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  • Serco to Compete for $77M in Navy Electronic Surveillance Systems Work; Dan Allen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco to Compete for $77M in Navy Electronic Surveillance Systems Work; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco Inc. will compete for up to $77 million in task orders to help the U.S. Navy maintain electronic surveillance systems under a potential five-year contract vehicle. The British contractor’s U.S. subsidiary is one of three awardees on the Naval Electronic Surveillance Systems vehicle, Serco said Monday. Dan Allen, Serco Inc. chairman and CEO, said the subsidiary will […] More

  • Lockheed-Boeing JV to Use Curtiss-Wright Ethernet Switch on Launch Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Boeing JV to Use Curtiss-Wright Ethernet Switch on Launch Vehicles

    Curtiss-Wright‘s defense solutions unit will provide Ethernet switches to the United Launch Alliance for Atlas V and Delta IV rockets under a $2 million contract, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes the Lockheed Martin and Boeing joint venture selected Curtiss-Wright’s rugged commercial off-the-shelf Parvus DuraNET 3000 for the U.S. Air Force‘s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program. ULA will use the switch pre-launch […] More

  • Oracle, Informatica Integrate Data Management Products; Scott Tracy, Amit Walia Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle, Informatica Integrate Data Management Products; Scott Tracy, Amit Walia Comment

    Oracle PartnerNetwork member Informatica has integrated its Data Archive Smart Partitioning tool with Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances for data management functions such as storage tiering, compression, data set optimization and archiving. Amit Walia, senior vice president and general manager of Informatica’s ILM business unit, said Thursday  the partnership intends to address customer concerns regarding performance and access as their data management […] More

  • Amazon Web Services Partner Net Adds XO Communications; Don MacNeil Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Web Services Partner Net Adds XO Communications; Don MacNeil Comments

    XO Communications has become a member of the Amazon Web Services Partner Network to offer AWS Direct Connect network users access XO’s Enterprise Ethernet and Intelligent WAN product portfolio. XO said Wednesday it aims to give AWS Direct Connect users secure connections of between 1 and 10 gigabytes per second, as well as application visibility for cloud-based enterprise applications. Don MacNeil, XO chief […] More

  • Saab, Mxi Technologies Forge Military Fleet Mgmt Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab, Mxi Technologies Forge Military Fleet Mgmt Alliance

    Saab and maintenance, repair and overhaul software firm Mxi Technologies have partnered to offer military fleet management services for defense customers around the world. on an integration of the former’s technical and logistics services and the latter’s Maintenix solution. The companies said Thursday they will integrate Saab’s technical and logistics services with Mxi’s Maintenix software and focus on “as […] More

  • Ubisense to Support Savi Technology for Military Logistics Contract; Richard Green Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ubisense to Support Savi Technology for Military Logistics Contract; Richard Green Comments

    Ubisense will deliver its location intelligence systems to support Savi Technology‘s five-year contract for global asset planning and logistics tracking services to agencies such as the Defense Department, U.S. Coast Guard and NATO. “This contract signals a valuable opportunity for government agencies to significantly improve a variety of asset planning and logistics-related functions,” Richard Green, Ubisense CEO, said Wednesday. Savi […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne to Build NASA CubeSat Propulsion System; Christian Carpenter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne to Build NASA CubeSat Propulsion System; Christian Carpenter Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop a propulsion system for NASA‘s CubeSat miniature satellites under a contract from the Armstrong Flight Test Center’s flight opportunities. The company said Tuesday the two-phased contract involves hot-fire testing on the MPS-120 CubeSat High-Impulse Adaptable Modular Propulsion System and flight demonstration if the agency selects Aerojet Rocketdyne’s chemical propulsion system. “We’re honored that NASA has selected us […] More

  • Raytheon Taps Anaren for Navy Air, Missile Defense Radar Beamformer Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Taps Anaren for Navy Air, Missile Defense Radar Beamformer Tech

    Anaren will provide its beamformer technology to Raytheon under an $8.5 million subcontract for the engineering and manufacturing development stage of Raytheon’s contract to build the U.S. Navy‘s Air and Missile Defense Radar. The one-year subcontract covers work to design and assemble the beamformer and is part of the AMDR program’s potential 10-year, $110 million low-rate initial production […] More

  • Isometrics Taps Eaton for Army Modular Fuel System Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Isometrics Taps Eaton for Army Modular Fuel System Components

    Eaton will provide Isometrics with ground-fueling components of tank rack modules that are part of the modular fuel systems Isometric manufactures under a contract with the U.S. Army. Eaton said Friday the modular fuel systems are designed to distribute and store fuel at any location without requirement material-handling equipment. The company’s modular fuel systems are built to carry 2,500 gallons […] More

  • Lockheed Tests Orion Avionics Systems; Cleon Lacefield Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Tests Orion Avionics Systems; Cleon Lacefield Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed a series of tests on the Orion spacecraft’s avionics system, which is built to activate and send commands to at least 20 systems on the crew module during flight and re-entry. The company Orion’s thermal control, guidance and navigation, environmental control life support and other systems and analyzed the command signal, system responses […] More

  • Lockheed, Neya Systems to Integrate C2 Tech for Cargo-Delivery Drones; Jeffrey Poulin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Neya Systems to Integrate C2 Tech for Cargo-Delivery Drones; Jeffrey Poulin Comments

    Lockheed Martin will partner with Neya Systems to integrate a mission planning and management system with a military unmanned aerial vehicle that carries out casualty evacuation and cargo resupply missions in Afghanistan. Neya Systems said Monday the companies will install VERTI on the K-MAX delivery drone as part of a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research program. Dr. Jeffrey Poulin, a […] More

  • Teradata Releases Analytics Tool for Workflows; Scott Gnau Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teradata Releases Analytics Tool for Workflows; Scott Gnau Comments

    Teradata has released a new analytics tool that the company built to both utilize both traditional data warehousing technology and big data systems, ZDNet reported Monday. Larry Dignan writes QueryGrid was released at the Teradata Universe conference in Prague, Czech Republic. Scott Gnau, president of Teradata Labs, said customers want insights from data regardless of where […] More