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  • Ed Sayadian: Exelis Completes Factory Acceptance Verification for Aireon Data Processing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ed Sayadian: Exelis Completes Factory Acceptance Verification for Aireon Data Processing System

    Exelis has completed a series of factory acceptance tests for the Aireon-built aircraft surveillance data processing and distribution ground system. Ed Sayadian, vice president of civil and aerospace systems at Exelis, said Monday the company conducted the factory acceptance test to confirm that the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast surveillance technology meets all requirements and interfaces. […] More

  • Robert Coen: NIH's CIO-CS Vehicle to Complete Carnegie Mellon Assessment By Year's End - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Coen: NIH’s CIO-CS Vehicle to Complete Carnegie Mellon Assessment By Year’s End

    Robert Coen, program director for the National Institutes of Health’s Chief Information Officer-Commodity Solutions governmentwide acquisition contract, has said the vehicle could complete Carnegie Mellon University’s assessment program by the end of 2015, Federal Times reported Friday. Aaron Boyd writes the CIO-CS vehicle would be the first governmentwide acquisition contract to obtain a level-three Carnegie Mellon Capability […] More

  • Exelis Taps Sierra Nevada to Build Earth Observation Satellite Radiation Instrument for NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Taps Sierra Nevada to Build Earth Observation Satellite Radiation Instrument for NASA

    Exelis has picked Sierra Nevada Corp. to construct the radiation instrument for NASA’s Joint Polar Satellite System, Satnews reported Thursday. The radiation budget instrument will work to scan the Earth and measure the amount of reflected sunlight and emitted thermal radiation for the JPSS-2 mission, according to the report. NASA will use the JPSS-2 satellite […] More

  • DHS Picks Woman-Owned Small Business for $30M Transportation Program Mgmt Contract; Melissa Jezior Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Picks Woman-Owned Small Business for $30M Transportation Program Mgmt Contract; Melissa Jezior Comments

    The Department of Homeland Security has selected woman-owned small business Eagle Hill Consulting to manage the Transportation Security Administration’s programs and train TSA personnel under a $30 million, five year contract. Eagle Hill will work to handle TSA’s intermodal security training and exercise program and perform risk-based security planning for the client, Eagle Hill said […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Orion Crew Module, Adapter Mockup - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Orion Crew Module, Adapter Mockup

    Lockheed Martin has finished the construction of an Orion crew module and crew module adapter mockup at the company’s Littleton, Colorado-based facility. Engineers at the Orion test laboratory will next configure the mockup with harnessing, electrical power, sensors, avionics and flight software, Lockheed said Wednesday. The crew module and adapter mockup is designed to check the […] More

  • Informatica Integrates Connecticut Health Insurance Marketplace; Amit Walia Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Informatica Integrates Connecticut Health Insurance Marketplace; Amit Walia Comments

    Informatica Corp. has integrated data for Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace, which the state established to fulfill Affordable Care Act requirements. Access Health CT began operations in September 2013 and has enrolled more than 282,000 Connecticut residents since, Informatica said Wednesday. Amit Walia, senior vice president and general manager of data integration and security at Informatica, […] More

  • Walter Scott: DigitalGlobe Backs Commercial Remote Sensing Bill - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Walter Scott: DigitalGlobe Backs Commercial Remote Sensing Bill

    DigitalGlobe has expressed its support for a commercial remote sensing bill authored by Reps. Jim Bridenstine (R-Ok) and Ed Perlmutter (D-Co). The Commercial Remote Sensing Act of 2015 mandates the examination of the Commerce Department’s regulatory workload and the submission of reports on commercial remote sensing license applications to Congress, DigitalGlobe said Wednesday. That bill would require the […] More

  • Parsons to Help Repair Yellowknife Giant Mine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons to Help Repair Yellowknife Giant Mine

    Parsons has been awarded a potential $16 million contract with Canada’s public works and government services agency to manage the construction of infrastructure upgrade and repair work for the Giant Mine in Yellowknife. The company will oversee work to demolish the mine shaft, build the pit buttress and upgrade sitewide power, Parsons said Wednesday. The contract […] More

  • Concurrent Technologies Receives Intel-Based Computer Board Order from US Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Concurrent Technologies Receives Intel-Based Computer Board Order from US Navy

    The U.S. Navy has tapped Concurrent Technologies Inc. to supply Intel-based computing boards for the service’s various aircraft research projects, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division has ordered eight VME single-board computers embedded with a two-core 1.7 Gigahertz Core i7 microprocessor and 8 gigabytes of random access […] More

  • Dell Runs Digital Business Services on Pivotal Cloud Foundry; Raman Sapra Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell Runs Digital Business Services on Pivotal Cloud Foundry; Raman Sapra Comments

    Dell has expanded its digital business services on Pivotal’s cloud foundry in a move to help public and private sector customers deploy applications on Pivotal’s platform-as-a-service. Clients will work to migrate, develop and integrate applications on the Pivotal cloud foundry in collaboration with Dell, Dell said Tuesday. Raman Sapra, executive director and global head of Dell Digital […] More

  • Raytheon Orders L-3 SATCOM Terminals for Australian Military; Bob Jacobson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Orders L-3 SATCOM Terminals for Australian Military; Bob Jacobson Comments

    Raytheon has placed an $81.8 million order for satellite communications terminals from L-3 Communications for the Australian military. L-3’s Global Communications Solutions and Linkabit business units will deliver Hawkeye and Panther VSAT terminals integrated with Linkabit’s modems to the client in 2015, L-3 said Tuesday. The contract also calls for training services and options for […] More

  • Jacobs to Help EDF Energy Maintain UK Nuclear Power Sites; Bob Duff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Help EDF Energy Maintain UK Nuclear Power Sites; Bob Duff Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to supply project management resources for EDF Energy’s work to maintain nuclear power stations across the U.K. The maintenance and life extension projects cover 15 nuclear reactors located at Dungeness, Hartlepool, Heysham 1 and 2, Hinkley Point, Hunterston, Sizewell and Torness power stations, East Kilbride and Gloucester technical centers, Jacobs […] More