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  • Diane Hockenberry: Iridium's Launch Plans With SpaceX is Flexible - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Diane Hockenberry: Iridium’s Launch Plans With SpaceX is Flexible

    A spokesperson for SpaceX customer Iridium Communications said the explosion Sunday of the Falcon 9 rocket bound for the International Space Station will have little impact on Iridium’s plans for its own payloads, Reuters reported Monday. “It isn’t critical that they make the exact dates — there is some flexibility in our overall launch plans,” Iridium spokeswoman Diane Hockenberry told Reuters. […] More

  • Accenture to Extend MicroPact Case Mgmt Product Usage for Federal Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture to Extend MicroPact Case Mgmt Product Usage for Federal Programs

    Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary and MicroPact have expanded their partnership on the implementation of the latter’s entellitrak case management offering at Accenture’s federal agency clients. Accenture said Monday it will continue to deploy the entellitrak development platform to support case and process management functions for health, financial and civilian agency programs. Vanessa Godshalk, a managing director at […] More

  • Iridium Names Initial Service Providers of Push-to-Talk Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Names Initial Service Providers of Push-to-Talk Service

    Iridium Communications has selected seven businesses as the initial service providers to resell the Iridium Push-to-Talk service to military, search-and-rescue, law enforcement and other customers in the international market. The company said Monday the service works to support instant communication from any location via the Iridium low-earth orbit satellite system and operates as half-duplex communication. The following are […] More

  • WidePoint, Samsung Arm Form Mobile Device Mgmt Alliance; Steve Komar Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint, Samsung Arm Form Mobile Device Mgmt Alliance; Steve Komar Comments

    WidePoint has partnered with Samsung subsidiary Samsung SDS America to deploy the former’s Certificate-on-Device digital certificates on Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy Note mobile devices. WidePoint said Monday the alliance also includes the integration of its Intelligent Telecommunications Management System with Samsung’s CellWe Enterprise Mobility Management software. “WidePoint looks forward to continuing work with Samsung SDSA as we work to grow […] More

  • General Atomics Eyes European Airspace for Reaper; Christopher Ames Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Eyes European Airspace for Reaper; Christopher Ames Comments

    General Atomics is modifying its Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft system to meet NATO regulations as the company aims to fly the drone in European airspace by 2019, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Brendan McGarry writes that the company is adding new features to drive fuel economy and comply with air worthiness requirements in the NATO Standardization Agreement 4671 and […] More

  • Carahsoft Offers Cloud-Hosted Tool for DoD Collaboration, Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Offers Cloud-Hosted Tool for DoD Collaboration, Training

    Carahsoft Technology has launched the cloud-hosted Defense Connect Online II tool, which builds on the company’s DCO offering for military collaboration and training activities. “DCO II can be used by anyone associated with the [Defense Department] who wishes to continue using DCO Connect for their collaboration needs,” Mark Mills, DCO II program manager and vice president at […] More

  • General Dynamics NASSCO Starts Construction of 2nd SEA-Vista Product Tanker - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics NASSCO Starts Construction of 2nd SEA-Vista Product Tanker

    A subsidiary of General Dynamics has begun construction of the second product tanker for SEA-Vista Newbuild III, which will support the transportation of crude oil and refined products. General Dynamics NASSCO said Thursday the tanker, which has a 330,000-barrel cargo capacity and deadweight of 50,000 tons, is based on the ECO MR Tanker design of South Korea’s DSEC. Kevin Graney, vice […] More

  • ICF-AEE: US Natural Gas Pipeline to Meet Power Demand Under CPP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF-AEE: US Natural Gas Pipeline to Meet Power Demand Under CPP

    ICF International worked with Advanced Energy Economy to look into the capability of the U.S. natural gas pipeline system to align with the Environmental Protection Agency‘s Clean Power Plan, Natural Gas Intelligence reported Thursday. Carolyn Davis writes the analysis report says the pipeline can keep up with power generation needs as the proposed CPP calls for a […] More

  • Drone Aviation to Provide L-3 Comm Package for BAE's Aerostat Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation to Provide L-3 Comm Package for BAE’s Aerostat Upgrade Contract

    BAE Systems has selected Drone Aviation Corp. to provide parts and services for the upgrade of two Winch Aerostat Small Platform systems of the U.S. Army‘s Space and Missile Defense Command Battle Lab. DAC said Wednesday it will also work with L-3 Communications subsidiary L-3 Communication Systems-West to integrate the new WASP electro-optical and infrared imaging tactical surveillance system and […] More

  • Cisco-IMD: Digital Disruption to Displace 40% of Business Incumbents Within 5 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco-IMD: Digital Disruption to Displace 40% of Business Incumbents Within 5 Years

    A study by the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation — an initiative between Cisco and the IMD business school — says digital disruption could supplant 40 percent of incumbent firms within the next five years. Cisco said Wednesday the researchers sought the outlook of 941 business leaders across 12 industries on the impact of digital disruption in reshaping […] More

  • Lockheed Subcontracts Aerojet Rocketdyne for Satellite Propulsion Systems; Warren Yasuhara Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Subcontracts Aerojet Rocketdyne for Satellite Propulsion Systems; Warren Yasuhara Comments

    Lockheed Martin has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to provide the XR-5 Hall Effect and MR-510 Arcjet electric propulsion subsystems and monopropellant rocket engines for Lockheed’s contract with Arabsat. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday Lockheed will fit the subsystems and rocket engines onto two modernized A2100 satellites as part of efforts to boost mission flexibility. Warren Yasuhara, vice president of space systems at Aerojet Rocketdyne, added […] More

  • HII's Shipbuilding Unit Breaks Ground on Future Manufacturing Facility; Matt Mulherin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII’s Shipbuilding Unit Breaks Ground on Future Manufacturing Facility; Matt Mulherin Comments

    The Newport News Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries has broken ground on a new joint manufacturing assembly facility to support the production of submarines and aircraft carriers. The company said Monday the facility will open in 2017 to help boost efficiency in HII’s contracts for the U.S. Navy‘s Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and Virginia-class submarines. Matt Mulherin, president […] More