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  • Kratos, Air Force Conclude Valkyrie Flight Tests for Skyborg Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos, Air Force Conclude Valkyrie Flight Tests for Skyborg Program

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has tested an unmanned tactical aerial platform during a series of flight demonstrations in line with its development under the U.S. Air Force’s Skyborg program. The company said Monday it partnered with the Air Force Research Laboratory and other USAF components to carry out flight tests for two production XQ-58A […] More

  • John Clark: Lockheed Eyeing Distributed Manned-Unmanned Teaming Concept for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Clark: Lockheed Eyeing Distributed Manned-Unmanned Teaming Concept for Air Force

    Lockheed Martin‘s Skunk Works has unveiled a manned-unmanned teaming concept aimed at helping the U.S. Air Force team up its piloted fighters with future autonomous systems, Defense News reported Friday. John Clark, vice president and general manager of Skunk Works, said the company proposes a distributed teaming concept wherein a diverse group of uncrewed systems […] More

  • Boeing, Navy Demo Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet's Manned-Unmanned Teaming Capabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Navy Demo Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet’s Manned-Unmanned Teaming Capabilities

    Boeing and the U.S. Navy have jointly demonstrated the ability of a Block III F/A-18 Super Hornet jet to connect with and control three unmanned aerial vehicles. Company engineers, within six months, developed, installed and tested new software loads of the aircraft’s Distributed Targeting Processor – Networked, which transmitted commands to the UAVs via a […] More

  • BAE Holds Wind Tunnel Testing for DARPA's Air Flow Control Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Holds Wind Tunnel Testing for DARPA’s Air Flow Control Program

    BAE Systems has performed high-speed wind tunnel testing to demonstrate the ability of an active flow control technology to enhance the performance, maintainability and survivability of military aircraft. The company said Thursday a full-scale, 3D-printed active flow control effector model was put to test at its wind tunnel facilities in Lancashire as part of the […] More

  • Cognosante Unveils Health Data Information Access App for Alabama; Erick Peters Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cognosante Unveils Health Data Information Access App for Alabama; Erick Peters Quoted

    Cognosante has launched a new cloud-based information exchange platform designed to provide Medicaid recipients throughout the state of Alabama with secure access to their personal health care data. The Alabama One Health Record MyHealth mobile application utilizes Cognosante’s human-centered design thinking framework, dubbed JUVO, and delivers a new Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources-compliant interface, the company […] More

  • Army Taps BedRock Systems to Demo Trusted Computing Base Integration Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps BedRock Systems to Demo Trusted Computing Base Integration Framework

    BedRock Systems, a San Francisco, California-headquartered software developer, was tasked by the U.S. Army to test a secure computing base platform designed to safeguard aviation and missile systems from cyber threats. The company said Wednesday it will demonstrate a trusted computing base integration framework, built in collaboration with DESE Research, in support of the Army […] More

  • Fairbanks Morse Defense to Relocate Training, Service Center in Chesapeake - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fairbanks Morse Defense to Relocate Training, Service Center in Chesapeake

    Fairbanks Morse Defense will relocate its training and service center from Norfolk, Virginia, to a new campus in Chesapeake in a push to expand its capabilities to deliver service support for military customers. FMD said Wednesday it is investing $13 million in the 45,000-square-foot facility located near the largest fleet concentration area of the U.S. […] More

  • Carahsoft to Distribute ClearInfo's Data Management Tool to Public Sector Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Distribute ClearInfo’s Data Management Tool to Public Sector Clients

    Carahsoft Technology has partnered with Rockville, Maryland-headquartered ClearInfo to give public sector customers access to the latter’s cloud-based unstructured data management platform. ClearInfo’s Data Assembly Service offering is hosted on the Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US) platform and is designed to connect and align an organization’s structured and unstructured data to enhance visibility, control, accessibility […] More

  • Lockheed Delivers 1st Model of Modernized Mobile Launcher to Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Delivers 1st Model of Modernized Mobile Launcher to Army

    The U.S. Army has received a new mobile rocket launcher system developed by Lockheed Martin to equip next generation rockets and missiles for long-range firing operations. The M270A2 Multiple Launch Rocket System is the latest configuration of the M270 launcher that features new engines, enhanced armored cabs and a common fire control system, and is […] More

  • Navy's 12th San Antonio-Class Dock Ship Departs HII Shipyard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy’s 12th San Antonio-Class Dock Ship Departs HII Shipyard

    The U.S. Navy’s newest San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship has sailed to its commissioning site in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding facility in Mississippi. USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) will be commissioned on July 30 and join a U.S. Marine Corps Air-Ground Task Force to support disaster relief and humanitarian assistance missions […] More

  • Northrop Wraps Up High-Energy Laser Prototype's Preliminary Design Review; Robert Fleming Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Wraps Up High-Energy Laser Prototype’s Preliminary Design Review; Robert Fleming Quoted

    Northrop Grumman has concluded a preliminary design review for a high-energy laser being developed for the Department of Defense under a $72 million contract. The High Energy Laser Scaling Initiative calls for the demonstration of a high-energy laser technology that is scalable to 300 kilowatt-class power to upgrade the U.S. military’s missile defense capabilities, Northrop […] More

  • Rocket Lab to Launch 1st NRO National Security Mission to Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocket Lab to Launch 1st NRO National Security Mission to Space

    Rocket Lab USA is set to send to space its Electron orbital launch vehicle to support the first of the two national security missions for the National Reconnaissance Office. The rocket is already on the launch pad and ready to lift off from Pad A at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on Tuesday to carry […] More