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  • Boeing, Customers to Exhibit Products, Services at Airshow; Dennis Muilenburg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Customers to Exhibit Products, Services at Airshow; Dennis Muilenburg Comments

    Boeing and its clients will present the company’s current and future products and services at an international airshow to be held from July 16 to 22 in the U.K. The company said Monday its participation in the 2018 Farnborough International Airshow will include flight and static displays of its commercial and defense products and services, […] More

  • Kratos to Debut Navy's Subsonic Aerial Target Drone Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to Debut Navy’s Subsonic Aerial Target Drone Systems

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions plans to exhibit on Wednesday its BQM-177A subsonic aerial target system, Defence Blog reported Friday. The company received in June 2017 a $34.6 million Navy contract modification for the low-rate initial production of the target drone, meant to replace the branch’s existing platform for the simulation of missile threats in training […] More

  • Austal USA Concludes Builder's Trials of 10th Navy Expeditionary Fast Transport Vessel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA Concludes Builder’s Trials of 10th Navy Expeditionary Fast Transport Vessel

    Austal USA has finished builder’s trials of a 10th Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport vessel the company has constructed for the U.S. Navy. The week-long test occurred at a shipyard in Mobile, Ala., and demonstrated the future USNS Burlington‘s (EPF 10) fire protection equipment, communication and navigational systems, ship propulsion, ride control, anchor handling and steerable […] More

  • SSL's Richard White: On-Orbit Servicing Process Can Depend on Client Spacecraft Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL’s Richard White: On-Orbit Servicing Process Can Depend on Client Spacecraft Requirements

    Richard White, president of SSL‘s government systems business, said in a Geospatial World report published Thursday the actual satellite servicing process can change depending on a client spacecraft’s design, orbit and requirements. White added on-orbit servicing generally covers “rendezvous and gentle capture of the client, completion of servicing tasks using the servicer’s robotic arms and toolkit, and […] More

  • Army Opens US-Wide Competition for Small Tech Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Opens US-Wide Competition for Small Tech Businesses

    The U.S. Army is seeking technology concepts from small businesses and start-ups that can receive from $1,000 to $200,000 for proof of concept demonstrations. The Expeditionary Technology Search will include four phases and several rounds that will culminate with the capstone demonstration for officials of the Army Department, industry partners and the academia in April 2019 […] More

  • Marines Eye Contractor Support for C4 Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marines Eye Contractor Support for C4 Systems

    The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a request for information on technical support services necessary to integrate and test command, control, communications and computer systems. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the USMC is eyeing contractor personnel who can offer test and engineering support for C2 applications under the service branch’s Combat Operations Center and Networking-On-the-Move programs. Other services […] More

  • NASA, Johns Hopkins APL Complete Solar Probe Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Johns Hopkins APL Complete Solar Probe Integration

    The team of NASA and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has fully integrated a spacecraft that is scheduled to launch in August on a mission to study the sun up close. NASA said Thursday an eight-foot-diameter heat shield was reinstalled on Parker Solar Probe last week after engineers initially attached the system to the spacecraft as part of tests […] More

  • Fluor Partnership with Canadian Construction Unit to Build US-Canada Bridge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fluor Partnership with Canadian Construction Unit to Build US-Canada Bridge

    A joint venture of Fluor and ACS Infrastructure‘s Canadian unit has been tasked to finance, design, build, operate and maintain a bridge that will connect Detroit, Mich. and Windsor, Ontario. Bridging North America will serve as the prime contractor for the Gordie Howe International Bridge project as the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority’s preferred proponent, Fluor said […] More

  • Army Solicits Proposals for Second Phase of Next-Generation UAS Demonstration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Solicits Proposals for Second Phase of Next-Generation UAS Demonstration

    The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposals for the development of conceptual designs based on requirements for the service branch’s future fleet of unmanned aircraft systems. Proposals for the Phase II Conceptual Design and Technology Assessment of the Next Generation UAS Technology Demonstration will aid the creation of a procurement program for the […] More

  • Sita Sonty Joins Sierra Nevada's DC Office as International Business VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sita Sonty Joins Sierra Nevada’s DC Office as International Business VP

    S. Sita Sonty, a more than 15-year foreign service veteran and previously a senior adviser for legislative affairs and administration at the State Department, has been named vice president of international business at Sierra Nevada Corp. She will work at SNC’s Washington, D.C office and manage a product portfolio designed for the aerospace, defense and […] More

  • L3 Taps AMETEK Unit for Aircraft Data Acquisition System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Taps AMETEK Unit for Aircraft Data Acquisition System

    The power and data systems unit of AMETEK‘s aerospace and defense division will provide a data consolidation and processing technology to help L3 Technologies‘ business update a legacy platform. L3 Aerospace Systems will use AMETEK PDS‘ Multi-Engine Data Concentrator for the RC-135 aircraft retrofit program, AMETEK said Saturday. AMETEK MEDC is a commercial off-the-shelf avionics system […] More

  • Kirk Herdman: KeyW to Support Army Training Systems Through Lockheed Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kirk Herdman: KeyW to Support Army Training Systems Through Lockheed Partnership

    KeyW has secured a six-year multimillion dollar task order to support the U.S. Army‘s  training systems as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin under a potential $3.53 billion contract. Hanover, Md.-based KeyW said Tuesday it will assist the Army program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation in efforts to sustain the reliability of Soldier Systems Constructive […] More