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  • Chenega to Open New Gov't Customer Service Branch in Arizona - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chenega to Open New Gov’t Customer Service Branch in Arizona

    Chenega Corp., an Alaska native village corporation, is scheduled to open a new service branch in Sierra Vista, Arizona, on June 9 in a push to help address the needs of federal and Defense Department customers in the area. The establishment of an Sierra Vista office will allow Chenega’s military, intelligence and operations support business to increase communication with nearby clients, […] More

  • Battelle-Boeing Team to Chase Sandia National Lab Mgmt Contract; Jeffrey Wadsworth Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle-Boeing Team to Chase Sandia National Lab Mgmt Contract; Jeffrey Wadsworth Comments

    Battelle and Boeing have agreed to jointly pursue work to operate Sandia National Laboratories in partnership with the University of New Mexico, Texas A&M University System and the University of Texas System. The Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration currently looks for a company to manage SNL, a federally funded research and development center tasked with […] More

  • Navistar Defense to Refresh 250 Army Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navistar Defense to Refresh 250 Army Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected Vehicles

    Navistar‘s defense business has received a $29.8 million contract modification to update more Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles of the U.S. Army. Work under the contract modification covers 250 additional MaxxPro MRAP vehicles and the deal also includes an option for another 200 vehicles, the Defense Department said Tuesday. MaxxPro is designed to defend against ballistic arms […] More

  • Microsoft Aims to Help Combat Terrorism Through Online Strategies, Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Aims to Help Combat Terrorism Through Online Strategies, Partnerships

    Microsoft has outlined the steps the company plans to take with the use of digital technology and the Internet in an effort to help counter terrorist activities online. The company said Friday it seeks to tackle terrorism-related content posted on its web services while it maintains the users’ rights to privacy, freedom of expression and the right to access information. […] More

  • Lockheed Transports Asteroid Sampling Spacecraft to NASA for Launch Preparations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Transports Asteroid Sampling Spacecraft to NASA for Launch Preparations

    Lockheed Martin has shipped its asteroid sampling spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final processing prior to the spacecraft’s launch toward an asteroid believed to hold answers about the solar system’s origin. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith Explorer spacecraft was transported Friday from Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado […] More

  • Carnegie Mellon University to Research, Develop Surveillance Algorithms for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carnegie Mellon University to Research, Develop Surveillance Algorithms for Navy

    Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded an $8.9 million contract to research and develop new algorithms for the U.S. Navy’s aerial and biometric surveillance efforts. The Defense Department said Monday the university will research tracking, surveillance and identification systems intended to address challenges in resolution, occlusion, pose and aging as part of the UROPA-TSI program. Carnegie Mellon will conduct […] More

  • General Dynamics Delivers 1st Zumwalt Class Ship to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Delivers 1st Zumwalt Class Ship to Navy

    A subsidiary of General Dynamics has delivered the first of Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers to the U.S. Navy for the service branch’s multi-mission surface combatant force. The Navy said Friday it accepted delivery of the USS Zumwalt after a series of tests on the ship’s hull, mechanical and electrical, damage control, ballasting, navigation and communications systems. General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works subsidiary designed and built the ship. […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium Mulls Satellite to Track Aircraft GPS Transponder Following EgyptAir Crash - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Mulls Satellite to Track Aircraft GPS Transponder Following EgyptAir Crash

    Iridium Communications eyes the possibility of launching by 2018 a satellite system that monitors an aircraft’s global positioning system transponder to help broadcast flight information in real time, CBS News reported Friday. “A global surveillance system can track that airplane down to the second and help you find it very quickly,” Iridium CEO Matt Desch told the news station. Existing systems […] More

  • Raytheon Begins Turnover of Railgun Pulse Power Containers to Navy; Colin Whelan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Begins Turnover of Railgun Pulse Power Containers to Navy; Colin Whelan Comments

    Raytheon has started to deliver the pulse power containers for the U.S. Navy‘s future railgun following the validation of power requirements for the next-generation directed energy weapon. The Navy will integrate the pulse power containers into its railgun test range to prepare for further development and testing under the program, Raytheon said Monday. The company added […] More

  • General Dynamics Ships 2nd ECO-Class Tanker to American Petroleum Tankers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Ships 2nd ECO-Class Tanker to American Petroleum Tankers

    A General Dynamics business unit has delivered the second LNG-conversion-ready tanker to American Petroleum Tankers on Thursday as part of a contract to build five such tankers for the petroleum transportation company. General Dynamics said Friday its NASSCO subsidiary built the Magnolia State tanker using a design by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering subsidiary DSEC. The 610-foot-long product carrier, which is the fifth ship that […] More

  • Pacific Disaster Center Uses Esri Platform to Track Spread of Zika Virus - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pacific Disaster Center Uses Esri Platform to Track Spread of Zika Virus

    Esri and the Pacific Disaster Center collaborate to monitor the spread of Zika virus across the globe with a company-built mapping tool. PDC shares the mapped information about the characteristics of the virus and the breeding grounds of Zika-carrying mosquitoes with health services and aid responders, Esri said Wednesday. “Esri GIS technology specifically allows us to characterize the Zika […] More