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  • Tony Moraco: SAIC Sees Opportunity in Internet of Things Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Moraco: SAIC Sees Opportunity in Internet of Things Market

    Tony Moraco, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., has said the company aims to capture opportunities in the growing market for Internet of Things-based products and services, Washington Technology reported Friday. “We’re trying to look at it from two sides: how can that capability better an outcome—whether it be for people, society, the nation—so how […] More

  • Reuters: Boeing Looks to Self-Fund F/A-18 Production Materials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Boeing Looks to Self-Fund F/A-18 Production Materials

    Boeing is considering investing money to extend production of its F/A-18 multirole fighter aircraft at a company facility in St. Louis, Missouri, as it awaits government decision on potential sales to Kuwait and the U.S. Navy, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes Dan Gillian, head of Boeing’s F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft programs, said he expects the company […] More

  • Chris Cortez: Microsoft Program Trains Soldiers in Cloud IT, Business Intell - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Cortez: Microsoft Program Trains Soldiers in Cloud IT, Business Intell

    Microsoft has moved to expand the reach of its educational program that aims to develop active-duty and former soldiers’ information technology skills for their civilian career transition. The company will roll out Microsoft Software & Systems Academy courses at four U.S. Army bases in 2016 and at another installation in 2017, Chris Cortez, vice president of military affairs […] More

  • Orbital ATK Adds Regional Office to Support Asian Defense, Commercial Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Adds Regional Office to Support Asian Defense, Commercial Clients

    Orbital ATK has established a new regional office in Singapore for a push to expand its footprint and better serve clients in the greater Asian commercial and defense markets. “About 20 percent of the company’s sales are to international customers and we are seeking further growth in these important markets,” Tim Shephard, corporate vice president of international business […] More

  • Space Systems Loral-Busek Team to Further Solar Electric Propulsion Aircraft Development; Matteo Genna Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Systems Loral-Busek Team to Further Solar Electric Propulsion Aircraft Development; Matteo Genna Comments

    Space Systems Loral and Busek Co. have agreed to further the development work for a solar electric propulsion aircraft in an effort to help meet future requirements of NASA and other government agencies. Matteo Genna, chief technology officer of SSL, said Monday the collaboration with Busek will help to advance the development of a thruster […] More

  • Lockheed-Built F-35 Fleet Hits 50K Flight Hours - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built F-35 Fleet Hits 50K Flight Hours

    A fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II aircraft that the U.S. service branches and other countries operate worldwide has reached the mark of 50,000 flight hours. Lockheed said Wednesday 155 operational fighter jets deployed to six countries reached approximately 37,950 flight hours, while 18 F-35 planes intended for system development and demonstration operations reached 12,050 flight […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Demos Steam Catapult Tech on Navy's Lincoln Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Demos Steam Catapult Tech on Navy’s Lincoln Carrier

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has updated and tested a catapult system aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a ship modernization and maintenance initiative. The U.S. Navy and HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding crew launched steam-powered catapults on the aircraft carrier approximately 20 times during the system’s “no-load” test, the company said Wednesday. “The test reminds us that this is […] More

  • ULA, Tyvak Ink CubeSat Rideshare Agreement; Tory Bruno Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA, Tyvak Ink CubeSat Rideshare Agreement; Tory Bruno Comments

    United Launch Alliance has selected Tyvak Nanosatellite Systems to serve as an auxiliary payload customer on ULA’s CubeSat rideshare program under a memorandum of understanding between the two companies. Tyvak will be able to provide commercial and U.S. government CubeSat customers, as well as science, technology, engineering and math CubeSat customers access to ULA’s Atlas V […] More

  • Army Contest Seeks Micro-Cloud Mgmt Tech for Defensive Cyber Ops - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Contest Seeks Micro-Cloud Mgmt Tech for Defensive Cyber Ops

    The U.S. Army plans to launch a third iteration of its Cyber Innovation Challenge to identify micro-cloud management technology that can support the military branch’s cyber threat defense missions. The competition will be open to commercial and academic organizations and calls for the development of software-based prototypes that will work to manage disparate cloud computing architectures for […] More

  • Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Systems Onboard Zumwalt Destroyer Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Tests Raytheon-Built Systems Onboard Zumwalt Destroyer Ship

    The U.S. Navy has demonstrated Raytheon-built computing applications onboard the lead ship in the branch’s Zumwalt class of destroyers. Raytheon said Wednesday the DDG 1000‘s total ship computing environment and engineering control systems functioned during a week-long trial at sea. The TSCE infrastructure comprises a combat management, ship and machinery control, embedded training, damage control and C4I […] More

  • DOE Seeks Proposals for Funding Opportunity on Energy Tech Transfer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Seeks Proposals for Funding Opportunity on Energy Tech Transfer

    The Energy Department has issued the first request for proposals on the office of technology transition’s Technology Commercialization Fund, which seeks to support the transfer of energy-related technologies to the commercial market. DOE said Friday the $20 million funding opportunity aims to facilitate the commercialization of technologies developed as part of federally funded research projects at the 17 […] More

  • Former PSC Head Stan Soloway Forms Celero Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former PSC Head Stan Soloway Forms Celero Strategies

    Stan Soloway, formerly CEO of the Professional Services Council, has founded Celero Strategies LLC in an effort to help companies grow their federal market presence. Soloway said Monday “Celero will be focused on helping companies adapt to and succeed” in a market that he describes as “undergoing massive changes.” “We have also built a unique […] More