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  • BAE Updates Royal Air Force’s Typhoon Fighter Jets; Martin Taylor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Updates Royal Air Force’s Typhoon Fighter Jets; Martin Taylor Comments

    BAE Systems has rolled out updates to the Royal Air Force’s fighter aircraft, bringing the fleet into operational service. The company said Friday it upgraded the Typhoon fighter’s computing power, weapons systems integration and sensor suites to help RAF achieve its air-to-air and air-to-surface mission requirements. “We have delivered a capability with all the necessary training and support to […] More

  • Boeing Completes Crew Transportation System Tests for NASA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Completes Crew Transportation System Tests for NASA

    Boeing has concluded the development and testing phase of a commercial crew transportation system the company built for NASA. The testing represents the final milestone for the the CST-100 spacecraft and Atlas V rocket under Boeing’s four-year agreement with NASA, the space agency said Friday. NASA intends for the spacecraft to transport crew members to the International Space Station […] More

  • Cisco Launches New SAP HANA Server; Anthony Reynolds Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Launches New SAP HANA Server; Anthony Reynolds Comments

    Cisco has moved to expand its server portfolio for SAP HANA platform through the launch of a new server product. The company designed the newly-certified 8 socket C880 to work with SAP analytics and suite on HANA workloads, Cisco said Thursday. Satinder Sethi writes Cisco collaborated with SAP on the certification of the C880 server platform. “We are pleased that Cisco Systems […] More

  • Robert Mehrabian: Teledyne to Build Electrical, Fiber Optic Tech for GD Electric Boat - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Mehrabian: Teledyne to Build Electrical, Fiber Optic Tech for GD Electric Boat

    Teledyne Technologies will assemble the electrical and fiber optic interconnect of the U.S. Navy‘s submarines under a subcontract from General Dynamics Electric Boat. Teledyne’s oil and gas group will provide materials and hardware engineering support services for 10 ships under the Navy’s Virginia-class submarine program, Teledyne said Thursday. “Working together, our oil & gas companies have demonstrated the ability to develop and manufacture […] More

  • Navy Green Lights Northrop to Start Counter IED System Production, Deployment; Jeannie Hilger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Green Lights Northrop to Start Counter IED System Production, Deployment; Jeannie Hilger Comments

    Northrop Grumman will begin to produce and deploy its counter-improvised explosive device system after the company received approval from the U.S. Navy to go forward on the work. The Joint Counter Radio-Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare jammer system works to thwart IED trigger devices, Northrop Grumman said Thursday. Jeannie Hilger, vice president and general manager of the communications division […] More

  • DRS-Rafael Team to Chase Army Chase Tank Protection Program; Mike O’Leary Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS-Rafael Team to Chase Army Chase Tank Protection Program; Mike O’Leary Comments

    DRS Technologies and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will jointly pursue a U.S. Army tank defense contract and offer a Rafael-built Trophy active protection system, DoD Buzz reported Wednesday. Kris Osborn writes the vehicle-mounted Trophy system works to detect and engage enemy fire through the use of a radar, processor and on-board computer. “Trophy will…compute an intercept point in space away […] More

  • Red Hat, Cloudera Combine Big Data Offerings; Scott Musson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Cloudera Combine Big Data Offerings; Scott Musson Comments

    Red Hat and Cloudera have partnered to combine their enterprise software services in an effort to help customers extract value from big data. The team will provide open and agile technology stack to aid clients in deploying big data solutions on premises and in various cloud platforms, Red Hat said Thursday. Scott Musson, vice president of global […] More

  • Battelle to Test Forensic DNA Tools Under Federal Grants; Rich Guerrieri Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle to Test Forensic DNA Tools Under Federal Grants; Rich Guerrieri Comments

    Battelle has received more than $800,000 in federal grants from the National Institute of Justice to assess and evaluate new tools for probing DNA evidence. The company will test instruments, laboratory materials and software that forensic investigators use to obtain biological evidence based on the tools’ next-generation sequencing, Battelle said Oct. 9. “Next-generation sequencing will significantly expand our technical capabilities to support forensic […] More

  • Mark Templeton: Citrix Eyes Workforce, Business Expansion With New Raleigh Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Templeton: Citrix Eyes Workforce, Business Expansion With New Raleigh Office

    Citrix has opened a new 170,000-square-foot office in Raleigh, North Carolina’s warehouse district that will house Citrix Mobile Workspace tools and work to integrate Citrix technologies. The company said it aims to facilitate creativity, productivity, collaboration and employee engagement as well as highlight its vision of a mobility-enabled enterprise. “Raleigh is experiencing tremendous business growth and has firmly established itself as […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Build Navy Digital RF Memory Jammers; Brian Perry Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems to Build Navy Digital RF Memory Jammers; Brian Perry Comments

    A Mercury Systems subsidiary has received a $2.6 million order to build digital radio frequency memory jammers for the U.S. Navy. Mercury Defense Systems booked the order for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2015 and the contract is a follow-on order under a five-year agreement with the Navy, Mercury Systems said. “The continued technology advancements are designed to keep pace with the […] More

  • EMC Federation Offers Software-Defined Data Center; Ray O'Farrell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EMC Federation Offers Software-Defined Data Center; Ray O’Farrell Comments

    EMC has unveiled the first EMC Federation suite that works to deliver an automated, virtual data center as a service, accelerate time-to-deployment of applications and support orchestration workflows. The company said Thursday the Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution is the first of five offerings under EMC Federation, which comprises EMC II, VMware, RSA and Pivotal. Ray O’Farrell, corporate senior vice […] More

  • MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc. to Supply Mitsubishi Electric With Ku-/Ka-Band Antennas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc. to Supply Mitsubishi Electric With Ku-/Ka-Band Antennas

    Japan-based Mitsubishi Electric has chosen MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to provide Ku-band and Ka-band antenna subsystems as part of a new contract worth $10 million. MDA said Thursday that the antennas will equip a commercial telecommunications satellite as the company works to expand its multibeam communications portfolio in the Japanese market. MDA is a communications and information company that […] More