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  • Raytheon Selected for DARPA's Digital Array R&D Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Selected for DARPA’s Digital Array R&D Effort

    Raytheon has received an $11.5M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide research and development services as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency“™s Millimeter-Wave Digital Arrays program. Raytheon will develop digital tile architectures as well as integrated and scalable apertures equipped with transmit-and-receive features to support the MIDAS initiative“™s array technology […] More

  • Navy Taps General Dynamics for Control Systems R&D Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps General Dynamics for Control Systems R&D Support

    The U.S. Navy has a awarded an $18.5M contract to General Dynamics‘ missions systems business for research, development and sustainment support on various control systems. The company will perform these services to support the fire control sub-system for U.S. ballistic missile submarines, the U.K.’s FCS and the weapon control system for U.S. cruise missile submarines, […] More

  • Engility Selected to Provide Navy Support Services; Scott Whatmough Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Selected to Provide Navy Support Services; Scott Whatmough Quoted

    Engility has secured $25M in contracts to provide support services to U.S. Navy customers throughout the U.S. The company said Monday it will deliver systems engineering, cybersecurity, and research and development support to the Navy“™s shore, afloat and expeditionary platforms. Other services include software engineering and testing, supply chain management, systems design and cloud migration. […] More

  • DOE to Fund 64 R&D Projects Under Commercial Energy Innovation Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE to Fund 64 R&D Projects Under Commercial Energy Innovation Program

    The Energy Department has announced that it will allocate more than $20M for 64 projects aimed at developing innovative energy technologies and promoting them to the commercial industry. DOE will support teams of national laboratories and private sector companies through the Office of Technology Transitions’ Technology Commercialization Fund, which will also require private, non-federal entities to […] More

  • 19 Small Businesses to Participate in NASA Research Program's Second Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    19 Small Businesses to Participate in NASA Research Program’s Second Phase

    Twenty research and technology proposals from 19 U.S. businesses are set to advance to the second phase of NASA‘s Small Business Technology Transfer program. The space agency said Wednesday the selected companies will collaborate with research organizations to help develop technologies for aeronautics, science, human exploration and operations and space. The proposals, worth a combined $15 million, […] More

  • Leidos to Support Navy Research Lab's Undersea Wellness Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Support Navy Research Lab’s Undersea Wellness Initiatives

    The Naval Medical Logistics Command has awarded Leidos a five-year, $28 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide biomedical research and development support to the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory. Leidos said Monday that it will conduct research studies and analyses, develop guidelines, and support new initiatives focused on addressing the undersea environment’s impact on humans. Research […] More

  • Air Force Picks Northrop for Electronic Warfare R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Northrop for Electronic Warfare R&D Contract

    Northrop Grumman has won a potential $23.6 million contract to research and develop a precise reference sensing platform as part of the U.S. Air Force“™s collaborative electronic warfare program. The company will help the service branch produce positioning, navigation and timing technology, as well as support prototyping; integration, modeling, simulation, wargaming and analysis efforts at Wright-Patterson AF […] More

  • Advanced Technology International Wins $100M Navy Info Warfare Research OTA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Advanced Technology International Wins $100M Navy Info Warfare Research OTA

    Advanced Technology International has won a potential three-year, $100 million “other transaction” agreement to support a U.S. Navy information warfare research project. The nonprofit company will perform work through June 2021 in Summerville, S.C., and other locations that will depend on the service branch’s prototype project awards, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Space and Naval Warfare Systems […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Expands Illinois Presence; Mary Petryszyn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Expands Illinois Presence; Mary Petryszyn Comments

    Northrop Grumman has opened a new 42,000-square-foot office in Arlington Heights, Ill., which will supplement its existing 46-acre facility in Rolling Meadows, Daily Herald reported Monday. The expansion will help the company enhance services for customers in the area of national security, Mary Petryszyn, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman’s land and avionics sector, said […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL Secures $57M in Air Force Computer Software R&D IDIQs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL Secures $57M in Air Force Computer Software R&D IDIQs

    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has received two five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts worth up to $57.1 million to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop computer software platforms. The Defense Department said Friday APL will aim to create a tool that can aid the service branch’s engineering and R&D efforts in the areas of space control, communications […] More

  • Applied Research Associates Gets Army Contract for Synthetic Training Environment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Applied Research Associates Gets Army Contract for Synthetic Training Environment

    Applied Research Associates has received a U.S. Army contract to conduct research and develop prototypes for the service branch’s future simulation platform. The Synthetic Training Environment will be designed to provide training applicable to ground, underground, sea, air and space domains, the company said Wednesday. Research and development efforts for the STE will aim to consolidate different […] More

  • United Technologies to Add 35,000 Jobs; Invest $15B in R&D Through 2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    United Technologies to Add 35,000 Jobs; Invest $15B in R&D Through 2022

    United Technologies has announced it will add 35,000 jobs and invest over $15 billion for research and development, as well as well as capital expenditures, in the United States through 2022. The company said Wednesday it also launched a new website www.utcinvestingintheusa.com aimed at highlighting UTC’s U.S. investments. These new investments are intended to boost support for customers in […] More

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