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  • USAF Certifies Textron's AT-6E Multimission Aircraft Platform; Thomas Hammoor Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Certifies Textron’s AT-6E Multimission Aircraft Platform; Thomas Hammoor Quoted

    Textron has received U.S. Air Force certification for a multimission aircraft offering designed to help military operators perform light attack and counterinsurgency missions. The company said Monday it will continue to sell the Beechcraft AT-6E Wolverine platform to the global defense market via either a direct commercial transaction or a foreign military sales process approved […] More

  • Orion Space to Build Smallsat Prototype for USSF's On-Orbit Servicing Experiment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orion Space to Build Smallsat Prototype for USSF’s On-Orbit Servicing Experiment

    The Space Systems Command has awarded Orion Space Solutions a $44.5 million other transaction agreement to create small prototype spacecraft for a U.S. Space Force experiment designed to test refueling service and autonomous collaboration approaches in orbit. Under the OTA, Orion Space will perform spacecraft  Louisville, Colorado-based Orion will help build a constellation of up […] More

  • David Ray: SAIC Eyes National Space Defense Tech Support Opportunity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Ray: SAIC Eyes National Space Defense Tech Support Opportunity

    David Ray, senior vice president of operations and lead for the space business unit at Science Applications International Corp., said he sees a prime opportunity for the company to offer systems integration services to the Department of Defense’s planned military sensing and data transport system in low Earth orbit, Breaking Defense reported Monday. He told […] More

  • Boeing-BAE Team Begins F-15 Electronic Warfare Tech Integration for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-BAE Team Begins F-15 Electronic Warfare Tech Integration for Air Force

    Boeing has started to install a BAE Systems-built digital avionics technology onto two U.S. Air Force F-15E jets as part of the branch’s electronic warfare system modernization efforts. The two companies will help the service equip a total of 43 aircraft units with the Eagle Passive Active Warning and Survivability System, which replaces the current […] More

  • State Department Approves $235M Extended Range JASSM Sale to Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department Approves $235M Extended Range JASSM Sale to Australia

    Australia intends to procure 80 extended-range units of Lockheed Martin‘s Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile system from the U.S. government under a $235 million foreign military sale cleared by the State Department. The Australian air force could use the AGM-158B JASSM-ER with fighter aircraft platforms such as the F-35 and F/A-18F Super Hornet to perform future […] More

  • Sunny Singh: Aeyon Looks at Cultural Fit, Growth Opportunity in M&A Pursuits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sunny Singh: Aeyon Looks at Cultural Fit, Growth Opportunity in M&A Pursuits

    Sunny Singh, president and CEO of Aeyon, said the company sees complementary cultures and capabilities as key factors when considering potential targets for a merger or an acquisition. “Mergers and acquisitions don’t fail because of contracts, they don’t fail because of revenue or money or anything else. They generally fail because of personalities and cultures,” […] More

  • Craig Abod: Carahsoft-Conceal Partnership to Help Government Clients Secure Endpoints With Isolation Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Craig Abod: Carahsoft-Conceal Partnership to Help Government Clients Secure Endpoints With Isolation Tech

    Carahsoft Technology and cybersecurity platform vendor Conceal have teamed up to help government customers adopt technology built to protect endpoint devices, networks and cloud environments from malicious threats. The Conceal Platform, which comprises three integrated products, is available from Carahsoft or its resellers for procurement by federal agencies through the General Services Administration’s Schedule contract […] More

  • Former Northrop Exec Timothy Rumford Joins OpTech as Operations VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Northrop Exec Timothy Rumford Joins OpTech as Operations VP

    Timothy Rumford, formerly an operating unit director within Northrop Grumman‘s tactical space systems division, has been appointed vice president of operations at Leesburg, Virginia-based aerospace technical services provider Optimum Technologies. Rumford comes to OpTech with three decades of aerospace industry experience across business, program management and engineering areas, the company said Monday. In his previous […] More

  • USMC Orders Extended-Range General Atomics Reaper UAS Variant; Patrick Shortsleeve Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USMC Orders Extended-Range General Atomics Reaper UAS Variant; Patrick Shortsleeve Quoted

    A General Atomics affiliate secured a contract to supply eight extended-range units of the Reaper unmanned aircraft system and is scheduled to commence initial aircraft delivery in the winter. The Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron-3 plans to use the MQ-9A ER platform for littoral regiment training as part of the Force Design 2030 strategy, the […] More

  • Workday Marks Entry Into Federal Market With FedRAMP Certification; Wayne Bobby Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Workday Marks Entry Into Federal Market With FedRAMP Certification; Wayne Bobby Quoted

    Workday has been cleared under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to sell a cloud-based technology offering designed to help agencies manage human resources and financial functions.  The FedRAMP Moderate certification marks the enterprise management platform vendor’s entry into the federal landscape and signifies its compliance with government cloud security requirements, the company said […] More

  • Tactical Air, Navy Program Office Receive Approval to Begin F-5 Aircraft Reconfiguration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tactical Air, Navy Program Office Receive Approval to Begin F-5 Aircraft Reconfiguration

    The U.S. Navy has declared a Milestone C decision that allows defense contractor Tactical Air Support to begin reconfiguration work on F-5 tactical fighter planes. Nevada-based Tactical Air will help the Navy’s Specialized and Proven Aircraft Program Office update the F-5E/F airframe and engine into the N/F configuration in support of fleet adversary training requirements, […] More

  • Panasonic Plans $4B Electric Vehicle Battery Factory Investment in Kansas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Panasonic Plans $4B Electric Vehicle Battery Factory Investment in Kansas

    Panasonic Group‘s energy business plans to invest $4 billion to establish a manufacturing facility in De Soto, Kansas, for rechargeable car batteries and expects to create 4,000 jobs through the potential project. The state government approved an application by the company to receive an Attracting Powerful Economic Expansion incentive to build the lithium-ion electric vehicle […] More