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  • Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads

    Lockheed Martin has tasked Northrop Grumman to provide sensor payloads for the fifth and sixth geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites in the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Based Infrared System under a $422 million subcontract. “Northrop Grumman looks forward to joining our partner and prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, to produce the GEO-5/6 IR payloads,” Anne Ostroff, vice president of Northrop’s military and civil […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Tech Demo Mission to Fly 3 DoD Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Tech Demo Mission to Fly 3 DoD Payloads

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies and NASA will fly a set of experimental Defense Department scientific payloads on the planned Green Propellant Infusion Mission for 2016 under a $3.4 million payload integration contract. The company said Wednesday the DoD Space Experiments Review Board selected the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight, Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer and Space Object Self-tracker payloads to be part of the GPIM […] More

  • Ramesh Ramaswamy: Schafer Expands Support to DHS Nuclear Detection Ops Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ramesh Ramaswamy: Schafer Expands Support to DHS Nuclear Detection Ops Center

    Schafer‘s government services sector business will support Advantage SCI as a subcontractor on the Technical Acquisition and Business Support Services contract for the Department of Homeland Security. The company will provide 24-7 watch officer services for the Joint Analysis Center of DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, expanding its current support for information analysis at JAC, Schafer said Thursday. Ramesh […] More

  • Northrop Reveals Humvee Modernization Offering; Jeff Wood Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Reveals Humvee Modernization Offering; Jeff Wood Comments

    Northrop Grumman has launched a modernization offering that works to drive fuel efficiency and enable extended life for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, also known as Humvees. The company said Tuesday that it collaborated with Meritor Defense and Pratt & Miller Engineering to develop the offering, which aims to achieve lower sustainment and life-cycle costs. Jeff Wood, director of vehicle modernization at Northrop Grumman Technical […] More

  • Lockheed's MAVEN Spacecraft Captures Martian Atmospheric Activity for NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s MAVEN Spacecraft Captures Martian Atmospheric Activity for NASA

    Lockheed Martin‘s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft has captured the first ultraviolet images of solar energetic particle activity and a layer of ozone in Mars’ atmosphere as part of a mission for NASA. The space agency said Tuesday it is currently testing the spacecraft’s instruments ahead of the science mission, which will also study the possible causes of the planet’s loss […] More

  • Booz Allen Names 5 New Partners for Middle East Market Push; Joseph Logue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Names 5 New Partners for Middle East Market Push; Joseph Logue Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton has appointed five new partners to provide consulting services for the Middle East and North Africa as the firm aims to expand its footprint in both regions. The firm said Tuesday the new partners for the MENA region are Walid Fayad, Raymond Khoury, Nabih Maroun, Mahir Nayfeh and Nadim Batri. Ramez Shehadi, an executive vice president and managing director at Booz Allen, will […] More

  • Mike Shaughnessy: Raytheon Grows Partnership With Poland's PIT-RADWAR - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Shaughnessy: Raytheon Grows Partnership With Poland’s PIT-RADWAR

    Raytheon has entered into a business cooperation agreement with Poland-based PIT-RADWAR to build on potential opportunities in the country’s air defense industry and export operations to international markets. Their technology partnership also covers radar equipment and subsystems; command-and-control equipment, software and subsystems; mission planning architecture, simulation and software; and system-level integration, verification and validation tests, Raytheon said Tuesday. Mike Shaughnessy, vice president […] More

  • Exelis Unveils CorvusEye Sensor for Nighttime Video Surveillance; Mike Hayes Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Unveils CorvusEye Sensor for Nighttime Video Surveillance; Mike Hayes Comments

    Exelis has launched a new visible color and infrared sensor for its CorvusEye 1500 imagery system for airborne surveillance functions during daytime and nighttime conditions. The company said Monday this new sensor works to complement another Exelis electro-optical sensor for daytime surveillance and capture motion imagery of potential threats, as well as other activity up to 1.24 miles away. “The cover of […] More

  • Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed to Support US-Japan Security, Growth, Sustainability Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marillyn Hewson: Lockheed to Support US-Japan Security, Growth, Sustainability Programs

    Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson has said the company can help with security, growth and sustainability initiatives to maintain the partnership and collaboration between the U.S. and Japan. “[It] is our shared values, our collaboration and our commitment to each other that will allow us to overcome these challenges successfully,” she said in her U.S.-Japan Council conference keynote address published Friday. […] More

  • ABI's Michela Menting: Cyber a 'Fledgling' Matter in Internet of Things - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ABI’s Michela Menting: Cyber a ‘Fledgling’ Matter in Internet of Things

    A new report from ABI Research outlines market demand for cybersecurity tools from Internet of Things users in areas such as consumer privacy and data protection. The market intelligence firm said Friday that current product development requirements and the consideration between cost and risk for connected “things” will drive the market. “Embedded security, trusted computing, security protocols—these are all fledgling areas of product development […] More

  • Parsons-Acumen JV Lands Engineering Contract With for SF Bay Area Transit; Todd Wager Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons-Acumen JV Lands Engineering Contract With for SF Bay Area Transit; Todd Wager Comments

    Parsons‘ joint venture with Acumen will provide the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District with general engineering services under a new five-year contract. APJV will work with 11 subconsultants and small businesses to provide civil, architectural, structural, electrical, mechanical and systems engineering support for the BART project, Parsons said Wednesday. Todd Wager, Parsons group president, said the company […] More

  • Yash Shah: Joint CA-VersionOne Tool Aims to Help Drive IT Investments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Yash Shah: Joint CA-VersionOne Tool Aims to Help Drive IT Investments

    CA Technologies and VersionOne have integrated their project and portfolio management and Agile project management products to help clients develop, manage and monitor Agile and waterfall projects with a unified tool. “In the application economy, it’s more critical than ever for IT organizations to have a consistent handle on their entire IT investment portfolio,” Yash Shah, senior vice […] More