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  • Flightglobal: Northrop Plans Alternate Market for Proposed DARPA Unmanned Spaceplane - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Flightglobal: Northrop Plans Alternate Market for Proposed DARPA Unmanned Spaceplane

    Northrop Grumman seeks to introduce its reusable unmanned spaceplane prototype to the commercial satellite launch market even as the company works on its design for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Experimental Spaceplane-1 program, Flightglobal reported Thursday. James Drew writes that Doug Young, vice president of space systems resiliency at Northrop, told Flightglobal the company plans to continue developing its XS-1 concept […] More

  • Navy Orders Additional Laser-Guided Training Rounds From Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Additional Laser-Guided Training Rounds From Lockheed

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $25.8 million contract to Lockheed Martin to deliver live-fire training rounds of its laser-guided bombs. Lockheed said Thursday the Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds award is the last of four options under an $84.5 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract originally awarded in 2013. The company added it will also refurbish reusable shipping containers and provide […] More

  • Mercury Systems Receives RF, Image Processing Module Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Receives RF, Image Processing Module Orders

    Mercury Systems has received a $4 million order for radio frequency test systems from an aerospace-and-defense contractor and another $2.9 million in orders for digital signal and image processing modules from a second A&D company. The first unnamed A&D contractor will apply the radio frequency test systems to a missile defense application, Mercury Systems said Monday. The second unidentified defense contractor will also […] More

  • Liquidity Services Secures DoD Scrap Asset Mgmt Contract From DLA; Bill Angrick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Liquidity Services Secures DoD Scrap Asset Mgmt Contract From DLA; Bill Angrick Comments

    Liquidity Services has secured a three-year contract with two 12-month optional extension periods from the Defense Logistics Agency for management and sales services of Defense Department scrap assets. The company will manage and sell DoD-generated scrap assets from continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Guam installations under a revenue-sharing agreement equal to 64.5 percent of the gross resale […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Present Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Help Present Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    Raytheon will present a collegiate cyber defense competition in San Antonio beginning on April 22 to test the skills of the 10 collegiate teams in combating online attacks. The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security said Friday announced the 10 finalists for the three-day National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition Championship. According to Raytheon, this competition is […] More

  • BAE to Build US Navy Mine Neutralizers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Build US Navy Mine Neutralizers

    BAE Systems has received a $55.1 million contract with the Defense Department to build a suite of mine neutralizers with explosive warheads for the U.S. Navy to launch from helicopters. The company will manufacture the Archerfish remotely-controlled underwater vehicles and fiber-optic spools for the Navy as the service branch seeks to also create communication links between the […] More

  • Thycotic Survey: Security Pros ID Cyberterrorism as Large Threat to US - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thycotic Survey: Security Pros ID Cyberterrorism as Large Threat to US

    A new survey conducted by computer security company Thycotic at the annual RSA conference says a majority of 200 security industry respondents believe the U.S. is vulnerable to cyberterrorism. The company said Tuesday the study found 63 percent of security professionals believe terrorists can launch a major cyber-attack on the U.S. within a year, while 92 percent believe most U.S. companies […] More

  • General Dynamics UK Facilitates Live-Fire Cannon Tests on Ajax Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics UK Facilitates Live-Fire Cannon Tests on Ajax Platform

    General Dynamics‘ U.K. land systems subsidiary and its partners completed live firing tests of a stabilized cannon and chain gun mounted on the U.K. army’s General Dynamics-built armored fighting vehicle. The team tested the CTA International-developed 40-millimeter cannon system integrated on the Ajax vehicle platform to record the recoil and blast stresses and other aspects of the firing, General Dynamics said Wednesday. The […] More

  • HPE's Earl Matthews: Leadership, Culture Key for Public-Sector Cybersecurity Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE’s Earl Matthews: Leadership, Culture Key for Public-Sector Cybersecurity Programs

    Earl Matthews, a vice president at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, has said agencies and companies should create a workplace culture that will encourage employees to be more aware of cybersecurity risks at the organizations, GCN reported Wednesday. Derek Major writes Matthews, VP of enterprise security solutions for HPE’s U.S. public sector business, told FireEye‘s Insider Threat Summit Tuesday he believes that a cybersecurity […] More

  • Inmarsat's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Diversity, Distribution & Protection Key Elements of Satcom Resilience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Diversity, Distribution & Protection Key Elements of Satcom Resilience

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Inmarsat senior vice president of government strategy and policy in the U.S. government business, has listed diversity, distribution and protection of space assets as the key attributes of satellite communications resilience. Cowen-Hirsch writes in a Space News article published Mar. 28 using combined features of commercial and military satcom systems can diversify communication paths and assist interoperability in the event […] More

  • Space News: Lockheed to Consider Alternative Uses for Future NASA Habitat Module - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space News: Lockheed to Consider Alternative Uses for Future NASA Habitat Module

    Lockheed Martin is looking into alternative uses for a habitat module it is developing for NASA‘s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships program focused on research-and-development projects to identify new technologies, Space News reported Wednesday. Bill Pratt, NextSTEP program manager at Lockheed, told the publicaiton its cislunar habitat could be used to support other countries and companies that are looking to embark […] More

  • SES GS Secures Army TROJAN Satellite Support Follow-On Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES GS Secures Army TROJAN Satellite Support Follow-On Contracts

    SES Government Solutions has received two follow-on contracts from the U.S. Army‘s Intelligence and Security Command to provide satellite services for a global network used to transmit voice, video and data. Reston, Virginia-based SES GS said Thursday it will support the TROJAN Network that includes terminals and ground infrastructure for uniformed Army personnel and decision makers at the […] More