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  • Cooper Standard Adds Former General Dynamics Exec Sonya Sepahban to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cooper Standard Adds Former General Dynamics Exec Sonya Sepahban to Board of Directors

    Sonya Sepahban, formerly senior vice president of engineering, development and technology at General Dynamics’ land systems business unit, has joined the board of directors of Novi, Michigan-based automotive systems and components supplier Cooper Standard. “Sonya brings a unique combination of technology and innovation expertise with strong financial acumen, extensive operational experience and demonstrated leadership skills, […] More

  • CNAS Adds 3 Members to Board of Directors; Kurt Campbell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CNAS Adds 3 Members to Board of Directors; Kurt Campbell Comments

    The Center for a New American Security has appointed Boeing Executive Vice President Leanne Caret, DC Capital Partners Founder Thomas Campbell and MUUS & Company Chairman Michael Sonnenfeldt to its board of directors. CNAS said Tuesday the new members will provide oversight for the organization and support its strategic direction. “We are excited to have Leanne, Thomas and Michael join the board,” […] More

  • Frank Culbertson: Orbital ATK Aims to Place Manned Habitat in Cislunar Space by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frank Culbertson: Orbital ATK Aims to Place Manned Habitat in Cislunar Space by 2020

    An Orbital ATK executive has said the company plans to use its Cygnus spacecraft as a basis for a manned habitat that would operate in cislunar space by 2020. Orbital ATK said Wednesday Frank Culbertson, president of space systems group at Orbital ATK, told the House Science subcommittee on space that the initial habitat concept seeks to expand Moon […] More

  • Raytheon, American University Org Form Cyber Research & Education Partnership; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, American University Org Form Cyber Research & Education Partnership; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    Raytheon will partner with American University’s Kogod Cybersecurity Governance Center in an effort to help address prevention, detection and response challenges through cybersecurity research and education. The company said Thursday it has provided initial funds for the university’s newly-launched KCGC unit in support of Raytheon’s commitment to help promote governance in cybersecurity. “Teaming with academia is foundational […] More

  • Tetra Tech Gets $84M in Additional USAID Contract Funds for Power Africa Program; Dan Batrack Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tetra Tech Gets $84M in Additional USAID Contract Funds for Power Africa Program; Dan Batrack Comments

    Tetra Tech has received $84 million in additional contract funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development to expand work on the Power Africa program. President Barack Obama launched the Power Africa initiative in 2013 in an effort to provide electricity access to approximately 60 million households and companies in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 through generation […] More

  • DARPA Defense Sciences Office to Hold Proposers Day on June 22-23 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Defense Sciences Office to Hold Proposers Day on June 22-23

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is set to sponsor a Proposers Day from June 22 to 23 to inform industry on the objectives of an upcoming Defense Sciences Office broad agency announcement. DARPA said Wednesday the event is intended to discuss basic or applied research ideas in mathematics, modeling and design; physical systems; human-machine systems; […] More

  • NASA to Conduct 2nd Qualification Ground Test on SLS Rocket Booster - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Conduct 2nd Qualification Ground Test on SLS Rocket Booster

    NASA will conduct the second qualification ground booster test for the deep-space rocket Space Launch System on June 28 at an Orbital ATK test facility in Utah. The space agency set up 82 qualification test objectives that it will measure during the two-minute booster test, NASA said Thursday. The test will use approximately 530 instrumentation channels and operate at a […] More

  • Engility Names Optensity as Winner of GEOINT App Development Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Names Optensity as Winner of GEOINT App Development Challenge

    Engility has awarded a $25,000 prize to Optensity as the winner of the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program Grand Challenge 2016 for work on an application built to alert users on location-based threats and identifications of safe locations. Engility said Wednesday it worked with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to create the IGAPP challenge in an effort to connect commercial vendors with government agencies that are […] More

  • Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push

    Japan-based industrial conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. has established a business unit to help drive the company’s Internet of Things research-and-development and go-to-market  strategic efforts. Hitachi Insight Group, led by Keiji Kojima, will offer IoT-based technologies and services meant to help government and enterprise customers achieve smart city, energy, healthcare and industrial goals through actionable insights, Hitachi said May 10. […] More

  • Orbital ATK Receives Int'l Commercial Proximity Sensor Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Receives Int’l Commercial Proximity Sensor Order

    Orbital ATK has secured a $16 million contract to supply DSU-33D/B proximity sensors to an undisclosed international customer through a direct commercial sale. The company said Thursday it is scheduled to begin delivery of the fuzing systems to the customer in mid-2016. DSU-33D/Bs uses radio frequency signals to determine the height of a weapon above a target zone, Orbital ATK noted. […] More

  • Kimberly Stambler: Battelle to Update UAS Countermeasure Device - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kimberly Stambler: Battelle to Update UAS Countermeasure Device

    Battelle aims to build a third version of the nonprofit’s rifle-like device that works to jam GPS and command-and-control and GPS systems used to fly unmanned aircraft systems, IHS Jane’s 360 reported Tuesday. Geoff Fein writes the current DroneDefender system is powered by a nearly 10-pound battery inside a backpack and designed to neutralize UAS that weighs less than 55 pounds and operates at a speed of less […] More

  • DoD Taps CACI for Financial Mgmt System Deployment Contract; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Taps CACI for Financial Mgmt System Deployment Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a potential three-year, $34 million contract to continue to provide financial management support for agencies across the Defense Department as part of DoD’s Defense Agencies Initiative. The contract covers the deployment of an Oracle-built enterprise resource planning platform in an effort to consolidate legacy tools into a single system and help […] More