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  • Boeing, Saudi Partners to Form JV for Future Rotorcraft Support Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Saudi Partners to Form JV for Future Rotorcraft Support Center

    Boeing will form a joint venture with Saudia Aerospace Engineering Industries and Alsalam Aircraft Company to open the Saudi Rotorcraft Support Center in Riyadh and Jeddah. Boeing said Wednesday the center will provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services for the sustainment of Saudi Arabia’s commercial and defense helicopters. The country’s rotorcraft fleet includes Boeing’s AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook and AH-6i. Leanne Caret, […] More

  • DLT Opens Operations, Innovation Centers in Virginia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT Opens Operations, Innovation Centers in Virginia

    DLT Solutions has unveiled its new DLT Operations Center and DLT Innovation Center as part of efforts to bolster the company’s technical services offerings to the public sector. The company said Wednesday its new offices at the Dulles Technology Corridor in Herndon, Virginia, will house the additional facilities. It added that the DLT Operations Center consists of the DLT Service Center, […] More

  • AECOM Awarded Navy Radar Engineering Task Order Through SeaPort-e; Randy Wotring Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Awarded Navy Radar Engineering Task Order Through SeaPort-e; Randy Wotring Comments

    AECOM has received a potential five-year, $45 million task order under the U.S. Navy‘s SeaPort-e contract vehicle for engineering and technical support to the Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren Division. The company said Wednesday it will provide design and development services to support the production of Navy and U.S. Marine Corps radar systems. “We are excited to have been […] More

  • DC Public Service Commission Denies Proposed Exelon-Pepco Merger - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DC Public Service Commission Denies Proposed Exelon-Pepco Merger

    The D.C. Public Service Commission has rejected Exelon‘s proposed $6.4 billion merger with Pepco Holdings due to concerns on the latter’s potentially diminished role in the future management structure, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Thomas Heath writes that the commission also indicated a lack of evidence to prove that the transaction will improve utilities services for consumers […] More

  • ULA, AF Develop Off-Site Vertical Integration for Indoor Lifting Operations; Jim Sponnick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA, AF Develop Off-Site Vertical Integration for Indoor Lifting Operations; Jim Sponnick Comments

    United Launch Alliance has worked with the U.S. Air Force to implement off-site vertical integration on the Atlas V rocket’s Centaur upper stage and other structural components. The company said Tuesday OVI works to drive down the number of lifting operations at the Cape Canaveral Vertical Integration Facility and relocate them indoors to the Delta Operations Center. These […] More

  • Lockheed Develops Satellite Cooling System With 150 Watts-Per-Kilogram Power Density - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Develops Satellite Cooling System With 150 Watts-Per-Kilogram Power Density

    Lockheed Martin has built a lightweight satellite cooling system with a power density of 150 watts per kilogram as part of the efforts to develop compact and high-power cryocoolers for electronics aboard spacecraft. The company said Tuesday the High Power Microcryocooler works to cool down sensors, cameras and other satellite optics and electronics to as low as -320 degrees Fahrenheit. The cooling system […] More

  • PotomacWave's Jeff Sopko: Automated Tool to Support Govt Data Integrity Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PotomacWave’s Jeff Sopko: Automated Tool to Support Govt Data Integrity Efforts

    Jeff Sopko, executive vice president of PotomacWave Consulting, has said five agencies have adopted the company’s FedDataCheck tool to catch data errors in federal contract awards prior to “downstream reporting,” GovExec reported Monday. “[Errors] stem from frequent changes in policy and procedures that take time to be implemented in source contract writing, as well as human errors,” Sopko told GovExec. […] More

  • CGI to Help Scotland Capital City Update ICT Services Under $293M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Help Scotland Capital City Update ICT Services Under $293M Contract

    CGI will provide outsourced information and communications technology services to the city council of Edinburgh in Scotland under a seven-year, $293.4 million contract in support of the council’s shift toward digital services. The company said Monday the contract is part of efforts to modernize the Scottish capital’s ICT infrastructure that includes the online delivery of public services and automation of back-office processes. […] More

  • Scott Gaydos: Services-Based IT Governance to Drive 'Shadow IT' Benefits in Govt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Gaydos: Services-Based IT Governance to Drive ‘Shadow IT’ Benefits in Govt

    Scott Gaydos, chief technologist of Hewlett-Packard‘s U.S. public sector business, believes federal information technology leaders should explore the potential benefits of shadow IT in driving down costs. Gaydos wrote in a Fedscoop guest piece published Friday that the government needs to adopt a centralized IT governance structure to mitigate risk in shadow IT while reaping its benefits. […] More

  • Todd Wager: Parsons on 3rd '407 Transitway' Contract for Environmental Assessment, Prelim Design - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Todd Wager: Parsons on 3rd ‘407 Transitway’ Contract for Environmental Assessment, Prelim Design

    Parsons has received a contract from the Ontario transportation ministry to provide environmental assessment planning and preliminary design services for Canada’s future 407 Transitway. The company said Thursday the contract covers 23 kilometers of the 150-kilometer rapid transit corridor, which will run parallel to Highway 407. Todd Wager, Parsons group president, noted that this is the company’s third […] More

  • Navy Plans 2nd Round of Sea Trials for Lockheed's F-35C Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Plans 2nd Round of Sea Trials for Lockheed’s F-35C Jets

    The U.S. Navy will conduct at-sea trials of Lockheed Martin‘s F-35C jet aboard the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier in October as part of the program’s second development testing phase, Defense News reported Thursday. Lara Seligman writes that the tests will verify the carrier-variant joint strike fighter’s launch and recovery functions and performance under nighttime and suboptimal conditions. […] More

  • Army Launches 2nd Raytheon-Built Surveillance Aerostat for Missile Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Launches 2nd Raytheon-Built Surveillance Aerostat for Missile Defense

    The U.S. Army has launched a second Raytheon-built aerostat to provide radar coverage for the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, C4ISR & Networks reported Thursday. Amber Corrin writes the service launched the airship at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland to support North American Aerospace Defense Command‘s over-the-horizon surveillance operations. The 250-foot, helium-filled […] More