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  • Space and Aviation Industry Reps Press Congress for Regulatory Reform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space and Aviation Industry Reps Press Congress for Regulatory Reform

    Panelists representing the Air Line Pilots Association, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin and SpaceX recently testified before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation about the necessity of government regulatory reform in commercial space transportation. Teslarati reported Tuesday that the panelists identified two primary areas where timely government action is needed, namely: […] More

  • General Atomics Tests Arresting Gear Tech on Prop Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Tests Arresting Gear Tech on Prop Aircraft

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems group has tested its Advanced Arresting Gear system on three types of heavy, propeller-driven aircraft at the Runway Arrested Landing Site in Lakehurst, N.J. The company said Monday the arresting gear was able to perform aircraft recovery on a C2-A Greyhound, an E-2C+ Hawkeye and an E-2D Advanced Hawkeye. Rolf Ziesing, vice president […] More

  • Symantec's Aubrey Merchant-Dest Calls for Adoption of 'Defense-in-Depth' Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec’s Aubrey Merchant-Dest Calls for Adoption of ‘Defense-in-Depth’ Cybersecurity

    Aubrey Merchant-Dest, federal chief technical officer at software company Symantec, wrote in an opinion piece published Thursday on Fifth Domain that approaching cybersecurity from a client-server perspective is no longer tenable due to the increasing civilian and military use of cloud services and mobile technologies. In the client-server model, cybersecurity is determined by a single defense perimeter […] More

  • Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos Supports Call for Manned Lunar Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blue Origin’s Jeff Bezos Supports Call for Manned Lunar Missions

    Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said during the International Space Development Conference in Los Angeles that he supported the government’s call for manned lunar missions and believes establishing a lunar base is necessary for sustained missions to Mars, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. Bezos said he would be willing to work with other countries to build facilities […] More