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  • Former SA Photonics Exec Michael Browne Named President of Vision Products - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former SA Photonics Exec Michael Browne Named President of Vision Products

    Michael Browne, former SA Photonics executive, will serve as president of Vision Products, a spinoff company focusing on visualization systems for military customers and commercial clients. Vision Products said Wednesday it originally functioned as an SA Photonics division founded by Browne in 2009 and was spun off by the latter company in December. He held […] More

  • Blue Canyon Supplies Hardware for Satellites in Recent SpaceX Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blue Canyon Supplies Hardware for Satellites in Recent SpaceX Mission

    Blue Canyon Technologies, a subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, provided hardware for a SpaceX-launched mission that brought nine small satellites to orbit. BCT said Wednesday it supplied XACT and FleXcore attitude control systems, as well as reaction wheels, for five microsats and four CubeSats as part of the Transporter-3 mission in January. The company now has […] More

  • Raytheon Wraps Up Thermal Vacuum Testing for Next-Gen OPIR Satellite Sensor Payload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Wraps Up Thermal Vacuum Testing for Next-Gen OPIR Satellite Sensor Payload

    A sensor payload designed by Raytheon Technologies for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning constellation has fully undergone thermal vacuum testing conducted to simulate a payload’s exposure to a space-like environment. The series of thermal tests for the Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program’s sensor payloads concluded on Jan. 27, Raytheon Intelligence and Space said […] More

  • Defense, Intelligence Officials to Discuss Commercial GEOINT at ExecutiveBiz Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense, Intelligence Officials to Discuss Commercial GEOINT at ExecutiveBiz Forum

    Jennifer Krischer, vice president and general manager of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency programs at Maxar Technologies, will lead a panel discussion with four defense and intelligence sector representatives at ExecutiveBiz’s Dual-Use Technology in Space Defense Forum on Tuesday, Feb. 15. Four officials from the NGA, Army, Air Force and the Space Force will serve as panelists […] More

  • ColdQuanta Awarded Subcontract to Help Vescent Prototype Atomic Clocks for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ColdQuanta Awarded Subcontract to Help Vescent Prototype Atomic Clocks for Navy

    ColdQuanta has received a five-year subcontract to help Vescent develop portable atomic clocks for the Office of Naval Research. The company said Tuesday it will provide a physics package as a subcontractor to Vescent, which ONR awarded a $15.6 million contract for the Compact Rubidium Optical Clock program. The physics package consists of development inputs […] More

  • Raytheon Updates Data Processing Framework for Satellite Ground Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Updates Data Processing Framework for Satellite Ground Systems

    Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space business has released a new version of a government-owned application framework that defines satellite ground systems used for mission data processing. Version 9.0 of the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution or FORGE framework updates ground system features including cybersecurity hardening, visualization and scalability, Raytheon Intelligence and Space said Tuesday. Operators […] More

  • State Department OKs Jordan's $70M FMS Request for Guided Multiple Launch Rockets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department OKs Jordan’s $70M FMS Request for Guided Multiple Launch Rockets

    The State Department has approved the government of Jordan’s request to purchase Lockheed Martin-made alternate warhead unitary rocket pods for guided multiple launch rocket systems under a potential $70 million foreign military sale transaction. Jordan has ordered 114 GMLRS unitary high-explosive M31 rockets and 114 reduced-range practice rockets, which the sale would provide for if […] More

  • DHS Eyes Small Business Tech for Building Collapse Survivor Rescue Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Eyes Small Business Tech for Building Collapse Survivor Rescue Operations

    The Department of Homeland Security is inviting small businesses to provide information about search and rescue technologies with the potential to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency detect survivors trapped in collapsed structures. A request for information notice from the DHS Science and Technology Directorate seeks offerings that were developed using federal agency grants under […] More

  • HII Wraps Up Montana Submarine's Initial Sea Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Wraps Up Montana Submarine’s Initial Sea Trials

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has concluded the initial sea trials of a Virginia-class fast attack submarine after several days of systems testing. Montana or SSN 794 demonstrated high-speed maneuvers both underwater and on the surface during the trials, HII said Monday. The vessel underwent construction at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division from 2015 as part of […] More

  • USAF Taps Tomorrow.io to Build Satellites for 3D Weather Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Taps Tomorrow.io to Build Satellites for 3D Weather Data

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Tomorrow.io a $19.3 million contract to develop weather satellites designed to deliver 3D global weather and ocean data to the service branch. The company said Monday it will work on the constellation under AFVentures’ Strategic Funding Increase or STRATFI program, which aims to procure large-scale, strategic technologies for the […] More

  • Air Force-Backed Catalyst Accelerator Picks 8 Participants for Hybrid Data Movement Cohort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force-Backed Catalyst Accelerator Picks 8 Participants for Hybrid Data Movement Cohort

    The Catalyst Accelerator, a Colorado-based industry accelerator sponsored by the U.S. Space Force and the Air Force Research Laboratory, has selected eight small businesses for a group tasked to help the service branch develop a hybrid data architecture. The accelerator said Friday its Hybrid Data Movement cohort will support USSF and AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate […] More

  • Air Force Research Lab, Arqit to Study Defense Application of Quantum Encryption Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Research Lab, Arqit to Study Defense Application of Quantum Encryption Tech

    Arqit will aim to present defense use cases for the company’s quantum encryption technology under a cooperative research and development agreement signed with the Air Force Research Laboratory. The London-based data protection company said Friday it will update the QuantumCloud platform for a demonstration effort aimed at testing system performance, interoperability and endpoint security application […] More