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  • Jacobs Receives UK Rail Link Project Support Contract Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Receives UK Rail Link Project Support Contract Extension

    Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a contract from Network Rail to support the latter’s development consent order submission on a proposed rail link project in the U.K. Jacobs said Wednesday the project seeks to update rail links from the Great Western main line to Heathrow Airport to provide direct travel to the airport from Reading and Slough. Jacobs added its team […] More

  • Sakor to Supply AC Dynamometers for Lockheed's Aerospace Project Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sakor to Supply AC Dynamometers for Lockheed’s Aerospace Project Tests

    Sakor Technologies will deliver two AC motoring dynamometers to Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business to support the research, development, quality control and design validation of Lockheed’s aerospace projects. Sakor said Wednesday its Accudyne dynamometers are designed to test components for deep space missions, serve as independent test systems or work in a group of up to four dynamometers to test different components […] More

  • Lockheed, Allied Minds Subsidiary to Seek RF Detection Tech Applications in New Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Allied Minds Subsidiary to Seek RF Detection Tech Applications in New Markets

    Lockheed Martin and the Allied Minds subsidiary HawkEye 360 have partnered to aid the adoption of HawkEye 360’s space-based radio frequency detection and mapping technology across new market segments. Lockheed said Tuesday the partnership will explore new applications for HawkEye 360’s RF technology as the latter awaits regulatory approvals on its plan to deploy a constellation of small satellites in low-Earth orbit. HawkEye 360’s planned […] More

  • Boeing, Bastion Technologies Enter Into Mentor-Protege Relationship; John Mulholland, Jorge Hernandez Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Bastion Technologies Enter Into Mentor-Protege Relationship; John Mulholland, Jorge Hernandez Comment

    Boeing and engineering company Bastion Technologies have signed up for NASA‘s mentor-protege program with the goal to build up the latter company’s aerospace market expertise. The two companies aim to exchange manufacturing, quality, marketing and business development strategies under an agreement that will run for 18 months, Boeing said Tuesday. Bastion President Jorge Hernandez said the company’s partnership with Boeing […] More

  • Cohesity's Encryption Module Achieves NIST Data Security Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cohesity’s Encryption Module Achieves NIST Data Security Certification

    Cohesity has achieved the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Federal Information Processing Standards 140-2 certification for the company’s encryption module. The company said Tuesday the certification allows government agencies to use Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary storage offering to handle sensitive information. Cohesity added security tests of the encryption module took place part of Cohesity’s storage platform and on the same hardware that the […] More

  • Baldwin Aviation Partners With FAA, Mitre for Flight Safety Data Sharing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Baldwin Aviation Partners With FAA, Mitre for Flight Safety Data Sharing Program

    Baldwin Aviation will facilitate client information exchange through a Federal Aviation Administration-run flight safety data sharing system under an agreement with Mitre and FAA. The South Carolina-based software company said Monday the executive board of FAA’s Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing program approved a protocol that allows Baldwin Aviation customers to share relevant data through the company. “Based on Baldwin’s Master MOU, our […] More

  • Cubic to Build Crewstation Subsystems for Army Fighting Vehicle Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Build Crewstation Subsystems for Army Fighting Vehicle Training System

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has received a potential $13.9 million contract from Oasis Advanced Engineering to supply crewstation subsystems for the U.S. Army‘s Bradley Fighting Vehicle conduct-of-fire trainers. The contract contains a $4.2 million base value for the production of nine mobile and four institutional crewstation subsystems as well as a $9.7 million option for the delivery of an additional […] More

  • Greece, Lockheed, HAI Start P-3B Maritime Patrol Aircraft Modernization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greece, Lockheed, HAI Start P-3B Maritime Patrol Aircraft Modernization Program

    Lockheed Martin, the Greek navy and Hellenic Aerospace Industry have officially launched Greece’s P-3B Orion maritime surveillance aircraft modernization program at a ceremony held Monday at an HAI facility in Athens. The event was attended by representatives from the Greek defense ministry, national defense general staff, navy, air force and general directorate for defense investment and armament as well as leaders from the U.S. Embassy […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Puts CST-100 Reaction Control System Engines Through Hot-Fire Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Puts CST-100 Reaction Control System Engines Through Hot-Fire Test

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted a series of hot-fire tests on three reaction control system engines for the propulsion system of Boeing‘s Crew Space Transportation-100 service module. The CST-100 Starliner engines were tested up to 4,000 pulses and 1,600 seconds at NASA‘s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Monday. Eileen Drake, Aerojet Rocketdyne president and CEO, said the tests […] More

  • Lockheed Partners With 2 Universities to Support Qatar's Cybersecurity Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Partners With 2 Universities to Support Qatar’s Cybersecurity Efforts

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar and the University of Patras in Greece to help the Qatari government develop a framework to address cybersecurity challenges, BQ Magazine reported Sunday. The magazine reports the partnership was unveiled during the 1st International Cyber Security Technologies Roundtable event where professionals from the academic and commercial sectors discussed cybersecurity […] More

  • Unisys Receives NSA, NIAP Certifications for Enterprise IT Security Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Receives NSA, NIAP Certifications for Enterprise IT Security Platform

    Unisys has received approval from the National Security Agency and NSA’s partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology to make a company-made enterprise information technology security platform available to government agencies. The company said Monday it received certification under the NSA Commercial Solutions for Classified program that allows federal agencies to buy and implement the Stealth software to help secure classified systems and […] More