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  • ProLog Wins $61M Contract to Support Navy Aircraft Logistics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ProLog Wins $61M Contract to Support Navy Aircraft Logistics

    ProLog has secured a six-year, $61.2 million contract to help the U.S. Navy in its depot-level aircraft maintenance activities by providing production support services. The company will handle logistics, oversee storage and inventory of aircraft parts, manage warehouse operations, maintain mega centers, transport materials and produce tool kits as part of the cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, […] More

  • Aevum Unveils Modular Tech for Multipurpose Drone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aevum Unveils Modular Tech for Multipurpose Drone

    Aevum has patented a technology that would allow a large unmanned aircraft system to reconfigure between different modes depending on mission needs, C4ISRnet reported Friday. The Ravn X drone is equipped with a new modular technology that allows it to assume modes for different types of uses: transporting smaller drones, delivering air cargo, supporting intelligence […] More

  • NASA Releases RFI for Future NOAA Geostationary Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Releases RFI for Future NOAA Geostationary Satellites

    NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center seeks information on concepts of satellites that would help the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observe Earth from a geostationary orbit. The space agency said Tuesday in a SAM notice it plans to purchase six spacecraft that would support NOAA’s Geostationary Extended Observations or GeoXO program. According to NASA’s request for […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Demos Autonomous Capability of Proteus Unmanned Surface Vessel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Demos Autonomous Capability of Proteus Unmanned Surface Vessel

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has commenced testing of an unmanned surface vessel designed to traverse the waters autonomously. HII said Thursday the Proteus USV demonstrated autonomous performance through its SM300 system made by Sea Machines Robotics. During the May 14 demonstration, Proteus used GPS, radar technology, a 360-degree camera and other sensors to navigate waters off […] More

  • ECS' Aaron Burciaga: Government Requires More Understandable AI as Data Science Adoption Increases - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ECS’ Aaron Burciaga: Government Requires More Understandable AI as Data Science Adoption Increases

    Aaron Burciaga, vice president of artificial intelligence at ECS, said the government requires more understandable artificial intelligence as it increasingly adopts the use of machine learning to drive data-centric operations. Several agencies including the Department of Defense’s Joint AI Center have commenced a number of efforts that speed up the government’s AI and ML implementation, […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Subsidiary Partners With Redwire to Offer In-Space Manufacturing Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Subsidiary Partners With Redwire to Offer In-Space Manufacturing Services

    Sierra Space, a space-focused subsidiary of Sierra Nevada Corp., has partnered with Redwire to jointly provide in-space manufacturing support. The memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies allows Redwire to use Sierra Space’s technologies for a variety of in-space manufacturing activities and services, SNC said Wednesday. Sierra Space has engaged in multiple partnerships that […] More

  • Carahsoft to Market Fidelis Cybersecurity Platform Under ITES-SW2 Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Market Fidelis Cybersecurity Platform Under ITES-SW2 Contract

    Carahsoft has teamed up with Fidelis Cybersecurity to offer hardware, software, software maintenance and ancillary services from the portfolio company of Skyview Capital to government customers under an existing contract with the U.S. Army. Fidelis said Wednesday it may now market its Elevate platform through Carahsoft’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 contract, which […] More

  • Carahsoft Names Fortinet as ITES-SW2 Contract Vendor; Bob Fortna Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Names Fortinet as ITES-SW2 Contract Vendor; Bob Fortna Quoted

    Fortinet will offer its security software under Carahsoft Technology‘s contract with the U.S. Army for information technology deliveries in support of IT and info-structure goals of the service branch, the Department of Defense and other federal agencies. Fortinet said Tuesday it is now among Carahsoft vendors under the IT Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 contract, […] More

  • DOD, Israel Pick Xtend-Built Small UAS for Remote Operations Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOD, Israel Pick Xtend-Built Small UAS for Remote Operations Support

    The Department of Defense and Israel’s defense ministry have jointly selected drone developer Xtend to provide a small unmanned aircraft system for use in remotely controlled operations. The company said Tuesday its Skylord Xtender sUAS is designed to allow human operators to remotely support missions from distances far from risky environments. The drone uses a […] More

  • GovCon Expert Tommy Gardner Highlights Recommendations to Spur Tech Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GovCon Expert Tommy Gardner Highlights Recommendations to Spur Tech Innovation

    Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer at HP Federal, has cited recommendations from a nonprofit organization and said governments and industries looking to drive technological innovation must prioritize augmenting talent with advanced computing capabilities, increasing sustainable production and ensuring supply chain security. The Council on Competitiveness included strategies in its “Competing in the Next Economy” report […] More

  • Bluescape Gets DOD IL4 Authorization to Provide Collaboration Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bluescape Gets DOD IL4 Authorization to Provide Collaboration Platform

    Bluescape has been authorized to provide its visual collaboration platform to defense personnel as part of the company’s Impact Level 4 authority to operate agreement with the Department of Defense. The company said Monday its new IL4 ATO supports the Naval Systems Engineering Resource Center’s efforts to provide DOD personnel with access to the latest […] More

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    Space Development Agency Posts RFI for Tranche 1 of National Defense Space Architecture

    The Space Development Agency needs market information on technologies, methods and other concepts to operate and secure a national system of military sensors and data transmission in space. The National Defense Space Architecture would operate mainly from low Earth orbit to support secure military sensing and SDA needs industry input on the system's Tranche 1 Product Line, the agency said Friday in a SAM.gov request for information notice.

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