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  • Lockheed Team-Built LCS 7 Completes Ship Qualification Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Team-Built LCS 7 Completes Ship Qualification Tests

    A Freedom-class U.S. Navy littoral combat ship built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team has completed a series of combat system ship qualification trials that evaluated the vessel’s capacity to track and disable maneuvering surface targets. The service branch said Friday LCS Crew 103 tested the USS Detroit‘s combat systems suite that includes a 57mm gun designed to target fast […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Opens Jet Engine R&D Lab in Purdue Research Park Aerospace District - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Opens Jet Engine R&D Lab in Purdue Research Park Aerospace District

    Rolls-Royce has opened a facility at the Purdue Research Park Aerospace District in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the company will research and develop jet engine components for customers globally. The Purdue Technology Center Aerospace will house a Rolls-Royce group that aims to design, build and test engine parts, collaborate with Purdue University researchers via corporate partnerships and recruit student interns and graduates, […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Helps Navy Develop Flight Mission Planning System Interface - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Helps Navy Develop Flight Mission Planning System Interface

    Charles River Analytics has developed a user interface that integrates tailored display and input methods intended to help U.S. Navy pilots plan or replan flight activities. The Intuitive User Interfaces for Task-Tailored Planning program works to help the military branch’s airmen leverage underlying mission planning technologies customized for users to accommodate specific tasks and roles, Charles River said Wednesday. INTUIT is a card-based UI designed to increase the […] More

  • Sikorsky Gets Aircraft Spares Delivery Order for Marine Corps CH-53K Test Article - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Gets Aircraft Spares Delivery Order for Marine Corps CH-53K Test Article

    Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has received a $32.3 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to produce aircraft spares and provide manufacturing labor services for a test article of the U.S. Marine Corps‘ heavy-lift transport helicopter system. The Defense Department said Friday that Sikorsky will perform contract work in Stratford, Connecticut, through May 2019 in support of […] More

  • UES to Develop Laser Hardened Materials for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UES to Develop Laser Hardened Materials for Air Force

    UES has received a $48.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop laser hardened materials. The Defense Department said Friday the company will support the Laser Materials for Blue Systems Survivability program that covers the development of components, materials and systems in various configurations and performance parameters. The LaMBSS program aims to understand the effect of […] More

  • General Atomics Enters Partnership for Potential RPA Integration in Japan Airspace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Enters Partnership for Potential RPA Integration in Japan Airspace

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has partnered with a consortium of government, academic and commercial organizations to pursue operational approval in Japan for a medium-altitude long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft to fly in the country’s non-segregated civil airspace. The company said Thursday it aims to secure the first civil MALE RPA clearance in Japan as well as explore the potential use of the […] More

  • Northrop-Built Electromagnetic Simulation Tech to Support Saab Gripen Aircraft Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Built Electromagnetic Simulation Tech to Support Saab Gripen Aircraft Test

    Northrop Grumman‘s Amherst Systems subsidiary has supplied Saab with a combat electromagnetic environment simulator to aid in testing of the Gripen JAS 39 fighter aircraft in Sweden. Northrop said Wednesday the CEESIM system is equipped with an advanced pulse generator and designed to generate digital models of active electronically scanned array antennas. Saab will use the simulator to test the company’s Gripen multirole […] More

  • Earth Networks to Provide Lightning Data Support for NOAA's National Weather Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Earth Networks to Provide Lightning Data Support for NOAA’s National Weather Service

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Earth Networks a five-year, $2.5 million contract to provide the National Weather Service access to a lightning data. NWS will use the company’s Total Lightning Network in efforts to identify weather conditions, increase weather warning lead times and help forecasters gain situational awareness, Earth Networks said Thursday. The network is designed to monitor in-cloud lightning activity […] More

  • Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO 3 Satellite Sends 1st Images From Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO 3 Satellite Sends 1st Images From Orbit

    A Lockheed Martin-built geosynchronous Earth orbit satellite designed to provide missile warning data to the U.S. Air Force has transmitted its first images from its orbit approximately 22,000 miles above the equator. Lockheed said Wednesday the third Space Based Infrared System satellite will work to help the Air Force distribute missile warning data to the U.S. […] More

  • Reports: Microsoft Develops Custom Windows 10 Offering for Chinese Govt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Microsoft Develops Custom Windows 10 Offering for Chinese Govt

    Microsoft has developed a customized version of its Windows 10 operating system for the Chinese government through a partnership with state-owned China Electronics Technology Group, Dow Jones Newswires reported Tuesday. Eva Dou and Yang Jie write CETC helped Microsoft develop the custom Windows 10 offering as the U.S.-based technology firm aims to regain access to the Chinese market and address security demands […] More

  • Rockwell Collins, NASA Conduct Sonic Boom Display Usability Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins, NASA Conduct Sonic Boom Display Usability Demo

    NASA and Rockwell Collins have conducted a usability test and a pilot working group meeting that showcased a sonic boom display at the space agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center. Rockwell Collins said Wednesday the two-year Sonic Boom Display project resulted in the creation of an impact visualization system designed to help pilots reduce or mitigate the risk of sonic boom impacts during […] More

  • Kongsberg-Milrem-QinetiQ NA Alliance Develops Robotic Fire Support & Force Protection System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kongsberg-Milrem-QinetiQ NA Alliance Develops Robotic Fire Support & Force Protection System

    A team composed of Kongsberg, Milrem and QinetiQ North America will introduce a jointly developed remotely operated robotic fire support and force protection system at the 2017 Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference and Exhibition in Springfield, Virginia. The system comprises Milrem’s THeMIS modular unmanned ground vehicle equipped with a hybrid diesel-electric drive, Kongsberg’s PROTECTOR remote weapon station and QinetiQ NA’s UGV control system, Milrem […] More