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  • Navy Explores Industry Sources to Facilitate New Defense Systems R&D Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Explores Industry Sources to Facilitate New Defense Systems R&D Project

    The U.S. Navy has begun a market survey in search of potential vendors that can help the service branch to research and develop new technology that will work to advance defense systems-related scientific and technical data. A sources source notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Panama City division looks to conduct weapons systems R&D as part of the Navy’s Rapid […] More

  • DOE: Sandia Labs Seeks Collaboration with Counter-UAS Equipment Vendors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE: Sandia Labs Seeks Collaboration with Counter-UAS Equipment Vendors

    Sandia National Laboratories is looking for potential partners who will lend equipment designed to detect, track and intercept potential threats from adversaries’ unmanned aerial systems. The research laboratory aims to help interested vendors evaluate the capabilities and limitations of their counter-UAS technologies and assess the system’s potential in securing various facilities, DOE said March 1 in a […] More

  • Air Force Completes SBIRS Block 10 Ground System Readiness Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Completes SBIRS Block 10 Ground System Readiness Test

    The U.S. Air Force‘s Remote Sensing Systems Directorate has completed the 14-day Block 10 integrated test and evaluation readiness soak on the Space Based Infrared System‘s ground segment, the service branch reported Jan. 21. The directorate conducted the test at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado beginning Jan. 5 to check the system’s readiness and […] More

  • SRI Int'l Unveils Subsidiary for Training, T&E Services; John Prausa Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI Int’l Unveils Subsidiary for Training, T&E Services; John Prausa Comments

    SRI International has created a new subsidiary that seeks to deliver training, performance assessment, test and evaluation as well as policy analysis services to commercial, government and military organizations. The company said Monday Ravenswood Solutions is a spinoff of its instrumentation and simulation business. Dan Donoghue currently leads the new company as president and CEO. SRI Chief Operating […] More

  • Northrop to Test USAF Hardware, Software for Nuclear Safety Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Test USAF Hardware, Software for Nuclear Safety Compliance

    Northrop Grumman will perform independent testing and evaluation of software and hardware for Minuteman III nuclear safety under a $99.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract covers nuclear safety cross-check analysis, performance analysis, technical evaluation and independent validation and verification. The tests will aim to ensure that the software […] More

  • Chris Amos: Alion to Provide RDT&E Support for AF Wireless Comm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Amos: Alion to Provide RDT&E Support for AF Wireless Comm

    Alion Science and Technology will provide research, development, test and evaluation services to the Air Force Research Laboratory for command-and-control technologies through September 2017 under the $4.5 million Holistic Waveform Development Kit contract. The company said Thursday it will help AFRL integrate technologies with the HAWK Advanced Waveform Development Environment Ecosystem to support software-defined radio waveforms and enable network […] More

  • Richard Waddell: APL to House DOJ Criminal Justice R&D Center, Evaluate Tech Outcomes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard Waddell: APL to House DOJ Criminal Justice R&D Center, Evaluate Tech Outcomes

    Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory will host a research center for the Justice Department‘s National Institute of Justice to test and conduct operational evaluations of non-forensic technologies for state and local law enforcement, corrections agencies, and courts. APL has signed a five-year cooperative agreement with DOJ to house the National Criminal Justice Technology Research, Test and […] More