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  • NASA Selects 8 Universities to Participate in Small Spacecraft Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Selects 8 Universities to Participate in Small Spacecraft Projects

    NASA has chosen eight university teams to work with the agency’s engineers and scientists on two-year projects to develop new small spacecraft technologies. The space agency said Saturday these collaborations aim to create small, lightweight spacecraft that could support science, exploration and space operations. NASA chose from a variety of submitted proposals on enhanced power generation and […] More

  • CTC Affiliate Lands Subcontract to Support Air Force Materiel Command's Logistics Directorate; David Schario Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Affiliate Lands Subcontract to Support Air Force Materiel Command’s Logistics Directorate; David Schario Comments

    A Concurrent Technologies Corp. affiliate has received a potential $1.2 million subcontract from Dakota Consulting to provide acquisition and technical services for the Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command’s directorate of logistics, civil engineering and force protection. Enterprise Ventures Corp. will also work to help Dakota Consulting provide research, engineering, administrative and financial services in support of HQ […] More

  • Global Technical Systems to Build Open Architecture Computer Processor for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Global Technical Systems to Build Open Architecture Computer Processor for Navy

    Global Technical Systems has received a $9.8 million delivery order to develop open architecture-based common processing systems that will work to help the U.S. Navy address computer requirements for the military branch’s combat platforms. GTS will produce 14 pieces of Technical Insertion 12 Hybrid CPS water-cooled advanced production units and eight commercial air-cooled APUs under the delivery order, the Defense Department […] More

  • Navy Picks A&D General Contracting to Build Marine Corps Combat Support Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Picks A&D General Contracting to Build Marine Corps Combat Support Facility

    The Naval Facilities Engineering Command has awarded A&D General Contracting a $9.6 million task order to build a combat service support facility for the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command. The facility will be built in Camp Pendleton, California and will have operational, maintenance and administrative offices for the 1st Marine Raider Support Battalion’s West Coast-based combat service support organization units, NAVFAC said Friday. […] More

  • ULA, Air Force Launch 2 Orbital ATK-Built Space Situational Awareness Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA, Air Force Launch 2 Orbital ATK-Built Space Situational Awareness Satellites

    The United Launch Alliance has worked with the U.S. Air Force‘s 45th Space Wing to launch the third and fourth Orbital ATK-built Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program satellites aboard a Delta IV rocket. The Air Force said Friday the launch of the two GSSAP satellites is part of the AFSPC-6 mission to advance space situational awareness. The Air Force Space Command-operated […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests SLS Engine at NASA Stennis Space Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests SLS Engine at NASA Stennis Space Center

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed additional tests on a development engine for a NASA launch vehicle at the Stennis Space Center to check the engine’s capacity to withstand a challenging operational environment. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday the RS-25 engine dubbed 0528 that NASA will use for the Space Launch System ran for 420 seconds on power levels that range from 80 percent to […] More

  • Booz Allen Subcontracts System High for MDA Security Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Subcontracts System High for MDA Security Services

    Booz Allen Hamilton has awarded System High Corp. a five-year subcontract to deliver security services in support of multiple Missile Defense Agency programs nationwide. System High said Wednesday it will provide personnel security, physical security, security operations support, information security, classification management, international security, antiterrorism, insider threat, security reviews, emergency management/continuity of operations and research, development and acquisition security and […] More

  • Esri ArcGIS Mapping Platform to Power Demining Org's Info Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri ArcGIS Mapping Platform to Power Demining Org’s Info Mgmt System

    Esri‘s ArcGIS mapping platform will power the Geneva International Center for Humanitarian Demining’s risk reduction and information management system for explosive remnants of war. The company said Thursday it will integrate its technology into GICHD’s Information Management System for Mine Action or IMSMA Core and support the organization’s migration of existing functions to the ArcGIS platform. The partnership aims to provide GICHD an […] More

  • NASA, BSN Medical Partner to Develop Astronaut Compression Garment for Long-Duration Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, BSN Medical Partner to Develop Astronaut Compression Garment for Long-Duration Missions

    NASA has partnered with BSN medical to develop a compression garment that will work to help reduce an astronaut’s risk of experiencing rapid heart rate, low blood pressure and lightheadedness after a long-duration spaceflight. A team of scientists from NASA and Russia currently examines the potential of BSN’s JOBST three-piece elastic gradient compression garments to protect against post-spaceflight orthostatic intolerance, the company […] More

  • Lockheed-Northrop JV to Produce Radar Electronics for Army Apache Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Northrop JV to Produce Radar Electronics for Army Apache Fleet

    A Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman joint venture has received a potential $38.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply radar electronic units for lot 7 AH-64 Apache attack helicopters of the U.S. Army. The Defense Department said Thursday it expects Longbow LLC to complete work under the firm-fixed-price contract by July 31, 2019. The Army Contracting Command received one offer for the contract through […] More

  • Parsons Lands 2 Advisory, Assistance Services Contracts With MDA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Lands 2 Advisory, Assistance Services Contracts With MDA

    The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Parsons two “bridge” contracts worth a combined $48 million to provide advisory and assistance services for MDA’s Ballistic Missile Defense System and Space and Directed Energy programs. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will support Ballistic Missile Defense system architecture and engineering activities under the first contract valued at $40.8 million. Work will occur through […] More

  • Raytheon to Help MDA Develop Standard Missile-3 Circuit Card Testing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Help MDA Develop Standard Missile-3 Circuit Card Testing System

    The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon an $18.2 million contract modification to develop and implement an acceptance test platform for circuit card assemblies and stacks of the Standard Missile-3 Block IIA system. Raytheon’s missile systems segment in Tucson, Arizona will use the Presidio Gen 2 Block IV/V automated test architecture to produce CCA assembly level testing procedures, the […] More