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  • Parsons Completes Mall Renovation in Abu Dhabi; Guy Mehula Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Completes Mall Renovation in Abu Dhabi; Guy Mehula Comments

    Parsons has completed work on modernizing the Dalma Mall in Abu Dhabi by using a fresh transportation design technology. Parsons worked to design the mall improvements by implementing the diverging diamond interchange approach, the company said Thursday. “The use of the diverging diamond interchange for this project is an example of a successful collaboration between […] More

  • IBM, Russia’s Rostelecom to Build Big Data Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Russia’s Rostelecom to Build Big Data Center

    IBM East Europe/Asia Ltd. and Russian telecom company Rostelecom have agreed to launch a big data and cloud computing center in the country, ITAR-TASS reported Friday. Alexandra Krasnova writes Rostelecom intends to develop big data analytics services and “optimize business processes” through the center. The Russian state-owned company provides fixed, mobile and broadband connection services, […] More

  • Northrop to Build Air Traffic Control Radios for India's Airports Authority; Charles Houseago Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Build Air Traffic Control Radios for India’s Airports Authority; Charles Houseago Comments

    A Northrop Grumman subsidiary has been awarded a contract to produce air traffic control communication radios for India’s national airports agency. Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems will supply T6 transmitters and receivers, S4 remote control units, filters, multicouplers and antennas under the contract, Northrop said Friday. “We are pleased to be involved from the outset in AAI’s […] More

  • BAE to Update UK’s Missile Warning System; Bill Staib Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Update UK’s Missile Warning System; Bill Staib Comments

    BAE Systems has been awarded a $28 million contract to update the U.K. defense ministry’s missile warning technology. The company will develop the third-generation configuration of its Common Missile Warning System survivability tools, the company said Tuesday. “Through this purchase, the U.K. pilots will have enhanced detection of small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades, improving […] More

  • Boeing to Repair Navy F/A-18 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Repair Navy F/A-18 Aircraft

    Boeing Co. will repair F/A-18 aircraft for the U.S. Navy, under a $9.8 million contract modification, the Jacksonville Business Journal reported Thursday. Timothy Gibbons writes Boeing will perform most of the work in Jacksonville and the rest in St. Louis. The company has previously worked to manage supply of spares and repair services for the […] More

  • Creative Microsystems to Develop Night-Vision Goggles for the Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Creative Microsystems to Develop Night-Vision Goggles for the Navy

    Creative Microsystems Corp. has been awarded a two-year, $2.7 million contract to design and build lightweight night-vision goggles for the U.S. Navy, Military $ Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes the Naval Research Laboratory plans to award the research contract for the development of the Micro Optic Low Light Imager project. Waitsfield, Vt.-based Creative […] More

  • Leidos Wins $54M Naval Engineering, Training IDIQ; Tim Mundie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Wins $54M Naval Engineering, Training IDIQ; Tim Mundie Comments

    Leidos will work to develop and integrate services for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic under three task orders worth nearly $54 million. Leidos will provide information assurance, training, configuration management, logistics, help desk support and Joint Concentrator Architecture site services for the SSC’s Distributed Common Ground System – Navy program, Leidos said […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Concludes Tests for DARPA Telescope Program; David Kaufman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Concludes Tests for DARPA Telescope Program; David Kaufman Comments

    Ball Aerospace has performed the final environmental tests for parts of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s telescope program. The  Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation telescope completed the thermal vacuum evaluations for two sections of its primary mirror composite back and hinge structures, Ball Aerospace said Tuesday. “By retiring risk and increasing [technology readiness level] […] More

  • Mike Hamel: Lockheed to Consolidate Denver Commercial Space Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Hamel: Lockheed to Consolidate Denver Commercial Space Business

    Lockheed Martin Corp.’s space systems division plans to open hundreds of new satellite design and manufacturing jobs at its Denver, Colo.-based headquarters in June, the Denver Business Journal reported Monday. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. recently moved some of its employees to the new campus in Jefferson County and an additional 350 workers are set […] More

  • DeEtte Gray: BAE Systems, Airbus Partner to Develop Geospatial Intell Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DeEtte Gray: BAE Systems, Airbus Partner to Develop Geospatial Intell Offerings

    BAE Systems and Airbus’ defense and space business have forged an alliance to develop and sell new geospatial intelligence offerings to U.S. government, commercial and international clients. The team will use Airbus Defense and Space’s TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X radar satellite data to build the synthetic aperture radar products, BAE Systems said Tuesday. “The products we […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer PernixData's Storage Intell Tool in US Public Sector; Michael Shrader, Ted Stinson Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Offer PernixData’s Storage Intell Tool in US Public Sector; Michael Shrader, Ted Stinson Comment

    Carahsoft Technology Corp. will serve as a distributor and government aggregator of PernixData’s server-side storage intelligence offering for the U.S. public sector. The companies have also agreed to jointly fund the sales and marketing of a new storage architecture for government and education customers, PernixData said Monday. Michael Shrader, vice president of intelligence services at […] More