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  • Reports: SpaceX Delays Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Due to Bad Weather - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: SpaceX Delays Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Due to Bad Weather

    Space Exploration Technologies has delayed a Falcon 9 rocket launch previously  slated to take off Monday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California due to high winds and rain at the site, CNN reported Sunday. Jill Disis and Danielle Wiener-Bronner write that SpaceX now expects to launch its rocket with an initial set of 10 NEXT satellites for Iridium on Jan. […] More

  • Lockheed to Build Asteroid Exploration Spacecraft for a NASA Discovery Program Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Asteroid Exploration Spacecraft for a NASA Discovery Program Mission

    NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build, design and operate spacecraft that would support research into the bulk physical properties, geology and surface composition of  six Jupiter Trojan asteroids orbiting the sun. Lockheed said Thursday the Lucy spacecraft will be built through one of NASA’s two new Discovery Program missions and that the agency established a $450 million cap for vehicle development. […] More

  • DARPA Enters New Phase in Tactical Undersea Network Architecture Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Enters New Phase in Tactical Undersea Network Architecture Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has completed the initial phase of a program to develop concepts and technologies designed to restore connectivity for U.S. troops when conventional tactical networks are offline or unavailable. DARPA said Thursday its Tactical Undersea Network Architecture program has moved into the second and final phase to demonstrate a prototype of the system at sea. LGS Innovations helped the agency design […] More

  • HPE Unveils Demonstration Chip Designed to Bolster Optical Computation Process Speeds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE Unveils Demonstration Chip Designed to Bolster Optical Computation Process Speeds

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise has developed a demonstration chip designed to speed up optical computation processes as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that aims to develop communication, sensing, and computation technologies using mesoscale characteristics, IEEE reported Monday. Rachel Courtland writes the company’s Hewlett Packard Labs business developed the chip, which was created via the Mesodynamic […] More

  • General Atomics Receives $57M Air Force Order to Expand Spain's UAV Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Receives $57M Air Force Order to Expand Spain’s UAV Fleet

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business unit has secured a two-year, $56.7 million order from the U.S. Air Force as part of an existing foreign military sales deal to expand Spain’s current fleet of MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles. The Defense Department said Wednesday that General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will also provide associated UAV equipment under Spain’s MQ-9 Exportable Block 5 Procurement […] More

  • Airbus Adds New Portable Jamming System to Counter-UAV Product Line - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Adds New Portable Jamming System to Counter-UAV Product Line

    The electronics and border security arm of Airbus‘ defense and space business has introduced a new portable jamming system to its portfolio of counter-unmanned aerial vehicle products that detect illicit intrusions of small drones, Trade Arabia reported Tuesday. The report said the counter-UAV product line, which will be christened as Xpeller at the Consumer Electronics Show […] More

  • Curtiss-Wright Unveils New Rugged Mission Computer for Military, Civilian Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright Unveils New Rugged Mission Computer for Military, Civilian Vehicles

    Curtiss-Wright has rolled out a new mission computer system designed for civil and military command-and-control embedded computing applications, fixed-wind aircraft and helicopters, ground vehicles and maritime vessels, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Tuesday. The report noted that the ultra-small-form-factor Parvus DuraCOR 312 computer offers high-performance embedded computing and general-purpose graphics processing for deep learning, electronic warfare, ISR and targeting applications. […] More

  • Air Force Taps Sotera for Predictive Analysis Software Prototyping Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Sotera for Predictive Analysis Software Prototyping Contract

    Sotera Defense Solutions has won a potential $9.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from the U.S. Air Force for predictive analysis software prototyping and reporting services. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will work to develop systems that can offer multi-source data fusion, predict malicious cyber operator activities and act as an integrator of the experimental software prototype. […] More

  • Teledyne Subsidiary to Update Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles for DoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teledyne Subsidiary to Update Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicles for DoD

    Teledyne Technologies‘ SeaBotix subsidiary has secured a multimillion contract to update underwater remotely operated vehicles for the Defense Department. The company said Tuesday the contract covers the delivery of 60 new vLBV300 ROV systems to explosive ordnance disposal mobile units worldwide. SeaBotix received the operational capability upgrade contract through DoD’s Atlantic Diving Supply distributor. The vLBV300 ROV systems will be fitted […] More

  • ICF Secures CDC Public Health Communication Support Contracts; Kris Tremaine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Secures CDC Public Health Communication Support Contracts; Kris Tremaine Comments

    ICF has secured nine contracts worth a combined $34.4 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support CDC’s public health campaigns. CDC will use the company’s campaign development, creative, digital advertising, social marketing and media, stakeholder and traditional engagement expertise to facilitate  multiple projects such as the National Diabetes Prevention Program, ICF said Friday. The first task order covers support for tobacco […] More

  • Amazon to Utilize Backup Communications Interface to Defend Delivery Drones Against Attackers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon to Utilize Backup Communications Interface to Defend Delivery Drones Against Attackers

    Amazon will implement a first line of control to use a backup communications interface in the defense of delivery drones from jammers, hackers and human attackers, Quartz reported Thursday. Ananya Bhattacharya writes the system will also utilize a “mesh network” of multiple uncrewed autonomous vehicles to guide a hacked drone to safety and stop hackers that attempt […] More

  • Onvia Issues SLED Marketplace Trend Projections for 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Onvia Issues SLED Marketplace Trend Projections for 2017

    Onvia has released a market research report on state, local and education government contracting marketplace trends in 2017 to help business and government professionals pursue GovCon opportunities. Onvia said Tuesday the “2017 State & Local Government Contracting Forecast: Outlook and Discussion with the Experts” report covered assessments on the Bureau of Economic Analysis-collected economic trending data […] More