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  • Ball Aerospace Gets Air Force Weapon Cybersecurity Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Gets Air Force Weapon Cybersecurity Contract Modification

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has received a $47.9 million contract modification to develop tools, methods and techniques for the U.S. Air Force to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in weapon systems. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will provide research and development services intended to help the military branch secure weapons against cyber attacks. Work will occur at Wright-Patterson Air […] More

  • NASA to Deploy Ozone Measurement Payload to ISS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA to Deploy Ozone Measurement Payload to ISS

    NASA plans to launch an instrument designed to measure Earth’s ozone as part of SpaceX‘s 10th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The agency said Saturday the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III on ISS  payload will launch with the SpaceX-built Dragon spacecraft this month from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SAGE III will be attached to […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Eyes New Maryland Office for Cyber Business Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Eyes New Maryland Office for Cyber Business Expansion

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies plans to open a new office in Columbia, Maryland  this summer as part of expansion initiatives after the company completed its acquisition of specialized engineering cyber services provider Wavefront Technologies. The company said Tuesday it seeks candidates from various fields such as systems engineering, software development, cybersecurity, intelligence analysis and computer science to join the Maryland office. Ball Aerospace […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Radiometer to Support Solar Energy Observation; Jim Oschmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Radiometer to Support Solar Energy Observation; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies‘ Scripps NISTAR radiometer instrument will launch to space as part of the Deep Space Climate Observatory mission of NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The instrument will support the DSCOVR program in measuring irradiance on the Earth’s surface to study the planet’s exchange of energy with the sun, Ball said Tuesday. […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Receives Northrop's CERES Instrument for Integration Into NOAA Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Receives Northrop’s CERES Instrument for Integration Into NOAA Satellite

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System instrument built by Northrop Grumman for integration into the Joint Polar Satellite System beginning later this year. Ball Aerospace said Thursday that CERES will help JPSS-1 support the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership‘s weather and climate measurement missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CERES is designed to measure thermal radiation and […] More