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  • ORNL's Trim & Drill Tool for Boeing Sets Guinness World Record for Largest 3D-Printed Item - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ORNL’s Trim & Drill Tool for Boeing Sets Guinness World Record for Largest 3D-Printed Item

    A trim-and-drill tool created by researchers at the Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Boeing has set a new Guinness World Record as the largest solid three-dimensionally printed item. ORNL said Monday the laboratory worked over 30 hours to print the tool that is 17.5 feet long, 5.5 feet wide and 1.5 feet tall with a weight of approximately 1,650 pounds. Boeing will use the trim […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy's Future LXR Amphibious Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Design Navy’s Future LXR Amphibious Ship; Brian Cuccias Comments

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls shipbuilding division has secured a potential $13.7 million contract to provide design services for the U.S. Navy‘s LX(R) amphibious warfare ship replacement effort. HII said Tuesday LX(R) will replace the military branch’s Harpers Ferry– and Whidbey Island-class dock landing ships and use the same hull design as the San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks. Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said the […] More

  • Raytheon, Navy Collaborate to Update Mine-Hunting Sonar Tech; Paul Ferraro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Navy Collaborate to Update Mine-Hunting Sonar Tech; Paul Ferraro Comments

    Raytheon has partnered with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport to update a sonar system that the company developed to help U.S. Navy personnel recognize mines. The AN/AQS-20A mine-hunting sonar has been updated through a Raytheon-NUWC collaboration that began in August last year as part of a “work for private party” contract funded by the company, Raytheon said Tuesday. The technology captured […] More

  • CH2M Gets 8-Year Extension on Operations Mgmt Contract With New Mexico Client - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M Gets 8-Year Extension on Operations Mgmt Contract With New Mexico Client

    CH2M has received an eight-year contract extension from the city of Grants in New Mexico for operations management support. CH2M said Monday the contract renewal build on the company’s 28-year support for Grants in the areas of wastewater utility and public works. Grants City Manager Laura Jaramillo said the city’s evaluation committee picked CH2M after a solicitation of proposals for services. […] More

  • Quanergy to Integrate Raytheon BBN’s Human Tracker Software With LiDAR Sensors; Louay Eldada Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Quanergy to Integrate Raytheon BBN’s Human Tracker Software With LiDAR Sensors; Louay Eldada Comments

    Quanergy Systems has acquired a software platform from a Raytheon subsidiary for integration with the former’s light detection and ranging sensor systems. Quanergy CEO Louay Eldada said in a statement released Monday the acquisition of the OTUS People Tracker software from Raytheon BBN Technologies is part of Quanergy’s “long-term roadmap for LiDAR integration into larger transportation […] More

  • UTC's NORESCO Arm to Help Federal Prison Bureau Implement Water, Energy Infrastructure Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC’s NORESCO Arm to Help Federal Prison Bureau Implement Water, Energy Infrastructure Updates

    A subsidiary of United Technologies Corp.‘s NORESCO unit has received a $49 million energy savings performance contract to deliver energy, water efficiency and capital infrastructure updates at two sites managed by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. NORESCO said Tuesday it will support the agency’s goals to meet energy and water reduction mandates under a March 2015 executive order on federal sustainability. […] More

  • Vricon to Support Army Geospatial Center Under GSA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vricon to Support Army Geospatial Center Under GSA Contract

    Vricon has been awarded a sole-source contract by the General Services Administration to provide geospatial data services to the U.S. Army‘s Geospatial Center. McLean, Virginia-based Vricon said Friday the contract covers the provision of a digital surface model with 10-meter-resolution postings that will work to cover an entire country. The company will also supply its 0.5m-resolution Vricon Data Suite that includes the 3D Surface Model, […] More

  • Air Force Taps Ohio Aerospace Institute for Computational R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Ohio Aerospace Institute for Computational R&D Contract

    The Ohio Aerospace Institute has won a $13.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide computational research and development services to the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Monday OAI will work to integrate fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, physics, mathematics and computer science concepts to computationally simulate canonical configuration flows and real-world applications of current and future aerospace and weapons systems and […] More

  • Ensco-PositiveID Team Selected for Phase 2 of DHS' Biothreat Detection Tech Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco-PositiveID Team Selected for Phase 2 of DHS’ Biothreat Detection Tech Program

    Ensco and PositiveID will collaborate to produce a biothreat detection system for the Department of Homeland Security under the second phase of DHS’ SenseNet Program. PositiveID said Monday it will provide the company’s Firefly Dx automated threat detector while Ensco will perform system integration and decision support services under the program. The Interior Department awarded the Phase II contract to the team on behalf of DHS. William […] More

  • ManTech to Help Analyze Navy Aircraft Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Help Analyze Navy Aircraft Systems

    ManTech International has been awarded an $8 million contract to provide engineering and technical support services for all U.S. Navy aircraft platforms and associated systems. The company will conduct reliability, maintainability, testability, quality assurance, diagnostic and system safety analyses throughout the life cycle of naval aircraft systems, the Defense Department said Monday. Work will occur through May […] More

  • Mike White Named Johns Hopkins APL Air & Missile Defense Sector Head - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike White Named Johns Hopkins APL Air & Missile Defense Sector Head

    Mike White, mission area executive for air and missile defense at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory since 2005, has been appointed to lead the APL’s air and missile defense sector. The 35-year APL veteran will succeed Conrad Grant, who has led the sector for 11 years before he was named as the lab’s chief engineer earlier this year, […] More

  • First Command Appoints Retired Navy, Marine Corps Officers to Military Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    First Command Appoints Retired Navy, Marine Corps Officers to Military Advisory Board

    Retired military officers Alford McMichael and Charles Clarke have joined First Command Financial Services as members of the company’s military advisory board. McMichael and Clarke will provide independent advice on military trends and the financial needs and products and services that affect military families as part of First Command’s 10-member board, the company said Monday. They will also […] More