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  • Lockheed Debuts New Navy Littoral Combat Ship; Joe North Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Debuts New Navy Littoral Combat Ship; Joe North Comments

    Lockheed Martin has transported an 11th Littoral Combat Ship the company built for the U.S. Navy to the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin. USS Sioux City will be outfitted and tested at the shipyard prior to its scheduled delivery to the Navy in 2017, Lockheed said Saturday. “The future USS Sioux City’s interchangeable mission modules will […] More

  • Raytheon Demos Kill Vehicle In-Flight Performance; Taylor Lawrence Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Demos Kill Vehicle In-Flight Performance; Taylor Lawrence Comments

    Raytheon has tested the in-flight performance of the company’s Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle during a Missile Defense Agency demonstration intended to gather data on the capability of the vehicle’s thrusters. The redesigned EKV’s thrusters have been modified to control the impact with incoming threats while outside of the Earth’s atmosphere, Raytheon said Thursday. “Testing is critically important to […] More

  • Smiths Detection to Build Radiation ID System for DHS; Stephen Esposito Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection to Build Radiation ID System for DHS; Stephen Esposito Comments

    Smiths Detection has been awarded a five-year, $1.27 million contract to supply a radiation detection system to the Department of Homeland Security. The company will deliver its RadSeeker handheld radioisotope detector and identifier to DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Smiths Detection said Wednesday. “Under a competitively-awarded contract RadSeeker was developed in cooperation with the […] More

  • CenturyLink Lands DISA Network Services Contract; Tim Meehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Lands DISA Network Services Contract; Tim Meehan Comments

    CenturyLink has won four task orders worth $10 million combined from the Defense Information Systems Agency to supply network and data transmission services to Defense Information Systems Network users in various regions across the U.S. The company will deliver Ethernet private line and Internet Protocol services to support networks in Colorado, Virginia, Alabama and Nebraska through […] More

  • Grant Thornton Accredited as FedRAMP 3rd-Party Assessment Organization; Dennis Bell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Accredited as FedRAMP 3rd-Party Assessment Organization; Dennis Bell Comments

    Grant Thornton has been authorized to assess cloud vendors that work with the federal government under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation administered the FedRAMP accreditation process for Grant Thornton, the company said Wednesday. As a third-party assessment organization, Grant Thornton will assist companies as they comply with FedRAMP […] More

  • Vazata Achieves Federal Cloud Security Clearance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vazata Achieves Federal Cloud Security Clearance

    Vazata has received an authorization from the Joint Authorization Board to provide a Virtual Federal Image cloud platform to government agencies. The infrastructure-as-a-service and cloud managed service provider received provisional authority to operate cloud services for federal clients under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Vazata said Wednesday. The FedRAMP authorization means Vazata’s IaaS […] More

  • Cray to Upgrade European Weather Research Center's Computer, Storage Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cray to Upgrade European Weather Research Center’s Computer, Storage Systems

    Cray has been awarded a $36 million contract to upgrade the high-performance computers and storage system at the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. The company will update the XC supercomputers to Cray XC40 systems and provide additional Sonexion 2000 Lustre storage and a 32-node system to the weather research center, Cray said Monday. The Intel […] More

  • Capstone to Produce Microturbines for Federal Govt Client; Jim Crouse Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capstone to Produce Microturbines for Federal Govt Client; Jim Crouse Comments

    Capstone Turbine has been selected to produce microturbines for installation in the combined heat and power plant of a U.S. federal government headquarters building in Washington, D.C. The government ordered C800 and C200 microturbines from E-Finity Distributed Generation, Capstone’s distributor for the mid-Atlantic and southeastern U.S. region, Capstone said Monday. “Capstone is thrilled to be able […] More

  • Capgemini Rebrands Igate Post-Acquisition; Virginie Regis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capgemini Rebrands Igate Post-Acquisition; Virginie Regis Comments

    Igate is set to begin operations under the Capgemini brand six months following the completion of the company’s acquisition by the consulting firm. The rebranding of Igate is part of a process to incorporate the company into Capgemini’s global production center network and financial services sector, Capgemini said Monday. “Operating as one brand means that […] More

  • Boeing-Built Blackjack UAS Begins Initial Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Built Blackjack UAS Begins Initial Operations

    The U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps’ Boeing-built RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aircraft system will kick off its initial operation after the program received a go signal. Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, Marine Corps’ deputy commandant for aviation, said the first Marine unmanned aerial vehicle squadron has been confirmed for deployment with the RQ-21A system, the Navy […] More