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  • Lockheed Subsidiary Renews Propeller Distribution Deal With UTC Aerospace Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Subsidiary Renews Propeller Distribution Deal With UTC Aerospace Systems

    Lockheed Martin second-tier subsidiary Derco has signed an agreement with United Technologies Corp.‘s aerospace systems unit for Derco to distribute UTC propeller system spares. The 20-year agreement furthers the relationship established in 1997 between the companies and will focus on the international distribution of 54H60 spares for legacy C-130B-H/L-100 Hercules aircraft, Lockheed said Tuesday. Jean-Francois Chanut, […] More

  • Dale Jones Receives ExecutiveBiz’s 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dale Jones Receives ExecutiveBiz’s 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award

    ExecutiveBiz is pleased to name Dale Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Search, as a recipient of its 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiters Award. Dale E. Jones is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Diversified Search. His responsibilities include oversight and management of the firm and its global CEO Advisory Services. A native […] More

  • ULA-Bigelow Aerospace Team to Launch Lunar Expandable Space Habitat in 2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA-Bigelow Aerospace Team to Launch Lunar Expandable Space Habitat in 2022

    Bigelow Aerospace has teamed with United Launch Alliance to launch an outfitted expandable module in 2022 to serve as a lunar depot or habitat. ULA said Tuesday it will launch B330 onboard a Vulcan 562 configuration rocket to low Earth orbit, where Bigelow Aerospace will outfit the module as well as assess its capacities as a habitat. The […] More

  • General Atomics, South Korean S&T Institute Partner to Develop RPA Civilian Airspace Integration Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, South Korean S&T Institute Partner to Develop RPA Civilian Airspace Integration Strategies

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business and the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have partnered to develop strategies to integrate remotely piloted aircraft into South Korea’s civil airspace. GA-ASI said Tuesday it seeks to understand the South Korean civil airspace system and its regulatory aspects through collaboration with KAIST’s Civil RPAS Research Center. CR2CENT offers advice […] More

  • Lockheed Supports NATO Ballistic Missile Defense Tests in Atlantic Ocean - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Supports NATO Ballistic Missile Defense Tests in Atlantic Ocean

    Lockheed Martin has assisted the U.S. Navy and the Missile Defense Agency in a series of ballistic missile defense tests in the Atlantic Ocean during the Formidable Shield 2017 naval exercise that involved eight NATO member nations. Formidable Shield aimed to showcase interoperability between NATO allies using the organization’s command-and-control reporting structures and datalink architecture, Lockheed said […] More

  • AVST, collab9 Unveil Joint Cloud Unified Communications Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AVST, collab9 Unveil Joint Cloud Unified Communications Platform

    Applied Voice & Speech Technologies has integrated a unified communications technology with collab9 with cloud-based UC infrastructure to offer a UC-as-a-service platform to government organizations. AVST said Tuesday both companies aim to help public sector customers accelerate migration to cloud environments through the UCaaS offering as part of a partnership announced in August. Steve Boberski, vice […] More

  • Microsoft Unveils New Azure Govt Cloud Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Unveils New Azure Govt Cloud Offerings

    Microsoft has introduced a range of new offerings on the Azure Government cloud platform for public sector customers. Tom Keane, global infrastructure lead at Microsoft’s Azure segment, wrote in an article published Tuesday that the company will launch the Azure Government Secret service for government clients that handle secret-level classified data. Azure Government Secret is designed to […] More

  • Orbital ATK Provides Hardware for ULA Satellite Launch Missions With NASA, NRO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Provides Hardware for ULA Satellite Launch Missions With NASA, NRO

    Orbital ATK provided composite structures and motors for three rockets that  United Launch Alliance used to send one NASA spacecraft and two National Reconnaissance Office payloads into orbit. ULA launched the Boeing-built Tracking and Data Relay Satellite-M as well as the NROL-42 and NROL-52 national security satellites using Atlas V rockets within an eight-week period, Orbital ATK said Tuesday. Orbital ATK manufactured […] More

  • Drone Aviation to Build More Aerostat Systems for DoD Client - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation to Build More Aerostat Systems for DoD Client

    Drone Aviation has received a potential $800,000 order from an unspecified Defense Department client to supply additional units of an updated tactical aerostat platform designed to aid intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Winch Aerostat Small Platform will support the DoD customer’s use of communications, daylight and thermal payload capacities, Drone Aviation said Tuesday. WASP works […] More

  • CyrusOne Data Center Offers AWS Cloud Access for Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Data Center Offers AWS Cloud Access for Customers

    CyrusOne has begun to offer access to Amazon Web Services‘ cloud services through a private network at the former’s data center campus in Houston, Texas. AWS Direct Connect is designed to provide a private and direct access to AWS services instead of requiring customers to connect through the internet, CyrusOne said Tuesday. The data center provider initially made AWS Direct […] More

  • Leonardo Subsidiary Wins Navy Contract for Instrument Landing Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Subsidiary Wins Navy Contract for Instrument Landing Systems

    Leonardo‘s Selex ES subsidiary has won a potential $20.9 million contract to supply instrument landing systems to the U.S. Navy. The contract was awarded through a competitive procurement process and covers 31 Model 2100 instrument landing systems along with collocated distance measuring equipment, Leonardo said Monday. The company noted its Model 2100 technology will work to help naval aviators perform safe […] More

  • Raytheon SM-3 Intercepts Missile Target in NATO-Led Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon SM-3 Intercepts Missile Target in NATO-Led Exercise

    Raytheon‘s Standard Missile-3 technology has engaged and intercepted a ballistic missile target off the coast of Scotland during a NATO-led multinational operational exercise. The SM-3 test occurred as part of the Formidable Shield 17 missile defense exercise that replicated naval and air battle scenarios, Raytheon said Tuesday. The company also provided Standard Missile-2 and Evolved Seasparrow Missile units for the […] More