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  • NASA OKs May 2018 Launch Date for Lockheed-Built InSight Mars Lander - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA OKs May 2018 Launch Date for Lockheed-Built InSight Mars Lander

    NASA‘s science mission directorate has cleared the space agency’s new plan to launch a Lockheed Martin-built robotic spacecraft May 5, 2018 as part of efforts to investigate the deep interior of Mars. The agency said Friday it expects the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander to reach the Red Planet by Nov. 26, 2018. “Our robotic scientific explorers […] More

  • Andy Start Details Inmarsat Satellite Infrastructure Configured for Gov't Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andy Start Details Inmarsat Satellite Infrastructure Configured for Gov’t Customers

    Andy Start, president of Inmarsat’s global government business, has said the company seeks to help the government perform its mission using a satellite network infrastructure that works to deliver what he calls a “digital edge.” Start wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Inmarsat designed its global satellite network to meet the security requirements of government […] More

  • BAE, Raytheon Team Up to Chase Australia Radar Network Modernization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, Raytheon Team Up to Chase Australia Radar Network Modernization Program

    The Australian subsidiaries of BAE Systems and Raytheon have partnered to bid for a $765 million contract to update a radar network that supports aerial and maritime surveillance efforts of the Australian military. Daronmont Technologies and RCR Resolve FM also joined the BAE-led team that will pursue Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network modernization program, BAE said Sunday. Raytheon will provide systems integration expertise under […] More

  • Lockheed, Warsaw University of Technology Partner to Demo UAV Optimization Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Warsaw University of Technology Partner to Demo UAV Optimization Tools

    Lockheed Martin and Poland-based Warsaw University of Technology have jointly demonstrated unmanned aerial vehicle optimization technologies through aerial command and control of multiple UAVs. Lockheed said Friday the demonstration builds on a joint applied research effort between the company and the university that seeks to modernize various aircraft fleets as well as identify C2 concepts for manned and unmanned airborne […] More

  • MBDA to Help Build Qatar's Coastal Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA to Help Build Qatar’s Coastal Defense System

    MBDA has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to build a coastal defense system that will work to help Qatar’s navy defend territorial waters against hostile ships. The system will be designed to deploy an extended-range Marte missile and an Exocet MM40 Block 3 missile as well as feature autonomous radar mode and data-linking to a higher level within a coastal surveillance network, MBDA said […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Hydrocarbon Boost Tech for Air Force; Shawn Phillips Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Hydrocarbon Boost Tech for Air Force; Shawn Phillips Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a full-scale component test for a rocket engine the company is developing with the U.S. Air Force as part of efforts to end the nation’s reliance on Russian technology for satellite launch missions. The Hydrocarbon Boost Technology Demonstrator, a major component in the Air Force’s Oxygen Rich Staged Combustion engine development initiative, underwent its first full-scale test at 100-percent […] More

  • Whiting-Turner Contracting to Build Modular Clinics for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Whiting-Turner Contracting to Build Modular Clinics for Navy

    Whiting-Turner Contracting has won a $29.4 million contract to construct temporary modular medical or clinical facilities at a U.S. Navy base in Bethesda, Maryland. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will build the healthcare facilities at Naval Support Activity Bethesda to supplement space vacated by a demolition effort. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command received two offers for the […] More

  • VA Verifies Worldwide Counter Threat Solutions as Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Verifies Worldwide Counter Threat Solutions as Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has verified Worldwide Counter Threat Solutions, formerly known as Allen Vanguard Counter-Threat Solutions, as a service-disabled veteran-owned small business. WCTS said Thursday the verification makes the company eligible to utilize the Veterans First Contracting Program that works to prioritize SDVOSBs in VA contract awards. VA programs under the Office of Small & Disadvantaged Business […] More

  • Peter Smith: American Systems to Continue Support for DoD's Developmental Test & Evaluation Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Peter Smith: American Systems to Continue Support for DoD’s Developmental Test & Evaluation Office

    Washington Headquarters Services has awarded American Systems a potential five-year, $52 million contract to provide professional engineering services to the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation. American Systems said Friday its warfare area professionals will work to manage, review and evaluate approximately 150 major defense acquisition program and major automated information […] More

  • Intel Receives FAA Authorization for Nighttime Drone Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Receives FAA Authorization for Nighttime Drone Operations

    The Federal Aviation Administration has granted a certificate of waiver that permits Intel to operate multiple small unmanned aircraft systems at night within special security notice flight restricted areas in the U.S. Intel said Thursday the Part 107 waiver extends a Section 333 exemption that the company obtained to fly 100 small UAS for its Drone 100 light show in Palms Springs, […] More

  • Phase One Raises Funds for Federal IT Modernization Support; Salesforce's Dave Rey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phase One Raises Funds for Federal IT Modernization Support; Salesforce’s Dave Rey Comments

    Phase One Consulting Group has obtained funds of an undisclosed sum that will support the company’s federal business as well as modernization efforts in the federal information technology sector. Alexandria, Virginia-based Phase One said Thursday that Salesforce‘s corporate investment group Salesforce Ventures serves as one of the consulting firm’s investors. Dave Rey, executive vice president for Salesforce’s North America public sector […] More

  • NIST to Back 12 Manufacturing Partnership Centers in US, Puerto Rico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST to Back 12 Manufacturing Partnership Centers in US, Puerto Rico

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology will obligate $36 million in annual  funds to 12 organizations to run Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers that will support small- and medium-sized manufacturers. NIST said Thursday the organizations will operate the MEP facilities in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont and Puerto Rico under cooperative agreements that […] More