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  • Rockwell Collins, DRS to Develop Air Combat Training Capability for Air Forces - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins, DRS to Develop Air Combat Training Capability for Air Forces

    Rockwell Collins and DRS Technologies‘ training and control systems business have partnered to help U.S. and international air forces develop air combat training capabilities that utilize the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System. Rockwell said Thursday the Joint Secure Air Combat Training System combines weapon simulation, aircraft integration and air combat training, and features a Multiple Independent Levels of Security architecture. […] More

  • Fluor to Provide Project Mgmt Support for Azerbaijan Oil/Gas Processing Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fluor to Provide Project Mgmt Support for Azerbaijan Oil/Gas Processing Facility

    Fluor has won a contract to provide the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic project management support for a new oil and gas processing and petrochemical complex near Baku, Azerbaijan. The company said Wednesday it will help SOCAR select contractors to provide procurement, engineering, construction, commissioning and startup services for the complex and some offsite facilities. Taco de Haan, president of Fluor’s energy and […] More

  • BlackBerry Subsidiary, IBM, Samsung Develop Tablet for Gov't and Enterprise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry Subsidiary, IBM, Samsung Develop Tablet for Gov’t and Enterprise

    BlackBerry‘s Secusmart subsidiary has worked with IBM and Samsung to develop a tablet that supports SecuSUITE for BlackBerry 10 to enable secure mobile communications for government and enterprise users. BlackBerry said Saturday the SecuTABLET is based on Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 and is awaiting security certification for classified data from the German Federal Office for Information Security. “Working alongside […] More

  • Willie May: NIST Report on 2012 Federal Tech Transfer to Support Future Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Willie May: NIST Report on 2012 Federal Tech Transfer to Support Future Efforts

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report on the government’s technology transfer activities in fiscal 2012 in support of the Lab-to-Market Cross-Agency Priority Goal under the President’s Management Agenda in 2014. NIST said Tuesday the report provides a baseline for measuring the government’s performance toward fulfilling the technology transfer CAP goal. “We will use future editions of this […] More

  • NASA's Lockheed-Built MAVEN Spacecraft Observes Dust Cloud, Aurora on Mars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s Lockheed-Built MAVEN Spacecraft Observes Dust Cloud, Aurora on Mars

    The Lockheed Martin-built Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft has detected aurora-like atmospheric lights and a dust cloud at orbital altitude during its mission for NASA‘s Mars Exploration Program. NASA said Wednesday MAVEN’s Langmuir Probe and Waves instrument and Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph observed the two phenomena in the spacecraft’s fourth month on Martian orbit. The dust cloud, which has been present throughout MAVEN’s […] More

  • John Lee: Carahsoft Keeps Eye on FedRAMP Website Redesign - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Lee: Carahsoft Keeps Eye on FedRAMP Website Redesign

    John Lee, vice president of cloud solutions at information technology services provider Carahsoft Technology, has noted the redesigned website of the General Services Administration‘s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Lee wrote Tuesday on the Carahsoft website that the revamp works to ease cloud vendors and government customers through the FedRAMP process and reflect new information […] More

  • Raytheon to Help DARPA Develop Phased Array Tech for $5M; Paul Ferraro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Help DARPA Develop Phased Array Tech for $5M; Paul Ferraro Comments

    Raytheon will support technology development for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Arrays at Commercial Timescales program under two contract modifications worth a total of $5 million. The company said Tuesday it will contribute its Rapid Array Performance Improvement and Deployment technology concepts to the program. RAPID works to address cost and time concerns with performance upgrades and phased […] More

  • Tetra Tech-Mason & Hangar JV to Support USACE Architectural, Engineering Design Activities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tetra Tech-Mason & Hangar JV to Support USACE Architectural, Engineering Design Activities

    A joint venture of Tetra Tech and Mason & Hangar Group has received a five-year, $45 million contract to provide the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – Mobile District with architectural and engineering design services. Tetra Tech said Tuesday the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery contract is in support of USACE’s master planning and facility design activities and value engineering studies. The company will also […] More

  • SES GS Completes 2nd Satellite Demo of O3b System; Pete Hoene Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SES GS Completes 2nd Satellite Demo of O3b System; Pete Hoene Comments

    The government solutions business of SES has held the second demonstration of O3b Networks‘ satellite system for “fiber-like” connectivity at the SES Washington Media Port in Virginia. SES said Monday the O3b technology works as an alternative to fiber networks to provide high-speed communications capability for government operations in remote locations. Pete Hoene, president and CEO of SES Government Solutions, […] More

  • Joe Ayers: HP Eyes Support for Gov't IT Investments via Promark GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Joe Ayers: HP Eyes Support for Gov’t IT Investments via Promark GSA Schedule

    Ingram Micro‘s Promark Technology subsidiary has added HP‘s enterprise business in its GSA Schedule contract to provide public-sector customers with converged systems and infrastructure, networking and servers from HP. The addition of HP Enterprise Group further expands Promark’s GSA Schedule portfolio, which also included HP’s printer and systems business in 2014, Ingram Micro said Monday. “Today, government corporations face ever-increasing operational […] More

  • Lockheed Adds Radware to Cybersecurity Alliance; Jeff Laskowski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Adds Radware to Cybersecurity Alliance; Jeff Laskowski Comments

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More

  • Unisys Unveils Permanent Client Service Center in Georgia; PV Puvvada, Ron Frankenfield Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Unveils Permanent Client Service Center in Georgia; PV Puvvada, Ron Frankenfield Comment

    Unisys will establish a new client service center at Discovery Plaza in Augusta, Georgia, to deliver information technology support services to both the U.S. Army and commercial clients. The company said Monday the new site covers 118,000 square feet of office space and could accommodate 700 new local jobs over the next five years, according to an earlier announcement […] More