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  • General Atomics to Help Air Force Update UAV Control Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Help Air Force Update UAV Control Software

    A General Atomics business unit has been awarded a $57.5 million contract to upgrade the U.S. Air Force’s unmanned aerial vehicle ground control software for Internet networking, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes that General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will provide the software updates for UAV control stations at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. and […] More

  • Harris Demos HF Tactical Radio Network; George Helm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Demos HF Tactical Radio Network; George Helm Comments

    Harris Corp. has connected U.S. Special Operations Command bases in four states for a demonstration of the company’s new high-frequency tactical radio network. SOCOM personnel in Colorado, Kentucky, Florida and North Carolina transmitted and received voice and data messages through Harris’ Falcon III HF tactical radio, Harris said Thursday. The demonstration was intended to evaluate […] More

  • Battelle Marks 60th Anniversary of Aircraft Engineering Handbook Oversight; Jana Rubadue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Marks 60th Anniversary of Aircraft Engineering Handbook Oversight; Jana Rubadue Comments

    Battelle is observing its 60th anniversary of holding responsibility over a structural design and maintenance handbook for the aerospace industry. The Metallic Materials Properties Developmental and Standardization manual contains standards for metallic materials used in engineering and developing aircraft, Battelle said Thursday. The handbook’s properties, guidelines and analysis methods are based on a large set of […] More

  • DynCorp, Coulson Group Form Global Aerial Firefighting Team; Jim Myles, Wayne Coulson Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp, Coulson Group Form Global Aerial Firefighting Team; Jim Myles, Wayne Coulson Comment

    DynCorp International and British Columbia, Canada-based The Coulson Group have forged a strategic partnership to jointly offer aerial firefighting services worldwide. The aerial firefighting team will provide Type One Air Tanker and helicopter services and operations to global clients, DynCorp said Thursday. Jim Myles, senior vice president of DI’s DynAviation business group, said DynCorp intends […] More

  • Autodesk to Help Qatar Build Railway Network; Callan Carpenter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Autodesk to Help Qatar Build Railway Network; Callan Carpenter Comments

    Autodesk has been awarded a contract to provide building information modeling services for Qatar Rail’s work to construct an integrated railway network in the Middle Eastern country. The company will advise Qatar Rail on implementing BIM technologies and practices and help to train Qatar Rail’s staff for the railway project over the next three years, Autodesk […] More

  • QinetiQ to Build Space Water Treatment Prototype; Sanjay Razdan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ to Build Space Water Treatment Prototype; Sanjay Razdan Comments

    QinetiQ’s space division has won a $1.5 million contract from the European Space Agency to develop a prototype unit for space water treatment. The prototype will be built to pioneer a system for recycling urine and waste water for future space missions, QinetiQ said March 10. Sanjay Razdan, managing director of new technologies at QinetiQ […] More

  • IBM, New York Forge Genomic Medicine Research Partnership; John Kelly III Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, New York Forge Genomic Medicine Research Partnership; John Kelly III Comments

    IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the New York Genome Center have partnered to evaluate the Watson supercomputer’s cognitive system for a genomic research project intended to help clinicians develop treatment methods for cancer patients. NYGC and its medical partners will develop a personalized care for patients with glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, by using IBM’s Watson […] More

  • Eid Passport to Help Navy Manage Site Visitor Credentials; Steve Larson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eid Passport to Help Navy Manage Site Visitor Credentials; Steve Larson Comments

    Eid Passport has been selected to continue its identity management work for the U.S. Navy’s access control system. The company’s technology will be integrated into the Navy Commercial Access Control System for verifying the identity of contractors entering the Navy’s facilities, Eid Passport said Wednesday. Steve Larson, Eid Passport chairman and CEO, said the company […] More

  • ViON, Virtustream Form Government Cloud Services Partnership; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON, Virtustream Form Government Cloud Services Partnership; Tom Frana Comments

    ViON Corp. and Virtustream have teamed up to jointly offer enterprise cloud services to government clients. The companies will also provide application sizing and migration technologies for customers that want to transition applications into a cloud-based information technology system, Virtustream said Wednesday. Tom Frana, ViON president and CEO, said the company intends for the partnership […] More

  • Exelis Tests Air Force GPS III Transmitter Assemblies; Mark Pisani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Tests Air Force GPS III Transmitter Assemblies; Mark Pisani Comments

    Exelis has demonstrated six transmitter assemblies that are built to function as payload components for the U.S. Air Force’s first set of GPS satellites. The transmitters were tested in a simulated space environment for random vibration, pyroshock and thermal vacuum to qualify for the GPS III’s mission requirements, Exelis said Tuesday. McLean, Va.-based Exelis built the […] More

  • L-3 Tech Built to Give Field Soldiers Internet Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Tech Built to Give Field Soldiers Internet Connectivity

    L-3 Communications is working to extend mobile communications to frontline soldiers under a $15.5 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Sunday. John Keller writes the U.S. Army and Marine Corps warfighters will connect to a millimeter-wave communications backbone under the DARPA Mobile Hotspots program. The company will work to […] More

  • Robert Smith: Lockheed to Continue Reconnaissance Aircraft Sustainment Work for S. Korea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Smith: Lockheed to Continue Reconnaissance Aircraft Sustainment Work for S. Korea

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a nearly $9 million foreign military sales contract with the U.S. Air Force to help maintain South Korea’s reconnaissance aircraft system. Lockheed will sustain the Peace Krypton system’s spare and repair components, supply test tools for South Korea’s aircraft, fixed and mobile ground stations and upgrade system software, the company said […] More