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  • Unisys Belgium Part of Winning Consortia on 3 Lots of European Commission Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Belgium Part of Winning Consortia on 3 Lots of European Commission Contract

    A Unisys subsidiary in Belgium has received work worth $900 million from the European Commission under three lots of the External Service Provision for Development, Studies and Support for Information Systems III framework contract. The company said Thursday Unisys Belgium will work with partners as part of three separate consortia to provide analytics, project management and consultancy services, functional and […] More

  • Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Pushes Forward With Fiber-Optic Lasers After ATHENA Demo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Keoki Jackson: Lockheed Pushes Forward With Fiber-Optic Lasers After ATHENA Demo

    Lockheed Martin has completed a field test of its prototype Advanced Test High Energy Asset laser weapon system in a push to demonstrate precision functions for lasers to counter ground-based targets. The company said Tuesday ATHENA features the 30-kilowatt, fiber-optic Accelerated Laser Demonstration Initiative technology and is based on the Area Defense Anti-Munitions system. “Fiber-optic lasers are revolutionizing directed energy systems,” said Keoki […] More

  • Raytheon, Partners Demo Microgrid System for Military Backup Power - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Partners Demo Microgrid System for Military Backup Power

    Raytheon has helped complete a demonstration of a backup-power microgrid system that it developed with partners Primus Power, Advanced Energy and the Energy Department‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The technology combines Raytheon’s Intelligent Power and Energy Management Microgrid Controller, Primus Power’s EnergyPod 706kVA powertrain and Advanced Energy’s 100kW solar inverters to support off-grid operation, Raytheon said Thursday. It stores high-penetration renewable […] More

  • Govini 2015 GovCon Scorecard: Commerce Dept is Top Agency, Lockheed is Top Vendor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govini 2015 GovCon Scorecard: Commerce Dept is Top Agency, Lockheed is Top Vendor

    Govini‘s latest Federal Scorecard report points to a “highly competitive” government contracting space in 2014 with the Commerce Department leading in agency spending percentage increase and Lockheed Martin ahead in captured contract revenue. “The annual scorecard gives the market an opportunity to look at federal spending from a macro level and, through analytics, explain the trends that […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI to Help Army Evaluate Night-Vision Tech for Asymmetric Warfare - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: CACI to Help Army Evaluate Night-Vision Tech for Asymmetric Warfare

    CACI International will continue its support for U.S. Army sensor and imaging systems modeling and simulation work following the award of a 12-month, $43 million task order contract under the Strategic Services Sourcing vehicle. The company will provide engineering support to the service’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate to help in the evaluation of sensor technologies and […] More

  • DeEtte Gray: BAE Extends AF Life-Cycle Planning Support With Obsolescence Mgmt Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DeEtte Gray: BAE Extends AF Life-Cycle Planning Support With Obsolescence Mgmt Tool

    The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems will continue to help the U.S. Air Force manage the service life cycle of aircraft, vehicles, machines and other systems and platforms under a three-year contract worth up to $37 million. BAE Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will provide its Web-enabled Advanced Component Obsolescence Management tool to predict the potential obsolescence of parts and identify where replacements […] More

  • Lockheed to Use Spirent GPS/INS Simulators for F-35 Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Use Spirent GPS/INS Simulators for F-35 Tests

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has tapped Spirent Federal Systems to support hardware-in-the-loop tests of F-35 mission systems and sensors, where Spirent will provide GPS/INS simulation systems to the Joint Strike Fighter Mission Systems Integration Lab. Lockheed said Tuesday it will also use Spirent’s simulators for aiding procedures at the JSF Vehicle Systems Integration Facility. The simulators work to help supplement instrumented […] More

  • Bechtel to Place 700 Workers in Expanded Fairfax County Hub; Bill Dudley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel to Place 700 Workers in Expanded Fairfax County Hub; Bill Dudley Comments

    Bechtel will put a new $10 million investment into its office location in Virginia’s Fairfax County to accommodate 700 relocated jobs as part of the company’s corporate restructuring and business expansion effort in the region. The company said Wednesday it will lease 175,000 square feet of space to add to its global operations headquarters in Reston as […] More

  • Sotera to Continue Support for Apache NiFi Open Source Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sotera to Continue Support for Apache NiFi Open Source Project

    Sotera Defense Solutions has helped the Apache Software Foundation in the development, maintenance and documentation of the Apache NiFi Open Source Project as part of the Apache Incubator program. Sotera said Wednesday it has also provided project management, systems engineering and training support since the project was still in the initial closed-source stage. The Apache NiFi system manages data flows with a Web-based user interface […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Eyes Continued Mission Support as High-Res Satellite Images Go Global - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Eyes Continued Mission Support as High-Res Satellite Images Go Global

    Military and intelligence organizations are poised to leverage higher-resolution satellite images to drive innovation following the full implementation of the Commerce Department‘s new rule on the images’ global availability, C4ISR & Networks reported Tuesday. Adam Stone writes that as of last month, higher-resolution images can be sold globally to support various missions, including those of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in the U.S. […] More

  • Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion

    Stewart Ewing, executive vice president and chief financial officer at CenturyLink, said the company continues to consider potential mergers and acquisitions that would grow its business services portfolio, FierceTelecom reported Tuesday. “We’re trying to build out the portfolio for the cloud platform and for the IT services platform that we hope to grow so I think you’ll see […] More

  • Lockheed, H. N. Burns Engineering Partner on Flight Visibility Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, H. N. Burns Engineering Partner on Flight Visibility Tech Development

    Lockheed Martin is collaborating with H. N. Burns Engineering Corp. to develop technology that works to improve flight visibility in degraded visual environments and help prevent military helicopter pilot accidents. Lockheed said Monday that it will combine its pilotage and sensor systems with H. N. Burns’ imaging laser radar technology to boost situational awareness and spatial orientation even in low-visibility conditions such as bad […] More