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  • SayVU App Selected to Help Secure Participants at Rio Olympics; Amotz Koskas Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SayVU App Selected to Help Secure Participants at Rio Olympics; Amotz Koskas Comments

    International Security and Defense Systems has selected a mobile application developed at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev to secure attendees of the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil, Jewish Business News reported Monday. The mobile app SayVU is available on Android devices and is designed to help users send a distress signal to an emergency hotline, the […] More

  • Cambridge Awarded Southcom Helicopter Training Center Services Task Order; Eric Garnier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cambridge Awarded Southcom Helicopter Training Center Services Task Order; Eric Garnier Comments

    Cambridge International Systems Inc. has received a task order to provide maintenance, training and logistics services to U.S. Southern Command for the Colombian Regional Helicopter Training Center. The company will work to maintain the OH-58 and TH-67 helicopter, standardize pilot instruction, train maintenance personnel and support airframe transition, Cambridge International Systems said Friday. Cambridge is […] More

  • Comtech Receives $7.6M Army Satellite Systems Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Receives $7.6M Army Satellite Systems Order

    Comtech Telecommunications Corp. has received $7.6 million in order from the U.S. Army for a set of very small aperture terminal satellite systems. The company booked the order in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year and funded orders to Comtech so far have totaled $49.5 million out of the $91.0 million contract ceiling under […] More

  • Atkins North America Lands Army, Air National Guard Architect-Engineer Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atkins North America Lands Army, Air National Guard Architect-Engineer Services Contract

    Atkins North America Inc. has been awarded a potential five-year, $45 million contract to provide architectural and engineering services to the U.S. Army and Air National Guard. Atkins will work to design programs and perform construction support to the Army and ANG in the continental U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and Virgin Islands, the Defense Department said Monday. […] More

  • DISA Seeks $12M in Rapid Innovation Project Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Seeks $12M in Rapid Innovation Project Funds

    The Defense Systems Information Agency is working to obtain a maximum $12 million in funds for its rapid innovation projects, C4ISR & Networks reported Friday. Mark Pomerleau writes DISA will use the funds to advance its merit-based research and development program meant to deploy innovative technologies. DISA is seeking solicitations via FedBizOpps in four areas that include a transport […] More

  • Lockheed Transports Missile Warning Satellite to Cape Canaveral AF Station; David Sheridan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Transports Missile Warning Satellite to Cape Canaveral AF Station; David Sheridan Comments

    Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Air Force‘s next missile warning satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Aug. 2. The Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 3 satellite was shipped to Florida aboard a C-5 Galaxy aircraft at nearby Moffett Federal Air Field in preparation for its October launch, Lockheed said Friday. David […] More

  • HDT Expeditionary Systems to Produce Combat Vehicle Heaters for Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HDT Expeditionary Systems to Produce Combat Vehicle Heaters for Army

    HDT Expeditionary Systems has received a $9.3 million contract to manufacture heaters for the U.S. Army‘s combat vehicles. The contract contains a 21-month base period and one 10-month option period, the Defense Department said Friday. HDT Expeditionary will carry out work in Ohio through May 15, 2018. The Defense Logistics Agency used its fiscal 2016 through […] More

  • DARPA, MIT Develop Biopharmaceutical Production System in Warzones; Tyler McQuade Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, MIT Develop Biopharmaceutical Production System in Warzones; Tyler McQuade Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a biopharmaceutical production system meant to create treatments in the battlefield, Biopharma Reporter reported Tuesday. Melissa Fassbender writes the system comprises a biologics expression system that produces therapeutic proteins and a microfluidic platform. Tyler McQuade, program manager for DARPA’s battlefield medicine program, […] More

  • Lockheed to Produce Airborne Sensor Spares for Navy's Super Hornet Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Produce Airborne Sensor Spares for Navy’s Super Hornet Fleet

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $23.7 million contract by the Defense Logistics Agency to produce spares for company-built sensor technology installed on the U.S. Navy‘s F/A-18E/F aircraft fleet. The IRST21 sensor works to detect and monitor airborne threats with the use of infrared search and track technology and displays high-resolution imagery of multiple targets visible to pilots, Lockheed said Thursday. Paul […] More

  • CyrusOne Plans New Sterling, VA Hyperscale Data Center; Kevin Timmons Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Plans New Sterling, VA Hyperscale Data Center; Kevin Timmons Comments

    CyrusOne has purchased a Sterling, Virginia-based shell building that the company intends to develop into a data center facility as part of efforts to help address customer demand for hyperscale computing services. The 129,064-square-foot building at 511 Shaw Road is close to CyrusOne’s other data centers in Sterling, the company said Thursday. “Given the unprecedented speed of our massively modular engineering capabilities, […] More

  • Parsons-Odebrecht JV to Overhaul Miami International Airport Baggage-Handling Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons-Odebrecht JV to Overhaul Miami International Airport Baggage-Handling Systems

    A joint venture of Parsons and construction firm Odebrecht have been selected to replace baggage-handling systems at Miami International Airport under a contract with a construction budget of $177 million. Parsons-Odebrecht will install outbound baggage conveyance systems, electrical modifications and power distribution systems, mechanical modifications and a post-security corridor to connect Terminals G and H […] More

  • Boeing to Produce Aircraft Distributed Targeting Systems for US Navy, Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Produce Aircraft Distributed Targeting Systems for US Navy, Australia

    Boeing has received a four-year, $10.2 million delivery order to provide distributed targeting system kits and operational test program sets for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler jets of the U.S. Navy and Australia. The Defense Department said Monday the company will manufacture 218 DTS A kits, 31 OPT sets and 20 fiber optic interface test sets. Boeing will execute […] More