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  • Artis Obtains DoD Approval to Test Active Protection System With Israeli Radars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Artis Obtains DoD Approval to Test Active Protection System With Israeli Radars

    Artis has received the Defense Department‘s approval to test and evaluate Israel-based Rada Electronic Industries‘ radars with an Artis-built active protection system, Defense News reported Tuesday. Barbara Opall-Rome writes Rada said it would provide its Compact Hemispheric Radar-based RPS-10 system to aid Artis’ Iron Curtain APS in operations against rocket-propelled grenades and shoulder-launched threats. “We have received approval from […] More

  • NASA to Launch Lockheed-Built Spacecraft for Asteroid Sample Return Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Launch Lockheed-Built Spacecraft for Asteroid Sample Return Mission

    A Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft is scheduled for liftoff on Sept. 8 from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket as part of a NASA  mission to survey a near-Earth asteroid and return a sample back home. Lockheed said the University of Arizona will lead the space agency’s seven-year Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer mission that aims to explore […] More

  • L-3 to Provide Simulator Update for China-Based JV's Nuclear Power Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 to Provide Simulator Update for China-Based JV’s Nuclear Power Site

    L-3 Communications‘ MAPPS division has received a contract from China-based joint venture Liaoning Hongyanhe Nuclear Power to help update the reactor core model on the Hongyanhe Phase I nuclear power site’s simulator. MAPPS said Tuesday it will provide the Orchid Core Builder graphical utility that will work to create and validate the simulator’s cycle-specific reactor core data. The updated Comet Plus reactor […] More

  • L-3 to Produce Electro-Optical IR Turrets for Middle East Country's UH-60 Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 to Produce Electro-Optical IR Turrets for Middle East Country’s UH-60 Fleet

    L-3 Communications has been chosen to supply electro-optical and infrared designating turrets for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters of a Middle Eastern defense customer under a foreign military sales agreement. New York City-headquartered L-3 said Tuesday its Wescam MX-10D EO/IR turrets will work to help the customer execute counterterrorism missions from UH-60s helicopters. The company added its integrated sensor systems segment began to […] More

  • Phacil Obtains CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for Service System Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phacil Obtains CMMI Maturity Level 3 Appraisal for Service System Development

    Phacil has received a Capability Maturity Model Integration level 3 rating from the CMMI Institute for the company’s efforts in services and service system development. Arlington, Virginia-based information technology company Phacil said Tuesday Abridge Technology conducted the appraisal based on Phacil’s program support, personnel management, software development and help desk support for the U.S. Forest Service’s Resource Ordering and Status System. Phacil added […] More

  • US Navy, Canada's Defense Dept Ink Blackjack UAS Sale Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Navy, Canada’s Defense Dept Ink Blackjack UAS Sale Agreement

    The U.S. Navy has signed an agreement with Canada’s defense department to establish the first-ever foreign military sales transaction for the RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned air system. The Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program Office plans to deliver one Blackjack UAS system to Canada’s army in 2017, the Navy said Monday. Marine Corps Col. Eldon Metzger, PMA-263 […] More

  • ORNL's Trim & Drill Tool for Boeing Sets Guinness World Record for Largest 3D-Printed Item - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ORNL’s Trim & Drill Tool for Boeing Sets Guinness World Record for Largest 3D-Printed Item

    A trim-and-drill tool created by researchers at the Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Boeing has set a new Guinness World Record as the largest solid three-dimensionally printed item. ORNL said Monday the laboratory worked over 30 hours to print the tool that is 17.5 feet long, 5.5 feet wide and 1.5 feet tall with a weight of approximately 1,650 pounds. Boeing will use the trim […] More

  • CH2M Gets 8-Year Extension on Operations Mgmt Contract With New Mexico Client - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M Gets 8-Year Extension on Operations Mgmt Contract With New Mexico Client

    CH2M has received an eight-year contract extension from the city of Grants in New Mexico for operations management support. CH2M said Monday the contract renewal build on the company’s 28-year support for Grants in the areas of wastewater utility and public works. Grants City Manager Laura Jaramillo said the city’s evaluation committee picked CH2M after a solicitation of proposals for services. […] More

  • Vricon to Support Army Geospatial Center Under GSA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vricon to Support Army Geospatial Center Under GSA Contract

    Vricon has been awarded a sole-source contract by the General Services Administration to provide geospatial data services to the U.S. Army‘s Geospatial Center. McLean, Virginia-based Vricon said Friday the contract covers the provision of a digital surface model with 10-meter-resolution postings that will work to cover an entire country. The company will also supply its 0.5m-resolution Vricon Data Suite that includes the 3D Surface Model, […] More

  • SES GS Secures Contract to Provide O3b Satcom Services to DoD End User - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES GS Secures Contract to Provide O3b Satcom Services to DoD End User

    The government services subsidiary of SES has landed a contract to provide O3b Networks‘ satellite communications technology to a Defense Department customer. The O3b satcom service uses a satellite beam that operates within 200 milliseconds per roundtrip and consists of a 155 Mbps link, gateway access, terrestrial backhaul, a 2.4m AvL terminal and installation, operations and maintenance services, SES said Monday. The company added the U.S. […] More

  • ULA Eyes Reusable 2nd Stage for Future Rocket to Support Orbital Activities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Eyes Reusable 2nd Stage for Future Rocket to Support Orbital Activities

    United Launch Alliance is developing a reusable rocket stage that would stay in low Earth orbit and support activities in space, Quartz reported Saturday. Tim Fernholz writes ULA CEO Tory Bruno said a fleet of the company’s future Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage will work to support large-scale LEO activities as the company envisions a future in which humans […] More

  • SpaceX Dragon Completes 9th Cargo Delivery Mission to Space Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Dragon Completes 9th Cargo Delivery Mission to Space Station

    SpaceX‘s Dragon capsule has returned from its ninth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, bringing back more than 3,000 pounds of experiment samples and other cargo home for NASA scientists. NASA said Saturday the unmanned spacecraft landed Friday in the Pacific Ocean at 11:47 a.m. Eastern Time and SpaceX personnel will ship the retrieved module to Los Angeles for the cargo […] More