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  • QinetiQ to Supply Launch & Recovery Control Equipment for JFK Aircraft Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ to Supply Launch & Recovery Control Equipment for JFK Aircraft Carrier

    A QinetiQ subsidiary has received a $41 million contract from General Atomics to deliver hardware and software for the electromagnetic aircraft launch system and advanced arresting gear of the U.S. Navy‘s future aircraft carrier. QinetiQ North America will update, procure, assemble and test launch and arresting control hardware for integration into USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) under the contract, the […] More

  • QinetiQ, Milrem Unveil Hybrid Unmanned Ground Vehicle; Jon Hastie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ, Milrem Unveil Hybrid Unmanned Ground Vehicle; Jon Hastie Comments

    QinetiQ North America and Milrem have introduced a modular, hybrid unmanned ground vehicle the companies designed to help soldiers perform their missions on the battlefield. Titan is built to incorporate Milrem’s Tracked Hybrid Modular Infantry System for military applications along with QinetiQ’s tactical robot controller and robotic applique kit, Milrem said Monday. The vehicle is built to comply […] More

  • Navy Reviews Northrop's Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Reviews Northrop’s Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have finished a critical design review of a robotic technology the company designed to support explosive ordnance reconnaissance and threat assessment operations. The assessment determined that Northrop’s final design for a dismounted operations variant of the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System is ready to enter  the program’s system fabrication, assembly, integration and testing phases, the company […] More

  • Vernon Joyner Joins Ensco as National Security Solutions Division Manager; Boris Nejikovsky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vernon Joyner Joins Ensco as National Security Solutions Division Manager; Boris Nejikovsky Comments

    Vernon Joyner, formerly technical director for the advanced mission solutions group at Dynetics, has joined Ensco as manager of the company’s national security solutions division, effective April 30. Ensco President Boris Nejikovsky said Thursday Joyner brings three decades of experience in system engineering, software development, organizational leadership and program management to the Falls Church, Virginia-based engineering firm. […] More

  • QinetiQ NA to Build Launch-Recovery Control Tech for Navy's JFK Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ NA to Build Launch-Recovery Control Tech for Navy’s JFK Carrier

    QinetiQ North America has been awarded a $16 million contract to provide control technology for launch and recovery platforms that General Atomics is building for integration onto a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. QNA said Tuesday it will assemble and test control software and hardware of the  Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear for the USS John F. Kennedy currently under […] More

  • Mac Curtis, Steve Omick: New 'Vencore Labs' Org to Have Gov't, Commercial Sector Footprints - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mac Curtis, Steve Omick: New ‘Vencore Labs’ Org to Have Gov’t, Commercial Sector Footprints

    Vencore has relaunched and rebranded the organization formerly known as Applied Communications Sciences as part of a push to offer new technologies for cybersecurity, data analytics and communications to government agencies and commercial customers. The new Vencore Labs organization is also one part of Vencore’s strategy to maintain its status as a “high-end” services company with intellectual […] More

  • Executive Profile: John Lambeth, CIO at PAE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: John Lambeth, CIO at PAE

    John Lambeth is chief information officer at PAE, where he oversees the company’s information technology strategy, IT support delivery and corporate application development operations. Before PAE, he worked at QinetiQ North America as CIO and managed the firm’s process quality training and management team and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program cloud practice. The […] More

  • Marine Corps Eyes Ground Robotic Systems; Capt. James Piniero Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Eyes Ground Robotic Systems; Capt. James Piniero Comments

    The U.S. Marine Corps is examining land-based robotic technologies in order to help infantry soldiers with their patrolling, explosive disposal and combat missions, Defense Systems reported Tuesday. David Walsh writes the military service is working to modify a QinetiQ North America-designed unmanned ground vehicle as part of the branch’s Combat Robotics System development program. “We started CRS […] More

  • Engility, Vencore Among 2015 Corporate Growth Awards Winners for Washington M&A Deals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility, Vencore Among 2015 Corporate Growth Awards Winners for Washington M&A Deals

    Engility, Vencore, Maximus and Raytheon are among the 2015 winners of ACG National Capital‘s annual Corporate Growth Awards for mergers and acquisitions and other strategic corporate deals for companies with a presence in the Washington metropolitan area. “We want to congratulate this year’s winners for continuing their contributions to one of the largest, most successful economies in […] More

  • Scott Goldstein Promoted to Brigadier General Rank at Air Force Reserve - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Goldstein Promoted to Brigadier General Rank at Air Force Reserve

    The Senate on Friday confirmed the promotion of Jay “Scott” Goldstein from the rank of colonel to brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. Goldstein serves as mobilization assistant to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s commander and holds experience in acquisition, cyber, intelligence and space operations. He joined the Air Force in 1990 as […] More

  • QinetiQ NA, Velodyne to Demo LiDAR-Equipped Robot at Industry Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ NA, Velodyne to Demo LiDAR-Equipped Robot at Industry Event

    Velodyne Lidar plans to integrate its remote sensing technology onto a QinetiQ North America-built unmanned ground system for a demonstration at an upcoming robotics conference in Boston. The companies will showcase Velodyne’s VLP-16 LiDAR Puck sensor mounted on QinetiQ NA’s TALON robot at the RoboBusiness forum to be held at Hynes Convention Center from Oct. […] More