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  • Geoscience Australia Partners With Lockheed, Inmarsat, GMV to Demo 2nd-Gen Satellite-based Navigation Testbed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Geoscience Australia Partners With Lockheed, Inmarsat, GMV to Demo 2nd-Gen Satellite-based Navigation Testbed

    Australia’s geoscience research agency has teamed up with Lockheed Martin, Inmarsat and GMV to demonstrate how signals from multiple constellations of Global Navigation Satellite Systems can help build up positioning, navigation and timing for various applications. Geoscience Australia and the three companies will demonstrate over a two-year period a new Satellite-Based Augmentation System testbed for applications […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands NASA Glenn Award for Work on Ion Rocket Propulsion System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Lands NASA Glenn Award for Work on Ion Rocket Propulsion System

    NASA‘s Glenn Research Center has named Aerojet Rocketdyne the “Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year” for the company’s development of the gridded ion thruster system for the Next Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial propulsion technology. The aerospace and defense firm said Monday its work on the system is part of an $18 million contract from 2015 for the completion of NEXT-C and […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Integrate Multiple Instruments for Space Test Program Mission; Chris Long Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Integrate Multiple Instruments for Space Test Program Mission; Chris Long Comments

    Orbital ATK has secured a contract from the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missiles Systems Center to provide integration, test and support services for the primary payload of the Space Test Program – 3 mission. The company said Monday it will fit the STPSat-6 payload onto a modified satellite bus and support launch and on-orbit check-out operations to prepare for the STP-3 mission that […] More

  • Vencore's Zalenda Cyrille Receives Leadership Award for STEM Efforts; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore’s Zalenda Cyrille Receives Leadership Award for STEM Efforts; Mac Curtis Comments

    Zalenda Cyrille, a program director at Vencore, has been given the Modern Day Technology Leaders Award for her efforts to foster interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers. Vencore said Monday the recognition was given at the 2017 Black Engineer of the Year Award conference held Friday in Washington, D.C. The award commends the recipient’s commitment to […] More

  • Grant Thornton Unveils New Office in Arlington County, VA; Mike McGuire Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Unveils New Office in Arlington County, VA; Mike McGuire Comments

    Grant Thornton has opened a new office in Arlington County, Virginia, that works to consolidate staff from across the Washington metropolitan area and facilitate increased collaboration and engagement. The company said Thursday the office can accommodate up to 1,500 people and includes a multipurpose space, modern conference and team rooms as well as audiovisual and collaborative […] More

  • Report: Poland to Buy 2 Black Hawks, 14 Other Helicopters in 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Poland to Buy 2 Black Hawks, 14 Other Helicopters in 2017

    Poland plans to acquire 16 new helicopters in 2017, including two Sikorsky-made Black Hawk aircraft, to replace the country’s Mil Mi-8, Mi-14 and Mi-17 fleet, Defense News reported Friday. Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said the Black Hawks could be delivered in March and the next 14 helicopters will be chosen among offers from Lockheed Martin, Leonardo and Airbus, Jaroslaw […] More

  • DLT to Provide Cloud Platforms Under Multistate Cooperative Procurement Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT to Provide Cloud Platforms Under Multistate Cooperative Procurement Contract

    DLT Solutions has received a 10-year contract to provide cloud platforms and services to state and local government agencies that are part of the NASPO ValuePoint cooperative purchasing organization. The company said Thursday it will offer its platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service and software-as-a-service cloud platforms through Amazon Web Services, Google, Akamai and other vendor partners under the […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils New Civil Freighter Variant of C-130J Tactical Airlifter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils New Civil Freighter Variant of C-130J Tactical Airlifter

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a multipurpose commercial freighter offering the company derived from its C-130J Super Hercules aircraft platform for military transport operations. The LM-100J  is a modernized version of the L-100 Hercules platform and designed to support oversized cargo transport, oil and gas exploration, mining logistics, aerial firefighting, medical evacuation/air ambulance and search-and-rescue operations, Lockheed said Thursday. The […] More

  • DigitalGlobe-Harris-Esri Alliance to Offer ArcGIS Users Satellite Imagery, Analytics Tech Access - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe-Harris-Esri Alliance to Offer ArcGIS Users Satellite Imagery, Analytics Tech Access

    DigitalGlobe, Esri and Harris have formed a partnership to offer ArcGIS customers access to a library of satellite imagery along with analytical and deep learning tools designed to help users gain insights from imagery at scale. The AllAccess+Analytics service combines DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform, Harris’ ENVI remote sensing analytics portfolio and Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5 platform, DigitalGlobe said Monday. The […] More

  • Mythics to Deliver Oracle Products, Support Services to Illinois Public Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mythics to Deliver Oracle Products, Support Services to Illinois Public Agencies

    Mythics has been awarded a multiyear contract by the Illinois Department of Central Management Services to provide Oracle products and services to public sector organizations throughout the state. The Oracle Statewide Master Contract will serve as a vehicle for the state’s government agencies to access and procure cloud, technology, applications, support, hardware, engineered systems and professional services, Mythics said Friday. “We are proud to […] More

  • Black Box to Help Update, Sustain Navy Voice Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Black Box to Help Update, Sustain Navy Voice Systems

    Black Box has secured a $15 million contract from the Naval Supply Systems Command to provide consolidated area telephone systems support to the U.S. Navy. The company said Thursday it will help NAVSUP to modernize and sustain the service branch’s telephone systems within San Diego as well as assist in efforts to increase naval communications capacity in the region. “We […] More

  • Navy Chooses SteelCloud Platform to Automate STIG Compliance Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Chooses SteelCloud Platform to Automate STIG Compliance Process

    A U.S. Navy component has awarded SteelCloud a contract through the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 procurement vehicle to supply the military branch with a security compliance automation platform. The company said Thursday it will provide its ConfigOS platform to the Navy in an effort to help automate the Security Technical Implementation Guide remediation process and support Risk Management Framework accreditation for federal agencies. Brian Hajost, SteelCloud […] More