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  • NIST to Fund Organizations in 11 States to Operate Manufacturing Centers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST to Fund Organizations in 11 States to Operate Manufacturing Centers

    The Commerce Department‘s National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun the fourth round of competitions for cooperative funding agreement opportunities for Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers across 11 states. NIST said Thursday it will provide a potential $60 million to fund organizations in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Wyoming to operate the MEP […] More

  • UK Eyes Domestic UAV Training Center; CAE's Gene Colabatistto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Eyes Domestic UAV Training Center; CAE’s Gene Colabatistto Comments

    The U.K. government plans to build its own training center for General Atomics-built unmanned air vehicles as space for allies at the U.S. Air Force’s UAV training school continues to shrink, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Beth Stevenson writes the Air Force began to ration the slots for foreign partners at the Holloman Air Force Base in […] More

  • BAE Updates Software of UK Air Force's Typhoon Aircraft Simulators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Updates Software of UK Air Force’s Typhoon Aircraft Simulators

    BAE Systems has completed a software update to the Emulated Deployable Cockpit Trainers for the British air force’s Typhoon fighter aircraft simulators. The company said Wednesday that updated EDCT system at Royal Air Force Coningsby and Lossiemouth bases will work to simulate missions for Typhoon pilots to familiarize themselves with geographical area, conditions and layout prior to deployment. “This update to the UK’s synthetic […] More

  • Boeing Unveils Missouri Lab for Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles; Nancy Pendleton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Unveils Missouri Lab for Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles; Nancy Pendleton Comments

    Boeing has opened an 8,100-square-foot laboratory in St. Charles, Missouri to facilitate the development and validation of software and hardware designed to support collaboration among unmanned ground, maritime and aerial vehicles. The company said Thursday the Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory features a motion capture system that will work to help users operate multiple unmanned vehicles in a […] More

  • Lockheed's Sandia Subsidiary to Receive Energy Tech Project Funds From DOE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Sandia Subsidiary to Receive Energy Tech Project Funds From DOE

    The Energy Department will support two technology development initiatives at Sandia National Laboratories for eventual transmission into the commercial market. Sandia Labs said Tuesday its Sandia Cooler and BA-BZT-BT capacitors projects will receive an equal amount of non-federal money with the other selected energy projects from TCF to match the federal investment. Lockheed Martin‘s Sandia Corp. subsidiary operates the laboratory […] More

  • Canadian Military Looks to Build Arctic Satellite Comms System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Canadian Military Looks to Build Arctic Satellite Comms System

    The Canadian military plans to solicit ideas from industry on a satellite communications infrastructure dedicated to the Arctic region, Space News reported Thursday. Mike Gruss reports Col. Jeff Dooling, director of space requirements for the Canadian Department for National Defense, told the MilSatCom conference in Virginia that the Enhanced Satcom project is estimated to cost $1.8 billion […] More

  • Jim Soltys: Noblis to Support GSA's Federal Telecoms Acquisition Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Soltys: Noblis to Support GSA’s Federal Telecoms Acquisition Programs

    Noblis has received two task orders to help the General Services Administration identify pricing strategies and analyze costs of telecommunication services that the agency provides to federal customers. Noblis said Wednesday it will support efforts of GSA’s Office of Network Services Programs to maintain and update the agency’s telecommunications and network services. “GSA manages telecommunications acquisition programs that provide […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL’s Instrument Aboard Lockheed-Built Spacecraft Seeks to Study Jupiter’s Aurora Formation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL’s Instrument Aboard Lockheed-Built Spacecraft Seeks to Study Jupiter’s Aurora Formation

    A NASA spacecraft with a Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory-built instrument that works to measure high-energy particles is scheduled to reach Jupiter on July 4 as part of a mission to study the planet and the universe. Johns Hopkins APL’s Jupiter Energetic Particle Detector Instrument onboard the Lockheed Martin-built Juno spacecraft has three detectors designed […] More

  • IEEE Launches Working Group to Structure Aerial Communications, Networking Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IEEE Launches Working Group to Structure Aerial Communications, Networking Standards

    Technical organization IEEE and the IEEE Standards Association have launched the IEEE Aerial Network Communications Working Group to structure standards for aircraft systems. Group members will work to establish the IEEE P1920.1 project designed to develop standards for air-to-air communications in an ad hoc aerial network and situational awareness for commercial, civil manned and unmanned aircraft […] More

  • MBDA to Supply Qatar Navy Missiles Under $1.11B Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA to Supply Qatar Navy Missiles Under $1.11B Deal

    MBDA‘s Italian subsidiary has been awarded a potential $1.11 billion contract to build  three kinds of missile for installation on Qatar’s naval ships. The Qatar Emiri Naval Forces will receive Exocet MM40 Block 3 anti-ship missiles and  Aster 30 Block 1 and Vertical Launch MICA air defense missile systems from MBDA Italia, the company said Wednesday. The weapons will be built to […] More

  • Coast Guard Taps Erickson For Helicopter Transportation Services Purchase Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Taps Erickson For Helicopter Transportation Services Purchase Order

    Erickson has received a purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard to transport USCG Research and Development Center staff and equipment aboard Bell 212 helicopters to locations in Nome, Alaska. The Portland, Oregon-headquartered aviation services provider said Monday the purchase order carries into August and the contract work started on June 13. Erickson was also selected to provide helicopter support for the Alaska […] More

  • Defense News: UK Agency Teams With BAE, Northrop for F-35 Support Hub Bid - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense News: UK Agency Teams With BAE, Northrop for F-35 Support Hub Bid

    A British defense support organization has partnered with BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman to compete for the rights to be Europe’s F-35 avionics sustainment hub, Defense News reported Wednesday. Andrew Chuter writes the U.K.’s Defense Electronics and Components Agency, BAE and Northrop aim to propose a joint framework for maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade services provision to the F-35 Joint Program Office by August. DECA […] More