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  • NASA Moves Webb Telescope Launch to May 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Moves Webb Telescope Launch to May 2020

    NASA has pushed back from 2019 to May 2020 the launch of its James Webb Space Telescope to give the program’s engineers more time to test and integrate the telescope and spacecraft components. “All the observatory’s flight hardware is now complete, however, the issues brought to light with the spacecraft element are prompting us to take […] More

  • AT&T, FirstNet Unveil Comms Network Core for First Responders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T, FirstNet Unveil Comms Network Core for First Responders

    AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority have launched a network core designed to support first responders’ communication needs. The company said Tuesday the FirstNet network core infrastructure will serve as an exclusive national broadband network for first responders and will help facilitate data transmission in support of public safety personnel. The packet core will provide first […] More

  • Thales, NASA Team Up on Drone Traffic Management Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales, NASA Team Up on Drone Traffic Management Tech Development

    Thales and NASA have agreed to work together to advance the development of an unmanned aircraft system traffic management platform designed to advance the integration of drones into the national airspace system. The company said Tuesday it will leverage its experience in UTM development and create jobs in New York through the Space Act Agreement […] More

  • Report: Boeing to Benefit From WGS Satellite Funding Under $1.3T Omnibus Measure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing to Benefit From WGS Satellite Funding Under $1.3T Omnibus Measure

    A $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill for fiscal 2018 would allocate approximately $600 million in funds to support the development of two new Wideband Global Satcom satellites for the Defense Department, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. The budget allocation for the WGS program will be a boon to Boeing, which has secured approximately $4 billion in […] More

  • New Orleans City Council OKs Incentive Package for DXC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Orleans City Council OKs Incentive Package for DXC

    The city council of New Orleans, Louisiana, has approved a potential $6.5 million incentive package for DXC Technology in exchange for the creation of approximately 2,000 jobs in the next seven years, The New Orleans Advocate reported Sunday. The approval came four months after DXC announced plans to generate jobs in New Orleans as part of […] More

  • Report: Lockheed Unveils Concept for Navy’s Stingray Tanker Drone Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed Unveils Concept for Navy’s Stingray Tanker Drone Program

    Lockheed Martin has launched its proposed concept for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based aerial tanker drone program, USNI News reported Monday. The drone concept from Lockheed’s Skunk Works business has a flying wing design equipped with a set of sensors in the aircraft’s nose and a single D-704 buddy tank. Boeing and General Atomics […] More

  • Boeing Invests in Australian Firm Myriota to Support Satcom Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Invests in Australian Firm Myriota to Support Satcom Tech Development

    Boeing has invested in Myriota through its ventures arm to help the Adelaide, Australia-based startup further develop its direct-to-orbit technology platform designed to facilitate communications for internet of things-based devices in remote areas. Boeing said Monday its HorizonX Ventures arm joined investors such as Blue Sky Venture Capital, Main Sequence Ventures, Right Click Capital and Singtel Innov8 in the […] More

  • NOAA’s Tahara Dawkins: Satellite Servicing Industry Needs Govt Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA’s Tahara Dawkins: Satellite Servicing Industry Needs Govt Support

    Tahara Dawkins, director of the commercial remote sensing regulatory affairs office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has said she believes government regulators should help in-orbit satellite servicing systems reach commercial viability, C4ISRNET reported Friday. “If we restrict this industry to a place where they’re not commercially viable, then this gets driven overseas,” Dawkins said at […] More

  • Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson: Tariff Measure Seeks to Protect US Intellectual Property - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Marillyn Hewson: Tariff Measure Seeks to Protect US Intellectual Property

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has approved of President Donald Trump’s move to sign an executive memorandum that would impose tariffs on certain products in response to China’s unfair trade practices, CNBC reported Thursday. Trump proposed to implement additional 25 percent tariffs that could potentially impact Chinese imports worth approximately $60 billion. “This is a very important moment […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: FY 2018 NDAA Aims to Meet Military Satcom Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: FY 2018 NDAA Aims to Meet Military Satcom Requirements

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said the fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act serves as the U.S. government’s response to help meet warfighters’ need for secure and resilient satellite communication capabilities with the aid of the commercial satcom industry. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Via Satellite piece posted Thursday […] More

  • Peraton Gets Navy Unexploded Ordnance Removal Support Contract; Gus Bontzos Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peraton Gets Navy Unexploded Ordnance Removal Support Contract; Gus Bontzos Comments

    Peraton has received a potential five-year, $40.97 million contract to help the Department of the Navy identify, locate and remove unexploded underwater and ground ordnance. The contract has a one-year base term and four one-year options and covers support for the Navy’s explosive ordnance disposal program management office, Peraton said Wednesday. “Detecting, locating, removing or […] More

  • Mythic Raises $40M in Lockheed-Backed Funding Round for AI Chip Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mythic Raises $40M in Lockheed-Backed Funding Round for AI Chip Tech

    Artificial intelligence chip developer Mythic has obtained $40 million in series B financing round led by SoftBank Ventures and backed by Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, Data Collective, Lux Capital, DFJ, AME Cloud Ventures and Andy Bechtolsheim. Mythic said Wednesday it will use the investment to further develop a compute-in-memory technology designed to deliver the […] More