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  • Unisys to Build Cloud-Based IT Platform for Kansas Executive Branch; Michael Morrison Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    Unisys to Build Cloud-Based IT Platform for Kansas Executive Branch; Michael Morrison Quoted

    Unisys has won a potential $40M contract to help Kansas’ executive branch manage information technology operations with a hybrid cloud platform. The company said Wednesday it will build an IT infrastructure for state government personnel to access cloud services from Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Michael Morrison, vice president and general manager of Unisys operations in […] More

  • Northrop Adds Work in Expanded Ohio Composite Structures Production Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Adds Work in Expanded Ohio Composite Structures Production Facility

    Northrop Grumman has opened an operational area at a composite structures manufacturing center in Beavercreek, Ohio, to accommodate new work on aerospace programs. The company said Monday it added 35K square feet of space in the facility during 2017 and 2018 as a result of a $90M contract award to produce high-temperature materials for the military. At least 140 employees […] More

  • Northrop Intros Multifunction Radar Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Intros Multifunction Radar Architecture

    Northrop Grumman has introduced a radar technology equipped with an open architecture system and designed to integrated with multiple platforms and missions. Vanguard is made-up of panels that can function independently or in conjunction with other similar structures to form an integrated radar array, Northrop said Thursday. The company has put the system through at least […] More

  • VMware's Rob Sherry: System Users are Fundamental to EHR Modernization Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Healthcare IT, News

    VMware’s Rob Sherry: System Users are Fundamental to EHR Modernization Projects

    Rob Sherry, senior director of federal health care at VMware, has shared lessons that he believes information technology professionals could learn from the Defense Department’s project to modernize the military electronic health records system, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. He told the publication in an interview IT leaders should help end users adapt to EHR system changes and […] More

  • Symantec Unveils AI-Based Cybersecurity Service; Greg Clark Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec Unveils AI-Based Cybersecurity Service; Greg Clark Quoted

    Symantec has introduced a free cybersecurity service in a move to help political campaign parties and candidates protect their websites against malicious actors. Project Dolphin is powered by artificial intelligence technology and works to analyze a website in the company’s telemetry and alert an organization once a spoof site is discovered, Symantec said Tuesday. The company seeks […] More

  • CDC Selects Perspecta, McKing Consulting for Geospatial Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CDC Selects Perspecta, McKing Consulting for Geospatial Support IDIQ

    A Perspecta subsidiary and McKing Consulting have won positions on a potential five-year, $48M contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to perform geospatial research, analysis and services. CDC awarded $40M to Perspecta’s enterprise services team and another $8M to McKing through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. Tasks under GRASP will include science, analysis, […] More

  • General Dynamics Updates MUOS Satellite Waveform for Navy Digital Radios; Carlo Zaffanella Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Updates MUOS Satellite Waveform for Navy Digital Radios; Carlo Zaffanella Comments

    General Dynamics has updated and tested the Mobile User Objective System‘s waveform technology built to support software-based radios of the U.S. Navy.  The company said Monday MUOS WFv3.1.5 is designed to help Navy personnel transmit voice, data and video communications via the military satellite communications network when they perform onshore and offshore missions. “There are more than 700 DMRs […] More

  • General Dynamics Receives USAF Air Traffic Control Radio Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Receives USAF Air Traffic Control Radio Order

    General Dynamics has received a five-year, $23M contract to replace current air traffic control radio systems at U.S. Air Force bases in Europe. The company said Tuesday it will deliver at least 140 CM-300/350 V2 software-defined radios to USAF’s facilities across the continent. CM-300/350 is built upon the Federal Aviation Administration’s NEXCOM Segment II design that includes a internet protocol-based networking […] More

  • Lockheed Selects Northrop for Army Rocket System Motor Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects Northrop for Army Rocket System Motor Production

    Lockheed Martin has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to produce an insensitive munitions technology for integration into a weapons system designed to help the U.S. Army fire surface-to-surface rockets. Northrop said Monday it will provide IM motors for the service branch’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System program to help increase warfighter safety and minimize collateral damage. The company uses passive thermal mitigation techniques, […] More

  • Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO-3 Satellite Fully Operational - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Built SBIRS GEO-3 Satellite Fully Operational

    A Lockheed Martin-built missile warning satellite that launched Jan. 19 from Cape Canaveral, Fla., has been declared as fully operational and ready for use at the U.S. Air Force. Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 3 transmits data to the 460th Space Wing-operated Mission Control Station at Buckley AF Base in Colorado, the service branch said […] More

  • Parsons Opens Huntsville Facility for Technical Services Capacity Expansion Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Opens Huntsville Facility for Technical Services Capacity Expansion Push

    Parsons has unveiled a new facility at its Huntsville, Al., site as part of company efforts to increase technical capacity. The 25K-square foot facility, which opened Friday, will provide for the company’s technical services expansion, which includes the fusion of hardware and software technological capacities for infrastructure, defense and intelligence customers, Parsons said Friday. The […] More

  • Northrop Test-Flies Autonomous Helicopter at Mississippi Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Test-Flies Autonomous Helicopter at Mississippi Airport

    Northrop Grumman has flown an MQ-8C Fire Scout autonomous helicopter for the first time at Trent Lott International Airport in Moss Point, Miss., as part of flight tests. MQ-8C is a modified version of the Bell 407 platform and completed performance assessments aboard the U.S. Navy‘s USS Coronado littoral combat ship in July, the company said Friday.  Melissa Packwood, program director […] More