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    Boeing, Firefly Subsidiaries to Help USSF Conduct ‘Responsive Space’ Demo

    Subsidiaries of Boeing and Firefly Aerospace have received separate task orders to provide systems and services for a U.S. Space Force mission with the goal of demonstrating rapid payload deployment to low Earth orbit. Millennium Space Systems will produce the spacecraft and sensor hardware and ground infrastructure while Firefly Space Transport Services will supply the […] More

  • Army Vet David Petraeus Joins Advisory Board of IT Security Company Semperis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Vet David Petraeus Joins Advisory Board of IT Security Company Semperis

    David Petraeus, former CIA director and nearly four-decade U.S. Army veteran, has been appointed as a strategic adviser at Semperis, a company that develops enterprise identity protection and cyber resilience products for hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As a member of the Semperis advisory board, the retired Army general will provide guidance on enhancing identity threat […] More

  • Mitre Unveils Expansion Plans in Honolulu - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Unveils Expansion Plans in Honolulu

    Mitre is opening a new site in the Kaka‘ako Innovation District in Honolulu, Hawaii, in an effort to boost support for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command and in line with its initiatives to expand its presence in the state’s capital. The Kaka’ako operations will provide the Department of Defense with information technology support services in areas […] More

  • IARPA Picks 6 Lead Contractors to Study Linguistic Fingerprinting - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Picks 6 Lead Contractors to Study Linguistic Fingerprinting

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded contracts to six lead organizations for the study of artificial intelligence techniques that could advance linguistic fingerprinting technology. The awardees will participate in the Human Interpretable Attribution of Text Using Underlying Structure program, which aims to create AI technologies capable of multilingual authorship attribution and privacy preservation, […] More

  • Startups Demonstrate Undersea Systems to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Startups Demonstrate Undersea Systems to Navy

    Seven startup companies presented novel undersea technology platforms at an event hosted by a U.S. Navy warfare center in Rhode Island. It was the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s first demo day under Northeast Tech Bridge, a program meant to increase the service branch’s access to local innovation ecosystems. The showcase featured AnyLog, Boston […] More

  • Dan Verwiel Named President, CEO of Ultra Intelligence & Communications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Verwiel Named President, CEO of Ultra Intelligence & Communications

    Dan Verwiel, formerly a vice president and general manager at Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), has been named president and CEO of Ultra Electronics‘ intelligence and communications segment. He will succeed current I&C President Mike Baptist, who has decided to step down after a three-decade career at Ultra, the defense technology provider said Thursday. Verwiel, who […] More

  • Unmanned Aircraft Maker Rapidflight to Expand Virginia Operations With New HQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unmanned Aircraft Maker Rapidflight to Expand Virginia Operations With New HQ

    Rapidflight, an end-to-end designer and manufacturer of unmanned aircraft systems, will invest $5.5 million to build its operations in Manassas, Virginia. The company said Friday it will establish its headquarters as well as design and production facility in the city, taking up 25,000 square feet of space and creating 119 new jobs. Rapidflight Founder and […] More

  • Oak Ridge National Lab's Green Building Simulation Tool Draws Industry Partners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oak Ridge National Lab’s Green Building Simulation Tool Draws Industry Partners

    Several companies have been using an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-developed modeling platform as part of their efforts to make facilities more energy efficient. The AutoBEM software suite has so far simulated energy use for 98 percent of U.S. buildings since its release last year, and has led to collaborative data sharing with private sector organizations […] More

  • Australian Navy Orders New Batch of Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australian Navy Orders New Batch of Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk Helicopters

    The Royal Australian Navy has ordered 12 additional MH-60R Seahawk helicopters from Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky under a foreign military sales transaction with the U.S. government. Lockheed said Tuesday the firm-fixed-price order will support a third “Romeo” squadron under the first phase of the Australian government’s Project SEA 9100 and the company expects to complete […] More

  • General Atomics Wraps Up Autonomous Flight of Experimental Military UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Wraps Up Autonomous Flight of Experimental Military UAS

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has accomplished a completely autonomous flight of the Avenger MQ-20A, an experimental unmanned aircraft system designed for military use. The Sept. 12 test flight employed an artificially intelligent pilot that navigated the vehicle for nearly 30 minutes and aimed to validate a company-built reinforcement learning architecture in an operationally relevant […] More

  • Magazine Honors 7 Female Carahsoft Execs for Public Sector IT Channel Work; Craig Abod Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Magazine Honors 7 Female Carahsoft Execs for Public Sector IT Channel Work; Craig Abod Quoted

    CRN has chosen seven Carahsoft Technology executives to be part of the magazine’s annual Women of the Channel list to acknowledge their achievements and contributions to the information technology distribution segment. They received recognition for their leadership in support of both customers and partners within the public sector IT market, the company said Tuesday. The […] More