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  • Air Force Taps Peerless Technologies for $54M Consulting Support Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Peerless Technologies for $54M Consulting Support Task Order

    Peerless Technologies has secured a potential four-year, $53.7 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide consulting and assistance support services for the structures and aerodynamics test centers of the aerospace vehicles division. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost-plus, level-of-effort order through the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated […] More

  • Airbus Wins $600M Inmarsat Satellite Production Contract; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Wins $600M Inmarsat Satellite Production Contract; Rupert Pearce Comments

    Airbus’ defense and space business has won a potential $600 million contract from Inmarsat to construct the first two communications satellites for integration with the Inmarsat-6 satellite constellation. The two I-6 satellites will work to provide Ka- and L-band mobile communications services to Inmarsat clients, Inmarsat said Wednesday. Airbus is scheduled to hand over the […] More

  • Airbus Receives Order for 7 Additional Tiger Choppers From France - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Receives Order for 7 Additional Tiger Choppers From France

    France has placed an order for seven more Airbus-built Tiger attack helicopters in an effort to help French troops perform air-land operations in sub-Saharan Africa, Defense News reported Tuesday. Pierre Tran writes the French defense procurement agency or DGA made the order on Dec. 17 through France’s Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation. The report said DGA […] More

  • AWS, California DOJ Ink Cloud Security Compliance Agreement; Adrian Farley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS, California DOJ Ink Cloud Security Compliance Agreement; Adrian Farley Comments

    Amazon Web Services and the California Justice Department have signed an agreement in an effort to help the state’s law enforcement agencies comply with FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services standard and securely manage workloads in the cloud. AWS will offer cloud infrastructure and security-related services such as Amazon CloudTrail, AWS Direct Connect and AWS CloudHSM to […] More

  • MarkLogic’s David Nace: Industry to Play Greater Role in 2016 EHR System Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarkLogic’s David Nace: Industry to Play Greater Role in 2016 EHR System Updates

    David Nace, chief medical officer at MarkLogic, has said he expects greater participation from industry stakeholders in efforts to introduce updates on electronic health records systems in 2016. Such changes are likely to occur in the “usability” of EHR systems as doctors and medical organizations call for major upgrades of such platforms, Nace writes in […] More

  • Erickson Hands 4th CH-53E Helicopter Tail Pylon to Sikorsky - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Erickson Hands 4th CH-53E Helicopter Tail Pylon to Sikorsky

    Erickson has delivered a fourth tail pylon to Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky for integration with the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters of the U.S. Marine Corps. Erickson will ship the last aircraft tail pylon by the end of this year as part of a contract with Sikorsky to produce five out-of-production spare tail pylons for the service branch, […] More

  • CGI Lands Recompete Contract for Marine Corps Logistics Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Lands Recompete Contract for Marine Corps Logistics Support

    CGI has won a potential five-year, $19.6 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide software systems, engineering and logistics support services for Blount Island Command in Jacksonville, Florida. Blount Island Command works to provide logistics support for the service branch’s Maritime Prepositioning Force with regard to the management of combat equipment and supplies, […] More

  • Breaking Defense: DARPA, AFRL to Test-Fire General Atomics-Built Laser in January - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Breaking Defense: DARPA, AFRL to Test-Fire General Atomics-Built Laser in January

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory will perform in January live-fire tests on a General Atomics-built laser weapon that works to generate up to 150 kilowatts of energy, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Richard Whittle writes the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System based-laser platform will be test-fired at various aerial […] More

  • Hitachi Consulting to Host SAP IM&C Software in Private Cloud; Jim Cole Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Consulting to Host SAP IM&C Software in Private Cloud; Jim Cole Comments

    Hitachi‘s consulting arm and SAP have agreed to host SAP for Industrial Machinery & Components software platforms through Hitachi’s private cloud on a subscription basis. Hitachi Consulting Enterprise Cloud will work to help industrial manufacturers quickly access SAP platforms on the cloud without the need to pay for upfront licensing costs linked to on-premises software implementation, Hitachi said Monday. “Organizations […] More

  • ORBCOMM Launches 11 OG2 Satellites Onboard SpaceX Rocket; Marc Eisenberg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ORBCOMM Launches 11 OG2 Satellites Onboard SpaceX Rocket; Marc Eisenberg Comments

    ORBCOMM deployed 11 OG2 satellites Monday aboard the SpaceX-made Falcon 9 rocket to provide machine-to-machine communications and Automatic Identification System-related services for commercial clients. The satellites’ launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida marks ORBCOMM’s second mission to complete the OG2 satellite constellation, the company said Monday. ORBCOMM said it expects to deliver full commercial […] More

  • Brazil Taps BAE for $82M Assault Amphibious Vehicle Production, Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brazil Taps BAE for $82M Assault Amphibious Vehicle Production, Upgrade Contract

    BAE Systems will produce and supply 23 AAV7A1 Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability/Rebuild to Standard assault amphibious vehicles to Brazil’s marine corps through a potential $82 million contract. The contract also covers test equipment and tools for maintenance, field service support, spare parts and training support for users of the AAV7A1 RAM/RS vehicles, BAE Systems said Monday. The […] More

  • Defense News: Lockheed’s F-35 Subcontracts With Israeli Firms Hit $770M - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense News: Lockheed’s F-35 Subcontracts With Israeli Firms Hit $770M

    Lockheed Martin has awarded approximately $770 million worth of contracts to Israel-based companies to perform work related to Israel’s purchase of F-35 fighter aircraft, Defense News reported Sunday. Barbara Opall-Rome writes Israel’s defense ministry announced that Elbit Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries were among the Israeli firms that received the largest share of contract work […] More