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  • Huntington Ingalls Lands USS Gerald Ford Pre-Commissioning Support Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Lands USS Gerald Ford Pre-Commissioning Support Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $21.7 million contract modification for production and test engineering services to the pre-commissioning USS Gerald R. Ford carrier unit. The Defense Department said Monday the company will begin work under the modification after it delivers the aircraft carrier to Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, and will continue work through February 2018. Capt. Thurraya Kent, a spokeswoman for […] More

  • Galois Seeks to Drive Innovation, Expand Customer Support With New Ohio-Based Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Galois Seeks to Drive Innovation, Expand Customer Support With New Ohio-Based Office

    Galois has established a new office in Dayton, Ohio, as part of the company’s commitment to help drive technology innovation in the state and expand support offerings to  commercial and defense clients. The company said Friday it aims to begin operations at the 3,000-square-foot facility in early summer as well as expand relationships with research organizations and commercial transition partners in […] More

  • Leidos' Systems Made Simple Lands VA Health Data Repository Support Task Order; Jon Scholl Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ Systems Made Simple Lands VA Health Data Repository Support Task Order; Jon Scholl Comments

    Leidos subsidiary Systems Made Simple has secured a potential three-year, $29 million task order to support data repositories the Department of Veterans Affairs uses to share healthcare information with the Defense Department and other external government agencies. Systems Made Simple will develop, expand, update, maintain and plan the implementation of functionalities for the VA/DoD Identity Repository, Veterans Information Solution, Health Data Repository and Administrative […] More

  • Navy Taps Charles River Analytics to Create Manned-Unmanned Teaming Mission Planning Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Charles River Analytics to Create Manned-Unmanned Teaming Mission Planning Tools

    Charles River Analytics has received $750,000 contract from the U.S. Navy to create mission planning tools for unmanned-manned teaming operations. The company said Wednesday it will produce Advanced Mission Display and Planning Tools designed to help operators monitor missions, identify response requirements and manage planning tools. The follow-on contract will run for 18 months. Charles River developed its AMPT application to help reduce workload […] More

  • Vencore Labs Gets DARPA Contract to Support Dispersed Computing Research Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Labs Gets DARPA Contract to Support Dispersed Computing Research Program

    Vencore’s research arm has won a potential four-year, $10.3 million contract to research and develop software platforms in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Dispersed Computing program. The DCOMP program seeks to create software instantiations of protocol stacks and algorithms to build up the performance of networks and applications through the use of dispersed computing […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls-Built Ford Aircraft Carrier Completes Builder's Sea Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls-Built Ford Aircraft Carrier Completes Builder’s Sea Trials

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has concluded a series of USS Gerald R. Ford trials that assessed the aircraft carrier’s systems, components and compartments at sea. HII said Friday builder’s sea trials of the U.S. Navy‘s first Ford-class carrier, dubbed CVN 78, also covered high-speed runs and demonstrated ship capacities. Newport News Shipbuilding workers performed the tests with Ford sailors […] More

  • Saab to Provide EW Self-Protection, Countermeasures Tech to German Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Provide EW Self-Protection, Countermeasures Tech to German Air Force

    NATO’s Eurofighter 2000 and Tornado aircraft management agency has ordered electronic warfare self-protection and countermeasure systems from Saab on behalf of Germany’s air force. Saab said April 11 it will manufacture 29 units of the BOZ-101 EC self-protection and countermeasure system for the German air force at the company’s facilities in Jarfalla, Sweden and Centurion, South Africa. The BOZ wing-mounted pod […] More

  • DHS Requests Info on Tech Transfer, Commercialization Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Requests Info on Tech Transfer, Commercialization Support Sources

    The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for information on U.S. companies, government agencies, universities or nonprofit organizations that can support transfer and commercialization of DHS-funded technology platforms. DHS said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice that its science and technology directorate seeks assistance to facilitate the department’s Technology Transfer and Commercialization Program. T2C aims to help S&T’s staff and contractors […] More

  • Cubic’s TeraLogics Seeks to Streamline Security Compliance, Reporting Process With Vaulted App - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic’s TeraLogics Seeks to Streamline Security Compliance, Reporting Process With Vaulted App

    Cubic’s TeraLogics subsidiary has unveiled an application designed to help businesses streamline the reporting and security compliance process for existing and new apps through consolidation of requirements, resources and teammates into a common workspace. Vaulted is a TeraLogics-developed software-as-a-service app that works to facilitate communication and collaboration among team members via a single interface, Cubic […] More

  • Textron Unit to Support Air Force T-6 Aircraft Training System Under $61M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Unit to Support Air Force T-6 Aircraft Training System Under $61M Contract

    A business unit of Textron has been awarded a four-year, $60.5 million contract by the U.S. Air Force for program management and sustainment engineering services to support the T-6 Joint Primary Aircraft Training System. The Defense Department said Friday that Textron’s Beechcraft Defense business will also provide field service representatives, report deficiencies, request maintenance support under the sole-source contract. Work also […] More

  • DARPA, Industry Partners Test Chemical Warfare Agent Neutralization System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Industry Partners Test Chemical Warfare Agent Neutralization System

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has completed initial tests on a field-deployable system that combines technologies from the Southwest Research Institute and PyroGenesis Canada to neutralize chemical warfare agents. DARPA said Friday it tested SwRI’s soil-scrubbing technology alongside PyroGenesis’ Tactical Plasma Arc Chemical Warfare Agents Destruction System that works to collect and convert toxic CWA decomposition products into non-hazardous salts. The platform […] More