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  • Marillyn Hewson: Extended Continuing Resolution Would Affect 2018 Lockheed Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Extended Continuing Resolution Would Affect 2018 Lockheed Orders

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company’s 2018 orders and backlog levels could take a hit if Congress passes another stopgap measure to fund U.S. government operations, CNBC reported Tuesday. Hewson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017, stated at Lockheed’s third-quarter earnings conference call that the company expects its 2017 financials to remain unaffected by the […] More

  • CACI’s Michael Basla: Air Force Should Train Cyber Airmen Across C2, ISR Mission Areas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI’s Michael Basla: Air Force Should Train Cyber Airmen Across C2, ISR Mission Areas

    Michael Basla, a senior vice president at CACI International, has said the U.S. Air Force should operationalize and train cyber airmen across five mission areas, Signal Magazine reported Tuesday. Those missions include command and control; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; global strike; rapid global mobility; and air and space superiority. “In order for our cyber airmen […] More

  • CTC to Manufacture Prototype Combat Vehicle Hulls for Army; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC to Manufacture Prototype Combat Vehicle Hulls for Army; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has won a potential five-year, $7.5 million contract to help the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center design and manufacture prototype hulls for the military branch’s Next Generation Combat Vehicle. CTC said Tuesday it will support the production of Hull Frame Body Cab hulls and help TARDEC perform ballistic, […] More

  • Vector to Perform Orbital Launches at Virginia Space Launch Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vector to Perform Orbital Launches at Virginia Space Launch Site

    Tucson, Arizona-based nanosatellite launch firm Vector will perform three orbital launches from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island in Virginia over the next two years under an agreement with the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority. The deal with Virginia Space includes an option for Vector to conduct five additional orbital launches at MARS, Virginia […] More

  • Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Trade Group Issues Policy Principles to Promote Responsible AI R&D, Deployment

    A technology trade group has issued policy principles that aim to advance responsible design and adoption of artificial intelligence platforms, The Hill reported Tuesday. “As we develop and design AI, human safety will be at the center of that deployment,” said Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council. The policy principles […] More

  • Comtech Gets Army Troposcatter Equipment Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Gets Army Troposcatter Equipment Order

    A business group within Comtech Telecommunications‘ government solutions segment has received a $7.5 million order to provide troposcatter equipment for deployment to U.S. Army operations across the Korean Peninsula. Comtech said Tuesday its systems unit will produce major components of the troposcatter equipment that the command and control technologies group will deliver to the service branch. Fred Kornberg, Comtech […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Starts Manufacturing Facility Construction in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Starts Manufacturing Facility Construction in Alabama

    Aerojet Rocketdyne held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for a new manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The 136,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Facility is scheduled to start operations in late 2019 and will support the production of various aerospace platforms as well as additive manufacturing work, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday. The company will also conduct advanced rocket propulsion research and development activities at the new […] More

  • ManTech Lands Navy IDIQ to Provide Training Services for SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Lands Navy IDIQ to Provide Training Services for SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific

    ManTech International has secured a potential five-year, $45.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to offer training support services to the U.S. Navy‘s the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. The company said Tuesday it aims to develop and implement online computer-based virtualized tools to aid SSC Pacific training on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and […] More

  • Caltech Opens Autonomous Tech Research Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Caltech Opens Autonomous Tech Research Hub

    California Institute of Technology has opened a new facility to help further research efforts on drones, driverless cars, robotics and machine learning technologies. Caltech said Tuesday it established the Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies to serve as a hub for university, industry and government researchers, such as NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory experts, to collaborate in efforts […] More

  • Johns Hopkins Laser Communications Platform Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins Laser Communications Platform Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been recognized at the 2017 Defense Innovation Summit in Tampa, Florida for its high-bandwidth, free space optical communications system. The APL laser communications system landed TechConnect‘s defense innovation award which recognizes potential benefits of technologies to national and warfighter security, Johns Hopkins said Tuesday. JHUAPL also had an opportunity […] More

  • Davis Johnson: Riverbed Hosts Discussions on Govt Cloud Adoption, Digital Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Davis Johnson: Riverbed Hosts Discussions on Govt Cloud Adoption, Digital Transformation

    Riverbed Technology has facilitated discussions on government cloud adoption at the company’s first annual “Disrupt” event for public sector leaders in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The event featured a keynote speech from Hansang Bae, Riverbed chief technology officer, where he discussed how federal agencies can deploy software-defined wide area network to simplify cloud systems, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Leidos’ Roger Krone: Georgia Tech Engineered Biosystems Facility to Seek Chronic Disease Treatments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ Roger Krone: Georgia Tech Engineered Biosystems Facility to Seek Chronic Disease Treatments

    Georgia Tech officially named the engineered biosystems building after Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, and his wife Helen during the university’s homecoming festivities held Friday in Atlanta. The Roger A. and Helen B. Krone Engineered Biosystems Building has a 219,000-square-foot space for offices and laboratories to facilitate research across systems biology, cell and developmental biology and chemical […] More