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  • Australia Eyes BAE Systems, Fincantieri, Navantia for $27B Frigates Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia Eyes BAE Systems, Fincantieri, Navantia for $27B Frigates Program

    The Australian defense ministry eyes either BAE Systems, Fincantieri or Navantia as the potential manufacturer of new frigates for the Australian navy under a $27 billion program, Defense News reported Monday. Nigel Pittaway writes that Australia shortlisted BAE Systems’ Global Combat Ship, Fincantieri’s multi-mission anti-submarine warfare ship and a modified Navantia Alvaro de Bazan-class vessel for the program. The selected […] More

  • Charles River Analytics Unveils Crowd-Sourced Software Verification Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Unveils Crowd-Sourced Software Verification Framework

    Charles River Analytics has introduced a framework designed to manage and analyze crowd-sourced software verification tools. The framework is presented as part of the Crowd-Sourced Formal Verification program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Charles River said Friday. “Software should go through formal verification to ensure that mission-essential software is free from disruptive errors […] More

  • Mercury Systems Receives RF, Image Processing Module Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Receives RF, Image Processing Module Orders

    Mercury Systems has received a $4 million order for radio frequency test systems from an aerospace-and-defense contractor and another $2.9 million in orders for digital signal and image processing modules from a second A&D company. The first unnamed A&D contractor will apply the radio frequency test systems to a missile defense application, Mercury Systems said Monday. The second unidentified defense contractor will also […] More

  • BAE to Build US Navy Mine Neutralizers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Build US Navy Mine Neutralizers

    BAE Systems has received a $55.1 million contract with the Defense Department to build a suite of mine neutralizers with explosive warheads for the U.S. Navy to launch from helicopters. The company will manufacture the Archerfish remotely-controlled underwater vehicles and fiber-optic spools for the Navy as the service branch seeks to also create communication links between the […] More

  • Airbus Picks Flatirons Solutions Software for Danish Aircraft; Geoffrey Godet Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Picks Flatirons Solutions Software for Danish Aircraft; Geoffrey Godet Comments

    Airbus has selected Flatirons Solutions to provide software for work to produce and maintain the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft for Denmark. Flatirons’ CORENA software will be incorporated into the Danish Fighter Replacement Program to fulfill the requirements for full content lifecycle management, Flatiron said Thursday. Geoffrey Godet, Flatirons CEO, said the company will extend its partnership with Airbus […] More

  • Drone Aviation Demos Tethered UAS in Nighttime Flight Test; Jay Nussbaum Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation Demos Tethered UAS in Nighttime Flight Test; Jay Nussbaum Comments

    Drone Aviation has concluded a nighttime flight test of its commercial tethered unmanned aircraft system under approval by the Federal Aviation Administration. The company collaborated with The Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership at Virginia Tech and Aviation Systems Engineering Company for the WATT-300 flight test, Drone Aviation said Wednesday. Jay Nussbaum, chairman of Drone Aviation, said the WATT-300 tethered drone is built to […] More

  • BAE Study: New Qbot Malware Strain Threatens Public Organizations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Study: New Qbot Malware Strain Threatens Public Organizations

    A team of cyber professionals at BAE Systems has detected new malicious software that has targeted 54,000 computers belonging to public organizations such as police departments, hospitals and universities. BAE said Tuesday the Qbot malware works to infect host computers, automate the software updates and hide itself from antivirus software tools. The company’s cyber analysts found several […] More

  • Cisco’s Peter Romness Pushes for More Comprehensive Authentication to Support Common Access Cards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco’s Peter Romness Pushes for More Comprehensive Authentication to Support Common Access Cards

    Peter Romness, cybersecurity programs lead for Cisco Systems’ U.S. public sector group, believes a more comprehensive authentication mechanism is needed to fend off sophisticated threats, C4ISR & Networks reported Monday. Romness said authentication must cover more than just a person’s identity, John Edwards and Eve Keiser report. “We need to know who the user is, where […] More

  • DocPoint Solutions Adds eSignLive Services to GSA Schedule; Scott Swidersky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DocPoint Solutions Adds eSignLive Services to GSA Schedule; Scott Swidersky Comments

    DocPoint Solutions has moved to incorporate the eSignLive electronic signature service into its Microsoft SharePoint offering as part of an effort to help customers transition to digital processes. DocPoint has added eSignLive to its General Services Administration Schedule 70 offerings and will offer the e-signature service to customers in Canada, Europe and Australia under the partnership, DocPoint […] More

  • Cubic to Design Training Exercise for US Army Europe; Bill Toti Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Design Training Exercise for US Army Europe; Bill Toti Comments

    Cubic has been awarded a four-year, $3.6 million contract to design exercise scenarios in support of a training program at the U.S. Army Europe Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Germany. Cubic will develop exercise scenarios and scripts for the classroom, field and interactive learning activities of the center, the company said Monday. “We look forward […] More

  • Leidos, Immunovaccine Form Zika Vaccine Development Partnership; Jerry Hogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, Immunovaccine Form Zika Vaccine Development Partnership; Jerry Hogge Comments

    Leidos and Canada-based clinical vaccine developer Immunovaccine have forged an agreement to jointly develop a preventive agent against the mosquito-borne Zika virus in an effort to halt the spread of the disease that has affected much of Latin America within the past year. The companies said Thursday Immunovaccine will use its DepoVax platform to create an anti-Zika vaccine and […] More

  • BAE Subcontracts Pyrgos Communications for Navy C4I Design Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Subcontracts Pyrgos Communications for Navy C4I Design Services

    BAE Systems has awarded a subcontract to Cumming, Georgia-based small business Pyrgos Communications for technical and installation personnel support of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence functions to the Naval Air Warfare Center’s aircraft division. Pyrgos said Thursday it will help BAE in work to develop, design, implement and test C4I systems for the division. Pyrgos’ personnel will provide assistance in research and development, […] More