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  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Finishes AR1 Engine Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Finishes AR1 Engine Design Review

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a critical design review of the company-built AR1 rocket engine. The company said Monday it aims to obtain flight certification for the AR1 technology in 2019 to help the Defense Department move away from foreign-made engines. Independent government and industry experts attended the review, which assessed whether AR1’s design meets performance requirements ahead of full-scale manufacturing, Aerojet Rocketdyne added. The […] More

  • AECOM Lands Navy Environmental Action Support Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Lands Navy Environmental Action Support Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded AECOM a $13.5 million contract modification to provide architect-engineering services in support of environmental action programs within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Pacific area of responsibility. The Defense Department said Monday that work will include information evaluation; environmental sample analysis; field investigations; analytical data assessment; human health and ecological risk evaluation; community relations support; and construction oversight services. DoD added the […] More

  • Air Force Taps BAE Unit to Develop Space Testbed Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps BAE Unit to Develop Space Testbed Architecture

    A business unit of BAE Systems has won a potential $12.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop a knowledge-based space testbed architecture. The Defense Department said Monday that BAE’s information and electronic systems integration business will create a testbed for the military branch to evaluate space enterprise command-and-control tools and technologies. DoD noted that the Air Force Research […] More

  • CNAS Names Andrew Krepinevich, James Townsend New Adjunct Senior Fellows - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CNAS Names Andrew Krepinevich, James Townsend New Adjunct Senior Fellows

    The Center for a New American Security has named two national security policy leaders as adjunct senior fellows who will support the organization’s research programs and provide expertise on policy matters. CNAS said Friday the new adjunct senior fellows are Andrew Krepinevich, former president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and James Townsend Jr., former deputy […] More

  • Report: Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium Signs MoU with Joint DoD Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium Signs MoU with Joint DoD Agency

    A joint Defense Department agency and a government-industry consortium inked a memorandum of understanding to help define open avionics standards for military aircraft. The Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium (FACE,) a coalition of government and industry organizations which aims to determine open avionics standards for military aircraft, issued the memo with the DoD agency, Defense Systems reported Thursday. The memorandum will […] More

  • AECOM Secures Army FMS Contract for Architecture, Engineering Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Secures Army FMS Contract for Architecture, Engineering Support Services

    AECOM has received a five-year, $9 million foreign military sales contract from the U.S. Army to provide a range of professional architecture and engineering support services. The Defense Department said Friday AECOM’s technical services business unit will furnish required labor, materials, supplies and equipment in support of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. […] More

  • Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Ball Aerospace to Design, Develop Software Testbed Architecture

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has won a potential $13.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to design, develop and deliver a testbed for Hallmark software and hardware platforms. The Defense Department said Friday that Ball Aerospace’s systems engineering solutions unit will build a testbed architecture that the military branch can apply to space command-and-control tasks, implement […] More

  • Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Red River to Provide IT, Engineering Support for Air Force C2 Facility

    Red River Computer has received a potential $34.2 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology and engineering support services for a new command-and-control center of the U.S. Air Force. The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific received two proposals for the fixed-price contract that has a base period of 15 months […] More

  • DOE Taps SteelCloud to Provide Security Compliance Automation Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Taps SteelCloud to Provide Security Compliance Automation Tool

    SteelCloud has received a contract from the Energy Department to provide a remediation platform designed to automate compliance of applications and deployed data infrastructure with the Security Technical Implementation Guide. The company said Thursday ConfigOS works to scan endpoint platforms against STIG controls within a minute and remediate endpoints within 90 seconds. Brian Hajost, SteelCloud president and CEO, […] More

  • Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Secures Contract Funds for E-2D Aircraft Delivery to Japan

    Northrop Grumman‘s military aircraft systems business has received an $11.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to obtain long-lead time materials, components, parts and other services that will support the delivery of an E–2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft to Japan. The Defense Department said Thursday the Navy will obligate the full amount of the modification from foreign military sales funds […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop AI Software for Air Force

    Charles River Analytics has won a four-year, $8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop artificial intelligence technology for domain experts to understand why decisions were made. The Air Force received 62 offers for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract and obligated $1.3 million in fiscal 2016 research, development, test, and evaluation funds at the time of award, the […] More

  • GSA Adds Crunchy Data's PostgreSQL Enterprise Support, Professional Services to Schedule 70 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Adds Crunchy Data’s PostgreSQL Enterprise Support, Professional Services to Schedule 70

    Crunchy Data has secured a position on the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle to offer open-source database enterprise and engineering support and professional services to the federal government. The company said Wednesday that its five-year contract with the GSA includes the PostgreSQL Professional Services and the PostgreSQL Secure Enterprise Support that will provide  government customers access to the Crunchy Certified PostgreSQL  distribution […] More