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  • BlueHalo Completes Rocket Motor Testing Rounds for Next-Gen Counter-UAS Missile for Army; Jonathan Moneymaker Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlueHalo Completes Rocket Motor Testing Rounds for Next-Gen Counter-UAS Missile for Army; Jonathan Moneymaker Quoted

    BlueHalo has finished multiple rounds of testing for the Next-Generation Counter-Uncrewed Aerial System: Freedom Eagle, which is designed to defeat large air threats for the U.S. Army. The company said Thursday the activity involved firing the drone’s dual-thrust, solid rocket motor. NGCM FE-1 is envisioned to enhance lethality and range against Group 3 UAS and larger […] More

  • AWS Gets FedRAMP High Authorization for Machine Learning Platform for Managed Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Gets FedRAMP High Authorization for Machine Learning Platform for Managed Service

    Amazon Web Services has secured a “High” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its machine learning managed service available for customer of AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. The company said Thursday the ML platform, know as Amazon Bedrock, offers high-performance foundation models via a single application programming interface, with tools for building secure, […] More

  • General Atomics Unit Awarded $98M DOD Contract for Autonomous Air-to-Air Capability Prototyping Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Unit Awarded $98M DOD Contract for Autonomous Air-to-Air Capability Prototyping Effort

    A General Atomics business has secured a $98 million contract from the Department of Defense to prototype autonomous air-to-air missions for fourth and fifth-generation Blue Force fighters to train against “red air” surrogates. As the lead systems integrator for Project Red 5, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will deploy two of its MQ-20 Avenger unmanned aircraft and provide mission autonomy […] More

  • Northrop Wraps Up Preliminary Design Review for SDA's Tranche 2 Transport Layer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Wraps Up Preliminary Design Review for SDA’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer

    Northrop Grumman has completed the preliminary design review for 74 high-speed data transport satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. The company said Wednesday the batch includes Tranche 2 Beta satellites with new communications technologies and Tranche 2 Alpha satellites, which build on the Tranche 1 Transport Layer satellites awarded in 2022. The […] More

  • Labor Department, SkillStorm Partner to Streamline Transitions for Service Members, Military Spouses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Labor Department, SkillStorm Partner to Streamline Transitions for Service Members, Military Spouses

    The Veterans’ Employment and Training Service of the Department of Labor has chosen SkillStorm to provide hiring and training services to help transitioning military service members and their spouses enter the civilian technology sector. SkillStorm said Tuesday its selection marks its participation in the agency’s Transition Assistance Program Employment Navigator and Partnership Program. Under the initiative, Employment […] More

  • Lazarus AI, Second Front Systems Launch Accelerated Software Delivery Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lazarus AI, Second Front Systems Launch Accelerated Software Delivery Partnership

    A new partnership between Lazarus AI and Second Front Systems aims to speed up software delivery for the Department of Defense.  2F said Tuesday Lazarus AI will use its Game Warden DevSecOps platform to develop and deploy key capabilities, including rapid data aggregation, analysis, research, collection and engagement of available data to information military operations, per DOD standards. […] More

  • Ultra Maritime Secures Navy Contract for Sonobuoy Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ultra Maritime Secures Navy Contract for Sonobuoy Production

    Ultra Maritime has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract worth $49 million for the low-rate initial production of AN/SSQ-62G Sonobuoys. The firm-fixed-price contract will support the Navy’s annual training, peacetime operations, testing expenditures and inventory maintenance for major combat operations, ultra Maritime said Monday. Ed Cook, vice president and general manager at Ultra Maritime U.S., […] More

  • Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace Gives Redhorse 'Awardable' Status; Vince Bridgeman Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace Gives Redhorse ‘Awardable’ Status; Vince Bridgeman Quoted

    Redhorse Corp.‘s condition-based maintenance service designed for government cloud environments with full data rights has been deemed “Awardable” for Department of Defense work. The company said Monday it achieved the status through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace. Vince Bridgeman, senior vice president of national security services at Redhorse, expressed enthusiasm for […] More

  • General Dynamics Unit Books $71M Navy Contract for F-35 IT and Cybersecurity Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unit Books $71M Navy Contract for F-35 IT and Cybersecurity Support

    General Dynamics‘ One Source business has secured a $70.7 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology, information assurance and cybersecurity services for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft’s virtual enterprise networks and standalone workstations. Services will cover program management, enterprise architecture, emerging capabilities implementation, operations and maintenance, service desk support, IT training and […] More

  • Carahsoft to Make Nuggets Digital Identity and Payment Platform Available to Government Agencies; Brian O’Donnell Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Make Nuggets Digital Identity and Payment Platform Available to Government Agencies; Brian O’Donnell Quoted

    Nuggets has partnered Carahsoft Technology to distribute its digital identity and payment platform to government agencies. Carahsoft said Thursday the platform will be made available through its reseller partners and its NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2, National Association of State Procurement Officials ValuePoint and OMNIA Partners contracts. The […] More

  • HawkEye 360 RF Data & Analytics to be Distributed on Global Data Marketplace; Alex Fox Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HawkEye 360 RF Data & Analytics to be Distributed on Global Data Marketplace; Alex Fox Quoted

    The Global Data Marketplace will offer HawkEye 360’s space-based data and analytics, expanding the latter’s reach to government entities, academia and international allies with critical missions. Alex Fox, chief growth officer at HawkEye 360, said Thursday, “HawkEye 360’s integration with the Global Data Marketplace allows us to bring our novel RF data and analytics to a broader […] More

  • State Department Clears Potential $115M Sale of Precision Bombs to Belgium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department Clears Potential $115M Sale of Precision Bombs to Belgium

    The Department of State has approved a possible foreign military sale of 196 Guided Bomb Unit-53/B Small Diameter Bombs-Increment II All-Up-Rounds to the government of Belgium. At an estimated cost of $115 million, the transaction will also include training, repair, maintenance, software, munitions, transportation, logistics and other program support, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday. […] More