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  • James Peake: CGI Federal to Establish IT Delivery Center in Louisiana - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Peake: CGI Federal to Establish IT Delivery Center in Louisiana

    CGI Federal has begun construction of a $13.1 million onshore information technology services delivery center in Lafayette, Louisiana. CGI Federal President James Peake, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, said Tuesday the company intends to advance cloud computing, cybersecurity, big data and data visualization technologies through the research and technology lab. The […] More

  • Motorola Solutions to Supply Radio Systems for E-Comm; George Krausz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions to Supply Radio Systems for E-Comm; George Krausz Comments

    Motorola Solutions has been awarded a $23.5 million contract to deliver radio infrastructure equipment and services to Emergency Communications for British Columbia Inc. and the regional government agency partners of E-Comm. E-Comm and its partners within the police, fire and ambulance services selected Motorola Solutions’ ASTRO Project 25 radio infrastructure following endorsement by the Lower […] More

  • Sandy Samuel to Lead Lockheed Martin’s Commercial Flight Training; Jon Rambeau Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sandy Samuel to Lead Lockheed Martin’s Commercial Flight Training; Jon Rambeau Comments

    Lockheed Martin has renamed Sim-Industries into Lockheed Martin Commercial Flight Training and appointed Sandy Samuel as vice president and general manager of the organization. Samuel succeeds Jeffrey Wood, who will move to a new leadership position within Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, the company said Monday. Jon Rambeau, VP and GM of Lockheed Martin training and logistics services, […] More

  • Lockheed, Bayanat Install LIDAR System at Dubai International Airport; Michael Margulis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Bayanat Install LIDAR System at Dubai International Airport; Michael Margulis Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Bayanat Airports Engineering & Supplies have completed the commissioning and installation of light detection and ranging systems at Dubai International Airport. The WindTracer system works to measure the strength and behavior of wake vortices caused by arriving aircraft, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. The LIDAR systems are intended to help Dubai Air Navigation […] More

  • Dell SecureWorks Unveils Malware Detection, Protection Tech Offering; Barry Hensley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell SecureWorks Unveils Malware Detection, Protection Tech Offering; Barry Hensley Comments

    Dell SecureWorks has introduced a malware detection and protection service offering that is intended to help organizations counter advanced threats. The malware detection system incorporates Dell SecureWorks’ threat intelligence and Lastline’s malware defense platform, Dell said Monday. The technology is designed to monitor and review email, file and Web traffic on an organization’s network. “Once […] More

  • Mission Secure to Demo Cyber Defense for Autonomous Ground Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mission Secure to Demo Cyber Defense for Autonomous Ground Vehicles

    Mission Secure Inc. has teamed up with Perrone Robotics and the University of Virginia to launch a pilot program intended to protect autonomous ground vehicles from cyber threats, Defense Systems reported Friday. George Leopold writes the team will demonstrate the Defense Department-funded project by simulating cyber attacks against onboard control systems that are used to operate […] More

  • Barbara Niland Finds Innovation, Long-Term Relationships in HII Supply Chain Mgmt Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Barbara Niland Finds Innovation, Long-Term Relationships in HII Supply Chain Mgmt Strategy

    Barbara Niland, chief financial officer of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has highlighted how the company manages its supply chain and competes for government ship-building programs, the CFO Journal reported Friday. Niland told the journal’s John Kester that Huntington Ingalls maintains a long-term relationship with the company’s suppliers and makes advance payments. “Because we build a carrier [that] […] More

  • ReportsnReports: New Research Sets 25% CAGR for Smart Grid Analytics Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ReportsnReports: New Research Sets 25% CAGR for Smart Grid Analytics Market

    A new ReportsnReports study has forecast a smart grid analytics market that is set for a 25 percent year-over-year growth from 2014 to 2019. The report presents future market trends, analysis, sizing, growth potential, drivers, challenges, opportunities, future ecosystem and emerging technologies, ReportsnReports said Sunday. The organization noted the small and medium businesses’ focus on gaining insights into […] More

  • Northrop Grumman Considers New Aircraft Production Area at Palmdale Site; Tom Vice Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman Considers New Aircraft Production Area at Palmdale Site; Tom Vice Comments

    Northrop Grumman is looking to convert an unused space at the Palmdale, California-based F-35 facility into a production area for a new aircraft, Defense News reported Thursday. Aaron Mehta writes the government-owned, contractor-operated Air Force Plant 42 site has a one-million-square-foot vacant area. Tom Vice, Northrop’s president of aerospace systems, told reporters “this site has very […] More

  • ATK Installs NASA’s Space Launch System Booster for Testing; Charlie Precourt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATK Installs NASA’s Space Launch System Booster for Testing; Charlie Precourt Comments

    ATK has installed NASA’s solid rocket motor in a test stand in preparation for the system’s static-fire test scheduled on March 11. The space launch system booster qualification motor will undergo ground testing in Utah at higher temperature to qualify the five-segment motor’s capability to carry humans and cargo across the solar system, ATK said […] More

  • Microsoft to Help NASA Scientists Work on Mars with Virtual Tech; Dave Lavery Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft to Help NASA Scientists Work on Mars with Virtual Tech; Dave Lavery Comments

    Microsoft has partnered with NASA to develop a software technology for scientists to work on Mars in a virtual environment. Scientists will work to conduct science operations on Mars along with the Curiosity rover with Microsoft’s HoloLens wearable technology that runs the OnSight software, NASA said Wednesday. “OnSight gives our rover scientists the ability to walk around […] More

  • Sally Wallace: DRS to Supply Joint Tactical Terminal-Receivers for US Navy, Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sally Wallace: DRS to Supply Joint Tactical Terminal-Receivers for US Navy, Australia

    DRS Technologies has won a $12 million contract to upgrade the electronic warfare system of the U.S. Navy and Australia under a foreign military sales agreement. The company will build up to 180 Joint Tactical Terminal-Receiver systems, test set racks, fixtures and tooling for the EA-18G aircraft, DRS said Thursday. “We are proud to provide this key intelligence […] More