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  • Next Century Consolidates Maryland Operations in Annapolis Junction Location - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Next Century Consolidates Maryland Operations in Annapolis Junction Location

    Next Century has moved its Maryland-based operations to 2701 Technology Drive, Suite 100, Annapolis Junction, Maryland. The software company has 134 employees who develop software for the Defense Department, Next Century said Monday. John McBeth, Next Century president, CEO and co-founder, said the new offices give Maryland employees room for expansion as well as collaboration spaces. The company secured a […] More

  • First Line Technology to Manufacture Navy-Patented Decontamination Tech Under License Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    First Line Technology to Manufacture Navy-Patented Decontamination Tech Under License Agreement

    The U.S. Navy and Virginia-based small business First Line Technology have signed an exclusive license agreement that authorizes the company to manufacture a Navy-patented decontamination technology for warfighters and first responders. The Navy said Friday researchers from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division developed and patented the Dahlgren Decon decontamination technology in efforts to protect warfighters against chemical, biological and radiological threats. […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils 1st Alternative Guided Rocket Warhead for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils 1st Alternative Guided Rocket Warhead for Army

    Lockheed Martin has produced its first alternative warhead for the U.S. Army‘s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System under a contract originally awarded in June 2015. The alternative GMLRS warhead rolled off the assembly line at Lockheed’s facility in Camden, Arkansas and works to engage a target while avoiding the risk of unexploded ordnance, the company said Monday. The warhead is designed to comply […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Modernize USS Ramage Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls to Help Navy Modernize USS Ramage Destroyer

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has won a potential $21.4 contract from the U.S. Navy to perform modernization, repair and maintenance work on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ramage. The Defense Department said Monday the contract has an initial value of $14.1 million and covers the ship’s fiscal 2017 extended selected restricted availability. Work will occur at Huntington Ingalls’ facility in Pascagoula, Mississippi […] More

  • Inmarsat Demonstrates GX Satcom-as-a-Service Platform for US Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Demonstrates GX Satcom-as-a-Service Platform for US Govt Clients

    Inmarsat and its Global Xpress partners have demonstrated a satellite communications-as-service platform in multiple aeronautical scenarios with U.S. government end users. The company said Monday its GX network worked to provide wideband connectivity for video and data transfers through Honeywell-built JetWave satcom terminals during airborne and ground demonstrations carried out within the contiguous U.S. and outside the continental U.S. GX is designed […] More

  • Atlantic CommTech to Update Air Force's Weapon Security, Alarm Comm Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atlantic CommTech to Update Air Force’s Weapon Security, Alarm Comm Systems

    Atlantic CommTech Corp. has won a $36.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force modernize the service branch’s Weapon Storage and Security System and Alarm Communication and Display. The Defense Department said Friday the company will perform sustainment upgrades to the WS3 cryptographic platform that works to encrypt the system’s alarm data. ACT-Corp will also replace obsolete components and the […] More

  • AECOM to Design Indiana's Truck Parking Info Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM to Design Indiana’s Truck Parking Info Mgmt System

    AECOM has secured a $4 million contract to design a system for the Indiana Transportation Department to manage information on truck parking availability within the state. The company said Wednesday INDOT’s Truck Parking Information Management System project is part of the $25 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant from the Mid-American Association of State Transportation Officials. The TIGER program aims […] More

  • GSA Hosts Industry Day to Discuss Govt Tech Modernization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Hosts Industry Day to Discuss Govt Tech Modernization Efforts

    The General Services Administration held an event Thursday to inform vendors of GSA’s  framework to address outdated technology systems in the government. GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth hosted the technology industry day with agency Chief Technology Officer Navin Vembar; David Shive, acting commissioner for the Technology Transformation Service; Mary Davie, assistant commissioner of integrated technology services; and 18F Executive Director Aaron Snow, GSA said Thursday. The […] More

  • NASA Taps Vector Space Systems to Build Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Vector Space Systems to Build Launch Vehicle Upper Stage Prototype

    Vector Space Systems has secured a Phase II contract under NASA‘s Small Business Technology Transfer project to continue developing an upper stage prototype for the Vector-R launch vehicle. The award complements the company’s existing contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to examine the potential use of Vector-R’s first stage as a second stage for DARPA’s XS-1 experimental spaceplane, Vector Space Systems said […] More

  • CGI Federal-Wynyard Team to Help Interior Dept Implement Risk Mgmt Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Federal-Wynyard Team to Help Interior Dept Implement Risk Mgmt Software

    A team comprised of CGI Federal and Wynyard Group has been awarded a contract by the Interior Department to install an enterprise risk management platform at DOI’s  Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Wynyard said Friday its Risk Management software will be hosted on a cloud-based information technology infrastructure CGI developed for the department as part of a contract awarded in 2013. CGI Federal is one […] More

  • NASA Picks Industry-Academia Investigator Team to Build Spectrometer for SOFIA Flying Observatory - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks Industry-Academia Investigator Team to Build Spectrometer for SOFIA Flying Observatory

    NASA has selected the Goddard Space Flight Center’s team of industry and academic investigators to build a spectrometer that will work to support planet formation research aboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. The space agency said Thursday the High Resolution Mid-InfrarEd Spectrometer will be built by a team of investigators with GSFC senior scientist Samuel Harvey Moseley […] More