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  • Natl Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Lands NASA Space Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Natl Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine Lands NASA Space Research Contract

    The Washington-based National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has secured a potential five-year, $34 million contract from NASA to conduct studies within the domain of the space agency’s science and technology programs. NASA said Saturday the Space Studies Board indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers research designed to address various questions regarding space science, Earth science, biological and physical […] More

  • Vector Space Systems Raises Funds for Microsatellite Launch Vehicle Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vector Space Systems Raises Funds for Microsatellite Launch Vehicle Development

    Vector Space Systems has secured $1.25 million in a seed funding round headed by Space Angels Network to support Vector’s development of commercial launch vehicles for low-Earth orbit microsatellites. Space Angels Network offers an online investment platform designed to help accredited investors finance aerospace companies through managed funds, Vector said Friday. Vector co-founder and CEO Jim Cantrell said the […] More

  • AquaHarmonics Wins DOE Wave Energy Converter Devt Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AquaHarmonics Wins DOE Wave Energy Converter Devt Competition

    AquaHarmonics has won a $1.5 million grand prize in the Energy Department‘s design-build-test competition that aims to support the development of wave energy converters. DoE said Wednesday CalWave Power Technologies and Waveswing America will receive $500,000 and $250,000 in respective cash prizes as second and third place winners of the Wave Energy Prize. “This competition set a difficult threshold […] More

  • Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Continue Support for NOAA Satellite Operations Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Gray: ASRC Federal to Continue Support for NOAA Satellite Operations Facility

    ASRC Federal has secured a potential five-year, $35 million contract from the national environmental satellite, data and information service division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for systems engineering support to NOAA’s satellite operations facility in Alaska. The company said Thursday its federal technical services subsidiary will perform the work under the NOAA Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station […] More

  • Raytheon to Expand Missile Systems Business Operations in Arizona, Add Nearly 2K Jobs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Expand Missile Systems Business Operations in Arizona, Add Nearly 2K Jobs

    Raytheon looks to add up to 2,000 positions over the next five years through an expansion of the defense company’s missile systems business headquarters in Tucson, Arizona. Raytheon said Friday it will hire workers at all skill levels to serve in engineering and higher-wage technical roles. Taylor Lawrence, president of Raytheon’s missile systems unit, said that several Arizona-based organizations will help the company meet workforce and infrastructure needs to […] More

  • DARPA, Navy Set 2018 Tests for Northrop's Tern Unmanned Air System Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Navy Set 2018 Tests for Northrop’s Tern Unmanned Air System Prototype

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Navy‘s Office of Naval Research aim to commence ground-based and at-sea flight tests of a Northrop Grumman-built prototype unmanned air system in 2018 as part of the Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program. DARPA said Thursday its joint Tern project with ONR seeks to utilize forward-deployed small-deck ships such as destroyers and frigates as mobile launch […] More

  • Deloitte Report: Aerospace & Defense Firms Need to Adapt Business Strategies to Evolving Market Conditions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Report: Aerospace & Defense Firms Need to Adapt Business Strategies to Evolving Market Conditions

    A new report by Deloitte says aerospace and defense firms that modified their business models and strategies based on changing market conditions outperformed by sevenfold those that did not make any adjustments to their strategies. The finding is based on an analysis of performance of 100 largest firms in the aerospace and defense sector in the last […] More

  • GSA Selects MIT as Transportation Dept Volpe Center Redevelopment Partner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Selects MIT as Transportation Dept Volpe Center Redevelopment Partner

    The General Services Administration has selected the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to assist in the redevelopment project for the Transportation Department’s John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT will act as exchange partner for the project and help GSA pick a team to design a nearly 400,000-square-foot federal facility as a […] More

  • Mitre, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Open Joint In-Campus Collaboration Space; Alex Wyglinski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Open Joint In-Campus Collaboration Space; Alex Wyglinski Comments

    Mitre Corp. and Worcester Polytechnic Institute have launched a joint collaboration space inside WPI’s campus as part of a partnership that aims to help students, faculty and Mitre employees perform collaborative projects. WPI’s Julia Quinn-Szcesuil wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the Mitre-WPI Collaboratory will provide resources to students that conduct major qualifying project […] More

  • Ace Technology Partners Secures Air Force Renewal Under NETCENTS-2 IT Products Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ace Technology Partners Secures Air Force Renewal Under NETCENTS-2 IT Products Vehicle

    Ace Technology Partners has secured its first one-year renewal on a U.S. Air Force contract vehicle that covers standardized networking equipment, supplies and related services. The Air Force’s decision to renew Ace Technology’s position on the NETCENTS-2 contract was partially based on the company’s record of performance of work with government and military customers over the past three decades, the company said […] More

  • SEC to Implement Markov Research & Reporting Software for Investor Protection Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SEC to Implement Markov Research & Reporting Software for Investor Protection Mission

    Markov Processes International has been chosen by the Securities and Exchange Commission to supply a research and reporting platform to aid in SEC’s mutual funds surveillance and investor protection efforts. SEC will implement the Stylus Pro software that MPI developed in response to global interest on asset management regulators for data-driven technology systems that update legacy systems through the application of quantitative analytics, […] More

  • Cubic Subsidiary, Microsoft Partner for Global Smart City Tech Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Subsidiary, Microsoft Partner for Global Smart City Tech Initiative

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business supports a Microsoft-led global campaign to help government agencies, businesses and citizens build “vibrant” communities with technology. The CityNext program aims to combine technologies and other systems in efforts to connect the public sector, industry and people through services intended to facilitate development of sustainable environment for communities, Cubic said Thursday. “Cubic and Microsoft have […] More