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  • Air Force Selects Tempus for Flight Operations Support, Technical Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Selects Tempus for Flight Operations Support, Technical Services

    Tempus Applied Solutions has received a $1.2 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide flight operations support and technical services for aviation systems managed by the military branch’s weapons development and integration directorate. The company said Tuesday that it will integrate the Air Force’s High-Altitude LIDAR Atmospheric Sensing platform onto a Tempus-owned Gulfstream IV […] More

  • NASA Taps Lockwood Hills' Federal Unit for Institutional Logistics Mgmt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Lockwood Hills’ Federal Unit for Institutional Logistics Mgmt Services

    Lockwood Hills‘ federal business has received a potential five-year, $31.5 million contract from NASA to provide institutional logistics management services at the space agency’s Ames Research Center in California. NASA said Friday work covers equipment, fleet and supply management, warehousing and re-distribution, graphics, janitorial services, mail service center, property disposal, refuse and recyclable materials collection, removal […] More

  • Insitu Integrates High Accuracy Photogrammetry Payload on ScanEagle UAV for Broad Area Surveillance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu Integrates High Accuracy Photogrammetry Payload on ScanEagle UAV for Broad Area Surveillance

    Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, has integrated a 50-megapixel camera onto the ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle to help offer high accuracy photogrammetric aerial imagery and broad area surveillance capacity. The company said Thursday that the imagery payload is part of Insitu’s INEXA Solutions suite of remote sensing products and services that work to help enterprise clients […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Delivers HC-130J Personnel Recovery Aircraft to National Guard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Delivers HC-130J Personnel Recovery Aircraft to National Guard

    The U.S. National Guard has received the first of four Lockheed Martin-developed fixed-wing personnel recovery aircraft that will support operations in Alaska and the Pacific Theater. Lockheed said Thursday that the HC-130J aircraft will help users respond to disaster scenarios, evacuate aeromedical personnel, support humanitarian outreach programs, disseminate aviation advisories and perform security cooperation missions. HC-130J, which will succeed […] More

  • London's Heathrow Airport Taps Jacobs for Engineering Services to Support Expansion Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    London’s Heathrow Airport Taps Jacobs for Engineering Services to Support Expansion Efforts

    Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a four-year contract from London’s Heathrow Airport for engineering and planning services to aid the airport’s expansion efforts. Jacobs said Tuesday it will oversee design activities for the airfield, earthworks and highways along with support to the Heathrow Integrated Design Team composed of seven aviation design and planning organizations selected for […] More

  • Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England

    Smiths Detection has opened a Hemel Hempstead, England-based facility for engineering, research and production of chemical and explosive detection technologies. The company said Thursday it will develop security products for the aviation, military and emergency response sectors at the new 67,000-square-foot center of excellence for trace detection. The facility is located nearly 11 miles from Smiths Detection’s previous manufacturing hub […] More

  • Aerospace Industry Vet Scott Campbell Joins AAMSI in SVP Role; Dennis Zalupski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerospace Industry Vet Scott Campbell Joins AAMSI in SVP Role; Dennis Zalupski Comments

    Scott Campbell, a former senior vice president at VAS Defense, has joined Associated Aircraft Manufacturing & Sales Inc. to serve in a similar role at the Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based military aviation technology manufacturing and repair company. AAMSI said Wednesday the 26-year aerospace industry veteran will oversee sales and business development functions of the company’s newly formed business unit that supports customers […] More

  • Smiths Detection Debuts Online Portal for Aviation Sector; Cameron Mann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection Debuts Online Portal for Aviation Sector; Cameron Mann Comments

    Smiths Detection has launched a new online hub to function as a portal of opinion-based and other articles from aviation professionals to provide users insight about the sector. The Aviation Insider website at aviation-insider.com exhibits aviation security practices and facilitate industry discussions, Smiths Detection said Monday. “Aviation Insider is designed to be a critical hub for industry […] More

  • Army Seeks Industry Ideas for Future Small UAS Power Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Industry Ideas for Future Small UAS Power Systems

    The U.S. Army has issued a request for information to industry on behalf of the aviation development directorate to solicit ideas on advanced small power systems for future tactical unmanned aerial systems. That RFI released Thursday says the Army wants the information on potential power systems, related metrics and associated technology maturity to guide the development of systems for future […] More

  • Iridium Unveils New Aviation Broadband Connectivity Product, Services Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Unveils New Aviation Broadband Connectivity Product, Services Suite

    Iridium has unveiled its new suite of aviation broadband connectivity products and services that will work to provide global data communications for business and general aviation users. The company said Monday the Iridium Certus service portfolio features a variety of products from four avionics manufacturers. Iridium Certus is designed to utilize the company’s NEXT satellite constellation […] More

  • Jacobs Engineering Moves to New Dallas HQ; Steve Demetriou Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Engineering Moves to New Dallas HQ; Steve Demetriou Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has relocated its global corporate headquarters to a 100,000-square-foot office in downtown Dallas from Pasadena, California. The company said Monday the relocation expands its footprint at Dallas’ Harwood Center in Texas, where Jacobs currently employs nearly 4,500 individuals who work in the aerospace, transportation, water, aviation, buildings, defense, oil and gas and power and energy industries. Jacobs […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Replace JFK Airport Terminal Check-in Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Replace JFK Airport Terminal Check-in Platform

    Rockwell Collins has received a contract of an undisclosed value from International Airlines Group to replace the current check-in platform at John F. Kennedy International Airport’s Terminal 7. Rockwell Collins said Tuesday it will provide its ARINC vMUSE common use passenger processing technology that works to assist check-in for passengers and baggage. The company will also deliver its ARINC […] More