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  • Spire to Design Satellite for DARPA's Ionosphere Research Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spire to Design Satellite for DARPA’s Ionosphere Research Program

    Spire Global has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform preliminary satellite design work for a program aimed at bringing ionospheric data-gathering sensors to very low-Earth orbit. Contract work is part of the Ouija program, DARPA’s new effort to understand the propagation of high-frequency radio waves within the ionized part […] More

  • Nancy Santos Elevated to Business Development VP Role at Leonardo DRS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nancy Santos Elevated to Business Development VP Role at Leonardo DRS

    Nancy Santos has been promoted to the role of vice president of business development at Leonardo DRS, according to her LinkedIn post published Monday. Prior to her move up, Santos served as senior director of business development at the defense contractor for a little over two years. She was primarily responsible for the U.S. Army’s Aberdeen Proving […] More

  • Lockheed Vet Jackie Riegle Named Strategic Market Intell Director at Raytheon Subsidiary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Vet Jackie Riegle Named Strategic Market Intell Director at Raytheon Subsidiary

    Jackie Riegle, a former senior manager at Lockheed Martin, has joined Raytheon Technology‘s intelligence and space business as director of strategic market intelligence. In a LinkedIn post, the executive said her transition takes effect Monday and follows a 15-year stint at Lockheed serving a number of roles with increasing responsibilities. Riegle began her Lockheed career […] More

  • Army Demos Lockheed-Made Radar for Counter UAS Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Demos Lockheed-Made Radar for Counter UAS Operations

    The U.S. Army showcased how a Lockheed Martin-built multi-mission radar was able to assist a counter unmanned aerial system defeat system during an exercise in Yuma, Arizona. The service branch’s AN/TPQ-53 MMR work with the Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control system to launch the Coyote Block 2 C-UAS defeat system at the Army-led demo, Lockheed […] More

  • Omni Federal Books Task Order to Continue, Expand USAF Digital University - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Omni Federal Books Task Order to Continue, Expand USAF Digital University

    Omni Federal has received an award for the extension of the Digital University it created with BESPIN to further boost the digital literacy of the U.S. Air Force, Space Force and Defense Department personnel. The company said Thursday the task order also covers the enhancement of the DU’s artificial intelligence and machine learning platform to […] More

  • KVH to Deliver Satcom Systems, Services to Coast Guard Under $69M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KVH to Deliver Satcom Systems, Services to Coast Guard Under $69M Contract

    KVH Industries, a Middletown, Rhode Island-based satellite communications provider, has secured a five-year, $69 million contract to extend connectivity support for the U.S. Coast Guard’s small cutter fleet. The company said Tuesday the service branch will continue using the KVH TracPhone V7-HTS Ku-band satellite communications system and mini-VSAT Broadband service on over 140 small cutters under […] More

  • FRA, Ensco Host 50th Transportation Technology Center Anniversary Celebration; Jeff Stevens Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FRA, Ensco Host 50th Transportation Technology Center Anniversary Celebration; Jeff Stevens Quoted

    The Federal Railroad Administration and Ensco held an event Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado. Ensco assumed management responsibility for TTC earlier this month under a potential 20-year, $571 million contract from the FRA. The company said Tuesday some representatives from the government and the commercial […] More

  • Kelum Pinnaduwage Named Director at Northrop's Mission Systems Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kelum Pinnaduwage Named Director at Northrop’s Mission Systems Business

    Kelum Pinnaduwage, former discretionary investments director at Northrop Grumman‘s aeronautics sector, has transitioned to the role of strategic planning and development director at the aerospace and defense company’s mission systems business, according to a LinkedIn post published Sunday. In his previous post, the decade-long Northrop executive handled financial planning and management duties. Pinnaduwage also assumed other […] More

  • Illuminate Books DIA Task Order for IT, Data Management Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Illuminate Books DIA Task Order for IT, Data Management Services

    Illuminate, a Herndon, Virginia-based data services provider, has secured a task order under the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise III contract vehicle to provide IT and data management services.  The company said Monday it will use its cloud-native applications, system sustainment and cloud migration services to help enhance the intelligence analysis and […] More

  • Boeing Subsidiary, DARPA to Advance AI Development Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Subsidiary, DARPA to Advance AI Development Initiative

    Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has secured another contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue supporting a program meant to maintain America’s lead in artificial intelligence. The new contract will cover the development of scalable techniques for adding uncertainty from sensors and environments into machine learning system outputs in support of the […] More

  • CSA Subsidiary to Extend Support for Navy Common Access Card Program; Tim Spadafore Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSA Subsidiary to Extend Support for Navy Common Access Card Program; Tim Spadafore Quoted

    A Client Solution Architects subsidiary has won a recompete task order to help the U.S. Navy’s human resources support hub manage Common Access Card services for naval personnel. The award to Capstone falls under the Technical Services Support 2 contract vehicle and has a four-year base period that takes effect Nov. 8, CSA said Tuesday. Under […] More

  • Ensco to Test New Stadler Trainsets at DOT Center; Jeff Stevens Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco to Test New Stadler Trainsets at DOT Center; Jeff Stevens Quoted

    Ensco’s rail business will help Stadler‘s U.S. subsidiary test diesel multiple-unit trainsets at the Transportation Technology Center in Colorado under an agreement signed between the two companies. The DMU testing program will mark the first industry effort to take place since Ensco took over responsibility for the operations of the DOT-owned railroad equipment testing and […] More