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  • Iridium Preps 3rd NEXT Satellite Batch for October Launch; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Preps 3rd NEXT Satellite Batch for October Launch; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Comxmunications has rescheduled to Oct. 4 the launch of a third batch of 10 NEXT communications satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket. The company said Wednesday it began pre-launch processing activities on the satellites and the Falcon 9 rocket stages and components. The third Irdium NEXT launch was originally slated […] More

  • Raytheon BBN to Help Automate USAF's Foreign Language Info Retrieval Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon BBN to Help Automate USAF’s Foreign Language Info Retrieval Process

    Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has won a $21.7 million contract to develop an automated technology platform for the U.S. Air Force to retrieve foreign language information. The Defense Department said Wednesday BBN will build the platform to support cross-language information retrieval, machine translation, automatic speech recognition and surprise language summarization. Work will occur in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through Nov. […] More

  • L3 Delivers Passenger Screening System to Istanbul Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Delivers Passenger Screening System to Istanbul Airport

    L3 Technologies has delivered its ProVision 2 passenger screening system to the Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Turkey. The company said Wednesday the order brings the total number of deployed ProVision platforms to 2,000 systems worldwide. ProVision works to detect metallic and non-metallic objects such as weapons, explosives, liquids, gels, plastics, powders, metals, ceramics and other materials. […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Awarded Navy Aircraft Carrier Support Contract Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Awarded Navy Aircraft Carrier Support Contract Options

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a $27.5 million in contract options from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of support services for the military branch’s Gerald R. Ford-class and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. The Defense Department said Wednesday the exercised options cover technical, engineering, design, development, conversion, test, studies, operational and modernization support as well as material, spares, […] More

  • DOE Lab Seeks Commercialization Partner for True Random Number Generator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Lab Seeks Commercialization Partner for True Random Number Generator

    The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun to accept license applications for a device that uses quantum mechanical systems to generate true random numbers. ORNL said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice it seeks a commercialization partner for the true random number generator as part of the lab’s Technology Innovation Program. The quantum mechanics-based device works […] More

  • Lockheed, Leidos, Northrop Named Top Federal IT Vendors in IDC Report - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Leidos, Northrop Named Top Federal IT Vendors in IDC Report

    A business unit of International Data Corp. has ranked companies with the highest revenues from the sale of information technology products and services to federal government customers in 2017. IDC Government Insights said Wednesday its 2017 Federal IT Rankings are based on federal IT providers’ calendar year revenues for IT hardware, software and services instead of potential earnings […] More

  • Elbit Systems Plans Cyberbit Business Reorganization in Defense, Commercial Market Growth Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Plans Cyberbit Business Reorganization in Defense, Commercial Market Growth Push

    Elbit Systems has announced plans to reorganize its Cyberbit subsidiary as part of a push to help address a growing demand for cybersecurity products and services in both the defense and commercial sectors. Cyberbit’s defense cyber intelligence and cybersecurity business will operate under Elbit Systems’ land and C4I division effective Jan. 1 and the subsidiary will focus […] More

  • SAIC to Enter Marine AAV Survivability Tech Production, Deployment Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC to Enter Marine AAV Survivability Tech Production, Deployment Phase

    Science Applications International Corp. has received approval from the U.S. Marine Corp‘s program executive officer for land systems to kick off the production and deployment phase of its Assault Amphibious Vehicle Survivability Upgrade program. SAIC said Tuesday the Marine Corps authorized the program’s transition into low-rate initial production following issuance of a Milestone C decision and awarded […] More

  • 4 Companies Get Contract Modifications to Extend DARPA Tactical Tech Program Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4 Companies Get Contract Modifications to Extend DARPA Tactical Tech Program Support

    Four companies have received a combined $13.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to extend support services for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s tactical technology office. Booz Allen Hamilton, ManTech International‘s SRS Technologies subsidiary, Centra Technology and Schafer will continue to provide technical, programmatic, financial and administrative support to TTO programs, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • AeroVironment Delivers Updated UAS Platforms to Help DoD Address RF Spectrum Requirements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment Delivers Updated UAS Platforms to Help DoD Address RF Spectrum Requirements

    AeroVironment has supplied two Defense Department customers with company-built Raven and Puma AE unmanned aircraft systems that are compatible with M1/M2/M5 radio frequencies. The company said Tuesday it will also begin to offer M1/M2/M5-configured Wasp AE micro air vehicles in December then conduct deliveries in spring 2018. David Sharpin, vice president of AeroVironment’s tactical UAS business unit, […] More

  • Brian Krzanich: Intel Invests $1B in Startups to Help Drive AI Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brian Krzanich: Intel Invests $1B in Startups to Help Drive AI Tech Development

    Intel has invested more than $1 billion in startup companies to support the development of artificial intelligence technologies. CEO Brian Krzanich wrote in an article published Monday that Intel has funded AI-focused companies such as Mighty AI, Data Robot and Lumiata through the firm’s capital business. Krzanich added Intel developed suite of AI products to help customers manage workloads. The […] More