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  • BAE Demos Maritime Robotic Systems at UK Navy Exercise; Frank Cotton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Demos Maritime Robotic Systems at UK Navy Exercise; Frank Cotton Comments

    BAE Systems has demonstrated the company’s unmanned boat technology in conjunction with a transportable command-and-control system at a U.K. navy-hosted exercise off the coasts of Scotland and West Wales. The Unmanned Warrior event will run through Oct. 20 and feature more than 50 vehicles, sensors and cross-platform technologies from industry, academia and the Royal Navy, BAE said Thursday. At the […] More

  • Boeing Adds 6 Months to NASA Commercial Crew Test, Development Phase; John Mulholland Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Adds 6 Months to NASA Commercial Crew Test, Development Phase; John Mulholland Comments

    Boeing has revised the schedule for its Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract with NASA and delayed the program for another six months as the company works to address production issues on the CST-100 spacecraft, Aviation Week reported Monday. Guy Norris writes the company expects to send the first batch of NASA astronauts to the International Space […] More

  • DHS Certifies Alion Risk Assessment Tool for Federal Facility Usage; Terri Spoonhour Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Certifies Alion Risk Assessment Tool for Federal Facility Usage; Terri Spoonhour Comments

    Alion Science and Technology has received a certification from the Department of Homeland Security’s Interagency Security Committee for the company’s risk assessment tool to use at federal facilities located outside a military base. Alion’s CounterMeasures has been approved to incorporate the DHS ISC standards for security measures and protection from insider threats, Alion said Thursday. “The […] More

  • US Coast Guard Picks Fairbanks Morse to Build Offshore Patrol Cutter Engines; Marvin Riley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Coast Guard Picks Fairbanks Morse to Build Offshore Patrol Cutter Engines; Marvin Riley Comments

    The U.S. Coast Guard has selected Fairbanks Morse to produce diesel propulsion engines for the military branch’s offshore patrol cutter that is scheduled for sea deployment in 2021. Fairbanks Morse said Wednesday it will build FM-MAN 16V 28/33D diesel engines for the first OPC vessel that Eastern Shipbuilding Group will build for the Coast Guard. The 360-foot-long cutter will be built to provide a capability […] More

  • Vecna Receives DoD Accreditation for Patient Check-In System; Bill Donnell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vecna Receives DoD Accreditation for Patient Check-In System; Bill Donnell Comments

    Vecna has received a Defense Department accreditation and authorization to operate the company’s patient self-service check-in system on the DoD network. The DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process and ATO from the Defense Health Agency serve to clear Vecna’s system for DoD use with the department’s electronic health record and dental application, the company said Tuesday. The self-service […] More

  • Northrop Tests Synoptic Sensor Tech on Global Hawk UAV; Mick Jaggers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Tests Synoptic Sensor Tech on Global Hawk UAV; Mick Jaggers Comments

    Northrop Grumman has flown a legacy U.S. Air Force sensor for the first time on a company-built RQ-4 Global Hawk drone as part of efforts to demonstrate sensors that are previously unavailable to the unmanned aerial vehicle. The Optical Bar Camera test marks the second of three planned demonstrations of the technology, Northrop said Wednesday. The broad-area sensor is designed to transmit panoramic […] More

  • Esri, Waze Forge Public Sector Transportation Systems Partnership; Andrew Stauffer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri, Waze Forge Public Sector Transportation Systems Partnership; Andrew Stauffer Comments

    Esri and Waze have forged a partnership to develop intelligent transportation systems for government agencies to share publicly-available traffic information with their communities. Current government customers of the Esri ArcGIS platform will be able to exchange data and merge information into emergency dispatch and street maintenance systems through the Waze Connected Citizens Program, Esri said Wednesday. “Municipalities can […] More

  • Battelle, USAF Enter Cooperative Agreement for Aircraft Ice Protection Tech R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, USAF Enter Cooperative Agreement for Aircraft Ice Protection Tech R&D

    Battelle and the U.S. Air Force‘s Life Cycle Management Center will collaborate to build anti-icing technology for aircraft under a cooperative research-and-development agreement. The Air Force said Tuesday that Battelle is developing an ice protection technology with the use of a carbon nanotube dispersant as a resistive heater for anti-ice and de-ice purposes. The nonprofit will continue to test […] More

  • McMurdo to Help Army Develop Personnel Recovery Device; Mark Cianciolo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McMurdo to Help Army Develop Personnel Recovery Device; Mark Cianciolo Comments

    McMurdo has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to develop prototypes of a custom personnel recovery device to aid the U.S. Army‘s search and rescue of soldiers in distress. The PRD will be part of the Army’s Personnel Recovery Support System as a militarized locator beacon, McMurdo said Tuesday. The Orolia Group company will incorporate a dual-mode feature into the device to assist in training and […] More

  • Lockheed, University of Nevada Form Space Exploration Partnership; Scott Jones Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, University of Nevada Form Space Exploration Partnership; Scott Jones Comments

    The University of Nevada in Las Vegas has signed partnership agreement with Lockheed Martin to support space exploration projects such as NASA’s Orion program. Lockheed will allocate up to $5 million in space exploration-related task orders for UNLV’s Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering under the five-year agreement, the university said Tuesday. “This effort will allow both Lockheed Martin and UNLV to provide meaningful […] More

  • L-3 Kicks Off Logistics Support for Air Force KC-10 Tanker Fleet; Michael Strianese Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Kicks Off Logistics Support for Air Force KC-10 Tanker Fleet; Michael Strianese Comments

    A division of L-3 Communications has begun to provide logistics support services for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-10 aerial refueling aircraft under a potential nine-year, $1.9 billion contract awarded in June. L-3 said Tuesday its Vertex Aerospace division commenced work after the Government Accountability Office rejected a competitor’s protest to the contract award. Madison, Mississippi-based Vertex Aerospace will maintain and operate base supply, provide field service representative […] More

  • Boeing Chosen to Find F-15 Sensor Tech Provider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Chosen to Find F-15 Sensor Tech Provider

    Boeing will work to identify a vendor that can supply 132 infrared search-and-track sensors in support of a $198 million program to modernize the U.S. Air Force’s F-15C/D twin-engined fighter, Flight Global reported Monday. Stephen Trimble writes the Air Force has also tasked Boeing to find a provider of sensors for active duty squadrons, Air National Guard and test […] More