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  • Steve Williams: Finmeccanica's 'Falcon Shield' Can Help Counter Drone Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Williams: Finmeccanica’s ‘Falcon Shield’ Can Help Counter Drone Threats

    Steve Williams, capability manager for Finmeccanica‘s airborne and space systems division, has said his company developed its Falcon Shield system to help reduce the risks from small unmanned aerial vehicles, Defense News reported Monday. Lara Seligman writes Falcon Shield is designed as a modular system to ward off drone threats in small areas and large infrastructures. Williams […] More

  • 1st Class of Canadian AF Crew Completes Chinook Training on CAE System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    1st Class of Canadian AF Crew Completes Chinook Training on CAE System

    The Canadian air force’s first class of CH-147F Chinook helicopter aircrews has completed its training with the Boeing-built helicopter using a CAE-developed training system. The Chinook aircrew comprises six first officers, two flight engineers and two loadmasters who graduated during a ceremony held at Garrison Petawawa in Ontario after a 24-week course, CAE said Monday. CAE […] More

  • Salient CRGT Receives Nuclear Regulatory Commission Data Mgmt Contract; Mark Colturi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Receives Nuclear Regulatory Commission Data Mgmt Contract; Mark Colturi Comments

    Salient CRGT has received a two-year, $1.44 million task order to develop and deploy a data management tool for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The company will provide master data management and enterprise data exchange services to NRC using its current technology through an agile approach, Salient CRGT said Monday. Mark Colturi, senior vice president of Salient […] More

  • Deltek Kicks Off Architecture, Engineering, GovCon Studies; Patrick Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Kicks Off Architecture, Engineering, GovCon Studies; Patrick Smith Comments

    Deltek has launched its 2016 surveys for government vendors and architecture and engineering firms with the goal to analyze potential operational, financial and program management issues these companies may face. The surveys run through Feb. 29 and Deltek will develop market data based on survey results in order to help firms gauge competition and conduct business planning, Deltek said […] More

  • Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Adds Solutionary to Cybersecurity Alliance; Angie Heise Comments

    Lockheed Martin has introduced Solutionary to the former company’s cybersecurity alliance in an effort to help bolster initiatives to combat cyber attacks. Solutionary, an NTT group security company, provides managed security, professional security and global threat intelligence services for information technology infrastructures, cloud environments and mobile data, Lockheed said Thursday. Angie Heise, vice president of commercial […] More

  • NTT Data’s Tim Conway Outlines Practices to Modernize Govt Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data’s Tim Conway Outlines Practices to Modernize Govt Operations

    Tim Conway, president of public sector at NTT Data, has highlighted several practices for information technology that he believes will help refresh the way government operates. Conway wrote in an opinion piece for Nextgov published Monday that chief information officers consider legacy modernization as among their upgrade priorities. He said technologies such as business analytics, […] More

  • Beechcraft to Produce Military Training Aircraft for UK Defense Ministry; Russ Bartlett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Beechcraft to Produce Military Training Aircraft for UK Defense Ministry; Russ Bartlett Comments

    Beechcraft Defense Company has been selected to manufacture military training aircraft for the U.K. defense ministry under a contract with Affinity Flying Training Services. The Textron subsidiary will produce 10 Beechcraft T-6C Texan II aircraft to replace the Shorts Tucano T1 aircraft under the U.K. MoD’s military flying training system program, Textron said Wednesday. The aircraft […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Subsidiary to Mentor Synergy Solutions; Gerald Boyd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Subsidiary to Mentor Synergy Solutions; Gerald Boyd Comments

    SN3, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, will provide general and technical business insights to Synergy Solutions under the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege program. SN3 will collaborate with Synergy Solutions to develop new systems and expand capabilities to pursue business opportunities with future government contracts, Huntington Ingalls said Thursday. “SN3 welcomes the opportunity to mentor […] More

  • Hitachi Data Systems Launches Hyper Scale-Out Platform Offering; Sean Moser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Data Systems Launches Hyper Scale-Out Platform Offering; Sean Moser Comments

    Hitachi Data Systems has introduced a new hyper scale-out platform combined with Pentaho enterprise platform in an effort to help customers meet big data requirements. The HSP 400 series incorporates compute, storage and virtualization technologies designed to support big data integration, embedded business analytics and data management tasks, Hitachi said Wednesday. Sean Moser, senior vice […] More

  • Parabon to Update Army's DNA Forensics Software; Steven Armentrout Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parabon to Update Army’s DNA Forensics Software; Steven Armentrout Comments

    Parabon NanoLabs has been selected to recalibrate the U.S. Army’s Snapshot Kinship Inference software as part of an effort to expand the range of the DNA forensics tool. The Snapshot software will be standardized on a wide array of reference samples to extend its sensitivity to include distant kinship relationships under the Defense Department’s Past […] More

  • Trowbridge & Trowbridge Lands DISA IT Support Contract; Chris Brandell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trowbridge & Trowbridge Lands DISA IT Support Contract; Chris Brandell Comments

    Trowbridge & Trowbridge has received a $33 million task order to help transition the information systems of the Defense Information Systems Agency to a managed facility. Work under the contract will support the Implementation and Sustainment Center’s personnel, payroll, logistics, accounting, and medical records processing services, Trowbridge said Tuesday. Chris Brandell, chief operating officer at Trowbridge, […] More

  • Lockheed Receives Satellite Order from SKY Perfect JSAT; Carl Marchetto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Receives Satellite Order from SKY Perfect JSAT; Carl Marchetto Comments

    Lockheed Martin has been selected to build an S band satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. based on the A2100 design. Lockheed said Wednesday it will produce JCSAT-17, the eighth satellite SJC has ordered for disaster relief missions. The company will manufacture the satellite in Denver, Colorado, and deliver the product in 2019. “We’ve built a number […] More