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  • Cambridge Offers IT Support Services for Navy, Joint Military MEDCOI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cambridge Offers IT Support Services for Navy, Joint Military MEDCOI

    Cambridge International Systems has begun offering information technology services to support the Navy and Joint Military Medical Community of Interest by modernizing healthcare for U.S. warfighters and their families. The Arlington, Va.-based firm said Tuesday it’s helping the Navy and Joint Medicine MEDCOI adopt new technologies such as information exchange and big data, Internet-of-Things capabilities and virtual […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests 3D-Printed Engine Thrust Chamber; Eileen Drake Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests 3D-Printed Engine Thrust Chamber; Eileen Drake Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed hot-fire tests of a RL10 engine thrust chamber assembly that was built using three-dimensional printing technology. The company said Wednesday the latest test series follows an initial demonstration of a 3D-printed copper alloy thrust chamber and nickel alloy main injector last year. Eileen Drake, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne, said hot-fire tests […] More

  • Boeing to Implement Assembrix Software for Manufacturing Data Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Implement Assembrix Software for Manufacturing Data Security

    Boeing has selected Israel-based company Assembrix to provide a software platform to help the aerospace and defense contractor secure intellectual property it shares with other vendors through design and additive manufacturing processes. The Chicago-based company said Monday it will adopt Assembrix technology in efforts distribute and secure 3D printing design information from corruption, interception and unauthorized decryption. […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, 3D Systems Partner to Develop Additive Manufacturing Tech for Shipbuilding - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls, 3D Systems Partner to Develop Additive Manufacturing Tech for Shipbuilding

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division and 3D Systems are co-developing additive manufacturing or 3D printing technologies that may be applied in naval shipbuilding. HII said Thursday the partnership aims to support the implementation of 3D printing across the U.S. Navy and further improve manufacturing methods for the future of naval ships. To aid development, 3D Systems is providing […] More

  • Boeing Invests in Morf3D to Advance 3D Printing Process Devt for Aerospace Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Invests in Morf3D to Advance 3D Printing Process Devt for Aerospace Applications

    Boeing has invested in Morf3D to help the El Segundo, Calif.-based company further develop additive manufacturing methods and engineering capabilities. Boeing said Monday it made the investment through its ventures arm HorizonX, which co-led the Series A financing round. “We are excited to be a distinguished and trusted partner of Boeing’s additive manufacturing supplier base, as we continue to […] More

  • Lockheed, PADT, Stratasys Collaborate on 3D Printing for NASA Spacecraft Parts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, PADT, Stratasys Collaborate on 3D Printing for NASA Spacecraft Parts

    Lockheed Martin‘s space business, Stratasys and Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies have partnered to engineer 3D-printed parts for spacecraft NASA intends to use on deep-space exploration missions. Stratatys said Tuesday it will provide advanced materials to the project such as the company’s ULTEM 9085 resin and an electrostatic dissipative variant of the Anterro 800NA thermoplastic. PADT helps produce thermoplastic components […] More

  • Air Force, HRL Laboratories Partner to Test 3D-Printed Materials for Hypersonic Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, HRL Laboratories Partner to Test 3D-Printed Materials for Hypersonic Aircraft

    The U.S. Air Force and HRL Laboratories have entered an agreement to test materials produced through additive manufacturing, or three-dimensional printing, for potential future use in hypersonic aircraft. Scientists from the Air Force Research Laboratory tested silicon oxycarbide materials that HRL manufactured using 3D printing technology and pre-ceramic resin chemistry, the Defense Logistics Agency said Wednesday. The Cooperative Research […] More

  • Boeing, Oerlikon Form Titanium Additive Manufacturing Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Oerlikon Form Titanium Additive Manufacturing Partnership

    Boeing and Switzerland-based technology and engineering firm Oerlikon have agreed to collaborate on the development of standard metal-based 3D printing processes and materials. The companies will use the data from their collaboration to help additive manufacturing companies qualify their 3D-printed metallic components for aerospace applications under a five-year agreement, Boeing said Tuesday. “This agreement is […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne, NASA Complete SLS Engine Hot-Fire Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne, NASA Complete SLS Engine Hot-Fire Test

    NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne have completed the final hot-fire test of an engine technology the company developed for use on the Space Launch System rocket. The eighth RS-25 engine test this year occurred at NASA’s Stennis Space in Mississippi and evaluated the performance of an engine component produced using a three-dimensional printing method, the space agency said Wednesday. The 3D-printed pogo […] More

  • Orbital ATK Test-Fires Prototype Rocket Motor Built With 3D-Printed Parts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Test-Fires Prototype Rocket Motor Built With 3D-Printed Parts

    Orbital ATK has test-fired a prototype solid rocket motor that includes metal components built through an additive manufacturing process. The company said Wednesday it developed the prototype motor in collaboration with the U.S. Army‘s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center in an effort to help meet the military branch’s missile science and technology enterprise […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Starts Manufacturing Facility Construction in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Starts Manufacturing Facility Construction in Alabama

    Aerojet Rocketdyne held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday for a new manufacturing facility in Huntsville, Alabama. The 136,000-square-foot Advanced Manufacturing Facility is scheduled to start operations in late 2019 and will support the production of various aerospace platforms as well as additive manufacturing work, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday. The company will also conduct advanced rocket propulsion research and development activities at the new […] More

  • Eaton to Manufacture Hydropower Turbine, Generator Sets Under DOE Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eaton to Manufacture Hydropower Turbine, Generator Sets Under DOE Contract

    Eaton has received a contract of an undisclosed value from the Energy Department to produce and test integrated hydropower turbine and generator sets. The power management company said Wednesday the contract funds the second phase of a project DoE initially awarded in 2014 for the deployment of hydropower generation systems at existing non-powered dams and […] More