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  • Airbus Delivers Germany's First A400M Airlifter Designed for Tactical Missions; Kurt Rossner Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Delivers Germany’s First A400M Airlifter Designed for Tactical Missions; Kurt Rossner Comments

    Airbus‘ defense and space business has delivered an A400M tactical mission-qualified military transport aircraft to Germany’s air force. The company said Monday the aircraft represents the first in Germany’s A400M fleet that was built to support transport operations in areas with military threats and designed with  self-defense systems as well as air-drop cargo load and paratrooping features. “In addition to having twice the […] More

  • Telos to Supply Intell Agency With Automated Message Handling Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos to Supply Intell Agency With Automated Message Handling Tech

    A U.S. intelligence agency has awarded Telos a contract to provide an automated message handling system that is designed to support complex information content, analytics, access controls and workflow. Telos said Tuesday its AMHS works to scan addressing information, message content and attachments to route incoming messages to the recipient and transmit outgoing messages on behalf of the organization. AMHS can also facilitate the exchange […] More

  • Lockheed's Carl Marchetto: WorldView-4 Satellite to Provide Images to Govt Officials, Disaster Relief Workers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Carl Marchetto: WorldView-4 Satellite to Provide Images to Govt Officials, Disaster Relief Workers

    DigitalGlobe has shown the first image from the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite that launched in November from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to join the geospatial content and imagery provider’s satellite constellation. “Seeing these first images is only a glimpse of the value WorldView-4 will bring to the world,” Carl Marchetto, vice president and general manager of Lockheed’s […] More

  • IHS Markit: 2016 Defense Spending Reaches $1.57T Worldwide - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IHS Markit: 2016 Defense Spending Reaches $1.57T Worldwide

    A new report from IHS Markit says that global defense spending rose to $1.57 trillion during 2016 and defense expenditures are projected to continue to increase worldwide over the next decade. IHS Markit said Monday the annual Jane’s Defense Budget Report covers nearly 99 percent of defense spending worldwide and forecasts defense expenditures for 105 countries. “Defense spending returned to a healthy rate […] More

  • Verisign to Help GSA Manage DotGov Domain Registration System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verisign to Help GSA Manage DotGov Domain Registration System

    The General Services Administration has awarded Verisign a contract of an undisclosed value to run an internet domain registry designed for federal, state, local and tribal government organizations. GSA said Monday the company will provide a secure infrastructure for the agency to implement domain registration and analytical reporting services via the DotGov Registry site. DotGov Registry is designed to help government entities register […] More

  • NASA Postpones Hurricane Data Collection Satellite Launch to Wednesday - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Postpones Hurricane Data Collection Satellite Launch to Wednesday

    NASA has postponed the launch of a satellite system that will collect weather data to aid hurricane forecasting due to a glitch on the L-1011 Stargazer carrier aircraft’s component that was designed to release Orbital ATK‘s Pegasus XL rocket for the mission. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System‘s launch was originally scheduled to occur Monday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […] More

  • Stellar Science to Develop Laser Modeling, Simulation Platforms for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stellar Science to Develop Laser Modeling, Simulation Platforms for Air Force

    Stellar Science has won a five-year, $7.03 million contract to develop advanced laser system modeling and simulation units for the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Friday the Air Force received five proposals for the cost-reimbursement contract and obligated $150,000 in fiscal 2017 research, development, test and evaluation funds at the time of award. Work will […] More

  • ULA to Sponsor Air Force Association’s STEM Program; Tory Bruno Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA to Sponsor Air Force Association’s STEM Program; Tory Bruno Comments

    United Launch Alliance has agreed to become a sponsor for the Air Force Association’s StellarXplorers science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program. The joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing ULA will sponsor the dinner for the national finalists and also cover travel expenses and funding for the StellarXplorers III winners, the Air Force Association said Monday. “We are […] More

  • Johns Hopkins APL's Christine Fox Joins Board of Visitors at U.S. Naval Academy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Johns Hopkins APL’s Christine Fox Joins Board of Visitors at U.S. Naval Academy

    President Barack Obama has appointed Christine Fox, assistant director for policy and analysis at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, to the U.S. Naval Academy’s board of visitors. APL said Monday Fox will work with 15 other board members to evaluate matters that concern the academy, including its state of morale and discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs […] More

  • Honeywell President & COO Darius Adamczyk Joins Board of Directors; Dave Cote Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell President & COO Darius Adamczyk Joins Board of Directors; Dave Cote Comments

    Darius Adamczyk, president and chief operating officer of Honeywell, has been appointed to serve on the industrial conglomerate’s board of directors. Honeywell Chairman and CEO Dave Cote said in a statement published Monday that Adamczyk’s election to the board represents a key step in his transition to the chief executive role. The company selected Adamczyk to succeed Cote by March 31, 2017 […] More

  • Revolution Chairman & CEO Steve Case to Headline Winter 2016 CONNECTpreneur Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Revolution Chairman & CEO Steve Case to Headline Winter 2016 CONNECTpreneur Forum

    Steve Case, chairman and CEO of investment company Revolution, will conduct a fireside chat session with entrepreneurs, business leaders and venture capitalists at the Big Idea CONNECTpreneur winter forum on Dec. 14 at the Falls Church Marriott Fairview Park in Virginia. Case is a co-founder of America Online and he currently serves as chairman at Startup America Partnership and Accelerate Brain Cancer […] More

  • Cornell University Gets USDOT Funds for Transportation Research; Oliver Gao Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cornell University Gets USDOT Funds for Transportation Research; Oliver Gao Comments

    The Transportation Department has awarded Cornell University up to $7 million in funds to lead a research initiative meant to explore technologies that could help reduce potential adverse effects of transportation on public health and the environment, Cornell Chronicle reported Thursday. Tom Fleischman writes Cornell will lead a consortium of universities as part of the Center […] More