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  • Alan Pellegrini: Thales Eyes US Military Helicopter Market With Northrop Subcontract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alan Pellegrini: Thales Eyes US Military Helicopter Market With Northrop Subcontract

    Thales will provide its i-FMS200 flight management system software to Northrop Grumman as part of the latter’s contract with the U.S. Army to upgrade its UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter fleet. Thales said Wednesday Northrop will integrate i-FMS200 into the avionics mission equipment package of the Black Hawk upgrade, which will be called UH‑60V. “This is a further expansion of our presence in the […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Radiometer to Support Solar Energy Observation; Jim Oschmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Radiometer to Support Solar Energy Observation; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies‘ Scripps NISTAR radiometer instrument will launch to space as part of the Deep Space Climate Observatory mission of NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The instrument will support the DSCOVR program in measuring irradiance on the Earth’s surface to study the planet’s exchange of energy with the sun, Ball said Tuesday. […] More

  • IBM Launches Analytics Platform for Energy & Utility Sector; Brad Gammons Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Launches Analytics Platform for Energy & Utility Sector; Brad Gammons Comments

    IBM has unveiled its new cloud-based analytics offering for the energy and utility sector that works to facilitate situational awareness and data-driven decision-making for managing the energy generation-to-distribution process. The company said Tuesday the IBM Insights Foundation for Energy platform combines data integration, visualization and analytics software to deliver insights on asset performance. “Utilities need flexible and comprehensive […] More

  • Ambit Group to Support DHS IT Investment Mgmt for $28M - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ambit Group to Support DHS IT Investment Mgmt for $28M

    The Ambit Group has received three task orders worth an estimated $28 million to provide program and project management services to several agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Today reported Monday. DHS awarded the task orders via the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading-Edge Solutions II contract vehicle to facilitate efficiencies in information technology investments, the report said. […] More

  • Cisco: Mobile Apps Could Help Public Services Reach More People - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco: Mobile Apps Could Help Public Services Reach More People

    The public sector’s use of mobile applications continues to grow as U.S. and international government units eye increased use of those tools to support citizen services, Jason Deign wrote in a piece published Monday on the Cisco website. Deign writes that mobile apps work to grow service delivery to more citizens and enable “anytime, anywhere” access. “If you think about reaching the […] More

  • Mary Petryszyn: Northrop Begins Global Hawk Production for South Korea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary Petryszyn: Northrop Begins Global Hawk Production for South Korea

    Northrop Grumman will work with the U.S. Air Force and start production four RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft systems under a foreign military sale contract with the South Korean air force. “[It is] the first time a Global Hawk has been sold to an allied nation in the Asia-Pacific region under the foreign military sales process,” Mary Petryszyn, international vice president […] More

  • BAE to Build UAS Sensor for Navy Antisubmarine Warfare Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Build UAS Sensor for Navy Antisubmarine Warfare Program

    BAE Systems is developing a sensor payload for unmanned aircraft systems that will help the U.S. Navy‘s Boeing-built P-8A Poseidon jet detect enemy submarines by monitoring disturbances in the magnetic field, Intelligent Aerospace reported Monday. John Keller writes the P-8A maritime patrol aircraft will use an air-launched UAS equipped with an antisubmarine warfare payload, including a magnetic anomaly detector, to pinpoint the location of submerged submarines, […] More

  • FireEye, Telefonica to Combine Security Tech, Intell, Services for Enterprise Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye, Telefonica to Combine Security Tech, Intell, Services for Enterprise Customers

    FireEye has moved to integrate its cybersecurity technologies with Telefonica‘s managed security and mobile security services under a new partnership for the business-to-business market. FireEye said Thursday Telefonica will offer its enterprise customers the FireEye Mobile Threat Prevention product and other security offerings to counter advanced persistent threats. “[The] reality is modern attack groups can execute a sophisticated hack against any […] More

  • Spire to Launch 20 Small Weather Satellites This Year; Peter Platzer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spire to Launch 20 Small Weather Satellites This Year; Peter Platzer Comments

    Spire is lining up the launch of its small weather satellites that will work to collect atmospheric data to fill a gap in weather forecasting capabilities. The company said Thursday the “shoebox-size” satellites will leverage the GPS Radio Occultation technique to monitor changes in weather and climate. It added that the network will eventually perform 10,000 readings a day to build up the accuracy of forecasting […] More

  • Transparency Market Research: Global Smart Weapons Market Worth $67B in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Transparency Market Research: Global Smart Weapons Market Worth $67B in 2019

    A new Transparency Market Research report states that air-to-ground and surface-to-air missiles dominated the global smart weapons market in 2012, with further growth projected to give the market a value of $66.91 billion by 2019. The company said Thursday the market will achieve a compound annual growth rate of 10.3 percent from $34 billion in 2012 to reach the projected […] More

  • Army Seeks Partners for Airborne Reconnaissance System IDIQ Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Partners for Airborne Reconnaissance System IDIQ Contract

    The U.S. Army is looking for partners to provide mission equipment payload design, systems and aircraft integration, configuration management, logistics support and sensor procurement services for the Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced system. The service said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday that it plans to award a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for the replacement of nine ARL-Multifunction systems. ARL-E works […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, Nonprofits Use Satellite Images, Predictive Analytics in Anti-Poaching Campaign - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, Nonprofits Use Satellite Images, Predictive Analytics in Anti-Poaching Campaign

    DigitalGlobe has partnered with nonprofit organizations African Parks, Enough Project and the Satellite Sentinel Project to study how predictive analytics using satellite imagery can help Congo Republic rangers stop elephant poaching. The company said Wednesday the resulting report shows how analysis of available data using DigitalGlobe’s Signature Analyst software has helped identify poaching hotspots at Garamba National Park and direct the allotment […] More