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  • Lockheed to Build Comms Satellites for Arabsat; Mike Hamel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Comms Satellites for Arabsat; Mike Hamel Comments

    Lockheed Martin will produce communication satellites for Arabsat and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in a move aimed to help connect the citizens of Saudi Arabia. Arabsat ordered two A2100 satellites to expand its fleet of television, internet, telephone and secure communications satellites that already operate in orbit for the customers in Middle East, […] More

  • Lockheed Subcontracts Northrop for Space IR Satellite Navigation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Subcontracts Northrop for Space IR Satellite Navigation System

    Northrop Grumman will build a space inertial reference system for the U.S. Air Force‘s sixth Space Based Infrared System satellite under a subcontract with Lockheed Martin, the SBIRS program’s prime contractor. The space inertial reference unit will also work to perform sensor stabilization and attitude control functions on the geosynchronous Earth orbit space vehicle, Northrop said […] More

  • CHSi Lands Air Force Medical Modeling, Training Subcontract; Gary Palmer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CHSi Lands Air Force Medical Modeling, Training Subcontract; Gary Palmer Comments

    Comprehensive Health Services Inc. has been selected to consult and train the U.S. Air Force’s healthcare teams under a five-year, $4.25 million subcontract awarded by Engineering and Computer Simulations. CHSi will provide medical modeling and simulation training to 2,500 Air Force personnel based in the U.S., U.K. and Japan, CHSi said Monday. “CHSi is honored to […] More

  • CenturyLink Opens Data Center Services to Australian Clients; Gery Messer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Opens Data Center Services to Australian Clients; Gery Messer Comments

    CenturyLink has inked an agreement with NEXTDC to outsource the company’s data center services to regional and multinational companies in Australia. CenturyLink is set to roll out network, managed hosting, colocation and cloud services in the country in late 2015, CenturyLink said Monday. Gery Messer, managing director for Asia Pacific at CenturyLink, said the company’s extension […] More

  • Northrop to Update Navigation Systems on Canadian Navy Kingston Class Vessels - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Update Navigation Systems on Canadian Navy Kingston Class Vessels

    Northrop Grumman will build gyrocompass navigation systems for the Royal Canadian Navy’s defense vessels under a contract with SNC-Lavalin Defense Programs. The company will install dual Navigat gyrocompass systems, Navitwin IV heading management systems and heading repeaters in 12 Kingston class coastal vessels, Northrop said Monday. Northrop will perform work in British Columbia and Nova Scotia beginning in […] More

  • ISC, Cloud Security Alliance Forge New Cloud Security Certification; David Shearer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ISC, Cloud Security Alliance Forge New Cloud Security Certification; David Shearer Comments

    ISC and the Cloud Security Alliance have jointly launched a cloud security certification in a move to set the standards for validating skills in cloud management security worldwide, Talkin’ Cloud reported Monday. Ericka Chickowski writes the Certified Cloud Security Professional certification builds on existing Certified Information Systems Security Professional and CSA’s Certificate of Cloud Security […] More

  • Cisco Introduces New Threat Intell, Analysis Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Introduces New Threat Intell, Analysis Offerings

    Cisco has launched fresh threat intelligence and analysis offerings intended to help security professionals detect and fend off attacks. The company added the AMP Threat Grid to its advanced malware protection portfolio to provide malware threat intelligence and analysis products both on-premise and in the cloud to clients, Cisco said April 7. The product integrates […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Subsidiary to Engineer Canadian Pipeline System; Tony Griffin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Subsidiary to Engineer Canadian Pipeline System; Tony Griffin Comments

    A Huntington Ingalls Industries subsidiary has been awarded a $5.4 billion contract to engineer Kinder Morgan‘s Trans Mountain pipeline system across two provinces in Canada. UniversalPegasus International will work to expand the pipeline system between Edmonton in Alberta and Burnaby in British Columbia, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. Kinder Morgan operates a nearly 84,000-mile pipeline network and 180 terminals. […] More

  • Lockheed, Northrop Back DoD's New Cyber Strategy; Tim Reardon, Kathy Warden Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Northrop Back DoD’s New Cyber Strategy; Tim Reardon, Kathy Warden Comment

    Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have expressed support for a new cyber strategy announced by Defense Department Secretary Ashton Carter at Stanford University. Tim Reardon, vice president and general manager for defense and intelligence services at Lockheed, said Thursday that the company would keep working with the government and industry partners to “expand sharing and […] More

  • Deloitte, MicroPact Form Public Sector Tech Services Team; Tony Andraos, Growson Edwards Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte, MicroPact Form Public Sector Tech Services Team; Tony Andraos, Growson Edwards Comment

    Deloitte Consulting LLP and MicroPact have agreed to jointly provide technology services to the U.S. public sector customers. Growson Edwards, chief customer officer at MicroPact, said Thursday the two companies will work together to help clients “manage the complex demands being placed on them by forces beyond their control.” Tony Andraos, a director at Deloitte, […] More

  • DRS Tests 10-Micron Infrared Detector; Greg Christison Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Tests 10-Micron Infrared Detector; Greg Christison Comments

    DRS Technologies has exhibited the performance of its 10-micron pixel pitch infrared sensor. The IR detector features a thermal camera with 1280×1024 resolution, as well as 640×512 and 320×256 arrays designed for integration into original equipment manufacturer systems, DRS said Tuesday. The sensor passed the 50 milliKelvins noise equivalent temperature difference standard for uncooled IR technologies. […] More

  • CSC to Help Trafford Manage Patient Care Coordination Center; Philippe Houssiau Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC to Help Trafford Manage Patient Care Coordination Center; Philippe Houssiau Comments

    Computer Sciences Corp. has been selected to co-manage a local patient care coordination center in Trafford, U.K. CSC will provide patient communications through a unified system, perform clinical workflow services and analyze care delivery performance in collaboration with the British National Health Service’s Trafford Clinical Commissioning Group, CSC said Wednesday. Philippe Houssiau, vice president of U.K. healthcare at […] More