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  • Navy Orders Themis-Built Computer Rugged Servers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Themis-Built Computer Rugged Servers

    The U.S. Navy has ordered $1.6 million in computer rugged servers from Themis Computer via the company’s reseller Strictly Technology LLC, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes the order covers four Themis RES-XR5 1U standard-density rack mounted servers along with shock-mounting kits, cabling, optical transceivers, Gigabit Ethernet switches, disk-on-module data storage and auxiliary […] More

  • Army Seeks New Landing Craft Provider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks New Landing Craft Provider

    The U.S. Army has started work to find a company to build a 100-foot-long landing craft for the Abrams main battle tank as the military branch seeks to retire a predecessor 74-foot landing ship, Defense News reported Wednesday. Christopher Cavas writes the Army has released a request for proposals for a new light maneuver support vessel […] More

  • Metron to Develop Counter-ISR Planning System for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Metron to Develop Counter-ISR Planning System for Navy

    Metron has won a potential $12.8 million contract to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planning system for the U.S. Navy to counter adversarial ISR networks. The Navy will use the C-ISR system to plan coordinated friendly force movement emissions control, denial and deception operations, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The contract contains an 18-month base period, three optional […] More

  • Dicom Systems Awarded DoD Dental Records Archiving Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dicom Systems Awarded DoD Dental Records Archiving Contract

    Dicom Systems has received a contract from the Defense Department’s dental information systems center in San Antonio, Texas to provide a technology platform for DISC to migrate and archive exams data from more than 150 U.S. Army dental clinics. DISC will transition more than 27 million dental exams from the center’s archive into the company’s Unifier Enterprise […] More

  • DARPA Picks National Instruments' Software-Based Radios for Channel Emulation Testbed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Picks National Instruments’ Software-Based Radios for Channel Emulation Testbed

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected National Instruments to provide software-defined radios for a channel emulation testbed DARPA will use in a collaborative machine-learning competition. NI said Tuesday its software-defined radios will aid various open source and tool flows such as GNU radio, RFNoC and LabVIEW system design software for the agency’s Colosseum testbed. Colosseum is designed to […] More

  • Army Seeks Industry Ideas for Future Small UAS Power Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Industry Ideas for Future Small UAS Power Systems

    The U.S. Army has issued a request for information to industry on behalf of the aviation development directorate to solicit ideas on advanced small power systems for future tactical unmanned aerial systems. That RFI released Thursday says the Army wants the information on potential power systems, related metrics and associated technology maturity to guide the development of systems for future […] More

  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Rick Lober: US Military Can Look to Industry for Commercial Satcom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Rick Lober: US Military Can Look to Industry for Commercial Satcom

    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch and Rick Lober of Hughes Network Systems have recommended the use of commercial systems to help fulfill the government’s satellite requirements as constellations start to age, Space News Magazine reported Oct. 24. Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, told Space News military officials should consider commercial technologies for their broadband communications functions […] More

  • EHS Technologies Awarded Navy Cybersecurity, Logistics Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EHS Technologies Awarded Navy Cybersecurity, Logistics Support Contracts

    EHS Technologies has received two new contracts worth $37 million combined from the U.S. Navy to carry out cybersecurity, engineering and logistics services for two service branch divisions. EHS said one $8 million contract with the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock division covers cybersecurity services to that organization. EHS will perform engineering and logistics support for the Navy’s […] More

  • Army Seeks Projectile Velocity Detection Equipment Supplier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Projectile Velocity Detection Equipment Supplier

    The U.S. Army looks for a supplier of velocity detection technology that can help the military branch evaluate ballistic materials alongside its projectile acceleration equipment. The Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center’s warfighter directorate will implement the tool to detect striking and residual velocity of various projectiles in order to send an output signal that will serve as a […] More

  • CSRA Lands $73M Contract to Manage VA Cloud Computing Services; Paul Nedzbala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Lands $73M Contract to Manage VA Cloud Computing Services; Paul Nedzbala Comments

    CSRA has been awarded a four-year, $73 million contract to handle enterprise cloud computing services for the Department of Veterans Affairs in a move to help facilitate veteran health benefits and service delivery programs. The company will identify, consolidate and manage cloud computing services across several vendors and internal VA offerings under the Enterprise Cloud Services […] More

  • Textron to Equip Small Aerosonde UAS With Overwatch Imaging's Precision Survey Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron to Equip Small Aerosonde UAS With Overwatch Imaging’s Precision Survey Sensor

    Textron has announced it will offer an Overwatch Imaging-built precision survey sensor technology as part of the Aerosonde small unmanned aircraft system. Overwatch Imaging designed its TK-7 Firewatch multispectrum survey payload with color focal plane array and co-boresighted infrared sensors that Textron will integrate with the UAS’ onboard image processing system to facilitate precision mapping and aerial photography, Textron said Monday. […] More

  • Siemens Unveils Cloud-Based Digital Grid Services Platform Offering; Mike Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Unveils Cloud-Based Digital Grid Services Platform Offering; Mike Carlson Comments

    Siemens has launched a new digital grid services offering the company designed to help utility sector customers in the U.S. access digital operational environments through cloud and managed service systems. The digital grid services platform offering comprises subscription-based software as a service grid management applications, managed services and cloud-hosted environments hosted in Siemens’ data centers, […] More