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  • HII Shipbuilding Unit Kicks Off Fabrication on DDG 119 Guided Missile Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII Shipbuilding Unit Kicks Off Fabrication on DDG 119 Guided Missile Destroyer

    The Ingalls Shipbuilding unit of Huntington Ingalls Industries has started the fabrication process for the Delbert D. Black (DDG 119), named after the first U.S. Navy Master Chief Petty Officer during World War II. HII said Tuesday the process marks the beginning of the modular construction phase for the pre-fabricated components of the Arleigh Burke-class guided […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Produce Composite Parts for Airbus’ A350-1000; Steve Earl Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Produce Composite Parts for Airbus’ A350-1000; Steve Earl Comments

    Orbital ATK will produce composite frames and stringers for installation on Airbus’ A350-1000 aircraft following the expansion of a contract between the two firms on the A350 program. Orbital ATK said Wednesday it currently manufactures composite structures for the A350-900 variant at its commercial aircraft facility in Clearfield, Utah, and has already supplied at least 44,000 components to […] More

  • CAE Lands Multiple Flight Simulator, Training Service Contracts With Several Airlines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Lands Multiple Flight Simulator, Training Service Contracts With Several Airlines

    CAE has been awarded several contracts worth $89 million combined to provide full-flight simulators and training services for several airlines. The company said Wednesday it will train 100 more cadets for Japan Airlines as part of the extension of an agreement over the Multi-Crew Pilot License First Officer Program. CAE already trains the first batch […] More

  • Jacobs Lands Turnaround Services Contract With Suncor Energy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Lands Turnaround Services Contract With Suncor Energy

    Jacobs Engineering Group has won a five-year contract to provide piping, mechanical and other turnaround support services for Suncor Energy Services’ facilities in Canada. Jacobs said Tuesday it will carry out turnaround work at the energy company’s sites in Wood Buffalo, Alberta, during scheduled outages. Jacobs tapped at least 800 contractors and employees to complete […] More

  • OSI Systems Division Secures Follow-On Contract for Baggage Inspection Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OSI Systems Division Secures Follow-On Contract for Baggage Inspection Tools

    OSI Systems‘ security division has been awarded a $15 million contract to provide inspection systems for a government in Middle East for use in border and port security operations. Rapiscan Systems will supply its Eagle vehicle and cargo inspection tools and systems intended for parcel and baggage inspection under the follow-on order, OSI Systems said Tuesday. […] More

  • Boeing Tests Ka-band Inmarsat-5 F2 Satcom Service; Jim Mitchell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Tests Ka-band Inmarsat-5 F2 Satcom Service; Jim Mitchell Comments

    Boeing is close to wrapping up the initial tests of a Ka-band offering intended to provide satellite communications to agencies under the Defense Department through Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite network. The tests sought to assess the capability of the Inmarsat-5 F2 satcom service to facilitate video and data transmission on military helicopters and mobile terminals, Boeing said Tuesday. The […] More

  • IDC: Vertical Industry Demand to Boost Public Cloud Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Vertical Industry Demand to Boost Public Cloud Market

    A new report from International Data Corp. projects the global market for public cloud platforms to reach $70 billion this year as commercial enterprises in different industries look for services to manage their operations. The company said Tuesday banking, process and discrete manufacturing, retail and professional services are among the industries to represent nearly half of the […] More

  • Cray Lands Storage, Supercomputer Supply Contract With Australia Meteorology Bureau; Peter Ungaro Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cray Lands Storage, Supercomputer Supply Contract With Australia Meteorology Bureau; Peter Ungaro Comments

    Cray has received a potential $53 million contract to provide a storage system and a computer intended for large-scale data processing for Australia’s meteorology bureau. The company said Tuesday the agency will use the Cray Sonexion 2000 storage platform and Cray XC40 supercomputer to run weather models. Sonexion 2000 has a storage capacity of at least 12 petabytes and […] More

  • Radiant Insights: Navigation, Visualization Trends to Drive Commercial UAS Market Through 2021 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Radiant Insights: Navigation, Visualization Trends to Drive Commercial UAS Market Through 2021

    A new Radiant Insights report predicts the worldwide market for commercial unmanned aircraft systems to be worth $4.8 billion by 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 21.5 percent from 2014 figures. The market research firm said Friday demand for UAS’ navigation and visualization functions will drive growth in the commercial drone market over the next six years. The […] More

  • Tactical Medical Awarded DHS Blanket Purchase Deal for First Aid Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tactical Medical Awarded DHS Blanket Purchase Deal for First Aid Kits

    Tactical Medical Solutions will provide medical supplies for the Department of Homeland Security as DHS’ primary contractor for a five-year blanket purchase agreement. The company said Monday it will supply SOF Tactical Tourniquet Wide tools and other first aid kits for use across the department. Work will encompass support for DHS components such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets: Cyber Attacks to Drive Threat Intelligence Market Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets: Cyber Attacks to Drive Threat Intelligence Market Growth

    A new MarketsandMarkets analysis projects the global market for threat intelligence to experience a compound annual growth rate of 14.3 percent through 2020 due to increasing incidents of cyber attacks. Threat monitoring, training, consulting and security intelligence systems and services will reach a market value of $5.9 billion over the next five years as commercial firms increase spending […] More

  • Northrop Tests Open Mission Systems Platform on B-2 Bomber - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Tests Open Mission Systems Platform on B-2 Bomber

    Northrop Grumman has completed a series of test flights for its open mission systems platform aboard a stealth bomber. The test flight sought to evaluate the OMS architecture’s capability to receive threat data from Gulfstream G550 intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft and allow a B-2 Spirit strike bomber carry out an auto-routing operation against a simulated attack […] More