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  • AeroVironment to Provide sUAS, Support for Australian Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment to Provide sUAS, Support for Australian Forces

    AeroVironment has secured a potential 10-year, $36.5 million contract from Australia’s defense department to deliver small unmanned aircraft systems as well as training and logistics support. The company said Thursday it will integrate Australian content into the WASP AE UAS to meet the country’s military and industry needs. AeroVironment will work with XTEK, General Dynamics‘ Mediaware subsidiary and Sentient Vision […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Delivers HC-130J Personnel Recovery Aircraft to National Guard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Delivers HC-130J Personnel Recovery Aircraft to National Guard

    The U.S. National Guard has received the first of four Lockheed Martin-developed fixed-wing personnel recovery aircraft that will support operations in Alaska and the Pacific Theater. Lockheed said Thursday that the HC-130J aircraft will help users respond to disaster scenarios, evacuate aeromedical personnel, support humanitarian outreach programs, disseminate aviation advisories and perform security cooperation missions. HC-130J, which will succeed […] More

  • SpaceX Moves Launch of 11th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission to June 3 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Moves Launch of 11th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission to June 3

    SpaceX has rescheduled to June 3 the launch of a Dragon spacecraft that will bring crew supplies, scientific research and equipment to the International Space Station, USA Today reported Thursday. The company’s 11th cargo resupply mission was originally slated for deployment on Thursday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA said the new […] More

  • CTC Buys New 3D Printing Equipment for Metal Processes; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Buys New 3D Printing Equipment for Metal Processes; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has bought new additive manufacturing equipment worth $1.2 million to support metal processing at the company’s Johnstown, Pennsylvania facility. CTC said Thursday its new three-dimensional printing platforms include a VRC Metal Systems Gen III Max cold spray system, an AMBIT hybrid additive manufacturing multi-task system and an SLM 280HL 3D printer. The new systems will help CTC […] More

  • Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Microservices, Engineering Help Drive Agencies’ Hybrid Cloud Adoption Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Microservices, Engineering Help Drive Agencies’ Hybrid Cloud Adoption Strategies

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said engineering and microservices are some of the factors that have driven most government agencies’ strategies as they transition from legacy information technology systems to hybrid cloud platforms, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. “The definition of cloud has really, really changed, and it’s really about your engineering […] More

  • CSRA Lands $61M Air Force ISR Mission Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Lands $61M Air Force ISR Mission Support Contract

    CSRA has secured a potential five-year, $61 million contract to support a global intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance mission of the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it will work to integrate systems, support budget and resources and offer operational scheduling services and technologies to the Air Force’s Deputy Chief of Staff for ISR and the Air Combat Command’s Directorate of […] More

  • CTC-UDRI JV to Help Manage Air Force Installation Energy Resilience; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC-UDRI JV to Help Manage Air Force Installation Energy Resilience; Ed Sheehan Comments

    A Concurrent Technologies Corp.-University of Dayton Research Institute joint venture has been awarded a two-year, $2.4 million task order to examine, install and record upgrades to U.S. Air Force installations as part of the service branch’s energy management efforts. It marks the 25th task order E2 Technologies received under a potential $99 million contract with the Air Force […] More

  • BAE's US Arm Taps CH2M to Help Implement Aircraft Landing Tech at Marine Corps, Navy Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s US Arm Taps CH2M to Help Implement Aircraft Landing Tech at Marine Corps, Navy Facilities

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has selected CH2M to support the installation of airfield and shore-based landing systems at more than 35 U.S. Marine Corps and Navy facilities globally. The two companies will collaborate to help the Navy’s air traffic control systems division implement the Instrument Landing System and Instrument Carrier Landing System as part of the service branch’s Air Traffic Control […] More

  • In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership

    In-Q-Tel has partnered with Evident.io to help the Pleasanton, California-based technology company further develop a compliance automation and security platform designed to help U.S. intelligence agencies secure their data infrastructure in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments. The company’s Evident Security Platform is an agent-less system that is built on AWS’ application programming interfaces and works to automate security […] More

  • Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Elected to Textron Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Elected to Textron Board

    Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, will officially join Textron on July 1 as a member of the board of directors. Textron said Thursday she will bring three decades of homeland and national security experience in the public and private sectors to the company. “Deborah’s deep expertise in national security, government procurement, strategic planning, cybersecurity, logistics […] More

  • PV Puvvada Named Vice Chair of Professional Services Council's Executive Committee, Directorial Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PV Puvvada Named Vice Chair of Professional Services Council’s Executive Committee, Directorial Board

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys‘ federal business, has been appointed as vice chair of the Professional Services Council’s executive committee and board of directors. Unisys said Friday Puvvada will lead strategy development and implementation at PSC in his new role. “PV has been a key contributor to PSC for years, and we are pleased he has accepted this […] More

  • Navy Plans Radio Supply, Upgrade IDIQ Award to Rockwell Collins - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Plans Radio Supply, Upgrade IDIQ Award to Rockwell Collins

    The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Corona division plans to award a sole-source contract to Rockwell Collins to update the U.S. Navy‘s 721S radios and supply 721SR units. A FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday says the service branch intends to use a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a five-year ordering period for the radio procurement and upgrade efforts. NSWC Corona wants Rockwell Collins to supply commercial 721S radios to replace […] More