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  • Steve Brannan: Harris CapRock Helps Satellite Operator Build VSAT Hub in Qatar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Brannan: Harris CapRock Helps Satellite Operator Build VSAT Hub in Qatar

    Doha, Qatar-based satellite operator Es’hailSat has chosen Harris subsidiary Harris CapRock Communications to build a very small-aperture terminal hub to support the Qatari company’s government and corporate clients. Steve Brannan, a senior project manager at Harris CapRock, said Wednesday the business worked with multiple vendors to develop and install an “advanced” VSAT network for Es’hailSat under a tight deadline. Harris CapRock obtained a government license […] More

  • GSA Grants VATC Spots on IT Schedule 70, Law Enforcement Schedule 84 Contract Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Grants VATC Spots on IT Schedule 70, Law Enforcement Schedule 84 Contract Vehicles

    The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded Tampa, Florida-based Visual Awareness Technologies and Consulting positions on the IT Schedule 70 and Law Enforcement and Security Training Schedule 84 governmentwide contract vehicles for information technology procurements. Sara Moola, president and co-founder of VATC, said Thursday that federal agencies will have access to VATC’s operations training and other services and technologies […] More

  • Breaking Defense: Navy Plans Earlier Littoral Combat Ship Upgrade Award to 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Breaking Defense: Navy Plans Earlier Littoral Combat Ship Upgrade Award to 2018

    U.S. Navy Capt. Dan Brintzinghoffer, Littoral Combat Ship program manager, has said the branch may choose an updated LCS design in 2018 instead of 2019 as part of efforts to fall in line with Defense Department budget plans, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Sydney Freedberg writes Brintzinghoffer said at the Sea-Air-Space conference the service branch plans to publish a formal request for proposals […] More

  • Mercury to Deliver Signal Processing Modules for Contractor's Airborne Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury to Deliver Signal Processing Modules for Contractor’s Airborne Radar

    Mercury Systems has secured $4.2 million follow-on order from an undisclosed defense contractor to provide digital signal processing modules for an unmanned airborne synthetic aperture radar. The Chelmsford, Massachusetts-headquartered company said Tuesday the order is scheduled to be delivered by the second quarter of fiscal year 2017. Didier Thibaud, Mercury’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, said […] More

  • Frank Culbertson: Orbital ATK Aims to Place Manned Habitat in Cislunar Space by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frank Culbertson: Orbital ATK Aims to Place Manned Habitat in Cislunar Space by 2020

    An Orbital ATK executive has said the company plans to use its Cygnus spacecraft as a basis for a manned habitat that would operate in cislunar space by 2020. Orbital ATK said Wednesday Frank Culbertson, president of space systems group at Orbital ATK, told the House Science subcommittee on space that the initial habitat concept seeks to expand Moon […] More

  • DARPA Defense Sciences Office to Hold Proposers Day on June 22-23 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Defense Sciences Office to Hold Proposers Day on June 22-23

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is set to sponsor a Proposers Day from June 22 to 23 to inform industry on the objectives of an upcoming Defense Sciences Office broad agency announcement. DARPA said Wednesday the event is intended to discuss basic or applied research ideas in mathematics, modeling and design; physical systems; human-machine systems; […] More

  • NASA to Conduct 2nd Qualification Ground Test on SLS Rocket Booster - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Conduct 2nd Qualification Ground Test on SLS Rocket Booster

    NASA will conduct the second qualification ground booster test for the deep-space rocket Space Launch System on June 28 at an Orbital ATK test facility in Utah. The space agency set up 82 qualification test objectives that it will measure during the two-minute booster test, NASA said Thursday. The test will use approximately 530 instrumentation channels and operate at a […] More

  • Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Launches New Business Group in Silicon Valley for Internet-of-Things Market Push

    Japan-based industrial conglomerate Hitachi Ltd. has established a business unit to help drive the company’s Internet of Things research-and-development and go-to-market  strategic efforts. Hitachi Insight Group, led by Keiji Kojima, will offer IoT-based technologies and services meant to help government and enterprise customers achieve smart city, energy, healthcare and industrial goals through actionable insights, Hitachi said May 10. […] More

  • Orbital ATK Receives Int'l Commercial Proximity Sensor Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Receives Int’l Commercial Proximity Sensor Order

    Orbital ATK has secured a $16 million contract to supply DSU-33D/B proximity sensors to an undisclosed international customer through a direct commercial sale. The company said Thursday it is scheduled to begin delivery of the fuzing systems to the customer in mid-2016. DSU-33D/Bs uses radio frequency signals to determine the height of a weapon above a target zone, Orbital ATK noted. […] More

  • NGA Unveils Employee Exchange Program for Industry & Academia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NGA Unveils Employee Exchange Program for Industry & Academia

    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has launched an employee exchange initiative that will work to facilitate partnerships with industry and academia to share new technologies and methodologies. NGA said Tuesday the eNGAge program looks to send its middle management and senior executive employees to U.S. companies or universities in efforts to share geospatial knowledge and gain insights on business processes. Placements under eNGAge will […] More

  • Tony Antonelli: Lockheed’s Base Camp Concept Seeks to Send Manned Spacecraft to Mars Orbit by 2028 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Antonelli: Lockheed’s Base Camp Concept Seeks to Send Manned Spacecraft to Mars Orbit by 2028

    Lockheed Martin plans to introduce a concept for a spacecraft that would be manned by six astronauts and would establish and operate a laboratory in Mars orbit by 2028, Popular Science reported Wednesday. Sarah Fecht writes Lockheed plans to launch the “Mars Base Camp” concept at the Humans to Mars conference in support of NASA’s plan to […] More

  • Lockheed to Refresh Mission Systems of Germany's P-3C Maritime Patrol Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Refresh Mission Systems of Germany’s P-3C Maritime Patrol Aircraft

    Lockheed Martin has received a $54.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to update mission computers, armament and ordnance systems, displays and controls and acoustic equipment on eight P-3C Orion maritime surveillance planes for Germany. The P-3C Mission System Refresh Program will cover long-lead items procurement, non-recurring engineering, design and build, integration, planning and software development services, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Lockheed’s […] More