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  • NASA OKs Sierra Nevada's Dream Chaser Implementation Plan for ISS Cargo Flights - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA OKs Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser Implementation Plan for ISS Cargo Flights

    NASA has approved Sierra Nevada Corp.’s full program implementation plan for the company’s Dream Chaser spacecraft that is contracted for at least six cargo delivery services to and from the International Space Station between 2019 and 2024. SNC said Monday that NASA evaluated the company’s design, development, test and evaluation methods in efforts to meet technical performance and […] More

  • Reuters: Lockheed Eyes New MBDA Proposal on Potential $5B German Missile Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Lockheed Eyes New MBDA Proposal on Potential $5B German Missile Defense System

    Lockheed Martin has said it expects its partner MBDA to submit a proposal to Germany’s defense ministry by early August to begin negotiations with the country’s government on a potential $4.5 billion missile defense system, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes that Rick Edwards, executive vice president of Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, has indicated negotiations for the Medium Extended Air Defense System could start […] More

  • KEPRO to Help DoD Assess Military Healthcare Services; Joe Dougher Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KEPRO to Help DoD Assess Military Healthcare Services; Joe Dougher Comments

    KEPRO has received a contract from the Defense Department to conduct healthcare assessments for Military Health System beneficiaries under the Tricare program. As the Defense Health Agency‘s Tricare quality monitoring contractor, the company will integrate the direct and purchased care delivery systems and audit 54 military treatment facilities worldwide, KEPRO said Monday. “We will continue […] More

  • NTT Data Receives $534M Contract to Support Victoria, Australia E-Ticketing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data Receives $534M Contract to Support Victoria, Australia E-Ticketing System

    NTT Data has secured a potential seven-year, $533.7 million to operate the automated fare collection system in Australia’s state of Victoria. The company said Monday it helped Public Transport Victoria build and implement the myki smart card ticketing system across the state’s regional and metropolitan centers in December 2008. Myki is designed to manage as many as 400 million passenger trips via trains, […] More

  • Next Century to Help IARPA Develop SIGINT-Based Event Forecasting Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Next Century to Help IARPA Develop SIGINT-Based Event Forecasting Tool

    Next Century has received a three-year contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a signals intelligence-based tool that will work to forecast societal events as part of IARPA’s Mercury Program. The SIGINT-based Anticipation of Future Events technology will be built to detect and predict terrorist or military activities, civil unrest and rare disease outbreaks in the Middle […] More

  • Northrop to Support Natl Chronic Disease Prevention System Under $53M CDC Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Support Natl Chronic Disease Prevention System Under $53M CDC Contract

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded a $52.7 million recompete contract to Northrop Grumman to provide technical services for the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Northrop said Monday it will help the NCCDPHP’s Office of Informatics and Information Resource Management to manage information technology services, applications, tools and procedures related to the Chronic Disease […] More

  • ICF Lands Contract to Help Maintain SSA's Automated Security Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Lands Contract to Help Maintain SSA’s Automated Security Platform

    ICF International has received a potential five-year, $9.6 million contract to maintain a suite of web-based security applications for the Social Security Administration‘s Office of Security and Emergency Preparedness. ICF said Monday it will support OSEP’s security processes and nationwide oversight with the Security Automated Features and Enhancements platform powered by the company’s GroupAssure compliance automation software. The contract covers project management, onsite […] More

  • UTC to Integrate Sensor Tech Into Air Force ISR System; Kevin Raftery Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC to Integrate Sensor Tech Into Air Force ISR System; Kevin Raftery Comments

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a contract to United Technologies Corp. to integrate a sensor system with the U.S. Air Force’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection and processing infrastructure. UTC said Monday its aerospace systems unit will perform a study on the integration of the MS-177 sensor system into the Distributed Common Ground System to help provide image processing tools, command […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a potential $34.8 million contract to demonstrate an updated electronic warfare technology for the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer. Raytheon said Sunday it is scheduled to complete development of MALD-X, successor of the current MALD-J model, within a 24-month period and will conduct two flight demonstrations to showcase the aerial decoy’s EW upgrades. MALD-X will feature an EW payload, a low-altitude flight mode and […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Deliver Black Hawk Simulator to Mexico's Navy; Alan Prowse Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Deliver Black Hawk Simulator to Mexico’s Navy; Alan Prowse Comments

    Rockwell Collins has been selected to provide a UH-60M Black Hawk simulator to the Mexican navy as part of an effort to help train the nation’s aviators in the operations of the helicopter built by Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary. The Mexican navy will use the Transportable Blackhawk Operations Simulator to help equip Black Hawk pilots with the skills […] More

  • Ceres Nanosciences Gets Funds From DARPA to Test Methods for Immune Function Markers Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ceres Nanosciences Gets Funds From DARPA to Test Methods for Immune Function Markers Detection

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $980,000 in funds to Virginia-based Ceres Nanosciences to assess methods for the detection of immune system markers with the use of the company’s sample processing technology. Ceres will work with Tufts University and George Mason University to adapt the Nanotrap sample processing technology for the capture of immune system […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Triumph Group to Supply F-35 Engine, Structural Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Picks Triumph Group to Supply F-35 Engine, Structural Components

    Lockheed Martin has awarded multiple contracts to Triumph Group to provide structural and engine components for the F-35 Lightning II program. Triumph said Friday its precision components business will supply aircraft engine mounts, bulkheads, longerons and wing ribs to Lockheed through 2021. “The F-35 program has afforded us the opportunity to demonstrate that Triumph can compete on higher-level subassemblies,” said Rick Rosenjack, executive vice […] More