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  • Elon Musk Cites Cause of SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explosion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elon Musk Cites Cause of SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explosion

    Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, has said the company thinks it has “gotten to the bottom of the problem” that resulted in the explosion of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket in September. “It involves a combination of liquid helium, advanced carbon fiber composites, and solid oxygen… Oxygen so cold that it actually enters solid phase,” Musk […] More

  • BAE to Begin UK Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship Production in 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Begin UK Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship Production in 2017

    BAE Systems PLC plans to start manufacturing anti-submarine warfare ships for the U.K. navy in 2017 after the conclusion of final contract negotiations with Britain’s defense ministry. The company said Friday Britain hascommitted to eight Type 26 Global Combat Ships to replace Type 23 frigates in the “2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review” and the country has invested $2.4 billion in […] More

  • Lockheed Invests in CarteNav for ISR Product Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Invests in CarteNav for ISR Product Development

    Lockheed Martin has invested $1.4 million in CarteNav Solutions through Canada’s Industrial and Regional Benefits Investment Framework program to support the latter company’s development work on its flagship intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance product. CarteNav said Wednesday the investment covers two years of development efforts on CarteNav’s AIMS-ISR mission system software that works to deploy hosted sensing, computing and communication technologies on aircraft, vehicle […] More

  • Woolpert-RS&H JV Chosen for Army Engineers Design Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Woolpert-RS&H JV Chosen for Army Engineers Design Support IDIQ

    A Woolpert and RS&H joint venture has received a five-year, $9 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Louisville district to provide design support services for a nationwide U.S. Air Force Reserve Command construction program. Woolpert said Friday the contract covers work such as administration, education, assembly, storage, special training and other support spaces along with design […] More

  • OGSystems, Prescient to Collaborate on Location-Based Intell Platform Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems, Prescient to Collaborate on Location-Based Intell Platform Devt

    OGSystems has teamed up with Prescient to integrate the latter’s intelligence products and threat alerting services into the former’s BlueGlass location-based intelligence platform. BlueGlass is designed to help users obtain insights in real time through situational awareness, anomaly alerts and incident reports that might pose a threat to user operations, OGSystems said Thursday. The platform comprises remote sensing, big data and […] More

  • IEEE, IAEA Partner to Create Nuclear Safety Documents, Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IEEE, IAEA Partner to Create Nuclear Safety Documents, Standards

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has partnered with the International Atomic Energy Agency to develop standards and share best practices for nuclear safety and energy. IEEE said Thursday the Practical Arrangement agreement establishes a platform for the two organizations to avoid duplication and conflicts between the groups’ technical publications. “Safety is an overriding concern in the nuclear energy field, […] More

  • NASA Puts Webb Telescope’s Primary Mirror Through 1st 'Center of Curvature' Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Puts Webb Telescope’s Primary Mirror Through 1st ‘Center of Curvature’ Test

    Engineers have completed the first “Center of Curvature” test on the primary mirror of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in order to measure the shape of the mirror before the telescope goes through a series of launch environment tests. NASA engineers collaborated with technicians from Ball Aerospace & Technologies and the Space Telescope Science Institute to conduct […] More

  • Leidos Secures Australia Joint Command Support Environment Sustainment Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Australia Joint Command Support Environment Sustainment Extension

    Leidos has won a potential $42 million contract to continue sustainment work on the Joint Project 2030-Joint Command Support Environment for Australia’s military. The company said Thursday that its Australian subsidiary has supported the JCSE infrastructure since 2009 and the follow-on contract contains a base period of five years plus up to five option years. Australia’s Headquarters Joint Operations Command […] More

  • Report: UK Shortlists BAE, Rheinmetall for Battle Tank Modernization Assessment Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: UK Shortlists BAE, Rheinmetall for Battle Tank Modernization Assessment Phase

    The U.K. defense ministry has chosen separate teams led by BAE Systems and Rheinmetall Landsysteme as “preferred bidders” for the assessment phase of a program to modernize the British army’s main battle tanks, Defense News reported Wednesday. Andrew Chuter writes the U.K. defense ministry aims to finalize two contracts by the end of the year to launch a 24-month, […] More

  • NIH Awards SPARC Grant to Purdue to Aid Stomach Neural Circuitry Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Awards SPARC Grant to Purdue to Aid Stomach Neural Circuitry Research

    Purdue University will lead a $10 million study to research the stomach’s neural circuitry and discover if bioelectronics medicine could help treat conditions such as diabetes or obesity. Purdue said Tuesday the grant was received from the National Institutes of Health‘s Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions program, which supports research projects that focus on the development […] More

  • Comtech to Provide Swedish Military Deployable Troposcatter Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech to Provide Swedish Military Deployable Troposcatter Systems

    A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has received a $2.2 million contract by Sweden’s defense material administration to provide deployable troposcatter systems to the Swedish armed forces. Comtech said Wednesday it will supply MTTS deployable troposcatter terminals that were customized to address deployable communication requirements of the Sweden’s military. Fred Kornberg, president and CEO of Comtech Telecommunications, said the contract award demonstrates a growing […] More

  • Navy Starts Search for Next Generation Countermeasure Device - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Starts Search for Next Generation Countermeasure Device

    The Naval Sea Systems Command is working on a competitive solicitation in search of industry members that can develop, design, fabricate, integrate and test acoustic device countermeasure special test units, engineering development models, associated products and engineering services. A presolicitation notice published Tuesday on FedBizOpps says the procurement will support the Next Generation Countermeasure program as NAVSEA looks to release […] More