thompson of KBR’s Govt Arm Elected to PSC Board

    Al Thompson, deputy to the president for operations and external relations at KBR‘s government services business, will join the Professional Services Council’s board of directors effective Jan. 1. Thompson is among the 11 new members who have been elected to serve on the PSC board for a term of up to three years, the council announced […] More

  • ECS Federal CEO George Wilson to Serve on PSC Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ECS Federal CEO George Wilson to Serve on PSC Board of Directors

    George Wilson, president and CEO of ECS Federal, has been elected to the Professional Services Council’s board of directors. Wilson is one of 11 newly elected member-company executives who will each serve a three-year term on the council’s board effective Jan. 1, PSC said Monday. He will work with other new and re-elected board and executive committee members […] More

  • Leidos Recognized in Newsweek's Annual Green Rankings List; Roger Krone Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Recognized in Newsweek’s Annual Green Rankings List; Roger Krone Comments

    Leidos has been featured in Newsweek’s annual list of 500 U.S. publicly traded companies that have demonstrated efforts to help protect the environment. The company said Tuesday it landed the 38th spot on the 2017 Green Rankings and received the “greenest company” designation in the information and technology category. Newsweek ranked companies based on their initiatives to preserve […] More

  • Navy Commissions Lockheed-Built USS Little Rock Littoral Combat Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Commissions Lockheed-Built USS Little Rock Littoral Combat Ship

    A littoral combat ship that Lockheed Martin developed with partner Fincantieri Marinette Marine has entered into active service with the U.S. Navy. The Navy conducted the commissioning ceremony for the USS Little Rock vessel designated LCS 9 on the Buffalo River in New York, Lockheed said Saturday. The ship, which was the second to be named after the […] More

  • Navy Taps Cobham Subsidiary for SATCOM Antenna System Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Cobham Subsidiary for SATCOM Antenna System Support Services

    Cobham‘s Trivent-Avant subsidiary has received a $45.5 million contract to deliver fabrication, test, upgrade, engineering and related training services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s ultra high frequency satellite communication antenna system. The Defense Department said Friday the services will be applied to the SATCOM system’s components and variants including small ship variants of the system, Mobile User […] More

  • NASA Tests Equipment for Laser Communications Relay Demo Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Tests Equipment for Laser Communications Relay Demo Mission

    NASA has begun to integrate and test equipment for a mission that will transition operations from the use of radio to laser communications at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. The space agency said Saturday the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration mission aims to boost the connection between astronauts and spacecraft at 10 to 100 times […] More

  • Lockheed Integrates Harris-Developed Satellite Navigation Payload on 4th Air Force GPS III Space Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Integrates Harris-Developed Satellite Navigation Payload on 4th Air Force GPS III Space Vehicle

    Lockheed Martin has fully integrated a Harris-built satellite navigation payload on the fourth U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System III Space Vehicle slated for launch in 2018. Harris said Friday the navigation payloads for GPS III SV02, SV03 and SV04 have been fully integrated while the fifth payload for SV05 currently undergoes environmental testing. The satellite navigation payload […] More

  • Leidos Secures Navy Contract to Help Build 2nd 'Sea Hunter' Autonomous Vessel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Navy Contract to Help Build 2nd ‘Sea Hunter’ Autonomous Vessel

    Leidos has received a potential three-year, $43.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build a hull structure for the construction of a second autonomous vessel. The company will develop the Sea Hunter II-Autonomous Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel Hull Number 2 under the cost-plus-fixed fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work is expected to be completed […] More