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  • Boeing to Refresh US Army Apache, Chinook Parts; Lisa Stuart Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Refresh US Army Apache, Chinook Parts; Lisa Stuart Comments

    Boeing has been awarded a $238 million contract with Corpus Christi Army Depot to modernize parts of the U.S. Army AH-64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook aircraft. The Army will also have access to Boeing’s platform service and supply networks, Boeing said Friday. The contract contains a one-year base period and four one-year options. “Having employees at […] More

  • Cubic to Exhibit Air Combat Training Systems at Paris Air Show; Bill Toti Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Exhibit Air Combat Training Systems at Paris Air Show; Bill Toti Comments

    Cubic will showcase various air combat training technologies at the Paris Air Show set to take place in France from June 15 to 18. Bill Toti, president of Cubic’s global defense segment, said Thursday the company’s air combat training systems are designed for use in “live training management, engagement adjudication [and] post mission analysis.” Event attendees will be […] More

  • Sion Power to Supply Lithium Sulfur Batteries for Airbus Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sion Power to Supply Lithium Sulfur Batteries for Airbus Aircraft

    Airbus Defense and Space and Sion Power have agreed to power the Zephyr unmanned aerial vehicle with Sion’s lithium sulfur batteries. Sion will assemble the Li-S battery packs in Tucson Arizona under the three-year agreement, Sion said Wednesday. Sion previously delivered batteries for the Zephyr 7 program. Airbus is acquiring the batteries for the Zephyr 8, […] More

  • Stratcom Taps 6 SATCOM Vendors for Space Collaboration Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stratcom Taps 6 SATCOM Vendors for Space Collaboration Program

    Six companies will participate in a public-private sector partnership initiative launched by U.S. Strategic Command to monitor satellite launches and daily operations in an effort to build up collaboration in space programs, Air Force Times reported Wednesday. Phillip Swarts writes Inmarsat, SES Government Solutions, Intelsat, Eutelsat, DigitalGlobe and Iridium Communications will work at the Joint Space Operations Center […] More

  • Vion, Quasar Data Center to Offer Texas Agencies Cloud Services; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vion, Quasar Data Center to Offer Texas Agencies Cloud Services; Tom Frana Comments

    Vion and Quasar Data Center have formed an alliance to jointly offer cloud services to state and local government, education and other public clients in Texas. Vion will deliver Quasar Data Center-hosted cloud infrastructure-as-a-service products for different types of applications through the partnership, Vion said Wednesday. Tom Frana, president and CEO of Vion, said the companies would […] More

  • Air Combat Command Picks MacB for Mission Planning Contract; Fred Norman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Combat Command Picks MacB for Mission Planning Contract; Fred Norman Comments

    MacAulay-Brown has been awarded a $28 million contract to help the U.S. Air Forces Central Command plan missions and maintain infrastructures. MacB will work to train, exercise, execute and evaluate mission responsibilities for USAFCENT staff members, MacB said Monday. Fred Norman, senior vice president and general manager of MacB’s mission systems group, said the company would create programs, processes […] More

  • Appian Picks SAP Consulting Firm as Public Sector BPM Partner; Anthony Cecchini Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Appian Picks SAP Consulting Firm as Public Sector BPM Partner; Anthony Cecchini Comments

    Appian Corp. has selected an SAP consulting company as a new service partner to help deliver business process management services to Appian public sector clients. IT Partners Inc. will work with Appian customers to implement business process tools through the use of Appian’s training resources, IT Partners said Tuesday. Anthony Cecchini, president of IT Partners, said the company intends to […] More

  • Certify Unveils New GSA Travel, Expense Reporting Service for GovCon Industry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Certify Unveils New GSA Travel, Expense Reporting Service for GovCon Industry

    Certify has introduced a new travel and expense reporting service the company developed to help government contractors meet reimbursement policies of the General Services Administration. The company developed the service to help users manage per diem rates, which are based on the standard maximum allowances established by GSA for federal employees and contractors while on official […] More

  • ICF Lands $39M Energy Star Program Mgmt Contract with EPA; Paul Vrabel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Lands $39M Energy Star Program Mgmt Contract with EPA; Paul Vrabel Comments

    ICF International has received a $38.8 million blanket purchase agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency to perform technical and analytical services for the Energy Star program. The company will work to develop specifications for Energy Star-labeled products and conduct outreach programs for stakeholders under the recompete contract, ICF said Wednesday. The contract contains a one-year […] More

  • CyberPoint to Build Algorithms for DARPA Research Tools; Tom Hennen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyberPoint to Build Algorithms for DARPA Research Tools; Tom Hennen Comments

    CyberPoint International has received a four-year, $6 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop algorithms to test research tools of DARPA teams. CyberPoint’s research and development team will work to identify potential algorithmic space and time problems in DARPA applications, CyberPoint said Tuesday. “These algorithms will be automatically permuted using variant generators to […] More