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  • Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Seeks Commercial, Defense Systems Convergence for Govt Space Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Seeks Commercial, Defense Systems Convergence for Govt Space Efforts

    Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space systems division, considers the convergence of commercial and defense systems as a necessary step in fulfilling the future needs of government for space systems, Space News reported Monday. Ambrose told Space News’ Mike Gruss that the company currently develops high-throughput satellites and payloads, which he says are “the same as some […] More

  • Erickson Awarded DoD Fixed Wing Aerial Services Contract; Brian Pierson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Erickson Awarded DoD Fixed Wing Aerial Services Contract; Brian Pierson Comments

    Erickson has received a five-year, $13 million contract with U.S. Special Operations Command Africa to provide fixed wing aerial services to the Defense Department. The aviation services company will work to help transport personnel and equipment in the North and Western regions of Africa under the blanket purchase agreement, Erickson said Monday. Brian Pierson, vice president and […] More

  • General Dynamics Receives Navy Common Aviation C2 System Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Receives Navy Common Aviation C2 System Contract Modification

    General Dynamics has received a $9.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce five Common Aviation Command and Control System. The company will provide limited deployment units of the aviation command-and-control system, with work performed in Arizona, Maryland, Alabama and California through September 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. The award exercises a contract […] More

  • SRI International to Help Navy Develop Sensors, Aviation Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI International to Help Navy Develop Sensors, Aviation Platforms

    SRI International has been awarded a one-year, $7.8 million contract by the U.S. Navy to research methods for the development of surveillance, tracking, security and access control systems. The company aims to help develop a modular and open architecture approach for the military service to build sensors and aviation platform systems, the Defense Department said Monday. SRI will […] More

  • NIST Invests $7M in Small Manufacturing Pilot Projects; Penny Pritzker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Invests $7M in Small Manufacturing Pilot Projects; Penny Pritzker Comments

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has allotted $7 million in funding for pilot projects meant to help small manufacturers engage with the Manufacturing Innovation Institutes for technology transfer efforts. The National Network for Manufacturing Innovation consists of multiple linked Manufacturing Innovation Institutes. Each has a unique technological concentration, but is also designed to […] More

  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Adopt Red Hat Private Cloud Platform; Radhesh Balakrishnan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Adopt Red Hat Private Cloud Platform; Radhesh Balakrishnan Comments

    NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will move to a private cloud computing infrastructure built by Red Hat in an effort to modernize and secure JPL’s on-premise storage and server system. The space agency selected Red Hat’s OpenStack and Linux technology to update JPL’s storage service for large computing requirements of scientists and engineers at NASA’s main center for robotic exploration of […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Tests NOAA Satellite for Environmental Factors; Jim Oschmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Tests NOAA Satellite for Environmental Factors; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has started to test a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration weather prediction and environmental monitoring satellite in a simulated setting. The Joint Polar Satellite System satellite will undergo a series of acoustic, vibration, and electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic compatibility tests at a facility Boulder, Colorado where the company built the spacecraft, Ball Aerospace said Friday. […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, Auracle Form Global Info Partnership for Mineral Exploration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, Auracle Form Global Info Partnership for Mineral Exploration

    DigitalGlobe and Auracle Geospatial Science have forged a global information partnership to provide geospatial services to support mineral, oil and gas exploration activities. Drew Esson, director of DigitalGlobe’s information partner program, said in a statement released Thursday the partnership will merge Auracle’s mining analytics tools and DigitalGlobe’s satellite spectral services. David McLelland, Auracle Remote Sensing’s president, […] More

  • BWX Technologies to Help NNSA Convert Enriched Uranium to Fuel; Peyton Baker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BWX Technologies to Help NNSA Convert Enriched Uranium to Fuel; Peyton Baker Comments

    A BWX Technologies subsidiary has received a potential $241.5 million contract from an unidentified prime contractor to support an Energy Department program that aims to convert highly enriched uranium into a form suitable for fuel. Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. will help downblend as much as 10.4 metric tons of HEU under the HEU disposition initiative of […] More

  • Phacil Lands Marine Corps IT Operations Contract; Bill Grabner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phacil Lands Marine Corps IT Operations Contract; Bill Grabner Comments

    Phacil has been awarded a five-year, $17.4 million contract to provide information assurance, networking and maintenance services to the U.S. Marine Corps. The company will perform enterprise service desk, connectivity services, asset management, enterprise directory, Adobe Experience Manager support, cloud, unified communications and mobility services for the Marine Corps Recruiting Command, Phacil said Wednesday. Bill […] More

  • Lockheed Opens Ottawa Tech R&D, Demo Center; Rosemary Chapdelaine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Opens Ottawa Tech R&D, Demo Center; Rosemary Chapdelaine Comments

    Lockheed Martin has opened its demonstration center in Ottawa, Canada to help industry and academia in the country collaborate on research-and-development efforts for different types of technologies. The IMPACT Center will feature naval systems as its core focus to fulfill Canada’s Surface Combatant program requirements and respond to international demands, Lockheed said Tuesday. Rosemary Chapdelaine, vice president and […] More

  • AECOM Unit to Provide Engineering Services to Army Medical Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Unit to Provide Engineering Services to Army Medical Command

    An AECOM business unit has been awarded a $10 million contract to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Army Medical Command of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Defense Department said Monday AECOM Technical Services is scheduled to complete the task by April 18, 2021. The Army Corps of Engineers received 34 bids for the […] More