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  • Juvare Unveils Federal & Defense Business Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Juvare Unveils Federal & Defense Business Unit

    Juvare has launched a new business unit to advance the delivery of national security and crisis response software offerings to U.S. government customers. President Patrick Lane and Chief Operating Officer Patrick Macfarlane will oversee Juvare Federal & Defense, which will accelerate program delivery through its independent operating framework, the company said Wednesday. JFD offers a […] More

  • Ramaco Carbon, ORNL Eye Large-Scale Production of Key Electric Vehicle Battery Component - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ramaco Carbon, ORNL Eye Large-Scale Production of Key Electric Vehicle Battery Component

    Ramaco Carbon and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are partnering on a two-year project to develop a process to facilitate large-scale production of coal-derived graphite, a key component used in manufacturing batteries for electric vehicles. ORNL and Ramaco are jointly funding the project through a field work proposal for the Fossil Energy […] More

  • Lockheed Demos 5G Network-Enabled Analytics for Aircraft Maintenance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos 5G Network-Enabled Analytics for Aircraft Maintenance

    Lockheed Martin used the Department of Defense’s 5G network to demonstrate the capability of its analytics tools to improve aircraft readiness by providing maintainers with real-time data to detect aircraft issues and speed up the decision-making process. Lockheed developed and demonstrated its applications before U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army officials as part of the […] More

  • Northrop Unveils Industry Team for Navy Airborne Communications Link Program Bid - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Unveils Industry Team for Navy Airborne Communications Link Program Bid

    Northrop Grumman will work with Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works arm, Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business, Long Wave and Crescent Systems as part of a team that will compete for a U.S. Navy program that seeks to replace the service’s fleet of E-6B Mercury aircraft. Henry Cyr, director of multidomain command and control capture programs […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Seeks to Help Defense Industry Counter Cyberthreats With Cloud-Based Offering; Elastic’s Chris Townsend Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Seeks to Help Defense Industry Counter Cyberthreats With Cloud-Based Offering; Elastic’s Chris Townsend Quoted

    Sierra Nevada Corp. is offering a cloud-based managed security service meant to help defense industrial base customers protect their sensitive data, intellectual property and operational technology from cybersecurity threats. SNC said its Security Operations Center service offering is built on Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud and uses the Elastic Security stack to safeguard OT systems, controlled […] More

  • SDA’s Initial 10 Tranche 0 Satellites Launch Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9; Derek Tournear Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SDA’s Initial 10 Tranche 0 Satellites Launch Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9; Derek Tournear Quoted

    The first 10 satellites for the Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking Layer of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture launched Sunday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The second batch of satellites for the Tranche 0 layer, which will demonstrate low-latency military communications to enable warfighters to […] More

  • Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary Achieves New Record Flight With Integrator UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary Achieves New Record Flight With Integrator UAS

    Boeing subsidiary Insitu achieved a record duration flight of 25.5 hours with its 150-pound unmanned aircraft system on a multipayload mission. Insitu said Thursday the Integrator UAS enabled the customer to keep persistent eyes on a target without deploying two or more lower endurance platforms. “Customers can focus on the mission and have confidence to […] More

  • AWS Accelerator Program Seeks to Help Address Health Care Workforce Challenges; Dave Levy Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Accelerator Program Seeks to Help Address Health Care Workforce Challenges; Dave Levy Quoted

    Amazon Web Services is working to help health care organizations address workforce challenges through an accelerator program, Modern Healthcare reported Tuesday. AWS announced at a conference the selection of 23 startups for the program, which seeks to help business leaders improve their business model, cloud architecture and regulatory pathways over a five-week period. The company […] More

  • All 4 Vendors Land Initial Task Orders Under DOD Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    All 4 Vendors Land Initial Task Orders Under DOD Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability Contract

    The Department of Defense has awarded the first batch of task orders to Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. In December, the four companies won positions on the potential $8 billion JWCC contract, which will enable DOD to directly procure enterprisewide cloud service […] More

  • Jacobs, CODE Plus Partner Under NASA Mentor-Protege Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs, CODE Plus Partner Under NASA Mentor-Protege Program

    A Jacobs business and CODE Plus, a Fairfax, Virginia-based woman-owned small business, will work to provide scientific and engineering support services to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, under a two-year, Mentor-Protege agreement. Jacobs Space Exploration Group will serve as a mentor under NASA’s Mentor-Protege Program with a focus on helping CODE Plus […] More

  • Fairbanks Morse Defense Unveils Accelerator Program for Maritime Defense Tech; George Whittier Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fairbanks Morse Defense Unveils Accelerator Program for Maritime Defense Tech; George Whittier Quoted

    Fairbanks Morse Defense has introduced a program to help businesses and entrepreneurs further develop their emerging technologies with potential maritime defense applications. Selected participants for the FM Defense Accelerator program will work with the defense contractor’s mentors from the Technology Center of Excellence and gain access to technical experts, a global service network and other […] More