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  • DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Radio Tech Devt Program in January - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Proposers Day on Radio Tech Devt Program in January

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to host a proposers day on Jan. 15 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that seeks new radio technology for military operational environments. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday the Network Universal Persistence program looks to prototype a radio system that will work to help military […] More

  • Leidos Secures Navy Contract to Help Build 2nd 'Sea Hunter' Autonomous Vessel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Navy Contract to Help Build 2nd ‘Sea Hunter’ Autonomous Vessel

    Leidos has received a potential three-year, $43.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build a hull structure for the construction of a second autonomous vessel. The company will develop the Sea Hunter II-Autonomous Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel Hull Number 2 under the cost-plus-fixed fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Work is expected to be completed […] More

  • SSL Offers Satellite Rideshare Service to NASA Solar Research Mission; Richard White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL Offers Satellite Rideshare Service to NASA Solar Research Mission; Richard White Comments

    Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary will collaborate with a team at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Michigan to carry out a space mission to study the sun. SSL said Monday the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment aims to launch a small satellite constellation designed to explore how solar energetic particles are accelerated and emitted into interplanetary […] More

  • DARPA to Initiate Maritime Situational Awareness Development Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Initiate Maritime Situational Awareness Development Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced a proposer’s event in support of the agency’s plan to initiate an effort to develop a maritime situational awareness network. The agency said Wednesday the Ocean of Things program seeks to form a sensor network made from thousands of ocean-deployed floats designed to collect environmental, situational and activity […] More

  • DARPA Taps Raytheon BBN to Help Develop Causal Exploration Tech for Military Planners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Taps Raytheon BBN to Help Develop Causal Exploration Tech for Military Planners

    A Raytheon subsidiary has been selected to develop tools for military planners to examine and address causal factors that trigger conflict situations as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-led program. Raytheon BBN Technologies aims to use artificial intelligence and machine learning methods to produce a modeling platform for DARPA’s Causal Exploration of Complex Operational Environments program, […] More

  • DARPA Issues RFI on Subterranean Domain Navigation, Mapping Tech Concepts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Issues RFI on Subterranean Domain Navigation, Mapping Tech Concepts

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a request for information on potential concepts for novel technology platforms designed to navigate and map urban underground infrastructure, manmade tunnels, natural cave networks and other subterranean environments. DARPA said Tuesday it is interested in platforms that can help locate trapped survivors and other objects of interest […] More

  • ATI to Head DARPA-Backed Consortium for Satellite Servicing Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATI to Head DARPA-Backed Consortium for Satellite Servicing Standards

    Advanced Technology International will lead a federal government-established group of satellite industry stakeholders from the public and private sectors that is intended to set the standards for satellite servicing. The Analytic Services subsidiary said Thursday that it will head the Consortium for Execution of Rendezvous and Servicing Operations as the prime contractor that the Defense Advanced Research Projects […] More

  • BAE to Help DARPA Build Space Tech Evaluation, Analysis Testbed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help DARPA Build Space Tech Evaluation, Analysis Testbed

    BAE Systems has secured a potential $12.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build a testbed for space command-and-control technologies. The company said Tuesday it will develop a space evaluation and analysis testbed under DARPA’s Hallmark program to support the development, integration, evaluation and analysis of space enterprise C2 platforms. “The Hallmark testbed […] More

  • Northrop to Support DARPA's Graph Processor Tech Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Support DARPA’s Graph Processor Tech Project

    Northrop Grumman has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to help develop a graph processor chip technology as part of DARPA’s Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit program. The company said Tuesday it will collaborate with five other parties in efforts to examine the performance of graph algorithms when incorporated into the HIVE chip. HIVE seeks to implement a generic graph […] More

  • Report: Orbital ATK Develops Medium-Calibre Munition for Bushmaster Chain Guns - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Orbital ATK Develops Medium-Calibre Munition for Bushmaster Chain Guns

    Orbital ATK has begun to create a line of medium-caliber ammunition for MK44 XM813 and XM914 Bushmaster Chain Guns, Jane’s 360 reported Friday. The new ammunition variants are designed to feature command-guided, proximity fuze and air burst functions as well as deliver support for various land and air combat platforms, the report noted. Orbital ATK is producing new munition types […] More

  • Leidos Gets Recognition for Work Under DARPA's Unmanned Anti-Submarine Vessel Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Gets Recognition for Work Under DARPA’s Unmanned Anti-Submarine Vessel Program

    Leidos has received recognition for its work to build an unmanned surface vessel under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. The science and technology company said Monday its GCN dig IT award in the robotics, automation and unmanned systems category covers its support for DARPA to develop the Sea Hunter unmanned […] More