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  • Leidos Building Autonomous Unmanned Vessel to Track Submarines; John Fratamico Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Building Autonomous Unmanned Vessel to Track Submarines; John Fratamico Comments

    Leidos is building an Autonomous Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel for long-term monitoring of submarines as part of an anti-submarine warfare program by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. ACTUV will be equipped with sensors, electro-optics and radars, as well as sensor control, navigation and status reporting features to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, Leidos said Monday. “It would […] More

  • Report: MBDA, Mitsubishi Electric Explore Partnership to Develop F-35 Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: MBDA, Mitsubishi Electric Explore Partnership to Develop F-35 Missiles

    MBDA and Mitsubishi Electric are undertaking a preliminary deal to develop midrange missiles for the F-35 fighter jets as part of the Japanese government’s efforts to establish international defense procurement partnerships, Reuters reported Thursday. Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo report the deal would be the first to involve using Japanese-built parts for missile exports as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration continues […] More

  • James Rowntree: CH2M HILL Lands Railway Modernization Project in Poland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Rowntree: CH2M HILL Lands Railway Modernization Project in Poland

    CH2M HILL has secured a rail modernization contract to help redesign a railway line that stretches between Wegliniec to Gorlitz in Poland, the construction and engineering firm said Wednesday. Polish rail infrastructure company PKP PLK awarded the estimated $538,000 contract to CH2M HILL for modernization work on the track, which runs from the edge of Poland to the […] More

  • MBDA CEO Antoine Bouvier Cuts the Ribbon on French Munitions Demilitarization Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA CEO Antoine Bouvier Cuts the Ribbon on French Munitions Demilitarization Facility

    MBDA CEO Antoine Bouvier, in the presence of civilians and military authorities, cut the ribbon on France’s new complex munitions demilitarization facility Wednesday at acompany’s site in the center of France. In remarks at the Bourges Subdray site, Bouvier said that MBDA aims to establish firm and long-lasting partnerships with its domestic and foreign customers. “These customers now expect […] More

  • Navy Receives Boeing-Built Poseidon Plane Number 14 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Receives Boeing-Built Poseidon Plane Number 14

    Boeing has delivered a 14th P-A Poseidon airplane to U.S. Navy as the branch seeks to bolster its sea patrolling capabilities, the company said Wednesday. The first Poseidon squadron deployed in Kadena, Japan last winter to carry out operational missions and a second squadron is scheduled to deploy later this summer, Boeing says. Navy Commander Tony Rossi, […] More

  • BAE to Help Back Australia 'Big Data' Research Center; Kim Scott Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help Back Australia ‘Big Data’ Research Center; Kim Scott Comments

    BAE Systems will contribute $1 million and other forms of support over the next five years to a research center in Adelaide, Australia that is partly funded by the country’s government and other contributions from the defense industry and academia. Personnel at the $88 million Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Center will research and develop tools to help […] More

  • Battelle Releases Latest Grid Transmission Simulation, Analysis Tool; Jason Black Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Releases Latest Grid Transmission Simulation, Analysis Tool; Jason Black Comments

    Battelle has launched the latest version of its HELM Flow software to help grid transmission modelers and planners at utility companies manage transmission networks and response to grid problems. “When planning transmission on the grid, the small subset of about 5 percent of the problems cause the biggest headaches,” Jason Black, grid team research leader at Battelle, said Tuesday. […] More

  • Inmarsat Taps ORBIT to Make Aviation Terminals for Gov't Customers; Andy Start Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Taps ORBIT to Make Aviation Terminals for Gov’t Customers; Andy Start Comments

    Inmarsat has signed an agreement with ORBIT Communication Systems to help manufacture Global Xpress aviation terminals and identify other opportunities to leverage the technology to drive adoption of the GX satellite broadband service. The companies said Wednesday ORBIT will provide its airborne tracking and communication antenna terminals for GX as they serve the government market. Andy Start, president of Inmarsat’s […] More

  • Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility Extends Payment Mgmt Support for Fiscal Service Bureau - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Smeraglinolo: Engility Extends Payment Mgmt Support for Fiscal Service Bureau

    Engility Holdings President and CEO Tony Smeraglinolo says the company is continuing its decade-long support for the Treasury Department through a recompete contract for the department’s Secure Payment System program. The company announced Wednesday that its Dynamics Research Corp. subsidiary was awarded the $13.4 million contract from the department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service. Engility expects to to help the bureau’s payment […] More

  • AMA to Continue NASA Engineering Support Under $50M Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AMA to Continue NASA Engineering Support Under $50M Contract Option

    Analytical Mechanics Associates will extend its engineering support for NASA‘s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia under the company’s third option in its contract with the space agency. The contract option has a one-year period of performance beginning Oct. 1 and is valued at around $50 million, NASA said Monday. The full indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract is worth up to $341.3 million and covers scientific research; […] More

  • Gene Colabatistto: CAE Boosts Training Portfolio With 4 New Int'l Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gene Colabatistto: CAE Boosts Training Portfolio With 4 New Int’l Contracts

    CAE has secured four training systems contracts totaling $103.3 million from global defense clients, as group president for defense and security Gene Colabatistto reiterates the company’s focus on its integrated training solutions portfolio. The company said Wednesday its new contracts are to provide or upgrade training and visual systems for the New Zealand, German and Iraqi air force, as well […] More

  • NTT DATA Opens New Development Hub in Nova Scotia, Canada; Dean Williams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT DATA Opens New Development Hub in Nova Scotia, Canada; Dean Williams Comments

    NTT DATA is expanding its operations in Canada by establishing an Advanced Development Centre in Nova Scotia. “Nova Scotia has proven to be an ideal location for us since we opened our office under the name Keane, Inc. in 1997,” Dean Williams, NTT’s executive vice president of global human capital, said Friday. NTT DATA Canada said it will be […] More