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  • DARPA Selects Vencore for DDoS Defense Program Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Selects Vencore for DDoS Defense Program Research

    A business unit of Chantilly, Virginia-based defense contractor Vencore has received an estimated $7.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for research on a computer network defense program. Vencore Labs will provide research, development, test and evaluation services for the DARPA’s Extreme DDoS Defense program, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DARPA will obligate $2.1 million from fiscal 2015 […] More

  • Former DARPA & Google Exec Regina Dugan to Lead New Facebook Group - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former DARPA & Google Exec Regina Dugan to Lead New Facebook Group

    Regina Dugan, formerly advanced technology and products team lead at Google, has joined Facebook to lead the social networking site’s future advanced products development group, Forbes reported Wednesday. Miguel Helft writes Dugan oversaw Google’s projects to develop modular smartphones, three-dimensional mapping devices and smart fabrics since 2012. She will lead Facebook’s new team called “Building 8” […] More

  • DARPA Unveils Unmanned Spaceplane Program's 2nd Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Unveils Unmanned Spaceplane Program’s 2nd Phase

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and its industry partners will transition into the second phase of a program to build a reusable unmanned spaceplane that can carry satellites into space. DARPA said Thursday it will hold a proposers day April 29 in Arlington, Virginia for phase two of Experimental Spaceplane-1, a program to develop a spaceplane that can carry payloads […] More

  • DARPA Christens Leidos-Built 'Sea Hunter' Autonomous Ship Demonstrator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Christens Leidos-Built ‘Sea Hunter’ Autonomous Ship Demonstrator

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has christened an autonomous vessel demonstrator that a Leidos-led team designed and built for DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. Leidos Chairman and CEO Roger Krone joined several DARPA and Defense Department officials during the christening of a prototype unit for the Sea Hunter ACTUV at a dockside ceremony held Thursday in Portland, Oregon, […] More

  • Northrop Taps Moog to Build Flight Control System for DARPA/ONR UAS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Taps Moog to Build Flight Control System for DARPA/ONR UAS Program

    Moog has been awarded a subcontract by Northrop Grumman to manufacture a flight control actuation system for the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program jointly run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research. Moog said Wednesday the contract requires initial delivery of flight control actuators, actuator-control electronics and accessories for the […] More

  • Case Western Reserve University to Help DARPA Study Sensory, Motor Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Case Western Reserve University to Help DARPA Study Sensory, Motor Functions

    Case Western Reserve University has received an $8.4 million contract to perform research and development work on the restoration of motor and sensory functions after hand amputation surgery with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The 30-month study will focus on electrodes and algorithms, electronics and packaging and functional tests on human subjects in laboratory […] More

  • DARPA Awards Gremlins Program Phase 1 Contracts to 4 Companies; Dan Patt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Awards Gremlins Program Phase 1 Contracts to 4 Companies; Dan Patt Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a series of phase one contracts to four companies for proposals to develop unmanned air systems that can be recovered while in flight and are reusable. DARPA said Thursday it selected General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems unit, Lockheed Martin, Dynetics and Composite Engineering to develop launch and recovery techniques, airframe designs, digital […] More

  • Tom Bussing: Raytheon Eyes 3D Printing to Increase Weapon Sizes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Bussing: Raytheon Eyes 3D Printing to Increase Weapon Sizes

    Tom Bussing, Raytheon’s head of advanced missile systems, has said the company is looking at the additive manufacturing process method for its plan to increase the size of weapon systems, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Bussing told several defense journalists in a briefing the company already invested in a machine that is designed to build “big structures,” Sydney Freedberg […] More

  • Livermore Lab to Use IBM Neuromorphic Tech for Collaborative Supercomputing Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Livermore Lab to Use IBM Neuromorphic Tech for Collaborative Supercomputing Initiative

    IBM has agreed to provide Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory access to a company-made brain-inspired chip architecture as part of a collaborative project to build supercomputer systems. The company said Tuesday LLNL will receive a 16-chip TrueNorth neurosynaptic system that is designed to process data equivalent to 16 million neurons and four billion synapses. IBM’s research business developed […] More

  • DARPA Eyes Public-Private Partnership for Robotic Space Servicing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes Public-Private Partnership for Robotic Space Servicing Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is looking at potential public-private partnerships to advance the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program, which pushes to enable robotic support for geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites within five years. DARPA said Friday RSGS looks to create a commercially owned and operated robotic servicing vehicle with an agency-built toolkit to be integrated with a privately-made spacecraft. The […] More

  • DARPA Selects Schafer for Biological Technologies Office Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Selects Schafer for Biological Technologies Office Support Contract

    Schafer‘s government services business has secured a five-year contract to provide scientific, engineering and technical services to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s biological technologies office. The company said Monday it will support DARPA BTO’s research efforts in the areas of infectious diseases, human-machine interface and neurotechnology under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The award also covers programming and […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Military Tech Systems Ideas; Brad Tousley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Military Tech Systems Ideas; Brad Tousley Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Tactical Technology Office will hold a proposers day on April 20 and 21 to discuss ways to develop new military technology systems and seek potential contributors. DARPA said Wednesday it is searching for ideas in agile development, autonomous or cooperative unmanned systems, weapons, power and propulsion proposals for ground, maritime, air and space systems to assist in military […] More