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  • Spire Sends EnerSys Battery Payload to Orbit Under Space Force SBIR Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spire Sends EnerSys Battery Payload to Orbit Under Space Force SBIR Program

    Spire Global used its  nanosatellite to deploy a U.S-developed novel Lithium-ion battery for in-orbit space testing as part of a U.S. Space Force Small Business Innovation Research Phase II program. The Vienna, Virginia-headquartered space company said Thursday it is currently conducting power system discharge tests on EnerSys’ ZeroVolt 18650 battery cells to gather operational performance […] More

  • L3Harris to Prototype Weapon Data Link for Air Force's Standoff Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3Harris to Prototype Weapon Data Link for Air Force’s Standoff Missile

    L3Harris Technologies has won an other transaction agreement to develop a weapon data link prototype for the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Air to Surface Standoff Missile. The Department of Defense said Thursday the contractor will perform work at its facilities in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is expected to complete the prototyping effort by July […] More

  • Northrop, Ball Subject Space Force Missile Tracking Payload Candidate to Environmental Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Ball Subject Space Force Missile Tracking Payload Candidate to Environmental Tests

    A Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace-built missile warning sensor payload candidate for the U.S. Space Force has passed three rounds of space environment testing that simulated conditions in geosynchronous Earth orbit. The Next Generation Persistent Infrared GEO Engineering Development Unit payload underwent ambient functional evaluation, thermal vacuum chamber and acoustic testing and other experiments to […] More

  • Maxar Eyes May-June Launch of New Earth Imaging Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar Eyes May-June Launch of New Earth Imaging Satellites

    Maxar Technologies is planning to hold a launch between May 15 and June 13 for the first two of its six WorldView Legion imaging satellites onboard a SpaceX rocket. The upcoming WorldView Legion satellite constellation is meant to provide geospatial intelligence with a 30 cm-class resolution in both polar and mid-inclination orbits, the Westminster, Colorado-based […] More

  • Caelum Research Books $96M Army Contract for IT Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Caelum Research Books $96M Army Contract for IT Support Services

    Rockville, Maryland-based small business Caelum Research has won a $96 million hybrid contract to provide the U.S. Army with information technology support services. The contractor will conduct work through Jan. 8, 2027, and performance locations will be determined based on future IT support task orders, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. Financing will also be […] More

  • Somnoware Respiratory Care Management Platform Receives FedRAMP Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Somnoware Respiratory Care Management Platform Receives FedRAMP Authorization

    Somnoware has received authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and is now allowed to offer its cloud-based respiratory care management platform on the federal marketplace. The Sunnyvale, California-based company said Tuesday the designation demonstrates the cloud offering’s compliance with the cybersecurity and risk-mitigation standards of the Department of Veterans Affairs, other federal […] More

  • Zenoss to Expand IT Software Deployment for Air Force Intell System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Zenoss to Expand IT Software Deployment for Air Force Intell System

    Zenoss will help the Air Force Research Laboratory expand the implementation of an information technology monitoring platform for the service branch’s Distributed Common Ground System under a multisite software contract expansion. The company said Tuesday its IT operations platform offers the laboratory personnel a common operating picture of the DCGS infrastructure, also known as the […] More

  • Raytheon to Produce More APG-79(V)4 Radars Under $63M Marine Corps Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Produce More APG-79(V)4 Radars Under $63M Marine Corps Orders

    Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business has received two U.S. Marine Corps orders worth a combined $63 million to produce gallium nitride-powered radars for the service’s F/A-18 C/D Hornet aircraft. The APG-79(V)4 Active Electronically Scanned Array radars will use beam steering to help Marine Corps Hornet pilots in accurately detecting and tracking enemy aircraft from […] More

  • Raytheon, Air Force Test AMRAAM With Updated Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Air Force Test AMRAAM With Updated Software

    Raytheon Technologies and the U.S. Air Force tested a company-built Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile with updated software as part of a system modernization program. The service branch’s F-15, F-16 and F/A-18 aircraft flew an instrumented AMRAAM on intercept missions during captive flight tests conducted under the Form, Fit, Function Refresh effort, the company said […] More

  • ServiceNow Named to Leidos Alliance Partner Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ServiceNow Named to Leidos Alliance Partner Network

    Leidos has welcomed ServiceNow to its network of partner companies that offer cloud computing software and other products and services to its commercial and federal customer base. ServiceNow was added to the Leidos Alliance Partner Network and designated as a Technology Alliance Partner,  the Reston, Virginia-headquartered technology company said Friday. Bob Gemmill, chief procurement officer […] More

  • Air Force-led Hackathon Seeks to Leverage Weapons Data for Prototyping Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force-led Hackathon Seeks to Leverage Weapons Data for Prototyping Efforts

    The U.S. Air Force has announced a classified hackathon that will task participants to prototype software using data from military weapons systems. The service branch said Monday the BRAVO hackathon will be held in January and will gather data scientists, product managers and engineers from the U.S. military, the Department of Defense and more than […] More

  • DHS Soliciting Identity Enrollment, Credential Management Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Soliciting Identity Enrollment, Credential Management Systems

    The Department of Homeland Security is seeking offers for identity enrollment and credential management platforms to support its identity management system technology refresh project. According to a request for proposals posted Friday on SAM.gov, DHS is interested in commercial-off-the-shelf software that complies with the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, which mandates a standard badging process […] More