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  • Rockwell Collins Gets Follow-On Army Manpack Radio, Equipment Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Gets Follow-On Army Manpack Radio, Equipment Order

    Rockwell Collins has received a follow-on order from the U.S. Army‘s Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications-Tactical to deliver 101 manpack radios and ancillaries. The company said Thursday it is scheduled to begin manufacturing the additional Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Factor radios this month. The service branch issued the new order after Rockwell Collins […] More

  • Sypris Subsidiary Lands Electronic Assembly Production Contracts With Harris - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sypris Subsidiary Lands Electronic Assembly Production Contracts With Harris

    Harris has awarded several contracts to a Sypris Solutions subsidiary to build electronic assemblies in support of U.S. military programs and space initiatives. Sypris Electronics will produce and deliver electronic assemblies for two satellite programs designed for use in weather forecasting operations, Sypris said Monday. The first satellite program will work to monitor early storm […] More

  • Harris CEO William Brown Nominated to AUSA Council of Trustees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris CEO William Brown Nominated to AUSA Council of Trustees

    A national nominating committee has endorsed Harris Chairman, President and CEO William Brown for a seat on the Association of the U.S. Army’s council of trustees. AUSA said Monday its bylaws allow members to nominate individuals to the council and comment on a nomination. Brown has led the Melbourne, Florida-based communications and information technology provider as president and CEO since November 2011 […] More

  • PAE CEO John Heller Joins Kogod Advisory Council - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE CEO John Heller Joins Kogod Advisory Council

    PAE CEO John Heller has been appointed to the Kogod Advisory Council, which offers mentorship and professional advice to American University’s Kogod School of Business. Heller told KSB in an interview that he plans to prepare new graduates for employment by providing advice to the university on how it can help build up the hiring […] More

  • Tiag Appoints Elizabeth Ahrens, David Balser to Director Roles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tiag Appoints Elizabeth Ahrens, David Balser to Director Roles

    Elizabeth Ahrens, a 17-year health information technology professional, has been promoted to a new director position at Reston, Virginia-based management and technology services provider tiag to oversee health IT initiatives for federal government and commercial clients. She will direct mission-critical health IT programs and related projects, implement the firm’s strategic goals and manage work with the […] More

  • Defense Security Service Picks 36 Company Facilities for Industrial Security Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense Security Service Picks 36 Company Facilities for Industrial Security Award

    The Defense Security Service has given the 2017 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award to 36 company facilities for maintaining high standards for industrial security. DSS said Thursday the winning facilities represent various large and small companies such as BAE Systems, Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Camber subsidiary, CGI Group, Concurrent Technologies Corp., General Dynamics, Harris, Lockheed Martin, Modern Technology […] More

  • RocketFrac Names Former NASA CFO Ronald Spoehel as Board Chairman - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RocketFrac Names Former NASA CFO Ronald Spoehel as Board Chairman

    Ronald Spoehel, a former chief financial officer at NASA, has been elected as chairman of the board of directors of hydraulic fracturing technology manufacturer RocketFrac Services. RocketFrac said Tuesday Spoehel brings more than 35 years of executive and general management experience in the energy and technology sectors to his new role. He served as founder and […] More

  • NuRAN Wireless to Supply Software-Defined Radio Tech to NASA Glenn Research Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NuRAN Wireless to Supply Software-Defined Radio Tech to NASA Glenn Research Center

    NuRAN Wireless has been selected by NASA to provide a software-defined radio technology to support research on multi-element arrays at the space agency’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. The company said Monday its SDR system works to support multiple antennas and maintain phase coherency between the devices. Martin Bedard, co-CEO of NuRAN Wireless, said that company […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Taps Harris to Update F-35 Mission System Avionics; Ed Zoiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Taps Harris to Update F-35 Mission System Avionics; Ed Zoiss Comments

    Lockheed Martin has chosen Harris to update mission system avionics systems used on the F-35 Lightning II aircraft in support of a program that aims to boost the platform’s data storage, display processing and throughput capacity. Harris said Monday that it will offer Aircraft Memory System and Panoramic Cockpit Display Electronic Units based on open […] More

  • Harris Maritime Surveillance Tech Begins Worldwide Vessel Tracking Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Maritime Surveillance Tech Begins Worldwide Vessel Tracking Operations

    Four Harris-built maritime vessel tracking receivers have begun to track nearly 250,000 ships around the world as part of hosted payloads onboard Iridium‘s NEXT satellites that were launched in January. Harris said Monday the receivers are designed to offer global automatic identification system information and ship tracking capacity for government and commercial users. Iridium’s NEXT satellite constellation is scheduled to reach full […] More

  • Boeing Taps Harris for P-8A Aircraft Sonobuoy Launchers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Taps Harris for P-8A Aircraft Sonobuoy Launchers

    Harris has received multiple contracts to deliver sonobuoy launchers to Boeing for installation on the U.S. Navy‘s P-8A maritime patrol aircraft. The contracts cover the supply of single-shot and rotary launchers for 49 P-8A planes of the U.S., Australia and the U.K., Harris said Wednesday. Ed Zoiss, president of Harris’ electronic systems business, said the company’s sonobuoy launching technology is […] More

  • Report: Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium Signs MoU with Joint DoD Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium Signs MoU with Joint DoD Agency

    A joint Defense Department agency and a government-industry consortium inked a memorandum of understanding to help define open avionics standards for military aircraft. The Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium (FACE,) a coalition of government and industry organizations which aims to determine open avionics standards for military aircraft, issued the memo with the DoD agency, Defense Systems reported Thursday. The memorandum will […] More