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  • Air Force Issues BAA on Funding Opportunity for Distributed Operations R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Issues BAA on Funding Opportunity for Distributed Operations R&D

    The U.S. Air Force has issued a solicitation for white papers on capabilities that support state-driven assessments of the service branch’s distributed adaptive planning and operations under a $9.9 million funding opportunity. A broad agency announcement posted Dec. 23 on FedBizOpps stated that the capability aims to build on periods of reduced communications between forward and operational […] More

  • Air Force Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Work on 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Qualification Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Aerojet Rocketdyne to Work on 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Qualification Standards

    Aerojet Rocketdyne will work with the U.S. Air Force develop standards for the qualification of 3-D printed rocket engine components under a $6 million contract awarded as part of the Booster Propulsion Technology Maturation broad agency announcement. The company said Tuesday it will work to leverage its experience with additive manufacturing processes and technologies to support the service branch’s […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on Power Grid Cyber Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on Power Grid Cyber Initiative

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has scheduled a Proposers Day for Dec. 14 to discuss an upcoming broad agency announcement on DARPA’s Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization program. DARPA said in a notice posted Dec. 3 the RADICS program seeks early-warning, situational awareness and threat characterization technologies to detect and respond to cyber attacks on critical infrastructure. The […] More

  • DARPA Eyes Interoperable Network Platforms for Manned Aircraft, Drones; Wayne Phoel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes Interoperable Network Platforms for Manned Aircraft, Drones; Wayne Phoel Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation for industry proposals for a program that seeks to develop platforms designed to facilitate interoperability of airborne radio networks that manned aircraft and drones use to communicate with each other. The objective of the Dynamic Network Adaptation for Mission Optimization program “is to enable pilots […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Proposals for Counter-DDoS System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Proposals for Counter-DDoS System

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a pre-solicitation that seeks research proposals from industry sources for a defense system against distributed denial of service attacks. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement issued Friday that the goal is to develop a program to disperse cyber assets and hide those assets’ characteristics in order […] More

  • AF Seeks Tech for Locating, Assessing Potential Underground Targets, Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AF Seeks Tech for Locating, Assessing Potential Underground Targets, Facilities

    The U.S. Air Force has issued a broad agency announcement for a $9.7 million funding opportunity in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Super Hard and Deeply Buried Facility Identification and Characterization program. The BAA posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps stated that the AFRL Information Directorate seeks technologies and techniques for the functional assessment, location and […] More

  • US Air Force Seeks ISR Technical Concept Papers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Air Force Seeks ISR Technical Concept Papers

    The U.S. Air Force is seeking technical concept papers from vendors as part of the service’s move to develop intelligence and cyber systems. In a broad agency announcement released Wednesday, the Air Force wants companies to submit ideas that address kill chain integration in order to detect threats. The Air Force requires concepts that aim […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Proposals for Hypersonic Strike Weapon Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Proposals for Hypersonic Strike Weapon Tech

    The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory wants industry proposals for a program to build and demonstrate a munition system that would hit targets at a hypersonic speed, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes AFRL’s munition directorate issued a broad agency announcement to solicit ideas about possible enabling technologies for the High Speed […] More

  • IARPA Calls for New Data Collection Tech Ideas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Calls for New Data Collection Tech Ideas

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is accepting industry proposals that intend to research methods and tools for IARPA to gather data from multiple sources. According to a broad agency announcement posted Monday on FedBizOpps, IARPA’s Office of Smart Collection looks to develop sensor and data transmission systems as well as multisource intelligence gathering techniques. […] More