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  • Carahsoft Offers Terra Pixel's Geospatial Data Streaming Tech via AWS Cloud Marketplace for Intell Community - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Offers Terra Pixel’s Geospatial Data Streaming Tech via AWS Cloud Marketplace for Intell Community

    Carahsoft Technology and Terra Pixel have partnered to offer the latter company’s geospatial data streaming platform through an online cloud marketplace Amazon Web Services runs for the U.S. intelligence community. Terra Pixel’s Streamap uses cloud computing technology to index, share and search Open Geospatial Consortium standards-based geospatial data sets, Carahsoft said Thursday. Matt Rattigan, manager of AWS marketplace solutions at Carahsoft, said intelligence […] More

  • AWS Includes uReveal Data Mining Tool on Intell Community Marketplace; Ren Mohan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Includes uReveal Data Mining Tool on Intell Community Marketplace; Ren Mohan Comments

    Amazon Web Services has added the conceptual data mining and analytic offering of uReveal to an AWS-run intelligence community marketplace for cloud-based products and services. UReveal said Wednesday its software will work to help IC analysts manage and examine raw data in real time as well as view structured or unstructured data in a unified view. Ren Mohan, chief […] More

  • Army Selects Kratos Range Receiver to Update Telemetry Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Selects Kratos Range Receiver to Update Telemetry Program

    A Kratos Defense and Security Solutions subsidiary has been selected to supply the company’s Telemetrix 400 range receiver to the U.S. Army as part of the military branch’s effort to update its telemetry program. RT Logic’s range receiver incorporates a digital intermediate frequency ingest that the Army will use to modernize an unnamed test site, Kratos […] More

  • Physical Optics to Continue Micro Weather Sensor Development for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Physical Optics to Continue Micro Weather Sensor Development for Air Force

    Physical Optics Corp. has been awarded a five-year, $24.5 million contract to complete the development and procurement of micro weather sensors and advanced micro weather sensors for the U.S. Air Force. POC will manufacture the sensors in Torrance, California, through Nov. 9, 2021 under the follow-on contract to a previous Small Business Innovation Research Requirement award, […] More

  • DoD Orders Cray Supercomputer, Storage Systems; Fred Kohout Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Orders Cray Supercomputer, Storage Systems; Fred Kohout Comments

    Cray has been awarded a $26 million contract to supply supercomputer and storage systems to the Defense Department as part of DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program. The company said Monday it will install one XC40 supercomputer and three Sonexion storage platforms at the Vicksburg, Mississippi-based DoD Supercomputing Resource Center in mid-2017. The Army Engineer Research and Development Center will use the […] More

  • Harris Antenna Reflector Pair Deployed on Fifth Navy MUOS Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Antenna Reflector Pair Deployed on Fifth Navy MUOS Satellite

    A pair of Harris-made unfurlable mesh antenna reflectors deployed Oct. 30 on board the fifth U.S. Navy Mobile User Objective System satellite built by Lockheed Martin. Harris said Tuesday the antennas are the ninth and tenth reflectors the company developed for the military branch’s MUOS constellation to support new satellite functions and legacy operations. Last week, Lockheed announced it will begin to test MUOS-5 in […] More

  • Lockheed Completes First Tactical Missile System Flight Test; Scott Greene Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes First Tactical Missile System Flight Test; Scott Greene Comments

    Lockheed Martin has demonstrated its first updated Tactical Missile System missile as part of a flight test conducted at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company used a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launcher to fire the missile and hit a target area with a proximity sensor-equipped detonation, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. Lockheed […] More

  • Sweden Orders Helmet Mounted Display System for Gripen Pilots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sweden Orders Helmet Mounted Display System for Gripen Pilots

    Saab has been awarded an estimated $13.2 million contract to supply helmet mounted display systems to Sweden’s defense material agency. Pilots of the Swedish air force’s Gripen E fighter aircraft will use the Targo system to detect, track, identify and engage air and ground targets, Saab said Monday. AEL Sistemas will manufacture the Targo helmets and Saab […] More

  • LAC Federal to Align Commerce Research Library’s Catalog Records - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LAC Federal to Align Commerce Research Library’s Catalog Records

    LAC Federal has received a contract of an undisclosed value to help the Commerce Department align catalog records and reflect the physical holdings of the Commerce Research Library. The company said Monday it will conduct shelf-reading of the library’s collection, identify items in need of conservation and compare each item to the electronic catalog record and Online Computer Library […] More

  • NCI Awarded Army Intelligence & Security Command System Support Task Order; Paul Dillahay Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCI Awarded Army Intelligence & Security Command System Support Task Order; Paul Dillahay Comments

    NCI has received an 18-month, $10 million task order from the U.S. Army to perform engineering and integration support services on the military branch’s intelligence and security command systems. The company will work to develop, install and test the command, control, communications, computers and intelligence and information technology systems of the Fort Meade, Maryland-based command, NCI said […] More

  • Charles River Analytics-5D Robotics Team to Help Army Develop Soldier-Machine Interface - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics-5D Robotics Team to Help Army Develop Soldier-Machine Interface

    Charles River Analytics and 5D Robotics will collaborate to develop a soldier-machine interface for U.S. Army robotic systems under a two-year, $1 million follow-on contract. The companies’ Multi-Modal Interface for Natural Operator Teaming with Autonomous Robots will integrate multiple tracking and robot control systems, Charles River said Nov 1. MINOTAUR is intended to provide an interface to warfighters who operate with autonomous systems […] More

  • Smiths Detection Debuts Online Portal for Aviation Sector; Cameron Mann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection Debuts Online Portal for Aviation Sector; Cameron Mann Comments

    Smiths Detection has launched a new online hub to function as a portal of opinion-based and other articles from aviation professionals to provide users insight about the sector. The Aviation Insider website at aviation-insider.com exhibits aviation security practices and facilitate industry discussions, Smiths Detection said Monday. “Aviation Insider is designed to be a critical hub for industry […] More