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  • Exelis to Provide San Francisco Airport with Surveillance Offerings; Ted Carinol Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis to Provide San Francisco Airport with Surveillance Offerings; Ted Carinol Comments

    Exelis has been selected by San Francisco International airport to provide ground vehicle and aircraft surveillance offerings to improve airport safety. Exelis is set to provide SFO with its Symphony vehicle movement area transponder (VMAT) and Symphony MobileVue FAA-approved solutions, what is the sixth airport to use Exelis systems. Ted Carniol, general manager for commercial aviation solutions at Exelis, said that […] More

  • CrescoAg joins forces with Raytheon on Next-gen Agricultural Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CrescoAg joins forces with Raytheon on Next-gen Agricultural Applications

    The CrescoAg Corporation and Raytheon Company said last week that they have joined forces on the development of next-generation technologies and analytics to increase productivity and streamline operations for agricultural producers. CrescoAg’s agricultural knowledge, farming expertise and relationships with crop farmers–paired with Raytheon’s abilities in engineering, climatic science, sensor technology and systems integration–will be a […] More

  • NSA Accredits 7 Companies for Cyber Incident Response Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSA Accredits 7 Companies for Cyber Incident Response Services

    The National Security Agency has issued cyber incident response assistance accreditation to seven companies under the National Security Cyber Assistance Program, the Defense Daily Network reported Wednesday. Following an assessment of 21 focus areas, such as incident analysis and network traffic data collection, the NSA accredited Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, CrowdStrike Services, FireEye, Mandiant, Maddrix and Verizon. NSA’s information assurance directorate also evaluated the […] More

  • DHS Set to Enter New Phase in HQ Construction - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Set to Enter New Phase in HQ Construction

    The General Services Administration this week sought to move forward with the consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security into its new headquarters in southeast Washington, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Andy Medici writes the agency’s consolidation had been postponed due to congressional budget cuts, but now has a $140 million contract to start construction of the […] More

  • FDA Taps DNC to Provide Enterprise Architecture Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FDA Taps DNC to Provide Enterprise Architecture Support

    Data Networks Corp. has won a contract from the Food and Drug Administration to provide enterprise architecture services to the agency’s Office of Information Management following best practices and government and industry standards. The company will support the development, implementation and integration of an EA program that is expected to guide FDA decision-makers on business and information technology matters, […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Breaks Ground on Florida Campus Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Breaks Ground on Florida Campus Expansion

    Northrop Grumman has begun construction on a 220,000 sq ft office and research facility at its Melbourne International Airport campus in Florida, the Orlando Business Journal reported Wednesday. The building is part of the first phase of the company’s planned $500 million, 720,000 sq ft expansion of the campus, Anjali Fluker writes in the exclusive report. The completed […] More

  • NASA Awards 5 Academic Institutions With $500K Grant, ISS R&D Payload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Awards 5 Academic Institutions With $500K Grant, ISS R&D Payload

    NASA has awarded five U.S. academic institutions with a $100,000 grant each and opportunities to conduct research and development work aboard the International Space Station as part of its Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. The agency said Wednesday the research coverage, including ultrasonic sensor and self-healing polymers technology, is crucial for NASA missions as well […] More

  • CACI Wins Prime Contract to Continue Systems Support to Navy HR Dept.; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Wins Prime Contract to Continue Systems Support to Navy HR Dept.; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has won a three-year prime contract potentially worth $31 million from the Bureau of Naval Personnel to provide business processing reengineering, requirements analysis and enterprise architecture services for the bureau’s personnel and pay systems. As one of the three awardees of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, CACI will also develop workflow and organizational processes to update the systems’ […] More

  • Totara LMS Receives U.S. Army's Networthiness Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Totara LMS Receives U.S. Army’s Networthiness Certification

    Totara LMS announced on Monday that they have received the the U.S. Army’s Certificate of Networthiness, working with ASM Research to blend their learning management software with Army systems to market for federal clients. ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services company, was selected to aid in the development of Totara’s Solution Partner Network, providing technical […] More

  • IBM Opens IT Security Center in Costa Rica - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Opens IT Security Center in Costa Rica

    IBM is celebrating a decade in Costa Rica Wednesday with the opening of a new IT Security Operations Center. The goal of the new center is to address the growing security needs of clients in the area, IBM said. The SOC, aiming to be open 24/7, will allow IBM to offer services such as cloud, […] More

  • Futures Group & Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health Establish Public-Private Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Futures Group & Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health Establish Public-Private Forum

    With support from the USAID-funded Health Policy Project, Futures Group and the Ministry of Public Health Afghanistan have partnered on an initiative to establish the Public-Private Dialogue Forum, to engage public and private sectors in discussions on health concerns, policies and regulations. The Forum represents development in Afghanistan’s efforts to improve healthcare for citizens, maximizing […] More

  • Report: DoD Developing More Robotics, Advanced Weapons, Vehicle Tech Going Forward - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: DoD Developing More Robotics, Advanced Weapons, Vehicle Tech Going Forward

    Following a recent Defense Department announcement that it is developing a laser weapon against enemy drones, The Telegraph listed Tuesday 10 other “weird” U.S. military weapons and gadgets in the pipeline. Rosa Prince reports on the following equipment that will soon be used in the battlefield, leveraging technologies that range from robotics to advanced weaponry and […] More