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  • Perspecta Gets DoD Award for Mentorship Support to TM3; Mac Curtis Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Perspecta Gets DoD Award for Mentorship Support to TM3; Mac Curtis Quoted

    Perspecta has been selected for the Defense Department’s Nunn-Perry Award in recognition of the company’s mentorship support to service-disabled veteran-owned small business TM3 Solutions. Perspecta said Thursday it helped TM3 align its services with DoD’s mission needs under the department’s Mentor-Protege Program. “The goal of our small business program is to work with businesses to […] More

  • GovConRx Unveils Contract Performance Management Service; Ken Susskind Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GovConRx Unveils Contract Performance Management Service; Ken Susskind Quoted

    Reston, Va.-based GovConRx has introduced a new service designed to help federal contractors manage their contract performance. The GovConRx Contract Wellness Solution works to help GovCon firms gain insight and visibility into their performance in alignment with the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System, the company said Thursday. “Federal contractors are realizing that the government is increasing the use […] More

  • Dell EMC Launches New Software, Services for Data Protection; Beth Phalen Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell EMC Launches New Software, Services for Data Protection; Beth Phalen Quoted

    Dell EMC has introduced new software and services designed to defend and protect data from ransomware and other cyber attacks. The company said Wednesday its Cyber Recovery software includes security analytics, workflow and automation tools to help users isolate critical data in the event of a cyber incident and facilitate data retention within the CR Vault. “Malicious […] More

  • ULA’s Tory Bruno: Air Force Eyes Flexibility in Military Satellite Launches - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Tory Bruno: Air Force Eyes Flexibility in Military Satellite Launches

    Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, told SpaceNews in an interview published Wednesday that he thinks the competition in the market for military space launches “is good for the country.” “We’re seeing a broadening of the lift industrial base,” he said. ULA is one of the three companies the U.S. Air Force selected […] More

  • D13, XiDrone Forge Counter-UAS Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    D13, XiDrone Forge Counter-UAS Tech Partnership

    Department 13 International and XiDrone Systems have teamed up to pursue intellectual property development related to counter-unmanned aerial systems, wireless communications and autonomous platforms. The partnership will provide patents rights to D13 to integrate its MESMER counter-UAS system with radar, electro-optical/infrared, radio frequency, acoustics and other sensors to build a platform designed to mitigate commercial […] More

  • Northrop Eyes Nov. 15 Launch for 10th Space Station Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Eyes Nov. 15 Launch for 10th Space Station Cargo Resupply Mission

    Northrop Grumman plans to launch no earlier than Nov. 15 its Cygnus spacecraft to bring scientific experiments, equipment and supplies to the International Space Station. Cygnus will take off aboard Northrop’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of the company’s 10th cargo resupply services mission, the space agency said Thursday. Some of […] More

  • Lockheed-Built AEHF-4 Comms Satellite Launches Aboard ULA Rocket; Tory Bruno Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built AEHF-4 Comms Satellite Launches Aboard ULA Rocket; Tory Bruno Quoted

    Lockheed Martin received in-orbit signals from the U.S. Air Force’s fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency spacecraft just hours after the communications satellite launched Wednesday atop United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 551 rocket. AEHF-4 that took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida completes a geostationary satellite constellation that will deliver tactical military communications coverage to […] More

  • Radiant Solutions’ Tony Frazier to Discuss AI, Automation, Augmentation at NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Radiant Solutions’ Tony Frazier to Discuss AI, Automation, Augmentation at NVIDIA GPU Tech Conference

    Tony Frazier, president of Maxar Technologies’ Radiant Solutions subsidiary, is scheduled to speak on Oct. 23 at NVIDIA’s three-day GPU Technology Conference to be held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. He will join William “Buzz” Roberts, analytic automation POD lead at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, to discuss how the artificial […] More

  • Lockheed Uses SSR Integration Site to Demo Long Range Discrimination Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Uses SSR Integration Site to Demo Long Range Discrimination Radar

    Lockheed Martin has concluded a closed loop satellite tracking demonstration of a scaled version of the Long Range Discrimination Radar using tactical software, production hardware and backend processing equipment. The test is one of the technical milestones in the LRDR program needed to facilitate the delivery of the radar platform to the Missile Defense Agency in […] More

  • Alion to Sponsor GPU Tech Conference; Todd Borkey Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alion to Sponsor GPU Tech Conference; Todd Borkey Quoted

    Alion Science and Technology will serve as a Platinum Sponsor of NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference that is set to take place from Oct. 22 to 24 in Washington, D.C. “GTC DC is a place for serious technologists and government leaders to connect and learn about the newest advancements in deep learning, artificial intelligence, and so […] More

  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Satcom as a Service Could Help Warfighters Focus on Critical Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Satcom as a Service Could Help Warfighters Focus on Critical Missions

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has said government and military leaders should leverage commercial satellite communications platforms to support critical missions through the satcom-as-a-service business model. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a MilsatMagazine piece that the business model is designed for global mobility and to deliver “end-to-end, communication infrastructure from resilient satellite […] More

  • Perspecta to Maintain, Update Maryland’s Pension Admin System; Mac Curtis Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Perspecta to Maintain, Update Maryland’s Pension Admin System; Mac Curtis Quoted

    Perspecta has received a potential five-year, $17M contract to continue to maintain and upgrade the state of Maryland’s pension administration platform and related applications. The company said Tuesday it will help the Maryland State Retirement Agency develop an online portal for approximately 400K users and acquire and integrate commercial-of-the-shelf apps into business workflows through the […] More