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  • Northrop Integrating, Testing New Multifunction Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Integrating, Testing New Multifunction Sensor

    Northrop Grumman has started integration and testing activities for its maiden Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated Sensor. The ultra-wideband sensor, called EMRIS, is envisioned to perform simultaneous radar, electronic warfare and communication functions in support of warfighter operations, the aerospace and defense company said Thursday.  The digital active electronically scanned array of EMRIS builds on a […] More

  • DARPA Names Research Teams for Reimagining Protein Manufacturing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Names Research Teams for Reimagining Protein Manufacturing Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected research teams from Ginkgo Bioworks, Leidos and Northwestern University for the Reimagining Protein Manufacturing program that seeks to build tools to help accelerate on-demand production of protein-based drugs. “The current process for producing protein-based therapeutics requires more than a year to establish, while still requiring purification and […] More

  • DARPA Picks Teams for Lifter Seaplane Demonstrator Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Picks Teams for Lifter Seaplane Demonstrator Project

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected two teams to help in the first stage of development of a full-scale, wing-in-ground lifter seaplane demonstrator. DARPA said Wednesday the team of General Atomics and Maritime Applied Physics Corp. and the group consisting of Aurora Flight Sciences, Gibbs & Cox and ReconCraft will join the agency and the Department of […] More

  • DARPA Schedules Proposers Day for Military Cyber Tech Devt Project Solicitation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Schedules Proposers Day for Military Cyber Tech Devt Project Solicitation

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will hold a Proposers Day on Feb. 21 at its Arlington, Virginia conference center to provide information on an upcoming broad agency announcement for a program aimed at developing cyber technologies for combat use. According to a notice published Friday, cyber technology development activities meant to enhance warfighter performance and […] More

  • DARPA, Tech Research Consortium Expand Microelectronics Program Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Tech Research Consortium Expand Microelectronics Program Collaboration

    Semiconductor Research Corp. and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have selected seven university-run research centers as part of the second iteration of the Joint University Microelectronics Program. The centers will focus on seven research themes of JUMP 2.0: cognition; communications and connectivity; intelligent sensing to action; systems and architectures for distributed compute; intelligent memory […] More

  • Boeing Subsidiary to Continue Work on Active Flow Control X-Plane Program Under DARPA Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Subsidiary to Continue Work on Active Flow Control X-Plane Program Under DARPA Contract

    Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has received a potential $42.2 million contract to perform work on the next phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control. Aurora will work on the second and third phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with […] More

  • Brad Tousley of Raytheon Intelligence & Space Joins Defense Science Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brad Tousley of Raytheon Intelligence & Space Joins Defense Science Board

    Brad Tousley, vice president for strategy and technology at Raytheon Intelligence Space, became the recent addition to the Defense Science Board, according to his LinkedIn post on Tuesday. The board is comprised of former senior military government officials, as well as industry and academia leaders who provide the Department of Defense with advice and recommendations […] More

  • DARPA Seeking Proposals for Infrastructure-less Launch, Recovery UAS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeking Proposals for Infrastructure-less Launch, Recovery UAS Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has released a solicitation for a new development and demonstration program for an unmanned X-plane capable of vertical landing and take-off and long endurance leap-ahead in small spaces. The SAM.gov notice posted on Thursday centers on the Advanced Aircraft Infrastructure-less Launch and Recovery, or ANCILLARY, project. DARPA is looking […] More

  • General Atomics Lands DARPA Contract for Heavy-Lift Seaplane Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lands DARPA Contract for Heavy-Lift Seaplane Initiative

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the development of an aircraft capable of sustained seaborne strategic and tactical lift. The Defense Department said Friday the $8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract award is in support of DARPA’s Liberty Lifter program. The program’s focus is on designing, building and […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Proposals for Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Proposals for Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started soliciting proposals for a program that seeks to develop artificial intelligence agents and modeling and simulation approaches for multiship, beyond visual range defensive and offensive air combat missions. The AI Reinforcements program intends to advance tactical autonomy capabilities that could work with sensors, electronic warfare and other […] More