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  • Air Force Orders Additional Orbital ATK Proximity Sensors; Cary Ralston Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Orders Additional Orbital ATK Proximity Sensors; Cary Ralston Comments

    Orbital ATK has received a $27 million production order for additional DSU-33D/B proximity sensors under a follow-on contract to a 2013 full-rate production award from the U.S. Air Force. The company said Wednesday the sensor works to support precision detonation and maximize the weapon’s blast and fragmentation effects through a fire pulse to the FMU-139 and FMU-152 bomb fuzes and […] More

  • ThreatQuotient Offers ThreatQ Platform for Threat Intelligence; Wayne Chiang Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ThreatQuotient Offers ThreatQ Platform for Threat Intelligence; Wayne Chiang Comments

    ThreatQuotient has entered into the cybersecurity market with the release of its ThreatQ threat intelligence platform to help companies make informed decisions on security based on shared cyber threat data. “Enterprises are currently lacking the ability to effectively correlate and operationalize the massive volume of threat intelligence data that is readily available,” Wayne Chiang, CEO and co-founder […] More

  • Boeing Phantom Works Builds Truck for Tentative Army ULCV Program Bid - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Phantom Works Builds Truck for Tentative Army ULCV Program Bid

    Boeing‘s Phantom Works business has built an ultra-lightweight truck called Phantom Badger that the company could offer for the U.S. Army‘s Ultra-Light Combat Vehicle program, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Sydney Freedberg Jr. writes that a component of the U.S. Special Operations Command asked Boeing to design a vehicle that its V-22 Osprey aircraft can carry. The company […] More

  • ManTech to Provide Systems Engineering for DHS Science & Technology; Daniel Keefe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech to Provide Systems Engineering for DHS Science & Technology; Daniel Keefe Comments

    ManTech International Corp. has landed a potential three-year, $29.2 million task order contract from the Department of Homeland Security under the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance II vehicle. The company said Tuesday the contract covers systems engineering services for the DHS Science and Technology Directorate. Daniel Keefe, president and chief operating officer of ManTech’s mission solutions and services group, noted […] More

  • France Takes in 3rd General Atomics Reaper Drone; Frank Pace Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    France Takes in 3rd General Atomics Reaper Drone; Frank Pace Comments

    France’s military has received a third unmanned Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper from General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance as well as targeting missions. The company said Friday this latest delivery is the third for the French air force and will join the two remotely piloted aircraft currently in service. Frank Pace, president of aircraft […] More

  • Dell Forms Internet of Things Unit, Partners With ThingWorx as System Integrator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell Forms Internet of Things Unit, Partners With ThingWorx as System Integrator

    Dell has signed an agreement for its digital business services arm to serve as a ThingWorx global system integrator partner in delivering professional and digital services to support applications in the Internet of Things. Dell said Thursday it will provide consulting services to enterprise customers under the ThingWorx System Integrator Program. “Our customers today are seeing […] More

  • GSA Cancels Regional Contracts to Speed Transition Under NS2020 Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Cancels Regional Contracts to Speed Transition Under NS2020 Strategy

    The General Services Administration has cancelled three Regional Infrastructure Solutions contracts in favor of the upcoming 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract for the agency’s Network Services 2020 efforts, FCW reported Friday. Mark Rockwell writes that Amando Gavino Jr., director of the Office of Network Services Programs at GSA, said at a recent open meeting with […] More

  • EMC, VMware Named Platinum, Silver Members of OPNFV Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMC, VMware Named Platinum, Silver Members of OPNFV Project

    The Open Platform for NFV Project has added EMC as a Platinum member and VMware as a Silver member as the open source platform continues its work to boost innovation using network functions virtualization. OPNFV said Friday EMC and VMware will join other members in collaborating toward the development of an open source framework for NFV. “I’m delighted […] More

  • Exelis Meteorological Imager Moves to Final Production; Eric Webster Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Meteorological Imager Moves to Final Production; Eric Webster Comments

    Exelis will move forward to final production of its Advanced Meteorological Imager after the system completed a design review conducted by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. The company said Wednesday the now-finished review moves the program closer to the planned 2018 launch of AMI onboard the GEO-KOMPSAT-2A satellite. Eric Webster, environmental intelligence vice president and director at Exelis, said the imager works to build knowledge of weather and […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Enter Low-Rate Initial Production for Fuze Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Enter Low-Rate Initial Production for Fuze Technology

    Orbital ATK has received Milestone C approval for its FMU-167/B Hard Target Void Sensing Fuze to enter into low-rate initial production as part of the program’s completion of the engineering and manufacturing development phase. The company said Wednesday the approval moves the technology into production and deployment as it aims to deliver multiple-delay arming, void sensing and […] More

  • Georgia State Technology Agency Picks Capgemini for Service Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Georgia State Technology Agency Picks Capgemini for Service Integration

    Capgemini will serve as the multi-sourcing integrator for the Georgia Enterprise Technology Services program as part of a seven-year, $200 million agreement with the Georgia Technology Authority. The company said Tuesday it will help GTA manage and integrate technology services from various providers by providing risk and security management, service desk, request management and billing support. Greg Hyttenrauch, deputy CEO […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-Saab JV Sees Market Opportunity for 3-D Model of Earth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-Saab JV Sees Market Opportunity for 3-D Model of Earth

    The new joint venture between DigitalGlobe and Saab seeks to accelerate the companies’ existing work toward delivering a 3-D model of Earth using their combined technologies and partner on distribution efforts, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes that the Vricon joint venture will integrate 3-D computer processing and satellite imaging technologies in efforts to meet the needs of […] More