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  • Cubic to Help Install Contactless Fare System for London Transportation Network; Roger Crow Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Help Install Contactless Fare System for London Transportation Network; Roger Crow Comments

    Cubic‘s will provide a contactless ticketing and fare collection system for London’s transportation network under a potential 10-year, $1 billion contract. Under the so-called Electra contract, Cubic said Tuesday that it will start to implement the system in August 2015 as an extension of its ongoing partnership with Transport for London. The technology is designed to integrate payment and information systems for the […] More

  • Terri Spoonhour: Alion Wins DTRA WMD Simulation Tool Contract for Increased Threat Response - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Terri Spoonhour: Alion Wins DTRA WMD Simulation Tool Contract for Increased Threat Response

    Alion Science and Technology will upgrade a modeling and simulation toolset used in operational support, training and analysis for the Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction program under a new $11.4 million contract. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency contract covers code and software development and software production and distribution on the Force-on-Force Evaluation and Analysis of Key Performance Parameters solution, Alion […] More

  • Lockheed-Raytheon JV Demos Javelin Weapon for Int'l Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Raytheon JV Demos Javelin Weapon for Int’l Customers

    The Javelin Joint Venture, backed by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, fired a Javelin missile from a remote weapon station integrated onto a wheeled vehicle at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed said Tuesday that the missile hit a T-62 tank target from a range of 1,000 meters during a demonstration of Javelin’s vehicle-launch feature to international customers that […] More

  • Lockheed Approves DeLorme Communicators for General Aviation, Military Pilots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Approves DeLorme Communicators for General Aviation, Military Pilots

    Lockheed Martin Flight Services has approved the use of DeLorme‘s inReach satellite communicators for support of the LMFS Adverse Condition Alerting Service and Surveillance-enhanced Search and Rescue services used by general aviation and military pilots. Once an inReach device in enrolled in the free program, pilots submitting flight plans with LMFS can receive ACAS alerts […] More

  • ULA Launches Secondary Payload on Delta IV Rocket; Jim Sponnick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches Secondary Payload on Delta IV Rocket; Jim Sponnick Comments

    United Launch Alliance has launched the AFSPC-4 mission aboard a Delta IV rocket as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program to deliver military and government payloads to space. ULA said Tuesday that the launch, its 85th since December 2006, was supported by an Aerojet Rocketdyne engine and ATK rocket motors. “The ULA […] More

  • Lockheed Awards General Dynamics $25M for GPS III Satellite Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awards General Dynamics $25M for GPS III Satellite Components

    General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will build components for the network communications element on GPS III space vehicles seven and eight under a $25 million full-production contract awarded by Lockheed Martin. The NCE components are built to help the satellites carry out communications functions and include the ground-to-space command and control channel, space-to-space inter-satellites and other communication […] More

  • Microsoft, Akamai to Back Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Akamai to Back Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator

    Microsoft and Akamai Technologies will work with venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners to construct an accelerator in Israel that will focus on helping startup cybersecurity firms in the country. Participants will receive professional sessions and active mentoring from JVP, who will invest in $1 million in one of the cybersecurity startups at the program’s end, Microsoft said Tuesday. “Tech […] More

  • Leidos to Help DLA's Energy Office Analyze Leak Detection Systems; Larry Hill Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Help DLA’s Energy Office Analyze Leak Detection Systems; Larry Hill Comments

    Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $25 million prime contract from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to provide the Defense Logistics Agency – Energy with technical, systems engineering and management support. The company said Tuesday it will perform engineering analysis and advisory services on the Fuels Manager Defense leak detection systems of its […] More

  • Cubic to Upgrade Fare System in Washington D.C.; Matt Newsome Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Upgrade Fare System in Washington D.C.; Matt Newsome Comments

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business has won an $8 million contract from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to replace its paper magnetic farecard vending machines with SmarTrip sales and reload devices. The company said Monday it will convert at least 500 machines as WMATA seeks to completely modernize its fare system to the contactless smart card […] More

  • Future Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski to Focus on Asia, Firm's 'Vision 2020' Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Future Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski to Focus on Asia, Firm’s ‘Vision 2020’ Strategy

    Horacio Rozanski, successor to Ralph Shrader as CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton, plans to focus his efforts on helping the firm navigate the current budget environment and a potential expansion into Asia, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Rozanski told Post reporter Amrita Jayakumar that the firm’s Vision 2020 strategy aims to leverage Booz Allen’s new technology and engineering offerings as its government client base […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Developmental, Operational Flight Tests for Alternative Warhead Program; Ken Musculus Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Developmental, Operational Flight Tests for Alternative Warhead Program; Ken Musculus Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed a set of developmental and operational flight tests on the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System as part of the engineering, manufacturing and development phase of the Defense Department‘s Alternative Warhead Program. The company said Monday that the tests held at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico included rockets fired from mid- and long-range at simulated […] More