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  • Obsidian Solutions Group to Conduct Combat Support Training for Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Obsidian Solutions Group to Conduct Combat Support Training for Marine Corps

    Obsidian Solutions Group will assist the U.S. Marine Corps in conducting staff training for combat support under a five-year, $40 million contract.  The Fredericksburg, Virginia-headquartered company said Monday that it will support the Marine Air-Ground Task Force‘s staff training program to cover military operations within the context of a joint or combined task force environment. The company’s […] More

  • Raytheon Business Handpicked to Handle Tactical Edge Network Development for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Business Handpicked to Handle Tactical Edge Network Development for Air Force

    The U.S. Air Force has tapped Raytheon Intelligence & Space to develop a Common Tactical Edge Network to support the service branch’s advanced battle management system.  The Raytheon Technologies unit said Monday it is tasked to exhibit a framework capable of aerial network interoperability based on advanced networking products it has developed.  RI&S and eight […] More

  • Fairbanks Morse Defense Secures $90M Navy IDIQ for Combat Ship Engine Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fairbanks Morse Defense Secures $90M Navy IDIQ for Combat Ship Engine Support

    Fairbanks Morse Defense will cover equipment manufacturing support for the main propulsion diesel engines of a U.S. Navy littoral combat ship under a recently awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract amounting to $89.9 million. The solely-sourced contract requires the Beloit, Wisconsin-headquartered company to provide engineering and technical support for Colt-Pielstick 16PA6B engines on the Navy’s Freedom-variant LCS, the […] More

  • Textron-Built Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle Prototype Handed Over to USMC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron-Built Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle Prototype Handed Over to USMC

    The U.S. Marine Corps received a prototype of the Cottonmouth advanced reconnaissance vehicle that a Textron unit designed to support the service branch’s Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle program.  Textron Systems made the delivery on Dec. 1 at the Nevada Automotive Test Center in Silver Springs, Nevada, the company said Thursday.  Cottonmouth provides lightweight multi-modal capacity and […] More

  • Leonardo DRS Business Awarded Army Contract for Combat Network System Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS Business Awarded Army Contract for Combat Network System Work

    Leonardo DRS‘ network and imagining systems business will handle combat network system assessment and other related activities for the U.S. Army under a $26.7 million firm-fixed-price contract. DRS Network & Imaging Systems was tapped for the reconfiguration, installation, integration and testing of a combat network system in support of the service branch, the Department of […] More

  • NSF Launches Capacity Building Program; Sethuraman Panchanathan Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSF Launches Capacity Building Program; Sethuraman Panchanathan Quoted

    The National Science Foundation, through a newly-established $20 million program, will provide a number of institutions with training and networking support to encourage inclusivity and expand its regional innovation ecosystems.  The Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity or EPIIC initiative will target minority-serving institutions, two-year institutions and primarily undergraduate institutions to participate in virtual and […] More

  • DOD Updates Online Portal for Defense Innovation Opportunities; Jen Bird Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOD Updates Online Portal for Defense Innovation Opportunities; Jen Bird Quoted

    The Department of Defense has rolled out updates on its “one-stop-shop” website for visitors from industry and academia to learn how their organizations can help DOD innovate. The Innovation Pathways site is designed with three sections meant to help businesses, students and educational institutions and DOD personnel view information about opportunities to work with defense […] More

  • GTY Technology Acquires Public Sector Online Marketplace DemandStar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GTY Technology Acquires Public Sector Online Marketplace DemandStar

    GTY Technology, a cloud software provider to public sector organizations, has purchased online bidding marketplace DemandStar in a strategy to market a full suite of procurement tools to the North American state and local government sectors. DemandStar will become part of GTY’s Bonfire business that offers software designed to help acquisition teams manage solicitation processes […] More

  • Slingshot Aerospace Closes Series A2 Funding Round for Tech Portfolio Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Slingshot Aerospace Closes Series A2 Funding Round for Tech Portfolio Expansion

    Slingshot Aerospace has raised $40.9 million in a series A2 funding round and secured a venture loan from Horizon Technology Finance to support product commercialization and global expansion initiatives. Sway Ventures led the investment activity and was joined by Lockheed Martin‘s venture arm, ATX Venture Partners, C16 Ventures, Valor Equity Partners and Draper Associates, Slingshot […] More

  • Lockheed, Sintavia Form Additive Manufacturing Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Sintavia Form Additive Manufacturing Tech Partnership

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with aerospace and defense systems design company Sintavia to study the use of metal additive manufacturing in multiple technology areas. The partnership will look into 3D printing methods that employ bed fusion, laser powder, electron beam-directed energy deposition and friction stir as a substitute to casting and forging processes, Lockheed said […] More

  • Robert Wedertz Named Jazz Solutions COO for Defense, Intelligence Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Wedertz Named Jazz Solutions COO for Defense, Intelligence Business

    Robert “Weeds” Wedertz, former chief strategy officer at health care management and technology consulting firm ARDX, has started a new role as chief operating officer of Jazz Solutions‘ defense and intelligence business. In his new capacity, Wedertz will be responsible for helping shape Jazz’s organizational vision, operational strategy and resource planning framework in support of […] More

  • Raytheon, TTM Technologies Enter Potential $500M Deal for Navy Radar Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, TTM Technologies Enter Potential $500M Deal for Navy Radar Components

    TTM Technologies has secured a potential $500 million deal with Raytheon Technologies to manufacture electronics and specialized assemblies for a shipboard radar system being developed for the U.S. Navy. The multiyear agreement covers the supply of radio frequency electronic assemblies, electronic hardware and printed circuit boards needed to build the Navy’s SPY-6 family of radars, […] More