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  • HHS, FDA Vet Melissa Chapman Joins Triple-i as BD, Capture Unit VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS, FDA Vet Melissa Chapman Joins Triple-i as BD, Capture Unit VP

    Melissa Chapman, a former chief information officer and deputy assistant secretary from the Department of Health and Human Services, has joined Springfield, Virginia-based information technology services company Information Innovators Inc. as new vice president of the business development and capture unit. Chapman joined the company in May and has since led its HHS market growth strategy through subject matter and technical […] More

  • General Atomics' Christina Back: New Nuclear Reactor Tech Key for US Objectives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Christina Back: New Nuclear Reactor Tech Key for US Objectives

    Christina Back, General Atomics vice president for nuclear technologies and materials, has said the U.S. needs to develop new nuclear reactor technologies rather update current platforms in order to meet cost, safety, proliferation and waste objectives. General Atomics said May 5 Back wrote a testimony for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for a hearing on the status […] More

  • Freight Farms-Clemson University Team to Help NASA Develop Off-Grid Crop Production System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Freight Farms-Clemson University Team to Help NASA Develop Off-Grid Crop Production System

    NASA has awarded Boston-based agriculture technology company Freight Farms a Small Business Technology Transfer grant to explore methods for the development of a self-sustaining crop production unit. Freight Farms said Tuesday it will collaborate with Clemson University in an effort to help NASA develop a crop production system for the agency’s future manned deep-space missions. Jon Friedman, co-founder and president of Freight […] More

  • PAR Technology to Provide Geospatial, Collaboration Tools for Colorado Wildland Firefighting Drill - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAR Technology to Provide Geospatial, Collaboration Tools for Colorado Wildland Firefighting Drill

    A PAR Technology subsidiary has been chosen to supply geospatial situational awareness and collaboration tools to firefighters who will participate in a two-day wildfire emergency management exercise to be held in Boulder, Colorado. The company said Tuesday Full Scale Boulder Wildland Urban Interface Exercise  participants on Friday and Saturday will use tools PAR Government Systems designed to help incident managers track crew locations, the geography and […] More

  • Vencore, Partners Pursue R&D Project Via Activity-Based Intelligence Method; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore, Partners Pursue R&D Project Via Activity-Based Intelligence Method; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore has unveiled an internal research and development project that utilizes the company’s Activity-Based Intelligence processing and analysis technique. The information, engineering and analytics provider said Tuesday it aims to use the ABI methodology to process and analyze large-scale open-source data as well as accelerate the extraction of actionable intelligence. ABI works to support the Intelligence Community’s efforts to streamline the analysis […] More

  • Boeing, Northrop Win Contracts to Help USAF Develop Satellite Digital Waveform Generator Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Northrop Win Contracts to Help USAF Develop Satellite Digital Waveform Generator Tech

    Boeing and Northrop Grumman have won separate cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts from the U.S. Air Force to build digital signal generation technology for Global Positioning System satellites. The Defense Department said Monday that Boeing will help the Air Force to mature GPS-based positioning, navigation and timing systems through the Orbit Reprogrammable Digital Waveform Generator program under a $16.2 million contract. Boeing will perform […] More

  • Lockheed, Indra Demo First-Phase Integration of Radar System for Spain's F-110 Frigate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Indra Demo First-Phase Integration of Radar System for Spain’s F-110 Frigate

    Lockheed Martin and Indra have tested a new solid-state, S-band radar system at a facility in New Jersey as part of the first phase of integration ahead of the platform’s installation on Spain’s future F-110 frigate. The team combined Indra’s Digital Transmit-Receive modules with Lockheed’s solid-state phased array antenna to check their mechanical, electrical and thermal compatibility, Lockheed said Tuesday. The […] More

  • USAID Deploys Agiloft's FedRAMP-Compliant Business Process Software Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAID Deploys Agiloft’s FedRAMP-Compliant Business Process Software Platform

    The U.S. Agency for International Development has deployed Agiloft‘s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant business process software platform to support the agency’s workflow. The Agiloft platform utilizes code-free technology and custom configuration settings to facilitate business process agility and provide a system that is adaptable to federal standards like FedRAMP, Agiloft said Tuesday. Agiloft partner EliteBco developed the custom platform based […] More

  • Comtech Receives 1-Year DoD Managed Network Services Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Receives 1-Year DoD Managed Network Services Extension

    Comtech Telecommunications has received a $2 million order from the Defense Department to continue network services through May 2017. Stanton Sloane, Comtech president and CEO, said Tuesday that the company will support DoD’s mission critical operations through its managed network services. Comtech is a communications products, systems and services provider that works with both international commercial and government markets. More

  • Ball Aerospace to Design NASA Landsat-9 Cryocooler - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace to Design NASA Landsat-9 Cryocooler

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has received a $18.2 million contract to design, test and deliver a cryocooler for NASA’s Landsat-9 spacecraft. Ball Aerospace will build two stages of cooling materials into the Thermal Infrared Sensor-2 instrument Cryocooler, NASA said Tuesday. The first cooling stage will be for a layer of thermal shielding and the […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Subject Updated Antares Rocket to Initial Engine Test; Kurt Eberly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Subject Updated Antares Rocket to Initial Engine Test; Kurt Eberly Comments

    Orbital ATK moved an updated version of the Antares rocket to Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport launch pad Thursday in preparation for the rocket’s first hot-fire engine test, Universe Today reported Monday. Ken Kremer writes Kurt Eberly, deputy program manager for Antares at Orbital ATK, said in an interview that the initial 30-second engine test of the […] More

  • Raytheon SeaRAM Missile Defense System Undergoes Navy Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon SeaRAM Missile Defense System Undergoes Navy Tests

    Raytheon and the U.S. Navy have evaluated the company’s anti-ship missile defense system in a series of test shots that simulated advanced threat scenarios. During the tests, the SeaRAM system worked to detect two inbound supersonic missiles and launch the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2 guided missiles to intercept the targets, Raytheon said Tuesday. The Navy conducted the […] More