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  • Lockheed to Continue to Produce, Support Navy's Trident II Nuclear Missiles Under $70M Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Continue to Produce, Support Navy’s Trident II Nuclear Missiles Under $70M Award

    Lockheed Martin‘s space business has received a $70.1 million U.S. Navy award that exercises options for the production and support of Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles. The Trident D5 work under the contract modification will take place mostly in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with other locations in the U.S. and Italy, and it is expected to […] More

  • DARPA Awards Manta Ray UUV Phase 2 Contracts to Northrop, Martin Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Awards Manta Ray UUV Phase 2 Contracts to Northrop, Martin Defense

    Northrop Grumman and Martin Defense Group have received a new contract each to continue developing a payload-capable unmanned underwater vehicle demonstrator for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The two contractors will perform subsystem testing and in-water demonstration of their respective Manta Ray UUVs under the second phase of the development program, the agency said Monday. […] More

  • Aqua Security Names Industry Vet Albert Nieves as Federal Sales VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aqua Security Names Industry Vet Albert Nieves as Federal Sales VP

    Albert Nieves will bring his three-decade, technology experience within the federal marketplace to cloud-native security provider Aqua Security Software, where the industry veteran will serve as vice president of federal sales. The Burlington, Massachusetts-headquartered company said Tuesday Nieves plans to triple its federal business headcount by January 2022, achieve Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program […] More

  • State Department OKs $125M Javelin Missile Sale to Lithuania - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department OKs $125M Javelin Missile Sale to Lithuania

    The State Department has approved Lithuania’s request to purchase Javelin missiles and related equipment produced by a joint venture between Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin. The proposed $125 million sale includes 341 Javelin FGM-148F missiles, 30 Javelin command launch units, battery chargers and Enhanced Producibility Basic Skills Trainer, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Tuesday. […] More

  • Mynaric to Design Laser Comms Terminal for DARPA's Space-BACN Program; Tim Deaver Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mynaric to Design Laser Comms Terminal for DARPA’s Space-BACN Program; Tim Deaver Quoted

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Mynaric a 15-week phase 0 contract for the Space Based Adaptive Communications Node program that seeks to enable seamless communication between satellites of both public and private sectors. The laser communications company said Monday it will produce an architectural design of an optical communications terminal with low […] More

  • Boeing, Navy Demo MQ-25 T1 Test Asset Onboard Aircraft Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Navy Demo MQ-25 T1 Test Asset Onboard Aircraft Carrier

    Boeing and the U.S. Navy have completed the first maneuver demonstration of a test asset for MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial refueling system on a service aircraft carrier. The company said Monday its T1 test asset aboard the USS George H.W. Bush was remotely directed by using a handheld deck control device to taxi and park […] More

  • Significance, Koniag Partner to Offer Defense Agencies Initiative Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Significance, Koniag Partner to Offer Defense Agencies Initiative Support

    Federal contractors Significance and Koniag Government Services have teamed up to provide implementation and sustainment support for the Department of Defense’s web-based integrated financial management platform. The two companies said in a joint statement Monday they will continue offering strategic direction and thought leadership to DOD organizations transitioning to the new Defense Agencies Initiative finance […] More

  • Xerox Company Working on DARPA's Augmented Reality Task Guidance Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Xerox Company Working on DARPA’s Augmented Reality Task Guidance Project

    A Xerox company has received a $5.8 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contract to build an artificial intelligence system meant to provide users with augmented reality guidance in performing tasks beyond their skillsets. Palo Alto Research Center will lead a team composed of the University of California at Santa Barbara, University of Rostock and […] More

  • Air Force's Kessel Run Releases RFI for Help Desk Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force’s Kessel Run Releases RFI for Help Desk Support

    The U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run is seeking information on enterprise-wide help desk support services, help desk-as-a-service and automated technologies for a modernization and sustainment effort. Kessel Run wants the particulars on how companies could provide help desk services for a platform meant to enhance overall operations and internal processes involving the deployment of new […] More

  • Additive Manufacturer 3DX Industries Creates New Office for Government Contracting Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Additive Manufacturer 3DX Industries Creates New Office for Government Contracting Opportunities

    3DX Industries, a 3D metal printing company, has established a new office that will focus on bidding on contracts from the U.S. military as well as local, state and federal organizations. The new government contracts division will offer 3DX’s additive and subtractive capabilities to potential customers from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine […] More

  • Former Commerce Official Kevin O'Connell Named Chair of Northstar US' Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Commerce Official Kevin O’Connell Named Chair of Northstar US’ Advisory Board

    The U.S. business arm of NorthStar Earth & Space has appointed Kevin O’Connell, a former Department of Commerce official, as chairman of its advisory board. O’Connell joined NorthStar Earth & Space Systems months after his time serving as director of the department’s Office of Space Commerce, the company said Wednesday. “Kevin’s former role leading the […] More

  • DOE Launches $100M Funding Program for Clean Energy Tech Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Launches $100M Funding Program for Clean Energy Tech Deployment

    The Department of Energy has announced a potential $100 million funding opportunity managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to help commercialize novel clean energy technologies. The ARPA-E Seeding Critical Advanced for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential initiative will task participants to illustrate how their technologies could be deployed to the commercial market and […] More