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  • Lockheed Opens Workforce Training Facility in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Opens Workforce Training Facility in Alabama

    Lockheed Martin has opened a new facility at the company’s Pike County Operations campus in Troy, Alabama, in a move to help drive workforce development initiatives in the state. The Advanced Manufacturing & Technology Center is built to offer online education for more than 450 employees onsite and training services for local military and state agencies, Lockheed said Thursday. The Alabama […] More

  • Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ

    Rocky Research has landed a five-year, $49.1 million contract to supply the U.S. Navy with navigation and ship control system hardware components. The company will perform contract work in Huntsville, Alabama through September 2022, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division is the contracting office and will obligate $137,559 at the […] More

  • Draper Lab to Help MDA Test Guidance, Navigation & Control Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab to Help MDA Test Guidance, Navigation & Control Tech

    Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has secured a five-year, $36.9 million contract  perform technical and analytical services in support of the Missile Defense Agency‘s efforts to evaluate, maturate, integrate and test guidance, navigation and control technologies. The Defense Department said Wednesday Draper Lab will also aid research analysis on sensors; modeling and simulation; radiation hardening and survivability; precision targeting […] More

  • Tim Cahill: Lockheed Eyes Ship-Launched Patriot Missile, New 6-Foot Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Cahill: Lockheed Eyes Ship-Launched Patriot Missile, New 6-Foot Rocket

    Lockheed Martin wants to develop a new range of air and missile defense systems such as a ship-launched variant of the Patriot missile and a new six-foot-long rocket, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Tim Cahill, vice president of Lockheed’s air and missile defense business, said at the Space and Missile Defense symposium in Huntsville, Alabama that the company looks to produce versions […] More

  • BAE Debuts Multiple-Object Tracking Radar Tech; Mark Keeler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Debuts Multiple-Object Tracking Radar Tech; Mark Keeler Comments

    BAE Systems has unveiled at the Space & Missile Defense Symposium in Alabama a new multiple-object tracking radar system designed to provide military test ranges with time, space and position information on several in-flight objects. The iMOTR radar platform has an X-band or C-band active electronically scanned array antenna and clutter suppression functionality designed to collect […] More

  • APS-Certified CAE Instructor Pilots Administer Upset Prevention & Recovery Training for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    APS-Certified CAE Instructor Pilots Administer Upset Prevention & Recovery Training for Army

    The first batch of CAE instructors have graduated from Aviation Performance Solutions‘ training program and are now conducting upset prevention and recovery training as part of the U.S. Army‘s Fixed-Wing Flight Training program in Dothan, Alabama. APS said Wednesday it administers the UPRT Train-the-Trainer program to CAE instructors who will provide upset training at CAE’s newly opened Dothan Training […] More

  • Cubic Breaks Ground on Huntsville, Alabama Facility Expansion; Mike Twyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Breaks Ground on Huntsville, Alabama Facility Expansion; Mike Twyman Comments

    Cubic has begun construction of an expanded facility for the GATR Technologies  business of the defense and transportation contractor’s mission solutions segment. The company said Thursday the project will extend GATR’s current 35,000-square-foot facility in Huntsville, Alabama to 63,000 square feet. Cubic added the expanded facility will consolidate GATR’s production and operations and house the unit’s engineering, business development and administrative offices. “We anticipate the facility expansion […] More

  • Raytheon SM-6 Missile Moves Toward Full Operational Capability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon SM-6 Missile Moves Toward Full Operational Capability

    The U.S. Navy has conducted flight tests of the Raytheon-built Standard Missile-6 weapon system to validate whether the missile is ready to obtain full operational capability. Raytheon said Thursday four SM-6 missiles were launched throughout the “graduation” tests to engage shore-launched, sub- or supersonic targets. Mike Campisi, Raytheon SM-6 senior program director, said the Navy started to deploy SM-6s four years ago but the […] More

  • Matthew Schmitz Joins Dynetics as Technical Services Business VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matthew Schmitz Joins Dynetics as Technical Services Business VP

    Matthew Schmitz, formerly a vice president at Huntsville, Alabama-based engineering and program management services provider Intrepid, has been named VP of the technical services business at Dynetics. Dynetics said April 10 Schmitz will oversee the unit’s business development strategy and enterprise growth initiatives in his new position. Schmitz has almost 20 years of business development and operations management experience at multiple […] More

  • AT&T to Install Internet-of-Things Tech at Maxwell Air Force Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T to Install Internet-of-Things Tech at Maxwell Air Force Base

    AT&T has partnered with Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama to integrate internet-of-things technologies intended to support operations and infrastructure at the installation. The company said Wednesday it will install network-connected sensors at Maxwell AFB and develop proof-of-concept demonstrations of smart perimeters, gate monitoring, notifications and fleet management, among others. Col. Don Lewis, commander of the 42nd Mission […] More

  • Leonardo’s DRS Subsidiary to Build T-100 Trainer Production Facility in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo’s DRS Subsidiary to Build T-100 Trainer Production Facility in Alabama

    Leonardo’s U.S.-based subsidiary DRS plans to establish a Tuskegee, Alabama-based facility to manufacture its proposed aircraft for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X trainer jet program. The Leonardo DRS-led industry team will set up its final assembly and manufacturing facility for its proposed T-100 Integrated Training System at Moton Field Municipal Airport in Tuskegee in an effort to leverage […] More