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  • General Atomics Test-Fires Blitzer Railgun Projectiles; Nick Bucci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Test-Fires Blitzer Railgun Projectiles; Nick Bucci Comments

    General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business has used a three-megajoule railgun system to fire three guidance electronics unit-equipped hypersonic projectiles during a test series at the U.S. Army‘s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The company said Wednesday that the Blitzer railgun fired the projectiles at launch accelerations at a speed more than 30,000 times faster than gravity. The GEU […] More

  • PaxVax, Army Launch Phase I Clinical Trials of Updated Adenovirus Vaccine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PaxVax, Army Launch Phase I Clinical Trials of Updated Adenovirus Vaccine

    PaxVax has begun the initial phase of clinical trials of an updated version of a three-decade-old vaccine against Adenovirus Serotypes 4 and 7 that cause acute respiratory distress that leads to severe pneumonia and hospitalization and occurs in military training centers. The company said Monday it has collaborated with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development […] 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

  • 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

  • BAE Unit Receives Army Incentive Fee for Bradley Testing Milestone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit Receives Army Incentive Fee for Bradley Testing Milestone

    A business unit of BAE Systems has received a $7.9 million “performance incentive fee” from the U.S. Army for the completion of automotive forward speed, acceleration, and slope operation tests on Bradley vehicles. BAE’s land and armaments business secured the payment through a contract modification for the Bradley engineering change proposal effort, the Defense Department said Monday. […] More

  • Security Industry Vet Jason Clark Joins Fidelis Board; Peter George Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Security Industry Vet Jason Clark Joins Fidelis Board; Peter George Comments

    Jason Clark, a general partner at security technology accelerator SixThirty Cyber, has joined the board of directors of Fidelis Cybersecurity. Clark brings more than 20 years of leadership experience from multiple security companies to the Fidelis board, the company said Thursday. “Jason has a broad understanding of the market needs of [chief information security officers] from a technology and […] More

  • Lockheed Conducts Fifth TACMS Flight Test to Validate Missile Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Conducts Fifth TACMS Flight Test to Validate Missile Functions

    Lockheed Martin has conducted a fifth flight test of its modernized tactical missile system to verify the system’s functions and compliance with performance requirements under an engineering and manufacturing development contract with the U.S. Army. Lockheed said Thursday it equipped the missile with new guidance electronics and a capacity to engage area targets as part of the Army’s TACMS Service Life Extension Program. TACMS […] More

  • CACI to Provide IT Support for Army CIO/G-6 Office; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Provide IT Support for Army CIO/G-6 Office; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a five-year, $48 million prime contract for information technology support services to the architecture, operations, networks and space directorate within the U.S. Army‘s office of chief information officer/G-6. The company said Thursday it will support Army CIO/G-6 in the analytical, budget, planning and program areas to help address the service branch’s C4 and IT requirements. CACI will […] More

  • AECOM Subsidiary to Provide Logistics Support Under Army Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Subsidiary to Provide Logistics Support Under Army Contract Modification

    AECOM‘s URS Federal Services subsidiary has received a $47.7 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide logistics services in support of the service branch’s Fort Polk installation and the Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification covers the supply, transportation and maintenance support. The Army Contracting Command will obligate $18.5 million at the time of award […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Help Army Build Traumatic Injury Prediction Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Help Army Build Traumatic Injury Prediction Tool

    Charles River Analytics has received a contract to design and build a traumatic injury prediction tool for the U.S. Army as part of efforts to help combat lifesavers, medics, civilian and military first responders lower the incidence of preventable deaths. The company said Monday that the Ensemble Prediction for Intelligent Combat Casualty Care mobile app is based on […] More

  • Sensofusion to Develop Counter-UAS Mobile System for Marine Corps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sensofusion to Develop Counter-UAS Mobile System for Marine Corps

    The U.S. Marine Corps and the Defense Department‘s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental have awarded Sensofusion a contract to further develop a mobile platform designed to counter unmanned aircraft systems. Sensofusion said Thursday its Airfence mobile system will serve as the core of the Marine Corps Warfighting Lab’s mobile counter-UAS system as well as support Marines’ efforts to […] More

  • BAE Launches Aircraft Threat Detection Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Launches Aircraft Threat Detection Tool

    BAE Systems has introduced a new platform designed to help aircrews detect incoming threats to aircraft and launch countermeasure defense operations against such threats. The company said Monday the 3-Dimensional Advanced Warning System suite is a modular platform built to work with the U.S. Army’s rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft and can be integrated with laser-warning tools […] More