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  • Michael Gray Talks SAIC-Led Team’s Efforts on Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Gray Talks SAIC-Led Team’s Efforts on Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Prototype

    Michael Gray, a senior director at Science Applications International Corp., has said the company has worked on 10 various directives to come up with an experimental combat vehicle prototype for the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, National Defense reported Friday. A SAIC-led industry team received a potential eight-year, $237M contract in […] More

  • DoD OKs Operational Test of Lockheed-Built F-35 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD OKs Operational Test of Lockheed-Built F-35

    Lockheed Martin has received approval from the Defense Department to start full combat testing of its F-35 fighter aircraft, Bloomberg reported Friday. Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, cleared the plan for the fighter jet to begin operational tests after “concurring” with the recommendation of the program manager to kick off testing in […] More

  • Lockheed Partners With NanoRacks to Seek Commercial Payload Concepts for Orion Capsule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Partners With NanoRacks to Seek Commercial Payload Concepts for Orion Capsule

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with NanoRacks to seek concepts of commercial payloads that could fly on upcoming missions of NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Lockheed said Friday the market assessment marks the initial step toward its vision to deliver commercial opportunities to deep space. Mike Hawes, Orion program manager and vice president of human space exploration […] More

  • Report: Northrop Targets Oct. 26 Launch for ICON Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop Targets Oct. 26 Launch for ICON Spacecraft

    Northrop Grumman plans to launch on Oct. 26 the Ionospheric Connection Explorer spacecraft aboard the Pegasus rocket, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. The rocket will launch from the Stargazer L-1011 aircraft that will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. ICON was originally scheduled to launch in June, but Northrop postponed the take-off after Pegasus sent off-nominal data […] More

  • Oracle Launches Cloud-Based App for Land Management; Mark Johnson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle Launches Cloud-Based App for Land Management; Mark Johnson Quoted

    Oracle has unveiled a cloud-based application designed to help local and state government agencies facilitate land management and the processing of building permits and inspections. Oracle Public Sector Community Development is a subscription software-as-a-service app that works to upgrade the regulatory and compliance processes for building infrastructure and land use, the company said Thursday. “Today’s […] More

  • Lockheed Considers Making Room for Experiments Aboard Orion Capsule; Rob Chambers Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Considers Making Room for Experiments Aboard Orion Capsule; Rob Chambers Quoted

    Lockheed Martin’s space business has begun to consider the possibility of providing companies and researchers a chance to fly experiments aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the Denver Business Journal reported Thursday. Orion is scheduled to launch in 2020 atop the Space Launch System for an unmanned flight test as part of Exploration Mission-1 and take off […] More

  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Warfighters Need Access to Globally Available Satcom Capabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Warfighters Need Access to Globally Available Satcom Capabilities

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has said warfighters and government users in hostile and remote environments depend on resilient satellite communications platforms. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Signal magazine piece published Monday that such satcom systems “must be accessible at a moment’s notice.” She noted how government leaders acknowledge the value of […] More

  • James Hanson Named Nextgov Publisher; Tim Hartman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Hanson Named Nextgov Publisher; Tim Hartman Comments

    James Hanson, formerly managing director at marketing communications firm ConnellyWorks, has joined Nextgov as first publisher, the publication reported Monday. He will oversee business development, client relations and product planning for the GovCon community through the publication’s Washington, D.C.-based office. Hanson is “a master at helping government contractors connect with federal decision makers, and Nextgov […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, Spire, Planet to Provide Earth Science Data Under NASA Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, Spire, Planet to Provide Earth Science Data Under NASA Contracts

    NASA has awarded blanket purchase agreements to three companies to provide the agency with Earth observation data sets derived from constellations of commercial small satellites. Maxar Technologies’ DigitalGlobe subsidiary, Planet and Spire received the sole-source contracts under the agency’s Private Sector Small Constellation Satellite Data Product Pilot program, NASA said Friday. “This pilot program is […] More

  • Cyber Training Demands Specific Approach; SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cyber Training Demands Specific Approach; SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni Quoted

    Employees continue to click on malicious links amid government agencies’ efforts to launch training programs and assessments as part of their cyber defense strategies, Government Technology magazine reported. A study by the Federal Information Systems Security Educators’ Association shows that 34 percent of cyber breaches are associated with negligence or human error. The report said […] More

  • Report: Boeing-Sikorsky Team Eyes December for SB>1 Defiant’s First Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing-Sikorsky Team Eyes December for SB>1 Defiant’s First Flight

    Boeing and Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary expect the SB>1 Defiant compound helicopter to have the initial flight in December, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. The two companies have teamed up to design and propose the aircraft for the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program. The service considers Defiant and the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor for the FVL initiative. Randy Rotte, director of FVL […] More

  • Leidos Joins Cerner-Led Team to Support VA’s EHR System Modernization; Jerry Hogge Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Joins Cerner-Led Team to Support VA’s EHR System Modernization; Jerry Hogge Quoted

    Leidos has joined a Cerner-led team to upgrade the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health record system through the deployment of the same EHR platform used at the Defense Department’s medical facilities worldwide. “As lead systems integrator for the DoD’s Defense Healthcare Management Systems Modernization (DHMSM) program, we are pleased that the deployment of MHS […] More