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  • Convergence Technology Joins M7 Global Partners' IT Consulting Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Convergence Technology Joins M7 Global Partners’ IT Consulting Network

    M7 Global Partners has added Convergence Technology Consulting to the consortium’s roster of information technology consulting companies. Columbia, Maryland-based Convergence Technology’s cyber and enterprise infrastructure consulting experience will help grow M7 Global Partners’ presence in the public sector, the consortium said Tuesday. Convergence Technology offers data security, enterprise IT, support and recovery services across multiple industries and […] More

  • 4th Iridium NEXT Satellite Batch Enters Pre-Launch Processing Phase; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4th Iridium NEXT Satellite Batch Enters Pre-Launch Processing Phase; Matt Desch Comments

    SpaceX has begun processing the fourth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites at its west coast launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in preparation for the Dec. 22 launch aboard a pre-flown Falcon 9 rocket as part of its launch campaign with Iridium Communications. Iridium said Tuesday the company and SpaceX are set […] More

  • DLA Orders $72M in Oshkosh Motor Vehicle Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Orders $72M in Oshkosh Motor Vehicle Components

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Oshkosh Defense a potential five-year, $71.7 million contract to produce motor vehicle parts and accessories for the U.S. Marine Corps. The firm-fixed-price contract has three base years along with two option years, the  Defense Department said Tuesday. Oshkosh Defense will perform work at a company facility in Wisconsin and is scheduled to finish by Nov. […] More

  • NASA Starts Commissioning Spacecraft Meant to Demo CubeSat Capability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Starts Commissioning Spacecraft Meant to Demo CubeSat Capability

    NASA has started to checkout and commission a small satellite that is designed to demonstrate the capacity of CubeSats to gather scientific data. The agency said Tuesday its ground controllers began checking out the Dellingr CubeSat a few hours after the spacecraft was launched into low-Earth orbit by a NanoRacks-built CubeSat deployer aboard the International Space Station on Nov. 20. […] More

  • Lockheed Partners With 5 Firms to Pursue Canada’s Surface Combatant Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Partners With 5 Firms to Pursue Canada’s Surface Combatant Program

    Lockheed Martin and five other defense contractors have formed a consortium to offer a warship design for a program that seeks to replace the Canadian navy’s fleet of surface combatants. The Canada’s Combat Ship Team composed of Lockheed’s Canadian arm, CAE, BAE Systems, L3 Technologies, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates – now called Maxar Technologies – and […] More

  • Comtech to Source, Test Space Components for NASA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech to Source, Test Space Components for NASA Program

    Comtech Telecommunications‘ command and control technologies group has received contract worth more than $8 million to source and test spacecraft components for use in a NASA program. An unnamed U.S. space contractor awarded the contract and initially obligated $4 million, Comtech said Tuesday. “We are pleased that this customer has placed their confidence in our space-level parts supply chain management […] More

  • Air Force Taps Applied Technology Associates for Space Structure R&D Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Applied Technology Associates for Space Structure R&D Project

    Applied Technology Associates has received a potential $7.9 million U.S. Air Force contract to support a research and development program that seeks to increase the resiliency of space structures. The company will provide R&D services required by the service branch’s integrated structural systems program under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work will occur at Kirtland Air Force Base […] More

  • Air Force, Lockheed Transport 4th SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite to Cape Canaveral - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Lockheed Transport 4th SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite to Cape Canaveral

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force shipped a fourth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit missile warning satellite Oct. 31 to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The company said Tuesday GEO Flight 4, the service branch’s next Space Based Infrared System, is scheduled for liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket in January. SBIRS is designed […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Help Australian Defense Force Install Dome, Desktop Training Simulators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Help Australian Defense Force Install Dome, Desktop Training Simulators

    Rockwell Collins has secured a two-year contract to provide and install dome and desktop trainer simulation systems for joint terminal attack controllers and joint forward observer communities of Australia’s army and air force. The company said Tuesday it will supply eight custom domes and 11 desktop trainers in an effort to help Australian defense force perform JTAC and […] More

  • Accenture Invests in 1QBit for Quantum Computing Analytics Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Invests in 1QBit for Quantum Computing Analytics Push

    Accenture has invested in Vancouver, Canada-based quantum computing software developer 1QBit in a push to help organizations generate intelligence data with quantum-based analytics technology. Both companies also formed a strategic alliance for Accenture to serve as 1QBit’s systems integrator and leverage the 1QBit platform in efforts to demonstrate, train, develop and test tools and assets, Accenture said Tuesday. The […] More

  • Boeing, Air Force Vet Craig Cooning Elected to BridgeSat's Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Air Force Vet Craig Cooning Elected to BridgeSat’s Board of Directors

    Craig Cooning, an 11-year Boeing veteran and president of its network and space systems business, has joined the board of directors at satellite communications technology firm BridgeSat. BridgeSat said Tuesday it added Cooning as a board member as the company aims to build an advanced optical communications network designed to help address a growing demand for satellite data. Cooning previously […] More

  • NASA Picks 2 Teams of Agency Technologists, External Partners for Space Tech R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks 2 Teams of Agency Technologists, External Partners for Space Tech R&D

    NASA has chosen two groups composed of agency technologists and their external partners to conduct research projects and receive grants worth up to $2.5 million over two years. The selected teams will participate in NASA’s Early Career Initiative program that offers technologists an opportunity to gain hands-on experience developing systems that can support future space […] More