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  • Air Force Adds Full-Rate Production Options to 3D Long-Range Radar Solicitation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Adds Full-Rate Production Options to 3D Long-Range Radar Solicitation

    The U.S. Air Force has amended its solicitation for the Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar program to include options for full-rate production following a series of protests and legal action. The service branch said Monday the 3DELRR contract is now comprised of engineering and manufacturing development, low-rate initial production, interim contractor support and full rate production phases. Lockheed Martin, Northrop […] More

  • Siemens & DOE-Led Crowdsourcing Community Launch Building Tech Idea Search - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens & DOE-Led Crowdsourcing Community Launch Building Tech Idea Search

    Siemens and the Energy Department-led Jump online crowdsourcing community have partnered to crowdsource building technology ideas that could support interaction between personal smart devices and public facilities. The company said Monday the Jump challenge seeks concepts, use cases and business models that could help building occupants in commercial, public or corporate spaces to achieve the level of device interconnectivity […] More

  • Draeger Medical, Nobel Biocare Awarded DLA Supply Contract Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draeger Medical, Nobel Biocare Awarded DLA Supply Contract Funds

    Draeger Medical and Nobel Biocare have received separate awards from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide medical and dental supplies for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The Defense Department said Monday Draeger secured a potential $57.3 million modification that exercises the second of nine one-year option periods of a contract that covers patient monitoring […] More

  • CSRA-Racemi Alliance to Offer Cloud Migration Services in Public Sector; Peter O'Donoghue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA-Racemi Alliance to Offer Cloud Migration Services in Public Sector; Peter O’Donoghue Comments

    CSRA and Racemi have extended their partnership to jointly market a suite of bundled services intended to help government customers transition to Amazon Web Services‘ cloud computing platform or isolated GovCloud region. The companies’ three-phased cloud migration offering covers discovery and design, target preparation and assisted server migration services, CSRA said Monday. “Today’s [chief information officers] adopt cloud transformation strategies that require migration […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Completes Initial Hardware Tests on Dream Chaser Test Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Completes Initial Hardware Tests on Dream Chaser Test Vehicle

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has completed updates and initial hardware tests on the Dream Chaser flight test vehicle as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with NASA. The company said Thursday it will ship the test vehicle to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center to undergo a second phase of flight tests that will involve tow-tests, pre-flight ground evaluations and free-flight tests in coordination […] More

  • Air Force Picks Vencore for Cyber Weapon Characterization Software R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Vencore for Cyber Weapon Characterization Software R&D Contract

    A Vencore subsidiary has won a four-year, $9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop software that will work to localize and characterize cyber weapons that have entered the country’s power grid infrastructure. Vencore Labs will research, create and demonstrate the Scalable and Holistic Energy CybeR-weapon Localization and Characterization platform under the contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The SHERLOC […] More

  • ULA Launches NRO's National Defense Payload Aboard Atlas V Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches NRO’s National Defense Payload Aboard Atlas V Rocket

    United Launch Alliance has launched a national security payload into space Thursday as part of the National Reconnaissance Office‘s NROL-61 mission. The Boeing and Lockheed Martin joint venture said Thursday it launched the NROL-61 payload aboard the company-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Atlas V EELV 421 configuration was built to […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Adds 2 Potential Int'l Defense Customers for WorldView-4 Satellite Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Adds 2 Potential Int’l Defense Customers for WorldView-4 Satellite Capacity

    DigitalGlobe has entered into separate letters of intent with two international defense and intelligence agencies to provide the organizations access to imagery from the company’s WorldView-4 satellite. One agency is slated to become the company’s 12th Direct Access Program client under a multi-year commitment to task and receive imagery from all WorldView satellites, DigitalGlobe said Thursday. The company noted the second agency expressed interest for WorldView-4 […] More

  • DFNDR Armor to Use Honeywell's Ballistic Composite Materials for Body Armor Plate Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DFNDR Armor to Use Honeywell’s Ballistic Composite Materials for Body Armor Plate Production

    DFNDR Armor has selected Honeywell‘s Spectra Shield ballistic composite materials to produce body armor plates for potential use in the U.S. public sector. The companies said Wednesday Honeywell’s Spectra fiber-based materials will also support DFNDR Armor’s research-and-development work on “next generation” body armor technology for U.S. military, law enforcement and civilians. DFNDR Armor CEO Dave Fernandez said the body armor manufacturer uses Honeywell Spectra exclusively […] More

  • Saab Receives DoD Order for Man-Portable Weapon System; Michael Andersson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Receives DoD Order for Man-Portable Weapon System; Michael Andersson Comments

    Saab has received a $5.4 million order from the Defense Department to supply a company-built man-portable weapon system to U.S. military agencies. The defense and security company said Thursday the order for Saab’s Carl-Gustaf was issued under a previously awarded DoD contract for 84-millimeter recoilless rifle systems. Michael Andersson, president and CEO of Saab’s North American business, said Carl-Gustaf features […] More

  • Lockheed Installs Optical Sensor on Navy Salvage Ship for NATO Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Installs Optical Sensor on Navy Salvage Ship for NATO Missions

    Lockheed Martin has installed a company-built vehicle optical sensor system on the U.S. Navy‘s USNS Grapple rescue and salvage ship to support NATO‘s patrol operations in the Aegean Sea. The company and the military branch chose a first-generation Gyrocam VOSS from the U.S. government’s inventory and completed system installation over a two-week period, Lockheed said Wednesday. “To support NATO’s security mission quickly, the U.S. Navy needed […] More

  • Space News: SpaceX to Spend Approximately $300M on Red Dragon Mars Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space News: SpaceX to Spend Approximately $300M on Red Dragon Mars Mission

    Jim Reuter, deputy associate administrator for programs at NASA’s space technology mission directorate, has said SpaceX proposed to invest 10 times the funds NASA plans to allocate for an uncrewed Mars landing mission, Space News reported Thursday. Jeff Foust writes Reuter said at a NASA Advisory Council meeting in Cleveland that the agency could spend $32 million on […] More