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  • Smiths Detection-Duke University Alliance to Apply Deep Learning Tech for Airport Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection-Duke University Alliance to Apply Deep Learning Tech for Airport Security

    Smiths Detection and Duke University’s Edmund T. Pratt Jr. School of Engineering have forged a partnership to study deep learning techniques that could boost the screening capacity of airport checkpoint x-ray systems. The company said Friday the partnership is part of Duke University’s contract with the Transportation Security Administration that aims to apply machine learning technology in the […] More

  • Lockheed Secures Air Force SMC Engineering, Operations Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Secures Air Force SMC Engineering, Operations Support Contract

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has received a $47 million contract to perform engineering, development and sustainment support at the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The Defense Department said Friday the sole-source contract covers engineering and operations services to SMC’s ground systems and space operations division. Work will occur through Jan. 5, 2019, at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, […] More

  • Sikorsky Gets Aircraft Spares Delivery Order for Marine Corps CH-53K Test Article - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Gets Aircraft Spares Delivery Order for Marine Corps CH-53K Test Article

    Sikorsky Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has received a $32.3 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to produce aircraft spares and provide manufacturing labor services for a test article of the U.S. Marine Corps‘ heavy-lift transport helicopter system. The Defense Department said Friday that Sikorsky will perform contract work in Stratford, Connecticut, through May 2019 in support of […] More

  • NASA Test-Fires 1st Engine Controller Unit for SLS Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Test-Fires 1st Engine Controller Unit for SLS Rocket

    NASA has conducted a 500-second, live-fire test of an engine controller installed on an RS-25 development engine for the Space Launch System rocket at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The space agency will verify the data collected from the live-fire test held Thursday and then install the Engine Controller Unit-2 on one of the four Aerojet Rocketdyne-built RS-25 flight […] More

  • UES to Develop Laser Hardened Materials for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UES to Develop Laser Hardened Materials for Air Force

    UES has received a $48.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to help the U.S. Air Force research and develop laser hardened materials. The Defense Department said Friday the company will support the Laser Materials for Blue Systems Survivability program that covers the development of components, materials and systems in various configurations and performance parameters. The LaMBSS program aims to understand the effect of […] More

  • Sofia Berger Named Transportation Sector SVP at Louis Berger - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sofia Berger Named Transportation Sector SVP at Louis Berger

    Sofia Berger, formerly senior vice president and managing director of Louis Berger‘s business operations in Latin America and the Caribbean region, has taken a new role as senior VP of U.S. transportation market at the Morristown, New Jersey-based professional services contractor. She will report to Nick Ivanoff, president of Louis Berger’s U.S. transportation market segment, and oversee client development initiatives in the public and […] More

  • Lockheed to Build New F-35 Component Production Facility in Pennsylvania; CTC’s Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build New F-35 Component Production Facility in Pennsylvania; CTC’s Ed Sheehan Comments

    Lockheed Martin plans to lease a new 35,000-square-foot facility in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, as the company works to increase production of components for the F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft, The Tribune-Democrat reported Thursday. Gilda Jackson, general manager of Lockheed’s AeroParts subsidiary, said the company plans to add more than 40 jobs by the end of 2018 […] More

  • General Atomics Enters Partnership for Potential RPA Integration in Japan Airspace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Enters Partnership for Potential RPA Integration in Japan Airspace

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has partnered with a consortium of government, academic and commercial organizations to pursue operational approval in Japan for a medium-altitude long-endurance remotely piloted aircraft to fly in the country’s non-segregated civil airspace. The company said Thursday it aims to secure the first civil MALE RPA clearance in Japan as well as explore the potential use of the […] More

  • Deltek’s Alex Rossino Examines Covered Defense Info Clause’s Potential Implications for Cloud Service Providers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino Examines Covered Defense Info Clause’s Potential Implications for Cloud Service Providers

    Alex Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, has said companies that provide cloud services to the Defense Department should consider three potential implications of a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement clause and one of those is the use of the clause in solicitations. Rossino wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday that DoD contracting staff may alter […] More

  • QinetiQ to Supply Launch & Recovery Control Equipment for JFK Aircraft Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ to Supply Launch & Recovery Control Equipment for JFK Aircraft Carrier

    A QinetiQ subsidiary has received a $41 million contract from General Atomics to deliver hardware and software for the electromagnetic aircraft launch system and advanced arresting gear of the U.S. Navy‘s future aircraft carrier. QinetiQ North America will update, procure, assemble and test launch and arresting control hardware for integration into USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) under the contract, the […] More

  • Northrop-Built Electromagnetic Simulation Tech to Support Saab Gripen Aircraft Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Built Electromagnetic Simulation Tech to Support Saab Gripen Aircraft Test

    Northrop Grumman‘s Amherst Systems subsidiary has supplied Saab with a combat electromagnetic environment simulator to aid in testing of the Gripen JAS 39 fighter aircraft in Sweden. Northrop said Wednesday the CEESIM system is equipped with an advanced pulse generator and designed to generate digital models of active electronically scanned array antennas. Saab will use the simulator to test the company’s Gripen multirole […] More

  • Vencore Labs Secures DARPA Contracts for DDoS Defense Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Labs Secures DARPA Contracts for DDoS Defense Research

    Vencore‘s research arm has secured contracts worth a combined $17.7 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform research on cyber defenses against distributed denial-of-service attacks. Vencore Labs will also help develop measures to address DDoS attacks as part of DARPA’s Extreme DDoS Defense program or XD3, the company said Wednesday. “Through the advancement of [internet of things] […] More