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  • Ball Aerospace, Air Force Demo Semi-Autonomous Race Car Interface; Tom Choate Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace, Air Force Demo Semi-Autonomous Race Car Interface; Tom Choate Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory are working to develop semi-autonomous technologies for quadriplegic drivers to control a race car by using their head movements. The company and the AFRL demonstrated the technologies at an airstrip near the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio and former IndyCar […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Begins Work on Two Air Quality Sensors; Rob Strain Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Begins Work on Two Air Quality Sensors; Rob Strain Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and South Korea’s aerospace research body have started to build two air quality sensors that are intended to aid in environmental monitoring operations. The Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution tool is being built to gather atmospheric pollution data across North America, Mexico City, Canadian tar and oil sands, the Atlantic […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Wins a Boeing Avonics Supplier of the Year; Rob Freedman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Wins a Boeing Avonics Supplier of the Year; Rob Freedman Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has been selected as a recipient of an avionics supplier of the year award from Boeing, which evaluated 14,000 suppliers in 16 categories from 50 countries. Boeing chose Ball Aerospace for the award based on performance and contributions to antenna programs for the F/A-18 jet and the Harpoon, Ball Aerospace announced Friday. […] More

  • Former Ball Aerospace CEO Donald Vanlandingham to Chair UQM's Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Ball Aerospace CEO Donald Vanlandingham to Chair UQM’s Board

    Donald W. Vanlandingham, former CEO of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., has been appointed board chairman at UQM Technologies, the Denver Business Journal reported Friday.  Mark Harden writes that Vanlandingham will succeed William G. Rankin, who plans to retire from the board at the end of this month. Rankin has been the company’s chairman since […] More

  • Ball Aerospace to Exhibit Intell, Geospatial Systems at GEOINT Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace to Exhibit Intell, Geospatial Systems at GEOINT Symposium

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. will exhibit its intelligence and geospatial technologies at a symposium for the defense and homeland security communities Monday through Thursday in Tampa, Florida. The company’s software and hardware technologies are built to help clients gather and process intelligence for geospatial, measurement and signature, laser and cyber applications, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. […] More

  • Ball Aerospace to Test Laser Weapons for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace to Test Laser Weapons for Air Force

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has won a $9,133,111 contract to help the U.S. Air Force evaluate damage capabilities of laser weapons and target system vulnerabilities. The company is receiving $731,000 in fiscal 2013 research and development funds at the time of award for work under the Advanced Laser Effects Research program, the Defense Department said Thursday. Four […] More