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  • Draper Expands Operations via New Indiana Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Expands Operations via New Indiana Office

    Draper has expanded its operations through the opening of a new office in Odon, Indiana, marking the nonprofit engineering innovation company’s ninth office branch across the United States Located at WestGate@Crane Technology Park, the new office pushes forward Draper’s planned expansion of customer capabilities and partnerships in the region, the company said Tuesday.  Duane Embree […] More

  • Idemia to Continue Supporting ID Tech Needs of Indiana's Enrollment Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Idemia to Continue Supporting ID Tech Needs of Indiana’s Enrollment Services

    Idemia‘s identity and security business has secured a potential eight-year contract to continue helping Indiana adopt modern ID technologies across the state’s enrollment services. The company said Wednesday it will provide fingerprint capture and backend processing technologies to all state government agencies and police offices of Indiana. The contractor will update livescan, appointment registration and […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Concludes SSN 789 Initial Sea Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Concludes SSN 789 Initial Sea Trials

    Huntington Ingalls Indutries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has finished conducting initial sea trials of its latest Virginia-class submarine. In this phase of testing, the SSN 789 or Indiana submarine performed its first submergence and exhibited high-speed maneuvers under and above water, HII said Friday. “We are pleased with how Indiana performed and look forward to continuing our testing program […] More

  • Raytheon to Support Ground Power & Cooling Tech for Navy Jammer Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Support Ground Power & Cooling Tech for Navy Jammer Platform

    Raytheon has received a $22.2 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver software and hardware components needed for a ground power and cooling system of the service branch’s Next Generation Jammer platform. The Defense Department said Thursday the modification covers the delivery of five ground power carts, five ground power kits, five ground cooling carts, five ground cooling kits, […] More

  • Rolls-Royce to Provide Turbine Generator Equipment, Support for Navy Zumwalt-Class Destroyers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce to Provide Turbine Generator Equipment, Support for Navy Zumwalt-Class Destroyers

    Rolls-Royce has received a $27.3 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to deliver provisioned item orders, engineering services and associated support for the Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers’ turbine-generator sets. The Defense Department said Wednesday the main and auxiliary turbine-generator sets will serve as the primary power source of Zumwalt-class ships. Turbine-generator sets are comprised […] More

  • NASA Partners With Techshot, Tupperware to Update ISS Plant Production System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Partners With Techshot, Tupperware to Update ISS Plant Production System

     NASA has enlisted commercial space company Techshot and kitchenware provider Tupperware Brands to help the agency optimize a plant growth system on board the International Space Station. Techshot said Tuesday it will work with Tupperware to further develop NASA’s Passive Orbital Nutrient Delivery System, a design concept meant to replace the component of ISS’ Vegetable Production System […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Transfers 16th Virginia-Class Submarine for Final Testing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Transfers 16th Virginia-Class Submarine for Final Testing

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has launched the U.S. Navy‘s future Indiana submarine into James River and transferred the watercraft from a construction facility to a pier managed by the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in preparation for final crew certification, outfitting and testing. Indiana, dubbed as SSN 789, will represent the 16th Virginia-class submarine of the Navy and the eighth unit Newport […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Christens 16th Virginia-Class Submarine for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Christens 16th Virginia-Class Submarine for Navy

    Newport News Shipbuilding, a Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) subsidiary, has christened the U.S. Navy‘s 16th Virginia-class Indiana submarine at the company’s shipyard in Newport News, Virginia. The christening occurred Saturday and ship’s sponsor Diane Donald, wife of Adm. Kirkland Donald (U.S. Navy, Ret.), former director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion,  performed the traditional honor of breaking a bottle of sparkling […] More

  • Avaya Helps Indiana Transport Dept Implement New Traffic Surveillance Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya Helps Indiana Transport Dept Implement New Traffic Surveillance Platform

    The Indiana Department of Transportation has implemented an Avaya-built network and surveillance technology to monitor traffic flow on the state’s urban interstate highways. Avaya said Wednesday its Fabric Connect system works to provide round-the-clock video feeds from approximately 350 cameras in various locations and helps INDOT personnel to observe road incidents so they can immediately dispatch response teams. Fabric Connect replaced the department’s previous video […] More

  • Parsons Chosen for I-69 Bridge Environmental Review, Preliminary Design Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Chosen for I-69 Bridge Environmental Review, Preliminary Design Contract

    Parsons has secured a contract from the Indiana Department of Transportation and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to provide environmental review and preliminary design services for an Interstate 69 bridge construction project. The company said Tuesday it will assess the feasibility and environmental impact of various routes for the I‑69 Ohio River Crossing project that will link the Robert D. […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, General Dynamics Achieve Pressure Hull Completion Milestone for Virginia-Class 'Indiana' Submarine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls, General Dynamics Achieve Pressure Hull Completion Milestone for Virginia-Class ‘Indiana’ Submarine

    Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat subsidiary have completed the pressure hull construction phase of a submarine development project for the U.S. Navy. HII said Tuesday the team has joined the hull sections of Indiana, the 16th Virginia-class submarine, to form a single watertight unit for the vessel scheduled for delivery to the Navy in the third quarter of 2017. “We […] More

  • Portable Sanitation Supplier to Open Indiana Distribution Hub; John Babcock Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Portable Sanitation Supplier to Open Indiana Distribution Hub; John Babcock Comments

    An international portable sanitation equipment manufacturer is set to invest $6.9 million for building a new distribution and operations center in Bristol, Ind., aiming to add 70 new jobs in the town. Satellite Industries will lease a 13,000 square-foot temporary facility in Elkhart before constructing the future 106,000-square-foot center on 22 acres of space in Bristol, […] More