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  • Air Force Evaluates Raytheon Receiver in Jamming Environment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Evaluates Raytheon Receiver in Jamming Environment

    The U.S. Air Force operated its military-code GPS signal in a jamming environment by using a Raytheon-designed receiver as the branch sought to test navigation and jamming levels. Raytheon’s Miniaturized Airborne GPS Receiver 2000 carried out satellite tracking and navigation functions during the exercise at White Sands Missile Range, the company said Wednesday. Testing work occurred during […] More

  • Philips Implements New Healthcare Sector Mgmt Structure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Philips Implements New Healthcare Sector Mgmt Structure

    Philips is making use of a new management structure in the Healthcare sector to improve performance and response to dynamic customer demands. According to the company, Healthcare CEO Deborah DiSanzo has decided to leave Philips to pursue other opportunities and healthcare business groups will report directly to the new Philips CEO, Frans van Houten. “We anticipate performance in […] More

  • Tech Firms Start Consortium to Back Interoperability for 'Internet of Things' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Firms Start Consortium to Back Interoperability for ‘Internet of Things’

    Technology companies Atmel, Broadcom, Dell, Intel, Samsung and Wind River have partnered to start a consortium that will work to bolster interoperability and define connectivity requirements for products that are a part of the Internet of Things. The Open Interconnect Consortium seeks to ensure the interoperability of billions of devices that could come online by 2020, the companies said Tuesday. “Having […] More

  • Deltek’s Jennifer Sakole: Q4 Solicitations to Jump $21B From Prior Year Period - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Jennifer Sakole: Q4 Solicitations to Jump $21B From Prior Year Period

    Deltek expects the total value of government solicitations for the fourth quarter of 2014 to reach at least $63 billion, almost $21 billion higher than the total value for the same period last year, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Jennifer Sakole, a principal analyst at Deltek, writes that the mid-Atlantic region will present 450 of the anticipated 1,300 total solicitations and be worth an estimated $28 […] More

  • Scott Smith: Iridium NEXT Test Call Moves Launch Preparations Forward - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Smith: Iridium NEXT Test Call Moves Launch Preparations Forward

    Iridium Communications and Thales Alenia Space have completed a test call of the L-band hardware and associated software for the Iridium NEXT constellation, demonstrating end-to-end call flow through satellite, ground and public switched telephone networks. Iridium said Tuesday the milestone validates the Iridium NEXT system’s capabilities for satellite communications as the companies prepare for the first launch next year. “Placing […] More

  • David Johnston: Boeing-Led Team to Help Australia Refresh HF Comm System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Johnston: Boeing-Led Team to Help Australia Refresh HF Comm System

    A team of companies led by Boeing will help the Australian defense department update the military’s high-frequency communications system under a contract worth more than $26 million. Alcatel Lucent and Ebor Computing will work with Boeing and Australia’s defense materials organization to bring new communications tools to maturity, Australian Defense Minister David Johnston said Monday. “This contract… builds upon […] More

  • Sao Paulo Airport Starts Using Rockwell Collins' ARINC Passenger Reconciliation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sao Paulo Airport Starts Using Rockwell Collins’ ARINC Passenger Reconciliation System

    Rockwell Collins is helping Brazil-based Sao Paulo International Airport put the company’s ARINC VeriPax passenger reconciliation system into action and the system went live prior to the start of the 2014 World Cup on June 12. The system is built to improve passenger flow by at least 15 percent by using two-dimensional scanners and automated passenger screening technologies, the company said Monday. “Hosting […] More

  • Red Hat: Enterprises Should Virtualize IT to Facilitate Cost, Operating Efficiencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat: Enterprises Should Virtualize IT to Facilitate Cost, Operating Efficiencies

    Red Hat is urging enterprises to adopt virtualization for their IT infrastructures and data centers to foster operational and cost efficiencies. In an infographic posted Monday on the Red Hat website, the company illustrates the path to innovation, from modernizing the data center, to standardizing operations and to virtualizing IT resources, in order to realize positive business […] More

  • BAE Scientists Eye 2014 Deployment for Self-Healing Parts in Aircraft Tech Family - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Scientists Eye 2014 Deployment for Self-Healing Parts in Aircraft Tech Family

    Scientists and engineers at BAE Systems have revealed a series of aircraft technologies the company aims to have deployed by 2040. The team is working on technologies ranging from 3D printers and self-healing vehicle parts, to long-range multi-stage aircraft and directed energy weapons that could search and destroy missiles at the speed of light. said that the company’s experts […] More

  • Cobham Unveils New Satcom Product Catalog - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cobham Unveils New Satcom Product Catalog

    Cobham today announced that it has made its Satcom product catalog available and that the portfolio includes a new set of systems, custom configurations and communication arrays. The catalog covers a wide range of options used in the standardized DIAMOND range of high-performance feed chains that are applied to more than 1,500 reflector antenna systems, available in carbon fiber […] More

  • Dan Allen: Serco Inc. Adds Parking, Traffic Control Support Work in LA Suburb - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Allen: Serco Inc. Adds Parking, Traffic Control Support Work in LA Suburb

    Serco Inc., the Britain-based contractor’s North American subsidiary, has won a 10-year, $25 million contract to provide parking enforcement services and manage parking meter and traffic control operations in Inglewood, California. The company said Monday it will support daily traffic, parking, dispatch and customer services in the Los Angeles suburb as well as monitor scofflaws using license plate recognition technology. […] More

  • Subsystem Technologies to Support Army's Armament R&D Center; Indra Nayee Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Subsystem Technologies to Support Army’s Armament R&D Center; Indra Nayee Comments

    The U.S. Army‘s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center has selected Subsystem Technologies to provide support services for the towed artillery digitization program under a $4.4 million task order. The company said Monday that it will support engineering, technical, design and development of hardware and software and testing for the towed artillery weapons systems’ Digital Fire Control Systems. Indra Nayee, […] More