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  • Cubic Subsidiary to Begin Full-Rate Troposcatter Production for Marine Corps; Anthony Verna Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Subsidiary to Begin Full-Rate Troposcatter Production for Marine Corps; Anthony Verna Quoted

    A Cubic business division has moved to the full-rate production phase of an acquisition program that will provide the U.S. Marine Corps a next-generation communications system designed to transmit microwave radio signals across the troposphere. Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions will manufacture the X-band tropospheric scatter technology, as part of a potential $325 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

  • Raytheon Subsidiary, Labor Department to Launch Student Apprenticeship in Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Subsidiary, Labor Department to Launch Student Apprenticeship in Texas

    Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business is collaborating with the Department of Labor to start a registered apprenticeship program for students at Collin College in McKinney, Texas, in an effort to bridge skills gap in the state. The program will be launched in 2023 to provide on-the-job training for manufacturing positions such as assembly technician, […] More

  • SilverEdge to Provide NGA IT Accessibility Support Through Parsons Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SilverEdge to Provide NGA IT Accessibility Support Through Parsons Partnership

    SilverEdge Government Solutions has received a subcontract from Parsons to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency comply with federal information and communication technology accessibility standards.  The subcontract award is part of Parsons’ Combatant Commands Cyber Mission Support contract with the General Services Administration and is intended to address NGA’s Section 508 compliance requirement, SilverEdge said Monday. […] More

  • Northrop LDPE-3A Spacecraft Gearing Up for Space Force Launch Mission in 2023 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop LDPE-3A Spacecraft Gearing Up for Space Force Launch Mission in 2023

    Space Systems Command has transported the Northrop Grumman-built long-duration propulsive-evolved expendable launch vehicle secondary payload adapter to Astrotech Space Operations’ processing facility in Florida in preparation for the U.S. Space Force-67 launch mission in 2023. The LDPE-3A satellite bus will launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket and will carry multiple experimental and prototype payloads designed […] More

  • Argonne National Lab Deploys Next Gen AI System From SambaNova - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Argonne National Lab Deploys Next Gen AI System From SambaNova

    The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is set to deploy a new integrated software and hardware platform built by SambaNova Systems for deploying artificial intelligence capabilities for science workloads. The DataScale system will be available through Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s AI Testbed, a collection of AI-accelerator machines designed to advance the use of the […] More

  • Mark Lewis, John 'JV' Venable Named to US Advisory Board of Reaction Engines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Lewis, John ‘JV’ Venable Named to US Advisory Board of Reaction Engines

    The U.S. business of U.K. company Reaction Engines has appointed national security and aerospace experts Mark Lewis and John “JV” Venable to the newly established advisory board. Venable and Lewis are the inaugural members of Reaction Engines Inc.’s board of advisers tasked with guiding the company’s strategy and advancing market growth initiatives for thermal management […] More

  • DHS Taps 2 Startups to Develop Video-Based Threat Detection Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Taps 2 Startups to Develop Video-Based Threat Detection Platforms

    The Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate has awarded two startup companies other transaction contracts to develop systems for monitoring potentially anomalous events in video footage. Flux Tensor of Kansas and Lauretta AI of Massachusetts respectively secured phase one awards worth $199,833 and $198,000 for the Securing Soft Targets project under the first […] More

  • 2022 International Stability Operations Association Summit to Focus on Global Security Alliances - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    2022 International Stability Operations Association Summit to Focus on Global Security Alliances

    More than 350 officials representing the U.S. government, military, non-governmental organizations, education sector, federal contractors and small businesses are expected to attend the International Stability Operations Association’s 16th annual summit on Nov. 17 and 18. This year’s conference will focus on how global stability operations providers are affected by issues amid situations in Ukraine and […] More

  • Applied Intuition to Provide Autonomy Development Platform for Army Vehicle Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Applied Intuition to Provide Autonomy Development Platform for Army Vehicle Program

    Applied Intuition, a Mountain View, California-based software developer, has received a two-year contract with a maximum value of $49 million to deliver a modeling and simulation platform to the U.S. Army for the service branch’s Robotic Combat Vehicle Program. The end-to-end autonomy software development and test technology is envisioned to assist the RCV team within the […] More

  • Serco Awarded Navy Contract for Antenna Restoration Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco Awarded Navy Contract for Antenna Restoration Project

    Serco‘s U.S. business arm has secured a potential $47.4 million contract from the U.S. Navy for the maintenance and operation of an antenna refurbishment initiative in support of the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific.  The Defense Department said Monday work on the Satellite Communication Capability-Based In-Service Engineering Activity Antenna effort is under the firm-fixed-price award that […] More

  • GitLab Elevates Joel Krooswyk to Federal CTO Post - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GitLab Elevates Joel Krooswyk to Federal CTO Post

    GitLab has promoted Joel Krooswyk from his role as senior manager of solutions architecture to the company’s newly created position of federal chief technology officer. Krooswyk will aim to expand business relationships between the DevSecOps platform provider and software development professionals in the federal sector, GitLab said Monday. The 25-year software industry veteran joined the […] More

  • Albers Aerospace Invests in eVTOL Aircraft Developer Hop Flyt; John Albers Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Albers Aerospace Invests in eVTOL Aircraft Developer Hop Flyt; John Albers Quoted

    Albers Aerospace has made an investment in Lusby, Maryland-based Hop Flyt to help the latter further improve the design, develop and produce military versions of its electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Hop Flyt is working on military versions of three unmanned aircraft systems – Squall, Cyclone and Vortex – and Albers […] More