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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Hot Fire Tests on 3D-Printed Engine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Hot Fire Tests on 3D-Printed Engine

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a series of hot fire tests on its liquid-fueled rocket engine that was built through additive manufacturing or 3D printing. The company said Monday the activity was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and involved 17 tests that validated the Bantam rocket engine’s performance, durability and reusability. Bantam is a 30,000 pound-force thrust-class engine that is […] More

  • CAE Completes Helicopter Simulator Upgrade for German Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Completes Helicopter Simulator Upgrade for German Navy

    CAE has completed a one-year modernization effort on the German navy’s Sea King MK41 helicopter simulator, which has re-entered service at the Nordholz Naval Airbase in Germany. The company said Tuesday it carried out a series of updates on the Sea King simulator such as the addition of a CAE Medallion-6000 image generator with Common Database architecture; […] More

  • Cyberbit to Implement Security Platforms at Govt Ministries Compound in Israel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cyberbit to Implement Security Platforms at Govt Ministries Compound in Israel

    Deloitte has selected Elbit Systems‘ subsidiary to provide a suite of cybersecurity platforms for installation at a government ministries compound under construction in the Israeli capital. Cyberbit said Wednesday it will implement SCADAShield and Endpoint Detection and Response technologies to help secure the Ram Compound’s future converged network. Arison Group–Solel Boneh Infrastructure, which manages the construction of the Ram Compound, tapped Deloitte to oversee […] More

  • Northrop Demos 2 Maritime Security Tools at INSA Innovators’ Showcase; Ginger Wierzbanowski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos 2 Maritime Security Tools at INSA Innovators’ Showcase; Ginger Wierzbanowski Comments

    Northrop Grumman demonstrated two tactical decision aids that work to help troops detect hostile maritime threats at the 2017 Intelligence and National Security Alliance Innovators’ Showcase held May 4 in McLean, Virginia. The company said Tuesday it presented the Automated Real-Time Maritime Detection and Analysis and Blue Wide Area Situational Processor platforms before a panel of […] More

  • Symantec: Machine Learning Tools Helped Block 22M Ransomware Attempts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec: Machine Learning Tools Helped Block 22M Ransomware Attempts

    Symantec has said the use of machine learning platforms and efforts to share threat intelligence data in real time have helped the company to stop nearly 22 million ransomware attempts in approximately 300,000 endpoint devices worldwide. Symantec said Monday it has blocked Wannacry attacks through threat intelligence sharing between the Symantec Endpoint Protection platform and […] More

  • Raytheon to Support US-Germany Rolling Airframe Missile Program Under Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Support US-Germany Rolling Airframe Missile Program Under Navy Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $26.8 million contract option to support a U.S.-Germany cooperative project to develop and produce a rolling airframe missile system. Raytheon’s missile systems business will provide design agent and engineering services to the MK-31 RAM guided missile weapon development and production effort, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work also covers design, logistics engineering, maintainability, quality assurance, reliability, […] More

  • Paul Davis to Offer Agencies Emergency Services Under GSA Schedule 84 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Davis to Offer Agencies Emergency Services Under GSA Schedule 84

    Property restoration services company Paul Davis has secured a position on the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 84 contract vehicle to offer emergency services to government agencies. Paul Davis said Monday the contract will help the company’s franchise owners across U.S. to expand their businesses and services. Brad Cowan, senior vice president of business development at Paul Davis, said the […] More

  • Lockheed Updates Exoskeleton to Help Boost Soldier Mobility, Load-Carrying Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Updates Exoskeleton to Help Boost Soldier Mobility, Load-Carrying Capacity

    Lockheed Martin has updated its computer-controlled exoskeleton to help increase user mobility and load-carrying capacity as well as reduce the risk of overstress on the lower back and legs. The company said Tuesday it built the FORTIS Knee Stress Release Device using Dermoskeleton bionic augmentation technology from B-Temia under a licensing agreement signed in April. FORTIS K-SRD is designed to help […] More

  • Navin Sagar Named AECOM Transit Systems Practice VP, National Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navin Sagar Named AECOM Transit Systems Practice VP, National Director

    Navin Sagar, former associate vice president and national director at infrastructure services firm T.Y. Lin International, has been named VP and national director of AECOM‘s transit systems practice in North America. The company said Monday Sagar brings 35 years of experience in implementing infrastructure projects such as intercity railroad, commuter rail, light rail and mass transit systems. He previously […] More

  • Inmarsat Launches 4th Boeing-Built Global Xpress Satellite; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Launches 4th Boeing-Built Global Xpress Satellite; Rupert Pearce Comments

    The fourth Boeing-built broadband communications satellite launched into space Monday to join Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communications network. The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite took off aboard a SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket at 7:21 p.m. Eastern time from a launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and transmitted telemetry data to a ground station in Perth, Western […] More

  • AppDynamics-Govplace Team to Help CBP Implement App Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AppDynamics-Govplace Team to Help CBP Implement App Mgmt Platform

    The Customs and Border Protection has chosen a team composed of AppDynamics and Govplace to help the agency implement infrastructure visibility and application performance management tools. CBP will use the tools as part of efforts to manage the agency’s digital operations and the movement of goods and travelers, Govplace said Monday. Both companies will also work to create dashboards for CBP to view performance baselines around […] More

  • Textron Unit Tests Glide Munition Against Moving Targets in Arizona - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Unit Tests Glide Munition Against Moving Targets in Arizona

    Textron‘s systems business has tested a lightweight precision guided glide munition against moving targets during a flight test at Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. Textron said Monday that its weapon and sensor systems team recorded 23.8 flight hours for the Fury weapon between captive carriage, survey flights and weapon releases from unmanned aircraft systems. The company performed a […] More