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  • DRS Teams with Israel's Beth-El, Rada on CBRN Defense, AESA Radar Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Teams with Israel’s Beth-El, Rada on CBRN Defense, AESA Radar Tech

    Finmeccanica-owned DRS Technologies has teamed with Beth-El Industries, and Israeli supplier of environmental threat protection systems, to develop an air filtration product for U.S. military use. Under the terms of the deal, the two companies will create new offerings to utilize Arlington, Virginia-based DRS’ chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense systems and Beth-El filtration technology, DRS said Tuesday. […] More

  • CACI Awarded $38M Rapid Prototyping, Technology Insertion Work for CERDEC; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Awarded $38M Rapid Prototyping, Technology Insertion Work for CERDEC; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has been awarded a contract to provide rapid prototyping and technology insertion support to the U.S. Army’s applied research facility for $38.5 million. The new task order from the Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center falls under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract previously awarded to CACI in October 2012 and includes one year base period of […] More

  • LAX Chooses Exelis Airfield Monitoring Suite; Ted Carniol, Jeff Mort Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LAX Chooses Exelis Airfield Monitoring Suite; Ted Carniol, Jeff Mort Comment

    Exelis has been contracted to deploy its airfield monitoring and surveillance suite at the Los Angeles International Airport as part of a LAX initiative to improve safety and efficiency at the facility. The package will include the McLean, Virginia-based company’s Vehicle Movement Area Transponder, Symphony MobileVue and NextVue platforms, Exelis said Monday. VMAT provides operations, […] More

  • STC Lands NASA Mission Support Contract for Langley Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    STC Lands NASA Mission Support Contract for Langley Research

    Science and Technology Corporation has been awarded a potential $25 million contract from NASA to provide support services for the space agency’s aeronautics laboratory in Virginia. The five-year contract includes the fabrication of flight test components for various mission requirements at Langley Research Center, including assemblies for aircraft, spaceflight, research facilities and ground support equipment, […] More

  • General Dynamics Distress System Figures in USCG Search, Rescue Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Distress System Figures in USCG Search, Rescue Missions

    The U.S. Coast Guard has declared General Dynamics‘ Rescue 21 command, control and direction-finding communications system as a public safety network that enables its missions with ease. The company said Tuesday the platform has helped USCG process 75,000 search and rescue cases since 2009, providing 90 percent VHF coverage to over 215,000 square nautical miles at sea. […] More

  • Exelis Receives 3rd Order for GA-ASI Drone Carriage and Release Systems; Pete Martin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Receives 3rd Order for GA-ASI Drone Carriage and Release Systems; Pete Martin Comments

    Exelis will continue to manufacture pneumatic carriage and release systems for the MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle under a $27 million contract from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. The follow-on contract for 619 units of the BRU-71/A ejector rack is the third such order from the California-based aeronautics firm, with work to occur in Amityville, New […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: Asian Shipyards Move Into Military Naval Vessels Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan: Asian Shipyards Move Into Military Naval Vessels Market

    Japan, South Korea and China are emerging as new manufacturing hubs for military naval vessels, a new report from Frost & Sullivan revealed. The analyst said Thursday that shipbuilding would remain a domain of Western Europe, the United States and Russia but that Asia-Pacific countries are tightening their hold on the market as they slowly start […] More

  • Greg Mandt: NOAA Completes Installation of 6 Key Instruments Onboard GOES-R - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greg Mandt: NOAA Completes Installation of 6 Key Instruments Onboard GOES-R

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration moved closer to its March 2016 launch date for the next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series with the completed integration of all instruments aboard the weather forecasting platform. The GOES-R now carries an advanced baseline imager, a geostationary lightning mapper, the Space Environment In-Situ Suite, Extreme Ultraviolet and X-ray […] More

  • Research and Markets Sees 4% CAGR for $102B C4ISR Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sees 4% CAGR for $102B C4ISR Market

    New analysis from Research and Markets has forecast a 4.52 percent year-over-year growth for the $102 billion C4ISR market from 2014 to 2020. The market report singled out the electro-optics subsector fueling demand for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment in the defense, aerospace and homeland security segments, Research and Markets said Wednesday. Electro-optics is used […] More

  • Steve Rosenberg: Oracle-Proteus Feedback Tool Targets Medicine Adherence, Dosing in Clinical Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Rosenberg: Oracle-Proteus Feedback Tool Targets Medicine Adherence, Dosing in Clinical Trials

    Oracle has teamed with Proteus Digital Health to develop a feedback tool that aims to improve clinical trial outcomes. The cloud-based system combines Oracle Health Sciences InForm and Proteus’ feedback system to electronically capture, track and manage clinical data such as medication intake frequency and dosages, Oracle said Monday. The company noted that the collection […] More

  • KLAS Report Cites Information Builders Methods, Approaches to Healthcare Data Integration; Gerald Cohen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KLAS Report Cites Information Builders Methods, Approaches to Healthcare Data Integration; Gerald Cohen Comments

    Information Builders said the latest KLAS Research survey has ranked the company among the top four business intelligence and analytics services providers for the healthcare industry. The study cited Information Builders’ use of various methodologies (scheduled reporting, data mining, data integrity, data warehousing) and approaches (mobile, self-service BI) to reach and satisfy more customers, Information […] More

  • Jay McConville: Lockheed Sets Sights on Civil, Commercial UAV Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jay McConville: Lockheed Sets Sights on Civil, Commercial UAV Market

    Jay McConville, director of business development for unmanned solutions at Lockheed Martin, said the contractor is studying several avenues toward marketing its small unmanned aerial vehicles to civil and commercial clients, the National Defense Magazine reported Monday. Yasmin Tadjdeh writes that the executive, speaking to reporters earlier in the week, highlighted the demand small drones have generated […] More