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  • Serco to Train UAE Air Traffic Controllers; David Greer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco to Train UAE Air Traffic Controllers; David Greer Comments

    Serco will continue its air navigation services for the Sharjah International Airport in the United Arab Emirates, and offer air traffic control personnel training, under a $11.6 million contract with the Sharjah Civil Aviation Department. The company will also support the upgrade of the air traffic control tower and planning for a new runway, Serco said Wednesday. According to David Greer, Serco […] More

  • Lockheed-Sikorsky JV Breaks Ground on Chopper Maintenance Complex - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Sikorsky JV Breaks Ground on Chopper Maintenance Complex

    A joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky Aircraft has started construction work on a complex that will house maintenance work on the Australian navy’s fleet of 24 MH-60R maritime helicopters. The Maritime Helicopter Support Company broke ground on the new maintenance and warehouse facilities and expects construction to finish in early 2015,  the company announced Wednesday. Representatives from Brisbane-based Sikorsky […] More

  • Lynn Dugle: Future Raytheon Texas Office to House 1,700 Employees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lynn Dugle: Future Raytheon Texas Office to House 1,700 Employees

    Raytheon plans to transfer its operations from Garland, Texas to a new office complex in Richardson by the fourth quarter of the company’s 2015 fiscal year. The company intends to construct three buildings at the Richardson site on 489,000 square feet of space, Raytheon announced Wednesday. Raytheon’s Garland complex houses employees from the company’s missile systems; space […] More

  • CenturyLink Wins 5-Year DISA Fiber Optic System Services Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Wins 5-Year DISA Fiber Optic System Services Extension

    CenturyLink will provide the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency with a fiber optic system to help connect three air bases in Colorado Springs, Colo. under a potential five-year, $1.7 million contract. The company said Wednesday that the system is designed to resist high-altitude electromagnetic pulses and link Schriever Air Force Base, Peterson Air Force Base and Cheyenne Mountain Air Force […] More

  • Mike Mackey: Northrop, Navy Review Initial Test Points for Triton UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Mackey: Northrop, Navy Review Initial Test Points for Triton UAS

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have finished the first test flight phase for the company’s Triton unmanned aircraft system in an effort to evaluate how the drone flies at different altitudes, speeds and weights. The company said Monday 568 test points were evaluated during the initial envelope expansion test program through 13 simulated flight tests, 81 hours of long-endurance […] More

  • BAE, US, UK Militaries Test F-35 Variants - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, US, UK Militaries Test F-35 Variants

    BAE Systems worked with the U.S. and British military forces to conduct a piloted flight simulation trial of technology that works to provide navigational and maneuvering aid to fixed-wing aircraft landing on aircraft carrier vessels. The company said Monday it has been developing the Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing technology for the F-35 short takeoff and vertical landing variant, which […] More

  • MBDA Team Fires Dual Mode Brimstone Missiles Against Moving Targets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA Team Fires Dual Mode Brimstone Missiles Against Moving Targets

    MBDA and program partners have conducted two trials of the company’s Dual Mode Brimstone missile technology aboard a remotely piloted aircraft that recorded nine hits against moving and maneuvering targets. The trials were held in December and January at U.S. Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake and used General Atomics‘ MQ-9 Reaper aircraft, MBDA said Friday. Dual Mode Brimstone weapons are […] More

  • Siemens, M+W Group Form Battery Manufacturing Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, M+W Group Form Battery Manufacturing Partnership

    Siemens and the M+W Group are working together to create an energy storage product as the companies seek to take an environmentally-friendly approach to battery manufacturing. The companies are also partnering to complete a control technology tool intended for the mass production of large-size batteries, M+W Group said March 18. Areas of research in the partnership […] More

  • Orbital Satellite to Deliver Comm Services to South America; Christopher Richmond Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital Satellite to Deliver Comm Services to South America; Christopher Richmond Comments

    Orbital Sciences Corp. is preparing to launch a commercial communications satellite aboard Arianespace’s Ariane 5 ECA rocket on Friday, as the company expects to deliver Ku-band  satellite connectivity to South America. The Amazonas 4A geosynchronous Earth orbit spacecraft was built and tested at the company’s production facility in Dulles, Va., under a contract with Spain’s Hispasat, Orbital said Thursday. “I want to thank Hispasat […] More

  • DeEtte Gray: BAE Data Sharing Tool Built to Help Users Consolidate Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DeEtte Gray: BAE Data Sharing Tool Built to Help Users Consolidate Infrastructure

    BAE Systems has unveiled a new technology the company built to help users in the intelligence community and health informatino technology industry to collaborate and distribute information. SIBA is built to use tagging to establish allowed access and clearance levels for marked portions of documents in shared repositories and restricts data if the user is accessing […] More

  • General Dynamics Adds New Air Force GPS SATCOM Element Subcontract; Kirstan Rock Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Adds New Air Force GPS SATCOM Element Subcontract; Kirstan Rock Comments

    General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will produce the network communications element for the Air Force‘s GPS III satellites under a $26 million subcontract with Lockheed Martin. The contract is a follow-on to previous deals with Lockheed that cover delivery of NCE components and procurement of parts for eight GPS III space vehicles, General Dynamics said Friday. Funding for NCEs […] More

  • A-T Solutions to Support Military Forensics, Biometrics; Dennis Kelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A-T Solutions to Support Military Forensics, Biometrics; Dennis Kelly Comments

    A-T Solutions has received a $37 million task order from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division for military forensic support under the Naval Expeditionary Forensics and Biometrics program. A-T Solutions intends to provide services such as program and supplies management, logistics and installation, and forensic support in the areas of DNA, chemistry, ballistics and latent prints, the company said Thursday. “Forensics and […] More