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  • Boeing Tests CST-100 Starliner Parachute System at Spaceport America Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Tests CST-100 Starliner Parachute System at Spaceport America Facility

    Boeing has launched a parachute system of its crew capsule at Spaceport America‘s purpose-built commercial spaceport in New Mexico to verify the inflation characteristics and landing system performance of the platform during touchdown. Spaceport America said Friday the CST-100 Starliner Parachute System Test Launch utilized a giant helium-filled balloon that carried a flight-sized boilerplate spacecraft 40,000 feet above the San Andres Mountains and […] More

  • NASA Eyes Deloitte for Robotic Process Automation Software Devt Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Eyes Deloitte for Robotic Process Automation Software Devt Contract

    NASA plans to award Deloitte‘s consulting business a sole-source contract to help the agency design and develop a proof of concept for robotic process automation software. A notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated the company will support the development of four proof-of-concept processes for NASA Shared Services Center’s future bots-as-a-service platform. The bots will support processes such as funds […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide F-35 Integrated Core Processor Support Under $65M Navy Delivery Order

    Lockheed Martin has secured a two-year, $64.7 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to perform work on integrated core processor of the company-built F-35 fighter aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday Lockheed will help address manufacturing sources constraints projected under F-35 Lot 15 production in support of the Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and international partners. […] More

  • Report: Army Seeks to Update Black Hawk, Apache Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Army Seeks to Update Black Hawk, Apache Engines

    U.S. Army leaders have told House members that one of the service branch’s top modernization priorities is to update the turbine engines of Black Hawk and Apache helicopters, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. The potential $10 billion Improved Turbine Engine Program seeks to replace the T700 family of engines and is one of the reasons behind proposed defense […] More

  • Cubic to Produce, Test Portable Common Data Link Systems & Spares for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Produce, Test Portable Common Data Link Systems & Spares for Navy

    Cubic‘s defense applications business has won a $20.9 million contract to assemble,  produce, document, test and deliver 25 Portable Common Data Link systems for installation at the U.S. Navy‘s tactical and mobile tactical operation centers. The Defense Department said Friday that work also covers engineering services for TacMobile Person PCDL systems and spare suites. The contract’s 18-month base […] More

  • Industry Officials Talk Govt’s Reluctance to Share Cyber Threat Data at House Panel Hearing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Officials Talk Govt’s Reluctance to Share Cyber Threat Data at House Panel Hearing

    Industry officials told lawmakers at a House Homeland Security Committee’s cybersecurity panel hearing Thursday that that U.S. government is hesitant to facilitate cyber threat data sharing with stakeholders in the private sector, Nextgov reported Thursday. Scott Montgomery, a vice president at Intel Security, told House committee members that U.S. government investigators’ reluctance to share threat data […] More

  • MC Dean Secures Army IT, Infrastructure Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MC Dean Secures Army IT, Infrastructure Support Contract

    M.C. Dean has been awarded a potential four-year, $45 million contract to provide information technology and infrastructure support services to the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch received five bids for the firm-fixed-price contract via the internet. The Army Communications-Electronics Command at Fort Detrick, Maryland will determine funds and performance locations with each order. Contract work is scheduled to […] More

  • CSSA Gets NASA’s 2016 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSSA Gets NASA’s 2016 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year Award

    Cepeda Systems & Software Analysis has received the 2016 Small Business Prime Contractor of the Year award from NASA in recognition of its engineering support to the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center. The company said Wednesday the agency-level recognition came after it secured the MSFC award early this year. CSSA also oversees NASA’s flight and ground […] More

  • Airbus, Intelsat Form Military Satcom Service Partnership; Richard Franklin, Skot Butler Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, Intelsat Form Military Satcom Service Partnership; Richard Franklin, Skot Butler Comment

    An Intelsat subsidiary has joined a channel partner program of Airbus‘ defense and space segment for military satellite communication services. Intelsat General will offer Skynet X-band and ultra-high-frequency services to the U.S. government under the channel partner agreement, Airbus said Wednesday. Richard Franklin, head of the secure communications business at Airbus Defense and Space, said the new partnership will provide services to customers via the newly […] More

  • Esri to Offer DOE Lab Access to Spatial Analysis Tools via Enterprise Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri to Offer DOE Lab Access to Spatial Analysis Tools via Enterprise Agreement

    Esri is poised to sign an enterprise agreement with an Energy Department-funded laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to provide some federal research and development projects access to the company’s geographic information system. DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory can leverage a full set of ArcGIS-based spatial analysis tools and add licenses on an as-needed basis as part of the agreement with Esri, the […] More

  • DHS Seeks Counter-UAS Platforms for Tech Assessment Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Seeks Counter-UAS Platforms for Tech Assessment Program

    The Department of Homeland Security has kicked off a search for developers of counter unmanned aerial systems technologies to participate in technology assessments. DHS released a sources sought notice on FedBizOpps in efforts to engage industry, academia and government organizations to take part in the 2017 Technical Assessment of Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems Technologies in Cities program, the […] More