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  • Orbital ATK proposes NGL rocket for Air Force’s cost-share launch services contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK proposes NGL rocket for Air Force’s cost-share launch services contracts

    Orbital ATK has proposed its Next Generation Launch system to the U.S. Air Force in a bid to win one of the Launch Services Agreements the service branch plans to award by summer, Spaceflight Now reported Thursday. The agreement will implement a cost-sharing structure for rocket development efforts and intends to provide the military with U.S.-built propulsion systems […] More

  • Lockheed's F-35 completes final system devt & demonstration flight test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s F-35 completes final system devt & demonstration flight test

    Lockheed Martin has announced the completion of the final flight test of the F-35 program’s system development and demonstration phase. The company and the military completed the final SDD test flight Wednesday by flying the U.S. Navy’s F-35C test aircraft, CF-2, at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland to assess the fighter jet’s capability to […] More

  • Ball Aerospace turns over NOAA-20 weather satellite to NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace turns over NOAA-20 weather satellite to NASA

    Ball Aerospace has handed over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s first Joint Polar Satellite System to NASA after the completion of a satellite acceptance review. The company said Thursday the acceptance review showed that the JPSS-1 weather satellite, which now operates as NOAA-20, satisfied on-orbit requirements. Ball Aerospace-built NOAA-20 launched in November 2017 aboard United […] More

  • Kratos to help agencies track satellite behavior through spectral services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos to help agencies track satellite behavior through spectral services

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has started to provide spectral support services that work to help government agencies build up their space situational awareness. Kratos said Thursday its spectral services group will work to deliver radio frequency signal data to help agencies and other satellite operators gather insights about the behavior of orbiting satellites including […] More

  • FBI considers $5B IDIQ for IT support services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI considers $5B IDIQ for IT support services

    The FBI has released a request for information on potential vendors of information technology products and support services as it considers creating an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract designed to meet IT requirements across the Justice Department. A FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday says the bureau looks to establish a potential 10-year, $5 billion IDIQ for IT consulting, cybersecurity, […] More

  • Raytheon to demo mobile intell software under Army contract; Todd Probert comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to demo mobile intell software under Army contract; Todd Probert comments

    Raytheon has received a contract from the U.S. Army to demonstrate its software offering that works to help deployed warfighters gather and access data on the battlefield. FoXTEN is a mobile intelligence platform that can be loaded onto a commercial laptop and can run at low-transmission speeds, the company said Wednesday. “Our soldiers need real-time […] More

  • Boeing invests in UK-based hypersonic propulsion tech developer Reaction Engines via HorizonX - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing invests in UK-based hypersonic propulsion tech developer Reaction Engines via HorizonX

    Boeing has invested in Reaction Engines through its ventures arm to assist the U.K.-based company in its efforts to develop a hypersonic propulsion technology. Reaction Engines has developed a heat exchanger that works to prevent overheating of engine components at high speeds as part of its Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine technology program, Boeing said Wednesday. […] More

  • Mike Kahn: Orbital ATK supports readiness through expansion of missile production facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Kahn: Orbital ATK supports readiness through expansion of missile production facilities

    Orbital ATK has hired 1,000 additional employees and expanded several weapons facilities to increase production capacity as it expects a rise in the demand for munitions and missiles from the Defense Department in the next few years, Defense News reported Wednesday. “We have invested a decent number of millions, tens of millions, in a number of […] More

  • Polaris Alpha to expand offices, create 450 jobs in Colorado - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Polaris Alpha to expand offices, create 450 jobs in Colorado

    Polaris Alpha has announced plans to expand its offices in Colorado in a move that will generate 450 jobs in the state over the next eight years. The company said Wednesday it will establish a 20,000-square-foot facility in the Metro Denver area and hire 150 employees under the expansion plan’s initial phase. Polaris Alpha will […] More

  • GE tests carbon fiber enclosure for marine gas turbine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE tests carbon fiber enclosure for marine gas turbine

    General Electric’s marine solutions business has completed a weight and noise attenuation testing between a carbon fiber-based gas turbine enclosure and steel module. GE said Monday test results showed that the lightweight composite-based module for the LM2500 marine gas turbine reduced noise by 60 percent and weight by approximately 2,500 kilograms compared with the steel enclosure. […] More

  • TAPE gets ISO/IEC IT security certification; Michael Kelliher comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TAPE gets ISO/IEC IT security certification; Michael Kelliher comments

    Technical and Project Engineering has received a certification from the International Organization for Standardization and International Electrotechnical Commission for cybersecurity practices. TAPE said Tuesday the ISO/IEC 27013:2015 certification seeks to demonstrate the company’s efforts to implement an integrated data security and information technology service management system in support of government clients. Michael Kelliher, vice president […] More

  • CACI to Support Army's Commercial Based Technology Analysis program; DeEtte Gray comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Support Army’s Commercial Based Technology Analysis program; DeEtte Gray comments

    CACI International has received a potential one-year, $41.5 million task order to provide engineering services for a U.S. Army program that seeks to facilitate the analysis of commercial-based technologies in support of mission requirements worldwide. “Our partnership with the U.S. Army’s Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate in support of its critical Commercial Based Technology Analysis […] More