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  • Northrop Tests Precision Strike Missile Motor in Cold Temperatures - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Tests Precision Strike Missile Motor in Cold Temperatures

    Northrop Grumman subjected the Precision Strike Missile‘s rocket motor to extreme cold temperatures in a static test aimed at determining the design’s production readiness. The test verified that the PrSM motor meets performance requirements as part of a larger qualification effort, Northrop said Wednesday. PrSM is designed to extend strike ranges and load out capacity […] More

  • Lockheed, Amazon, Cisco to Integrate Deep Space Comms With Orion Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Amazon, Cisco to Integrate Deep Space Comms With Orion Spacecraft

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Amazon and Cisco to equip NASA’s Orion spacecraft with human-machine interface technologies designed to allow for deep space voice and video communications. The Callisto technology would use Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant and Cisco’s Webex video conferencing platform to demonstrate communications as NASA prepares Orion for the Artemis I uncrewed mission, […] More

  • Honeywell Veteran Stevan Slijepcevic Succeeds Brad Feldmann in Cubic President, CEO Roles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Veteran Stevan Slijepcevic Succeeds Brad Feldmann in Cubic President, CEO Roles

    Stevan Slijepcevic, a more than 25-year veteran of Honeywell, has succeeded Brad Feldmann as president and CEO of Cubic. Slijepcevic said in a statement Wednesday he will lead Cubic alongside three-decade government contracting executive Mac Curtis, who will take over Feldmann’s duties as board chairman, to drive its next phase of growth as a private […] More

  • Former Leidos Exec William McGann Joins Quantum Computing Inc. as COO/CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Leidos Exec William McGann Joins Quantum Computing Inc. as COO/CTO

    William McGann, formerly chief technology officer at a Leidos business, has been named chief operating and technology officer at Quantum Computing Inc., where he will oversee product engineering, technology development and research efforts in his new role. QCI said Tuesday the three-decade industry veteran will be responsible for driving the company’s quantum software initiatives through […] More

  • Aquia to Help RevaComm Secure CMS Continuous Authorization Engine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aquia to Help RevaComm Secure CMS Continuous Authorization Engine

    Aquia is teaming up with RevaComm to perform cybersecurity services for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under a five-year contract with the General Services Administration. The veteran-owned startup said Tuesday it will provide security engineering and architecture services for CMS’s Continuous Authorization and Verification Engine or batCAVE, which is designed to accelerate software […] More

  • Rocket Lab, NASA Near Certification of Autonomous Flight Safety Software; Peter Beck Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rocket Lab, NASA Near Certification of Autonomous Flight Safety Software; Peter Beck Quoted

    Rocket Lab and NASA have made progress to certify autonomous software designed to boost the safety of flight termination activities with the Electron rocket, Via Satellite reported Thursday. The space agency on Dec. 17 unveiled the NASA Autonomous Flight Termination Unit‘s updated software as part of efforts to address issues associated with manual software handling. […] More

  • Code42 VP Jason Greenwood: Federal Agencies Should Address Insider Risks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Code42 VP Jason Greenwood: Federal Agencies Should Address Insider Risks

    Jason Greenwood, vice president of security solutions at cyber software company Code42, said the U.S government needs to bolster its cybersecurity against increased insider risks that come with continuous workplace modernization. The implementation of remote working and the availability of other modern work setups have made openings that increase data exfiltration risks, he wrote in […] More

  • ACT Awarded SBIR Phase 2 Funds to Develop Thermal Control Tech for NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT Awarded SBIR Phase 2 Funds to Develop Thermal Control Tech for NASA

    Pennsylvania-based Advanced Cooling Technologies has secured $5 million in NASA funding to further develop a set of thermal control tools under the space agency’s Small Business Innovation Research program, Space News reported Friday. ACT will use the SBIR phase two funds to work on radiators, heat transport and other thermal control technologies designed for use […] More

  • Army Soliciting Bids for Construction of USAF's Next Gen C2 Platform Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Soliciting Bids for Construction of USAF’s Next Gen C2 Platform Facility

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking proposals for the construction of an operations facility in support of the Advanced Battle Management System, the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation command and control platform. The future contractor would build a secure compartmentalized information facility in Warner Robins, Georgia, under an award potentially valued between $25 million […] More

  • Raytheon to Provide Services for Navy, Foreign Seasparrow Missiles Under $55M Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Provide Services for Navy, Foreign Seasparrow Missiles Under $55M Deal

    Raytheon Technologies has received a $55.1 million contract modification to perform technical and engineering support services for the Seasparrow surface missiles of the U.S. Navy and foreign military sales customers. The cost-plus-fixed-fee award continues Raytheon’s work on the Evolved Seasparrow Missile and NATO Seasparrow Missile Systems programs, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Ninety-nine percent […] More