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  • Boeing to Invest $300M in Workforce Devt, Charitable Initiatives; Dennis Muilenburg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Invest $300M in Workforce Devt, Charitable Initiatives; Dennis Muilenburg Comments

    Boeing has committed to invest an additional $300 million in employee-related and charitable initiatives following the passage of a tax reform bill by Congress. Chicago-based Boeing said Thursday it will allocate $100 million to charity work in support of education, communities, veterans and military personnel. The aerospace and defense company also plans to spend $100 million on […] More

  • Engility to Support DoD's CBRNE Defense Efforts Under $8.3B Contract Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Support DoD’s CBRNE Defense Efforts Under $8.3B Contract Vehicle

    Engility will assist in the Defense Department‘s research and development activities on defense systems against chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosives through the company’s position on a potential $8.3 billion contract vehicle. The company said Wednesday it landed a spot on the Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical and Biological Defense’s Joint Enterprise Research, Development, Acquisition […] More

  • Navy Orders Additional Kratos Rocket Motors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Additional Kratos Rocket Motors

    A business unit of Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received an $11.1 million contract modification to supply additional rocket motor systems to the U.S. Navy. The company said Tuesday its space and missile defense systems unit will provide  Oriole rocket motors and hardware for sub-orbital vehicles used to test the Aegis weapons system. The Navy […] More

  • CyrusOne Eyes Data Center Expansion in Atlanta, Georgia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    CyrusOne Eyes Data Center Expansion in Atlanta, Georgia

    CyrusOne is looking to establish a 44-acre data center campus in Georgia’s Atlanta metro area in efforts to serve enterprise customers including hyperscale cloud providers in the region. The company said Tuesday it plans to begin construction of the facility in the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville by the first quarter of 2018. The campus is designed […] More

  • Sagetech-Built Transponder Helps 'Resolute Eagle' UAS Operate in Civil Airspace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sagetech-Built Transponder Helps ‘Resolute Eagle’ UAS Operate in Civil Airspace

    A PAE–American Operations Corp.–Battlespace Flight Services joint venture demonstrated an unmanned aircraft system equipped with Sagetech-built transponder during a civil airspace flight operation. Sagetech said Tuesday its XPC-TR-50 Mode C transponder was integrated into PAE ISR‘s Resolute Eagle vehicle for the flight that occurred at the Pan-Pacific UAS Test Range in Pendleton, Oregon. Resolute Eagle can operate through an Certificate of […] More

  • AWS Opens New Cloud Region in France - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Opens New Cloud Region in France

    Amazon Web Services has launched a new cloud region in France to help commercial and government customers run applications and store data within the country. AWS said Monday the AWS EU (Paris) Region represents the company’s fourth cloud region in Europe and 18th technology infrastructure region in the world. The new region includes three infrastructures called availability zones that are located in separate geographic locations […] More

  • General Dynamics Awards $468M Contract to Huntington Ingalls to Support Process Devt Work on Navy Submarines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Awards $468M Contract to Huntington Ingalls to Support Process Devt Work on Navy Submarines

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a potential $468 million contract from General Dynamics to support integrated product and process development work on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of Columbia-class submarines. HII said Tuesday it will help complete the design of the Navy Columbia-class submarines as well as provide component development, detail planning and technical support services. […] More

  • Navy, Adelos Partner for Fiber Optic Sensor R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy, Adelos Partner for Fiber Optic Sensor R&D

    Adelos and the U.S. Navy have signed a cooperative research and development agreement to develop fiber optic sensor technology for perimeter and border security applications. Both parties seeks to explore new advanced materials designs, acoustic signal processing applications and target classification algorithms for the Phosonic 3.0+ sensor system, the company said Tuesday. Scott Colton, Adelos CEO, said the CRADA extends […] More

  • Unisys' PV Puvvada: Federal Govt Moves Toward Comprehensive IT Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ PV Puvvada: Federal Govt Moves Toward Comprehensive IT Modernization

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has said he observed the U.S. government moving toward a comprehensive approach to modernize federal information technology systems, Federal News Radio reported Monday. The Trump administration implemented initiatives to support federal IT modernization, including the enactment of the Modernizing Government Technology Act; the release of the finalized IT Modernization Strategy; […] More

  • ICE Seeks Contractor Support for Immigration Enforcement Workforce Recruitment Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICE Seeks Contractor Support for Immigration Enforcement Workforce Recruitment Efforts

    The Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to enlist a private sector consultant to help the agency recruit almost 26,000 workers in the next several years, GovExec reported Monday. ICE sought information on potential industry sources of human resources and operational staffing services in an effort to address President Donald Trump’s requirements for the immigration enforcement workforce. The agency […] More

  • DoD, LMI to Collaborate on $235M 'SMART' Scholarship Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD, LMI to Collaborate on $235M ‘SMART’ Scholarship Program

    LMI has entered into a cooperative agreement with the Defense Department to support the $235 million Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation Scholarship for Service Program. The company said Wednesday it will help the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering carry out the program through support services worth $26 million over five years. “We are […] More

  • Boeing Previews Offering for Navy’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Previews Offering for Navy’s MQ-25 Tanker Drone Program

    Boeing has unveiled its proposed unmanned aircraft offering for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 carrier-based aerial refueling tanker drone program. The company said Tuesday it has begun engine tests on its proposed unmanned aerial system in preparation for deck handling demonstrations in 2018. “We will be ready for flight testing when the engineering and manufacturing development […] More