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  • Boeing Subcontracts Ducommun for US, UK Navy Trident Navigation Sensors; Anthony Reardon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Subcontracts Ducommun for US, UK Navy Trident Navigation Sensors; Anthony Reardon Comments

    Boeing has awarded Ducommun a two-year subcontract to manufacture position sensors for integration with the Trident Navigation System onboard the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class and U.K.’s Vanguard-class ballistic missile nuclear submarines. “This work builds upon our relationship with both Boeing and the U.S. Navy,” Anthony Reardon, chairman and CEO of Ducommun, said Tuesday. “We designed and […] More

  • Report: Boeing Seeks 150 Potential Int'l Chinook Orders Through 2022 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing Seeks 150 Potential Int’l Chinook Orders Through 2022

    Stephen Parker, vice president for cargo helicopters and H-47 Chinook program manager at Boeing, said the company aims to secure 150 direct commercial and foreign military sales for the Chinook helicopter through 2022, Defense News reported Monday. Aaron Mehta writes that Parker told reporters at the Association of the United States Army event that the projected international […] More

  • ULA Launches NRO Payload, 13 Rideshare CubeSats; Jim Sponnick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches NRO Payload, 13 Rideshare CubeSats; Jim Sponnick Comments

    United Launch Alliance has launched a National Reconnaissance Office payload and 13 CubeSats for the Government Rideshare Advanced Concepts Experiment aboard an Atlas V rocket as part of the NROL-55 mission. The Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture said Thursday the mission is in support of national defense and is the company’s 10th launch since the beginning of the year. Jim […] More

  • Steven Griffin Joins Vencore as SVP, NASA Engineering Contract Lead; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steven Griffin Joins Vencore as SVP, NASA Engineering Contract Lead; Mac Curtis Comments

    Steven Griffin, formerly senior director of operations and business development within Chicago Bridge and Iron’s federal services division, has joined Vencore as a senior vice president and program manager. Vencore said Tuesday Griffin will lead the company’s work to help NASA develop technologies and systems the agency will use to process space launch vehicles, spacecraft and payloads on the […] More

  • Boeing Helps Air Force Update F-22 Simulator Displays - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Helps Air Force Update F-22 Simulator Displays

    Boeing has built and integrated a new visual display technology into the F-22 Raptor flight simulation centers of the U.S. Air Force. The company equipped the F-22 Mission Training Centers with its Constant Resolution Visual Systems with the goal of helping fighter pilots train in 360-degree simulated flying missions, Boeing said Friday. The Air Force […] More

  • Tory Bruno: RD-180 Ban Keeps ULA From Air Force GPS III Launch Bid - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tory Bruno: RD-180 Ban Keeps ULA From Air Force GPS III Launch Bid

    United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno has said the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture cannot submit a bid for the GPS III satellite launch contract due to a ban on the Russia-made RD-180 engine, Reuters reported Friday. Irene Klotz writes Bruno made the remarks in Florida after the U.S. Air Force issued a request for proposals on Wednesday for GPS 3 satellites the service branch […] More

  • Boeing Adds Visual Tool to F-22 Training Simulators; Scott Whitaker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Adds Visual Tool to F-22 Training Simulators; Scott Whitaker Comments

    Boeing has concluded its work to install a new imagery tool in F-22 Raptor training simulators at the U.S. Air Force’s mission training centers. The Constant Resolution Visual System installed on 20 training simulators works to provide F-22 fighter pilots with a 360-degree view of the flight environment, Boeing said Friday. Boeing partnered with the service branch to […] More

  • Boeing, Carnegie Mellon Open Aerospace Data Analytics Lab; Nancy Bailey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Carnegie Mellon Open Aerospace Data Analytics Lab; Nancy Bailey Comments

    Boeing has established an aerospace data analytics laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University as part of a new academic research initiative in which the company will invest $7.5 million over a three-year period. Carnegie Mellon said Thursday the initiative aims to extract value out of data gathered from aircraft design, construction and operation. Jaime Carbonell, a computer science […] More

  • Boeing-Lockheed JV Carries Out 100th Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Lockheed JV Carries Out 100th Launch

    A United Launch Alliance-built rocket launched early Friday morning to mark the 100th mission carried out by the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. An Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to carry the Morelos-3 communications satellite into space, William Graham writes. The Atlas V contains an RL10 engine-powered Centaur upper stage, […] More

  • Lockheed's F-22 Program Given AFA John R. Alison Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s F-22 Program Given AFA John R. Alison Award

    Lockheed Martin‘s F-22 Raptor program has received the Air Force Association’s John R. Alison Award for 2015 at the Air and Space Conference and Technology Exposition in September. Lockheed said Wednesday Executive Vice President Orlando Carvalho of its aeronautics business accepted the award on behalf of the company. This is the fourth John R. Alison Award for Lockheed and its heritage companies, the […] More

  • Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch: Air Force Bomber Contract Delayed for 'Couple of Months' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch: Air Force Bomber Contract Delayed for ‘Couple of Months’

    The U.S. Air Force has moved its schedule for the award of a contract on the Long-Range Strike Bomber aircraft toward the fall, DoD Buzz reported Tuesday. Brendan McGarry writes that Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, estimated that the delay will be a “couple […] More