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  • Lockheed's F-16V Completes 1st Flight With Northrop's Fire Control Radar - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s F-16V Completes 1st Flight With Northrop’s Fire Control Radar

    Lockheed Martin‘s Viper variant of the F-16 fighter jet has completed its first flight while equipped with Northrop Grumman‘s APG-83 active electronically scanned array Scalable Agile Beam Radar. Lockheed said Wednesday the F-16V features a common global sustainment infrastructure and an updated cockpit center pedestal display, mission computer and Ethernet data bus. Northrop’s APG-83 SABR AESA avionics works to provide […] More

  • GCN: Lockheed, Battelle, NEC Work on Drone Defense Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GCN: Lockheed, Battelle, NEC Work on Drone Defense Tech

    Companies continue to explore new drone defense technologies to address the potential threat from unmanned aircraft systems as they prove hard to detect using existing radar technologies, GCN reported Tuesday. Mark Pomerleau writes that NEC, Battelle and Lockheed Martin currently have programs that seek to bolster drone defense through capabilities ranging from detection to disruption. […] More

  • Paul Christman: Dell Survey Shows Agencies Need Context-Aware Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Christman: Dell Survey Shows Agencies Need Context-Aware Security

    A survey by Dell indicates the need for agencies to adopt a context-aware approach to security to avoid the potential risks in the usual password-centric approach as users experience password overload, according to company executive Paul Christman. Christman, vice president for the public sector business in Dell’s software group, wrote in a blog entry posted Sept. 30 that password […] More

  • Booz Allen, Florida Center for Cybersecurity Hold C-Suite Cyber Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Florida Center for Cybersecurity Hold C-Suite Cyber Exercise

    Booz Allen Hamilton and the Florida Center for Cybersecurity hosted a cybersecurity breach simulation exercise for more than 60 senior public- and private-sector leaders at the University of South Florida on Oct. 13. The partners said Tuesday the exercise sought to highlight the relevance of cybersecurity to C-level and boardroom executives and efforts to bolster internal communications and cross-sector coordination in support […] More

  • NASA Launches Website for Earth Images From Lockheed's EPIC Camera - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Launches Website for Earth Images From Lockheed’s EPIC Camera

    NASA has unveiled a new website to provide daily color images of Earth captured by the Lockheed Martin-built Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory. The space agency said Tuesday the website will show a sequence of images that show the sunlit side of the Earth as it rotates and will allow visitors to access […] More

  • CrowdStrike: China-Affiliated Cyber Attacks Continued After Pact Signed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CrowdStrike: China-Affiliated Cyber Attacks Continued After Pact Signed

    Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, says his company has identified several attempted intrusions by China-affiliated threat actors on U.S. companies over the past month. Alperovitch wrote in a blog entry posted Monday that the company used its cloud-based CrowdStrike Falcon technology to detect and combat the attacks, which focused mainly on the technology […] More

  • Orbital ATK Opens Ramjet Test Facility With Supersonic Flight Simulation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Opens Ramjet Test Facility With Supersonic Flight Simulation

    Orbital ATK has opened its new Ramjet Test Facility at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in West Virginia to provide a clear-air testing environment that simulates supersonic flight conditions. The company said Monday it has also completed the final validation and tests for the facility, which replicates up to Mach 4.5 in air mass flow and up to 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit […] More

  • Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Missile Against EW Interference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Missile Against EW Interference

    Raytheon and the U.S. Air Force have conducted flight tests on the High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile inventory’s HARM Control Section Modification product on an F-16 aircraft. The company said Monday the HARM upgrade works to operate against electronic warfare systems such as enemy radars. Mike Jarrett, vice president of Raytheon’s air warfare systems unit, said the missile features updates that aim […] More

  • Abt Associates to Support USAID's Malaria Prevention Program in Zimbabwe - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Abt Associates to Support USAID’s Malaria Prevention Program in Zimbabwe

    Abt Associates will provide support to the U.S. Agency for International Development for the implementation of a malaria prevention and treatment program as part of the five-year, $20 million Zimbabwe Assistance Program in Malaria. The company said Thursday it will help the ministry of health and child care in Zimbabwe implement the program in 47 districts in support of efforts to […] More

  • Motorola Solutions Offers Cybersecurity Professional Services to Govt, Public Safety Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions Offers Cybersecurity Professional Services to Govt, Public Safety Sector

    Motorola Solutions has unveiled its new Cybersecurity Professional Services offering that works to help government and public safety customers address cyber risks and respond to attacks as they perform their missions. The company said Thursday the service can supplement network security monitoring and other intrusion prevention measures to secure communications and information sharing at organizations. “Many organizations believe their […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Help Train Army Medics Based on Cognitive Load - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Help Train Army Medics Based on Cognitive Load

    Charles River Analytics will provide its Monitoring, Extracting and Decoding Indicators of Cognitive Load technology to help the U.S. Army train military medical personnel under a 30-month, $1 million contract. The company said Tuesday the MEDIC system utilizes physiological, neurophysiological and behavioral sensors to determine the cognitive performance of trainees beyond observable behaviors. “We have completed the initial design and testing of […] More

  • Jacobs to Support Highway Improvements Project in Texas; Randy Pierce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Support Highway Improvements Project in Texas; Randy Pierce Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group will provide construction, engineering and inspection services over a three-year period for the Texas Department of Transportation’s US 75/President George Bush Turnpike interchange improvements project in Collin County. The company said Tuesday it will support the improvement of two direct connectors, construction of new auxiliary lanes, extension of the railroad bridge and some demolition and reconstruction work. […] More