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  • Charles River Analytics Unveils UAS Tactical Decision Aid - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics Unveils UAS Tactical Decision Aid

    Charles River Analytics has introduced a new tactical decision aid intended to help operators generate airspace routes for unmanned aerial systems. The company developed the Spatially Produced Airspace Routes from Tactically Evolved Networks tool to help coordinate mission plans for various types of UAS, Charles River Analytics said Thursday. SPARTEN incorporates multi-objective optimization algorithm for […] More

  • Unisys Extends IT Work for Colombian Public Utilities Firm; Carlos Ferrer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Extends IT Work for Colombian Public Utilities Firm; Carlos Ferrer Comments

    Unisys Corp. has been awarded a one-year extension to provide information technology services to Empresas Publicas de Medellin, a public utilities company in Colombia. Unisys will produce additional devices, firewalls, servers and applications for the new contract, the company said Tuesday. In 2014, the company began its work to identify and respond to security incidents […] More

  • IBM Adds 5 New Federal Cloud Ecosystem Partners; Anne Altman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Adds 5 New Federal Cloud Ecosystem Partners; Anne Altman Comments

    Five companies have joined IBM’s cloud ecosystem to deliver hybrid cloud services to the U.S. federal government. IBM said Tuesday that Arrow, Avnet Government Solutions, Ingram Micro, Tech Data and ViON will incorporate the IBM cloud system into their respective offerings as part of the partnership. “With our partners, we have a strong understanding of the […] More

  • Lockheed Gets FAA Nod for Hybrid Airship Plan; Robert Boyd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets FAA Nod for Hybrid Airship Plan; Robert Boyd Comments

    The Federal Aviation Administration has approved Lockheed Martin‘s plan to certify the company’s hybrid airship project. That project specific certification plan describes how Lockheed will carry out the hybrid criteria approved by the FAA in April 2013, Lockheed said Tuesday. “The approval of the certification plan represents an important risk reduction milestone for our customers,” said […] More

  • QTS Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure Services Receive Cisco Cloud Certification; Frank Eagle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Disaster Recovery, Infrastructure Services Receive Cisco Cloud Certification; Frank Eagle Comments

    QTS Realty Trust has received a Cisco cloud and managed services certification for the former company’s disaster recovery as a service and infrastructure as a service products. Cisco audited QTS’ enterprise and federal cloud offerings designed to provide Cisco-powered DRaaS and IaaS services, QTS said Friday. Frank Eagle, vice president of business development at QTS, said Cisco’s certification […] More

  • Northrop, Army Demo Integrated Battle Command System; Dan Verwiel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Army Demo Integrated Battle Command System; Dan Verwiel Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army have completed a flight test on an integrated air and missile defense system built to help soldiers identify and destroy targets. A Patriot Advanced Capability 3 interceptor engaged a cruise missile target through the command-and-control input provided by the IAMD battle command system during the demonstration, Northrop said Monday. “The IBCS gives […] More

  • Radisys, Octasic, Quortus Unveil New Multiradio System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Radisys, Octasic, Quortus Unveil New Multiradio System

    Radisys, Octasic and Quortus have introduced a multiradio system designed for use in military and public safety operations. Radisys said Monday the ruggedized radio system is designed as a combination of its small cell software systems with Octasic’s platforms and Quortus’ virtualized evolved packet core service into a complete, network-in-a-box tool. The system is built for military and public safety professionals […] More

  • Raytheon Concludes Navy Jammer Design Review; Daniel Theisen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Concludes Navy Jammer Design Review; Daniel Theisen Comments

    Raytheon will move to design work on a new airborne electronic attack system after the company and U.S. Navy completed the jammer program’s design review phase. The Navy intends for the jammer system to replace the ALQ-99 jamming pods on board the EA-18G Growler from 2021 onward, Raytheon said Friday. Daniel Theisen, director of airborne electronic attack programs […] More

  • ManTech Receives Navy IT Maintenance, Logistics Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Receives Navy IT Maintenance, Logistics Contract Modification

    ManTech International has received a $10,720,438 contract modification to maintain information systems installed in U.S. Navy ships. The company will provide engineering support in IT planning, operations, documentation, program management, and application update and deployment areas, the Defense Department said Friday. ManTech will perform work in Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maine, Washington, California, Florida, Maryland […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, Exploration Mapping Partner on Natural Resource Imagery; Dan Taranik Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, Exploration Mapping Partner on Natural Resource Imagery; Dan Taranik Comments

    DigitalGlobe and Exploration Mapping Group have forged a global information partnership in an effort to deliver imagery products to natural resources customers. Exploration Mapping plans to use DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite to identify geological features and mineral signatures as well as locate petroleum sources, DigitalGlobe said Thursday. “Our customers will benefit from our new specialized suite of […] More

  • Northrop Lands Australian Military Network Operation Contract; Ian Irving Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Lands Australian Military Network Operation Contract; Ian Irving Comments

    An Australia-based Northrop Grumman subsidiary has been selected to maintain a network operation center for that country’s defense department. Northrop Grumman M5 Network Security will work with the department to manage and track communications networks and information systems through the JP2068 center, the company said Thursday. Ian Irving, chief executive of Northrop Grumman Australia, said the contract formalizes […] More