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  • KBR Named Alutiiq Subsidiary's Subcontractor for $300M NASA Systems Engineering Effort; Byron Bright Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR Named Alutiiq Subsidiary’s Subcontractor for $300M NASA Systems Engineering Effort; Byron Bright Quoted

    Alutiiq’s McCallie Associates subsidiary has selected KBR as a subcontractor for a five-year, $300 million NASA project that seeks to enhance mission integration at the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Wallops Flight Facility. KBR said Wednesday the Systems Engineering Advanced Services II contract aims to improve end-to-end development processes across various segments of a mission, […] More

  • Collins Aerospace Demos Network Gateway for JADC2 Initiatives at Northern Edge Military Training Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collins Aerospace Demos Network Gateway for JADC2 Initiatives at Northern Edge Military Training Exercise

    RTX‘s Collins Aerospace business deployed a networking gateway for military participants at a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command-led multiservice training exercise to transmit and synchronize data. The company, formerly called Raytheon Technologies, said Monday the gateway is part of a technology suite designed to support Joint All Domain Command and Control efforts and was showcased in the first […] More

  • HII Completes Delivery of USS Jack Lucas to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Completes Delivery of USS Jack Lucas to Navy

    HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding business has handed over to the U.S. Navy an enhanced multi-mission ship named after Jack Lucas, a former Army captain known as the youngest World War II serviceman to receive the Medal of Honor. Designated as DDG 125, the USS Jack H. Lucas is a Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer equipped with […] More

  • Carahsoft Books Air Force Task Order for Kessel Run Engineering Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Books Air Force Task Order for Kessel Run Engineering Support

    Carahsoft Technology has secured a $43.1 million task order to provide enterprise-wide platform engineering support of Tanzu applications to the U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run through the General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule. The Department of Defense said Monday the Reston, Virginia-based company bested the five other offers the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center received […] More

  • Safran-Terran Orbital Alliance Eyes US-Based Satellite Electric Propulsion System Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Safran-Terran Orbital Alliance Eyes US-Based Satellite Electric Propulsion System Production

    French aerospace and defense company Safran and Terran Orbital have partnered to look into the potential of producing electric propulsion systems for satellites in the U.S. Terra Orbital said Friday the memorandum of agreement with Safran Spacecraft Propulsion will seek to explore the feasibility of using the latter’s PPSX00 plasma thruster as basis for new satellite electric […] More

  • AvePoint's Cloud Backup for Salesforce Offering Gets Added Functionality; Carahsoft’s Steve Jacyna Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AvePoint’s Cloud Backup for Salesforce Offering Gets Added Functionality; Carahsoft’s Steve Jacyna Quoted

    AvePoint has enhanced its Cloud Backup for Salesforce product in an effort to bolster data protection for its public sector customers and simplify its fielding. The data security services company said Thursday the added features of the cloud offering provide more comprehensive data backup and modernized user mapping capabilities, metadata search functionality and support. Additionally, AvePoint […] More

  • Peraton Labs to Modernize 1553 Data Bus Cybersecurity Device for MQ-8C Drone Use - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton Labs to Modernize 1553 Data Bus Cybersecurity Device for MQ-8C Drone Use

    Peraton’s applied research arm will enhance a company-built intrusion detection/intrusion prevention system for possible integration and flight testing on the U.S. Navy’s MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicle. The security and technology company said Wednesday Peraton Labs will engineer, develop, produce, test and evaluate its 1553 Bus Defender offering under a $9.2 million contract to prevent […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Supply Propulsion System for Lockheed's Long Range Missile Under Army Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Supply Propulsion System for Lockheed’s Long Range Missile Under Army Program

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Aerojet Rocketdyne to power a new precision fires missile the Bethesda, Maryland-based defense contractor is building for the U.S. Army. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Wednesday it will develop and deliver to Lockheed an advanced propulsion system for the Long Range Maneuverable Fires weapon. In March, the Army named Lockheed as one of […] More

  • Army Vet William Walker Appointed to SIMS Software's Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Vet William Walker Appointed to SIMS Software’s Advisory Board

    William Walker, a retired U.S. Army major general, has joined the board of advisers of security information management company SIMS Software. He will assist SIMS Software in supporting the national security community and driving business growth by contributing insights gained from his decades of government, military and national security experience, the Carlsbad, California-based company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Ignyte Platform to Commercialize Navy-Developed Security Compliance Checker Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ignyte Platform to Commercialize Navy-Developed Security Compliance Checker Software

    The Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic and Ignyte Platform have signed a licensing agreement that permits the latter to commercially distribute compiled binaries of a NIWC-developed software used to automate federal security compliance checks. Ignyte was given the go-signal to use the Security Content Automation Protocol Compliance Checker Software source code earlier this year through the five-year […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne, AFRL Test Fire eSR-19 Large Solid Rocket Motor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne, AFRL Test Fire eSR-19 Large Solid Rocket Motor

    Aerojet Rocketdyne and the Air Force Research Laboratory have conducted a qualification static fire test of a large solid rocket engine the company built for the Missile Defense Agency’s medium-range ballistic missile target. The company said Monday its Coleman Aerospace subsidiary developed the eSR-19, a revamped SR-19 variant, to feature a lighter composite case and performance […] More

  • Spirit AeroSystems to Develop Composite Airframe Manufacturing Concept Under NASA Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spirit AeroSystems to Develop Composite Airframe Manufacturing Concept Under NASA Project

    Spirit AeroSystems has booked a contract to develop a concept for making airframe structures for a project that supports NASA’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership with the aviation sector. NASA awarded the grant under the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project involving 14 organizations that will conduct initial development efforts, Spirit said Tuesday. The HiCAM awardees collectively […] More