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  • Draper Lab Receives $54M Navy Contract for Trident Missile Guidance System Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab Receives $54M Navy Contract for Trident Missile Guidance System Production

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles Stark Draper Laboratory a five-year, $53.5 million contract to produce the MK 6 guidance system for Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missiles. Draper Lab will also support failure verification, test, repair and recertification of inertial measurement units, electronic assemblies and electronic modules under the contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur […] More

  • Lockheed Vet Joanne Maguire Joins Tetra Tech Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Vet Joanne Maguire Joins Tetra Tech Board of Directors

    Joanne Maguire, former executive vice president for space systems at Lockheed Martin, has joined Tetra Tech as a member of the California-based consulting and engineering services company’s board of directors. Tetra Tech said Wednesday she will be assigned to the company’s corporate governance and strategic planning and enterprise risk committees. Maguire previously held various executive roles at Lockheed from 2003 to 2013 and […] More

  • DARPA Partners With 4 Firms to Develop Battery-Powered Atomic Clocks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Partners With 4 Firms to Develop Battery-Powered Atomic Clocks

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded separate contracts to Physical Sciences, OEwaves, HRL Laboratories and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to support a program that seeks to develop battery-powered atomic clocks, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Tuesday. John Keller writes HRL Laboratories secured a $775,159 contract for phase one work under the Atomic Clock with Enhanced Stability program with a potential $697,826 phase […] More

  • Draper Lab to Help Navy Develop Multi-Chip Microprocessors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab to Help Navy Develop Multi-Chip Microprocessors

    Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has been awarded a five-year, $25.2 million contract by the U.S. Navy to support the controlled technical services work of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren division. Under the program, Draper will aid in the development of miniature multichip processors and other related technologies, the Defense Department said Monday. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based […] More

  • Draper Lab Helps Update Army's Guided Airdrop Cargo Delivery System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab Helps Update Army’s Guided Airdrop Cargo Delivery System

    The U.S. Army and Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have collaborated to update and test an autonomous military platform designed to deliver supplies and equipment to U.S. troops who operate in remote or dangerous areas. Draper said Jan. 12 it helped the Army’s Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center demonstrate laboratory-built navigation software for the Joint Precision Airdrop System. The lab designed the software to employ […] More