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  • Alfresco Software Named to AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Austin Adams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alfresco Software Named to AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Austin Adams Comments

    Alfresco Software has been added to Amazon Web Services‘ new Public Sector Partner Program in a move to develop and advance the former’s government sector business with AWS. The San Mateo, California-based open source technology contractor said Tuesday it was selected as a partner for its efforts to bolster its open source offerings for federal, education and non-profit clients […] More

  • NASA, Orbital ATK Enter Partnership to Build Commercial Space Robotic Assembly Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Orbital ATK Enter Partnership to Build Commercial Space Robotic Assembly Infrastructure

    NASA‘s Space Technology Mission Directorate has forged a public-private partnership with Orbital ATK to address the agency’s robotic and human exploration goals through the establishment of a commercial space infrastructure. Orbital ATK said Tuesday the Commercial Infrastructure for Robotic Assembly and Services project aims to update technologies for in-orbit manufacturing and assembly of space platforms. The company will […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL’s CubeSat for Earth Radiation Imbalance Study Launches Aboard Atlas V Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL’s CubeSat for Earth Radiation Imbalance Study Launches Aboard Atlas V Rocket

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has developed a CubeSat designed to collect the Earth’s radiation imbalance measurements for use in climate change predictions. Johns Hopkins APL’s Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned Nanotubes CubeSat is one of the seven small-satellite payloads that took off on Nov. 11 aboard the United Launch Alliance-made Atlas V rocket, APL […] More

  • Orbital ATK's Cygnus OA-5 Spacecraft Leaves ISS to Start Secondary Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Cygnus OA-5 Spacecraft Leaves ISS to Start Secondary Missions

    An Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft has departed from the International Space Station after a commercial resupply mission to start two secondary mission objectives. The S.S. Alan Poindexter spacecraft will launch the Spacecraft Fire Experiment-II to help study the behavior of fires in microgravity, then deploy CubeSats into orbit to support weather forecasting, Orbital ATK said Monday. The space vehicle […] More

  • Natl Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Lands NASA Space Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Natl Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Lands NASA Space Research Contract

    The Washington-based National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has secured a potential five-year, $34 million contract from NASA to conduct studies within the domain of the space agency’s science and technology programs. NASA said Saturday the Space Studies Board indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers research designed to address various questions regarding space science, Earth science, biological and physical […] More

  • NOAA, NASA Launch Lockheed-built GOES-R Weather Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA, NASA Launch Lockheed-built GOES-R Weather Satellite

    The first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites launched Saturday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 6:42 p.m. Eastern time. NOAA said Saturday the Lockheed Martin-built Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will be called GOES-16 once it reaches the orbit within two weeks and will work to provide […] More

  • Esterline to Update Flight Mgmt System of Air Force's Pave Hawk Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esterline to Update Flight Mgmt System of Air Force’s Pave Hawk Helicopters

    An Esterline subsidiary has received a contract to supply 50 flight management systems for installation on the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of HH-60G Pave Hawk search-and-rescue helicopters. Esterline said Tuesday its CMC Electronics business will perform non-recurring engineering to help the military branch re-host the current HH60G control display unit from the legacy CMA-882 system to the CMA-2082MC platform. Work will occur at CMC’s […] More

  • NASA Taps Science Systems and Applications for Atmospheric Science, Data Assimilation Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Science Systems and Applications for Atmospheric Science, Data Assimilation Support Contract

    Science Systems and Applications Inc. has been awarded a potential $10 million contract to provide support for NASA’s atmospheric science and data assimilation research efforts. NASA said Tuesday the company will support various activities of the Earth Science Division’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Global Modeling […] More

  • AT&T Joins NASA-Industry UAS Traffic Mgmt Initiative; Mike Leff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T Joins NASA-Industry UAS Traffic Mgmt Initiative; Mike Leff Comments

    AT&T supports a NASA-led project to research and develop a traffic management system for the agency to manage the safety and security of unmanned aircraft system operations in U.S. airspace. The company said Thursday it aims to contribute networking, internet of things, cloud, identity management and cybersecurity expertise to NASA’s UAS traffic management initiative. “Drones are already used in agriculture, public […] More

  • NASA Taps Near Earth Autonomy to Build, Demo UAS Flight Safety Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Near Earth Autonomy to Build, Demo UAS Flight Safety Tech

    Near Earth Autonomy has secured a contract under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research initiative to help the space agency integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace. Near Earth said Wednesday that it will develop and demonstrate technologies to facilitate safe unmanned aircraft operations in case of emergency situations. The company will also build an autonomous contingency system that can help unmanned aircraft […] More

  • Micro Craft CEO Kenneth Sullivan to Chair NDIA Manufacturing Division - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Micro Craft CEO Kenneth Sullivan to Chair NDIA Manufacturing Division

    The National Defense Industrial Association has named Kenneth Sullivan, president and CEO of Micro Craft, as chairman of NDIA’s manufacturing division. He previously served as vice chairman of the same division and chaired the association’s  supply chain network committee, NDIA said Monday. Bruce Roulstone, vice president of program development at NDIA, said Sullivan will work to help advance issues that […] More

  • ULA Sets Nov. 19 Launch for NOAA GOES-R Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Sets Nov. 19 Launch for NOAA GOES-R Satellite

    The launch of the first of the four National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s geostationary weather satellites has been rescheduled from Nov. 16 to Nov. 19, pending clearance from the Eastern Range. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R system will lift off aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from space launch complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […] More