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  • NASA Chooses Aerospace Tech Proposals for Phase 2 Funds; Steve Jurczyk Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Chooses Aerospace Tech Proposals for Phase 2 Funds; Steve Jurczyk Comments

    Eight technology proposals from organizations in the academia, private and public sector have been selected for the second phase of NASA’s aerospace research and development program with up to $500,000 in funds for each submission. Proposers will develop for two years the concepts funded under the first phase of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program and […] More

  • NASA Opens Access to 56 Agency Tech Patents; Daniel Lockney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Opens Access to 56 Agency Tech Patents; Daniel Lockney Comments

    NASA has opened up its intellectual property for 56 agency-built technological platforms to the commercial space industry as part of the agency’s technology transfer efforts. “By releasing this collection into the public domain, we are encouraging entrepreneurs to explore new ways to commercialize NASA technologies,” Daniel Lockney, NASA’s technology transfer program executive, said in a statement released Friday. The agency […] More

  • Morrison & Foerster Adds 8 Partners to Gov't Contracts, Public Procurement Practice; Brad Wine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Morrison & Foerster Adds 8 Partners to Gov’t Contracts, Public Procurement Practice; Brad Wine Comments

    Morrison & Foerster has added eight partners from Jenner & Block to its government contracts and public procurement practice offices based in Washington and northern Virginia. The group consists of David Churchill, Jay DeVecchio, Alex Ward, Kevin Mullen, Kevin Dwyer, Jessie Liu, Daniel Chudd and Damien Specht, who will all serve aerospace, defense, government and […] More

  • Mercury Systems Receives RF, Image Processing Module Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Receives RF, Image Processing Module Orders

    Mercury Systems has received a $4 million order for radio frequency test systems from an aerospace-and-defense contractor and another $2.9 million in orders for digital signal and image processing modules from a second A&D company. The first unnamed A&D contractor will apply the radio frequency test systems to a missile defense application, Mercury Systems said Monday. The second unidentified defense contractor will also […] More

  • NASA Awards 13 Phase 1 Contracts for Innovative Advanced Concepts Program; Steve Jurczyk Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Awards 13 Phase 1 Contracts for Innovative Advanced Concepts Program; Steve Jurczyk Comments

    NASA has awarded $100,000 Phase 1 contracts for 13 selected proposals under its Innovative Advanced Concepts program that works to invest in the development of innovative aerospace technologies. The selected Phase 1 projects seek to develop technology for future aerospace missions and address requirements for priority areas that aim to explore beyond low-Earth orbit, Mars and asteroids, NASA said Saturday. […] More

  • SAIC Subcontracts Sypris Subsidiary for ICBM Silo Encryption Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Subcontracts Sypris Subsidiary for ICBM Silo Encryption Tech

    Science Applications International Corp. has awarded a subcontract to a Sypris Solutions subsidiary to design and develop an electronic encryption device to control access to land-based intercontinental ballistic missile silos. Sypris said Wednesday the 22-month contract covers services in areas such as design, development, documentation, integration, testing, certification, training, maintenance and logistics for the Missile Electronic Encryption Device program. Sypris Electronics will be responsible for […] More

  • Paul Meyer Named Seabury Global Aerospace & Defense COO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Meyer Named Seabury Global Aerospace & Defense COO

    Paul Meyer, formerly executive vice president of Seabury Group‘s global aerospace and defense consulting business, has been named chief operations officer of the business unit. Meyer was most recently responsible for Seabury’s effort to execute various projects for aerospace and defense customers, the company said Tuesday. He helped the company form a Executives in Residence team […] More

  • Dynetics' Steve Cook Named AIAA Fellow for Aerospace Sector Contributions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dynetics’ Steve Cook Named AIAA Fellow for Aerospace Sector Contributions

    Steve Cook, director of corporate development and a vice president of Dynetics, has been named a fellow with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in recognition of his aerospace sector contributions. Cook was responsible for Dynetics’ launch programs, orbital spacecraft, analysis works, planetary exploration and nanotechnology research as the former director of space technologies, […] More

  • Executive Profile: Charlie Bengston, ASRC Federal Group President for Engineering & Aerospace Solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Charlie Bengston, ASRC Federal Group President for Engineering & Aerospace Solutions

    Charlie Bengston serves as president of the engineering and aerospace solutions business group at ASRC Federal and brings more than 25 years of satellite and spacecraft mission operations and lifecycle management experience to his role. He oversees the company’s work with civilian and defense agencies in the applied research, design, development, systems engineering and integration, analysis, test, […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Aviation Cybersecurity Market to Hit Nearly $62B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Aviation Cybersecurity Market to Hit Nearly $62B by 2020

    MarketsandMarkets has released a new report that predicts the aviation cybersecurity market will grow to $61.85 billion by 2020, buoyed by increasing cyber threats on aerospace and defense organizations. The report expects on-cloud deployment to rise in demand over the next five years as the rate of cyber attacks across the world continues to increase, […] More

  • Stratasys, Aurora Flight Sciences Produce 3-D Printed Lightweight UAV - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stratasys, Aurora Flight Sciences Produce 3-D Printed Lightweight UAV

    Aerospace company Aurora Flight Sciences and additive manufacturing firm Stratasys have designed and built a high-speed unmanned aerial vehicle using 3-D printing technology. Stratasys said Monday the UAV can fly faster than 150 miles per hour and is made of lightweight materials. Scott Sevcik, aerospace and defense senior business development manager for vertical solutions at Stratasys, noted […] More