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  • Avcorp Receives F-35 Outboard Wing Order From Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avcorp Receives F-35 Outboard Wing Order From Lockheed

    Airframe structure builder Avcorp Industries has received a new firm order from Lockheed Martin to produce outboard wings for lots nine and 10 of the F-35 program. The F-35 Carrier Variant Outboard Wing order builds on a previous contract awarded by Lockheed in October 2015, Avcorp said Friday. Avcorp CEO Peter George said the company is in talks with Lockheed to […] More

  • ICANN Appoints Neustar's Becky Burr to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICANN Appoints Neustar’s Becky Burr to Board of Directors

    Becky Burr, deputy general counsel and chief privacy officer at Neustar, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Burr was chosen via an election of registries and registrars and will start her new role in November, Neustar said Friday. “Very few people have the breadth and depth of […] More

  • Lockheed Launches Generation Beyond STEM Education Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Launches Generation Beyond STEM Education Program

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled a science, technology, engineering and math educational program for elementary, middle school and high school students across the U.S. which features an online curriculum and virtual reality tools. The company said Friday the Generation Beyond program was announced at the Lockheed-sponsored USA Science & Engineering Festival. “Our children — the elementary, middle and high […] More

  • Re/code: Former AOL President Bob Lord to Join IBM as Chief Digital Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Re/code: Former AOL President Bob Lord to Join IBM as Chief Digital Officer

    IBM has named Bob Lord, former AOL president, as chief digital officer, Re/code reported Sunday. Arik Hesseldahl writes the appointment was announced internally on Monday in a company statement circulated to employees which said Lord will oversee IBM’s digital operations and ecosystem. Lord left AOL six months after Verizon bought the internet company, Re/code noted. Prior to joining […] More

  • Tom Bussing: Raytheon Eyes 3D Printing to Increase Weapon Sizes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Bussing: Raytheon Eyes 3D Printing to Increase Weapon Sizes

    Tom Bussing, Raytheon’s head of advanced missile systems, has said the company is looking at the additive manufacturing process method for its plan to increase the size of weapon systems, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Bussing told several defense journalists in a briefing the company already invested in a machine that is designed to build “big structures,” Sydney Freedberg […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Special Operations Command Lifecycle Contract for Electro-Optical Sensor Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands Special Operations Command Lifecycle Contract for Electro-Optical Sensor Systems

    Raytheon has been awarded a $47 million lifecycle support contract by the U.S. Special Operations Command to work on AN/ZSQ-2 forward looking infrared and electro-optical sensor systems. The Defense Department said Wednesday the contract requires support for Socom’s technology applications program office through March 31, 2021 with five one-year ordering periods. Socom will obligate $9 million at the time of […] More

  • US Army Begins Market Research for Intell Command Site Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Army Begins Market Research for Intell Command Site Services

    The U.S. Army has kicked off its search for industry input on the design of secure and no-secure facilities for the Army Intelligence Command and other Defense Department agencies. The Army said in a notice posted Saturday it plans to award a five-year multi-discipline indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract based on the market research. Work under the planned contract […] More

  • Cole Engineering to Supprt Software Under $67M Air Force Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cole Engineering to Supprt Software Under $67M Air Force Contract

    Cole Engineering Services has landed a $67.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide a simulation software featuring theater-level air warfare environment for the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Training Toolkit program. The Defense Department said Friday the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract was competitively procured with six proposals received. Work will occur in Orlando, Florida through Mar. 10, 2021 […] More

  • System High Corp. Lands $21M Option for DARPA Security, Intell Support Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    System High Corp. Lands $21M Option for DARPA Security, Intell Support Program

    System High Corp. has received a $21.03 million contract modification to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s security and intelligence directorate. DARPA awarded the fourth option to the base contract that brings the total cumulative value to$97,630,625. The company will continue to provide systems engineering and technical assistance to DARPA under the fourth option year, the […] More

  • DARPA Launches New Social Science Program; Adam Russell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Launches New Social Science Program; Adam Russell Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started to accept industry proposals for a program in search of new technologies and methods to use in social science studies. DARPA’s Next Generation Social Science program aims to evaluate causal models of human social behaviors through several disciplines such as sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, psychology, computer sciences, physics, biology and math, […] More

  • Chad Woolf: AWS Guidance Aims to Help Agencies Secure Cloud Network Connections - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chad Woolf: AWS Guidance Aims to Help Agencies Secure Cloud Network Connections

    Amazon Web Services has developed a framework meant to help agencies and vendors architect Trusted Internet Connection-ready cloud computing tools that comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s moderate baseline security requirements. The Guidance for TIC Readiness on AWS was produced after the cloud service provider completed its FedRAMP-Trusted Internet Connection Overlay testing program, Chad Woolf, AWS’ director […] More

  • Randy Guard, Fritz Lehman Receive Promotions at SAS; Jim Goodnight Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Randy Guard, Fritz Lehman Receive Promotions at SAS; Jim Goodnight Comments

    Randy Guard and Fritz Lehman have been respectively appointed chief marketing officer and chief customer officer at data analytics company SAS. Guard, formerly vice president of products, marketing and enablement at SAS, will oversee SAS’ strategic goals for the company’s software and services, SAS said Wednesday. Lehman, who most recently served as senior VP of customer engagement […] More