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  • DigitalGlobe, exactEarth Form Tech Alliance to Help Gov't Clients Monitor Fishing Activities; Tony Frazier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, exactEarth Form Tech Alliance to Help Gov’t Clients Monitor Fishing Activities; Tony Frazier Comments

    DigitalGlobe and exactEarth have formed a strategic alliance to combine their big data and predictive analytics offerings as part of an effort to help combat illegal fishing activities. The partnership will combine DigitalGlobe’s commercial satellite imagery with exactEarth’s automatic identification system to help public sector customers perform maritime surveillance missions, exactEarth said Tuesday. “Illegal fishing costs […] More

  • CyrusOne Seeks to Expand Data Center Footprint with 40-Acre Northern Virginia Land Purchase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyrusOne Seeks to Expand Data Center Footprint with 40-Acre Northern Virginia Land Purchase

    CyrusOne has acquired a 40-acre parcel of land Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, as part of the data center services company’s expansion initiative. The company said Tuesday the land it bought at the Kincora mixed-use development  site and upcoming facility construction activities will bring in approximately $1 billion in new investments to the county. “Adding this new Northern Virginia location will […] More

  • Shape Technologies to Help US Air Force Simulate Military Training, Exercises - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shape Technologies to Help US Air Force Simulate Military Training, Exercises

    Shape Technologies has received an $8.1 million contract to engineer and produce  simulation systems for the training programs and exercises conducted by the U.S. Air Force. The Colorado Springs, Colorado-based company will also support the modeling and simulation branches of the U.S. Strategic Command’s joint exercise and training directorate, the North American Aerospace Defense Command […] More

  • Airbus Adds NICE Platform to Public Safety Tech Offerings; Bob Freinberg Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Adds NICE Platform to Public Safety Tech Offerings; Bob Freinberg Comments

    An Airbus Defense and Space company has added a NICE-made incident information management platform to that company’s emergency communications processing technology portfolio in an effort to equip public safety answering points with integrated tools. Airbus DS Communications will offer NICE’s NG9-1-1-ready products such as audio recording, text-to-911 logging, screen capture and Inform digital evidence management tools as part of the VESTA suite, NICE said Monday. […] More

  • NASA Competition Seeks to Enlarge Human Tissue for Deep Space Exploration; Steve Jurczyk Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Competition Seeks to Enlarge Human Tissue for Deep Space Exploration; Steve Jurczyk Comments

    NASA and the nonprofit Methuselah Foundation’s New Organ Alliance have jointly launched a $500,000 prize competition that seeks methods to grow human tissue to support deep space missions. Under a controlled laboratory environment, three teams will develop a thick vascularized organ tissue that will function as organ models for studies of deep space environmental effects as part […] More

  • Ultra Electronics to Combine Maritime Surveillance Tech with Northrop's Autonomous Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ultra Electronics to Combine Maritime Surveillance Tech with Northrop’s Autonomous Systems

    Northrop Grumman has partnered with Ultra Electronics to integrate maritime domain and anti-submarine warfare systems into Northrop’s portfolio of autonomous platforms. The companies aim to build long-endurance systems equipped with sensors and open mission architectures as well as persistent acoustic surveillance technology for use in maritime intelligence missions, Northrop said Monday. Brian Chappel, vice president of autonomous systems at Northrop […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Install GPS Receivers on Leonardo-Finmeccanica Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Install GPS Receivers on Leonardo-Finmeccanica Weapon System

    Rockwell Collins will mount its global positioning system technology on Leonardo-Finmeccanica’s naval and artillery weapon suite in a move to assist in military operations. Leonardo-Finmeccanica is set to fire its Vulcano weapon system with Rockwell Collins’ NavFire Precision Positioning Service GPS under the agreement, Rockwell Collins said Monday. “We have customized the NavFire receivers for the particular […] More

  • Milrem, Leica Geosystems Debut Unmanned Mobile Mapping Vehicle Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Milrem, Leica Geosystems Debut Unmanned Mobile Mapping Vehicle Platform

    Milrem and Leica Geosystems have launched an unmanned ground vehicle offering the companies jointly developed for off-road surveying, monitoring and security operations. The Pegasus:Multiscope vehicle combines Milrem’s Multiscope UGV platform and Leica Geosystems’ Pegasus:Two mobile mapping sensor technology, Milrem said Monday. The UGV is built to help industry customers automate processes in order to avoid physical risks in surveying complex […] More

  • Microsoft, Unisys Grow Cloud Security Tech Partnership; Ann Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Unisys Grow Cloud Security Tech Partnership; Ann Johnson Comments

    Unisys and Microsoft have agreed to expand their global cloud management and security partnership in an effort to help address customer demand for cloud-based cybersecurity tools. As part of the alliance, the companies plan to create new products intended to secure cloud computing systems and Unisys intend to exhibit its new cloud security technology for the public and […] More

  • Buchanan & Edwards to Build Offline Client Tech for Marine Corps Recruitment IT System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Buchanan & Edwards to Build Offline Client Tech for Marine Corps Recruitment IT System

    Buchanan & Edwards has won a potential three-year, $19.5 million  contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and implement an offline client technology for a recruiting information support system for the U.S. Marine Corps. The Arlington, Virginia-based company will also manage the client technology to help Marine Corps recruiters perform their job, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More

  • General Dynamics Taps Permali to Supply Protective Materials for UK's Future Ground Combat Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Taps Permali to Supply Protective Materials for UK’s Future Ground Combat Vehicles

    General Dynamics’ European Land Systems subsidiary has awarded a seven-year, $21.5 million contract to Permali Gloucester to provide armored materials needed for the production of the British army’s fighting vehicles, Business Mole reported Thursday. Beth Haven writes GDELS will incorporate the materials into 589 AJAX reconnaissance vehicles for the British army. Permali has invested approximately $428,000 in equipment the company […] More