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  • Civil Engineering Vet Brett Jones Named Parsons Business Devt VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Civil Engineering Vet Brett Jones Named Parsons Business Devt VP

    Brett Jones, a former vice president at engineering professional services company WSP, has joined engineering and construction services contractor Parsons as vice president of business development. Parsons said Thursday Jones will help the company pursue new business opportunities in Southern California and will focus on alternative and traditionally-procured projects in the transportation market in his new position. Jones’ 28-year civil […] More

  • NASA Center to Host Opening Event of High School Robotic Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Center to Host Opening Event of High School Robotic Competition

    NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will host the kickoff event of a national robotic competition for students in grades 9 through 12 on Saturday. The opening ceremony for this year’s FIRST Robotics, managed by the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology organization, will take place at the Davidson Center for […] More

  • Alan Titheridge, Richard Foster, Ronald Cook to Lead L3 International Boards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alan Titheridge, Richard Foster, Ronald Cook to Lead L3 International Boards

    L3 Technologies has formed international boards to help build up the company’s commercial and military businesses in Canada, Australia and the U.K. The company said Thursday each organization will consist of L3 executives and local industry professionals and help strengthen the firm’s global competitive edge through development and implementation of strategic programs. Alan Titheridge will […] More

  • Hughes' Rick Lober: DoD Should Apply 'Commercial Tenets' to Military Space Tech Acquisition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes’ Rick Lober: DoD Should Apply ‘Commercial Tenets’ to Military Space Tech Acquisition

    Rick Lober, vice president and general manager of Hughes Network Systems‘ defense and intelligence systems division, has said the Defense Department leadership should adopt the tenets of commercial satellite technology procurement to transform the way DoD acquires space hardware. He wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on Defense News that he believes department-industry collaboration is the “only […] More

  • Charter Trading to Offer IronClad's Comms Tech Products to Defense Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charter Trading to Offer IronClad’s Comms Tech Products to Defense Sector

    Charter Trading has agreed to market and sell IronClad Encryption-built mobile phone and networking products to U.S. military and government clients. IronClad designed its ICE phone and ICEMicro software offerings to help customers secure data and communications, the company said Thursday. JD McGraw, CEO of IronClad Encryption, said the company seeks to offer its technology platforms to the special […] More

  • QinetiQ, UK MoD to Upgrade Environmental Test Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ, UK MoD to Upgrade Environmental Test Facility

    QinetiQ and the British defense ministry will jointly provide $27 million in funds to support the upgrade of an environmental test facility based at a military installation in Shoeburyness, England. The company said Tuesday the investment in the Environmental Test Centre is part of an effort to modernize the U.K.’s test and evaluation systems. ETC provides facilities, technology and […] More

  • Babcock-UGL JV Lands $157M Australian Frigate Maintenance Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Babcock-UGL JV Lands $157M Australian Frigate Maintenance Support Contract

    A Babcock–UGL joint venture has secured a potential five-year, $156.7 million contract to help maintain the Australian navy’s Anzac-class frigates, Shephard Media reported Thursday. Naval Ship Management will provide engineering services for eight Australian frigates beginning this month in support of the Warship Asset Management Agreement program. WAMA is a collaborative effort of the Commonwealth of Australia, NSM, BAE Systems  and Saab to […] More

  • Latvia State Border Guard Orders Leonardo-Built Multipurpose Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Latvia State Border Guard Orders Leonardo-Built Multipurpose Helicopters

    Leonardo has received a contract of an undisclosed value to supply two AW119Kx helicopters to Latvia’s state border guard. The contract has an option for an additional helicopter and related aircrew or maintenance technician training services, Leonardo said Tuesday. Leonardo is scheduled to deliver the initial AW119Kx units from a company facility in  Philadelphia is expected […] More

  • Former GTSI CEO Dendy Young Looks to Raise $4M for Precision Medicine Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former GTSI CEO Dendy Young Looks to Raise $4M for Precision Medicine Services

    Dendy Young, co-founder and chairman of Perthera, has said he expects an ongoing investment round to pull in $4 million for the McLean, Virginia-based precision medicine services company, Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. He told the publication that Perthera has secured $2.2 million in funding commitments from investors such as Pilot Growth Equity and McLean Capital, where Young […] More

  • Boeing's Aurora Subsidiary to Continue Orion UAS Development for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Aurora Subsidiary to Continue Orion UAS Development for Air Force

    Aurora Flight Sciences has received a potential $48 million contract to continue developing twin-engine unmanned aircraft system for the U.S. Air Force. The Boeing subsidiary said Wednesday it will build an Orion UAS variant designed to perform in any location worldwide. Aurora will produce the system at its facilities in Mississippi and Virginia. Orion is designed to operate for 100 consecutive […] More

  • General Atomics to Develop Capacitors for DoD Non-Lethal Vehicle Stopper Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Develop Capacitors for DoD Non-Lethal Vehicle Stopper Platform

    A business unit of General Atomics has been selected by the Defense Department Ordnance Technology Consortium to produce high-energy density capacitors for a non-lethal platform designed to stop and disable vehicles as part of force protection and checkpoint operations. General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will supply the capacitors to DoD’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate for integration into the Pre-Emplaced […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Begin Full-Rate Void Sensing Fuze Production for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Begin Full-Rate Void Sensing Fuze Production for Air Force

    Orbital ATK has received a $23 million initial contract from the U.S. Air Force to commence full-rate production of hard target void sensing fuze assemblies. FMU-167/B HTVSF is a cockpit programmable fuze designed to help the service branch destroy hard and deeply-buried targets, the company said Wednesday. The award follows a low-rate initial production contract that the […] More