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  • Terumo BCT Receives DoD Grant for Blood Sterilization Tech Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Terumo BCT Receives DoD Grant for Blood Sterilization Tech Research

    Terumo BCT has received a three-year grant from the Defense Department to study the effectiveness of a new medical technology to cut the risk of bloodborne pathogen transmission in military personnel. The company said Wednesday it will use the funds awarded through DoD’s Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program to further develop the Mirasol pathogen reduction technology. “This new […] More

  • Report: Northrop Embeds Security Features in Microchip Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop Embeds Security Features in Microchip Tech

    A Northrop Grumman facility in Baltimore, Maryland, produces microchip technology designed with security tools that are not available on the commercial market, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Vern Boyle, technology director at Northrop’s cyber division, told Breaking Defense that the company works to develop specific technologies that are only accessible to the U.S. government. He noted in the interview that the company creates its […] More

  • Leonardo DRS Lands Navy Tactical Data Link IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS Lands Navy Tactical Data Link IDIQ

    Leonardo DRS has received a potential five-year, $25 million contract to provide tactical data link products along with ancillary equipment to the U.S. Navy‘s fleet readiness directorate and PMW-150 Tactical Data Link program. The Defense Department said Wednesday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also covers engineering and technical assistance, software trouble reports, equipment failure technologies and information assurance support services. […] More

  • Envistacom Opens Georgia-Based Innovation Hub to Support Defense Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Envistacom Opens Georgia-Based Innovation Hub to Support Defense Customers

    Envistacom has opened a facility in Duluth, Georgia, to research and develop technology platforms intended to support the Defense Department‘s military communications and counterterrorism efforts. The company said Tuesday its 25,000 square-foot innovation center includes space for Envistacom customers to engineer and test counterterrorism, satellite communications and cybersecurity systems. Alan Carson, a vice president of […] More

  • Northrop, S&K Electronics Forge Mentor-Protege Relationship Under DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, S&K Electronics Forge Mentor-Protege Relationship Under DoD

    Northrop Grumman and S&K Electronics have partnered under the Defense Department‘s Mentor-Protege program in an effort to boost the latter company’s business skills and capacity to compete for defense contracts. Northrop said Tuesday it will provide development assistance to help S&K Electronics build up its processes to manufacture printed circuit card assemblies for Northrop programs. S&K […] More

  • Navy Taps Boeing-Bell JV for Tiltrotor Aircraft Technical Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Boeing-Bell JV for Tiltrotor Aircraft Technical Support Services

    A Boeing–Bell Helicopter joint venture has secured a potential five-year, $18 million contract to render support services for the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 tiltrotor aircraft fleet. The Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office will perform technical analysis, engineering and integration efforts under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work is scheduled to be completed by December 2022 with funds […] More

  • PAE Secures $65M Navy Test Range Support Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE Secures $65M Navy Test Range Support Contract Option

    PAE‘s applied technologies business has received a $64.7 million contract modification to help engineer, operate and maintain a U.S. Navy test range. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification exercises an option under a previously awarded contract for test range support services to the Atlantic Test Range and the Atlantic Targets and Marine Operations Division of […] More

  • Pivotal, Raytheon Form Partnership to Support DoD’s Software Devt, Cloud Adoption Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pivotal, Raytheon Form Partnership to Support DoD’s Software Devt, Cloud Adoption Efforts

    Raytheon has teamed up with Pivotal Software to help the Defense Department expedite the development of new software platforms and transition legacy applications to cloud environments. Raytheon said Tuesday it has joined the San Francisco, California-based software firm’s Pivotal Ready Partner Program as part of the partnership to deliver new technology capabilities to the military. […] More

  • AFCEA Selects Accenture Federal Services' George Franz for Army Cyber Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFCEA Selects Accenture Federal Services’ George Franz for Army Cyber Award

    George Franz, a managing director of Accenture‘s federal services business and retired U.S. Army major general, has received a Saint Isidore Army Cyber award from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association to acknowledge his cyberspace expertise. Accenture said Wednesday Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of the Army Cyber Command, presented AFCEA’s “Gold Level Medallion” to Franz and cited the […] More

  • Arnold Defense to Provide Missile Launcher Components to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Arnold Defense to Provide Missile Launcher Components to Air Force

    Arnold Defense and Electronics has received a $15.5 million contract to provide the U.S. Air Force with missile launcher parts. The Defense Department said Monday the company will supply 1,254 launcher 12X structural rail sections for use on the AIM-120 missile launcher. The contract includes foreign military sales and runs through Sept. 30, 2023, with $72,500 […] More

  • Northrop Gets $58M Air Force Support Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Gets $58M Air Force Support Services Contract

    Northrop Grumman has received a potential $58.2 million contract to provide sustainment, logistics, and site support services to the U.S. Air Force. The company perform work in San Diego, California and in Qatar through March 10, 2023, the Defense Department said Monday. DoD noted the requirements-type, firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable contract is a sole-source acquisition. The Air Force Cycle Management Center […] More

  • DoD Adds RSA's Threat Detection Platform to Approved Product List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Adds RSA’s Threat Detection Platform to Approved Product List

    The Defense Department has placed RSA‘s security information and event management platform on the DoD Information Network Approved Product List. RSA said Monday its NetWitness Suite platform achieved APL certification following a testing process meant to determine whether the product meets DoD’s security standards. NetWitness Suite works to detect threats and provide visibility across logs and network […] More