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  • FireEye Offers Cybersecurity Platform Through Microsoft Threat Protection Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Offers Cybersecurity Platform Through Microsoft Threat Protection Service

    FireEye has begun to offer its threat intelligence platform through a Microsoft service intended to help enterprise customers detect, investigate and respond to attacks against their networks. Customers subscribed to Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection service can access FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence‘s Indicators of Compromise and WDATP can alert customers when these indicators are found on their computers or networks, FireEye […] More

  • BAE to Begin UK Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship Production in 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Begin UK Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship Production in 2017

    BAE Systems PLC plans to start manufacturing anti-submarine warfare ships for the U.K. navy in 2017 after the conclusion of final contract negotiations with Britain’s defense ministry. The company said Friday Britain hascommitted to eight Type 26 Global Combat Ships to replace Type 23 frigates in the “2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review” and the country has invested $2.4 billion in […] More

  • Intel Adds 3 New Partners to Cybersecurity Tech Integration Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Adds 3 New Partners to Cybersecurity Tech Integration Alliance

    Intel has added Check Point, Huawei and Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Aruba Networks subsidiary into an alliance wherein partner companies can integrate their technologies with Intel’s cybersecurity offerings. Check Point integrated its firewall products with Intel’s McAfee DXL and McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange to help customers scale and automate their security environments, Intel said Thursday. Aruba’s ClearPass has been combined […] More

  • Lockheed Invests in CarteNav for ISR Product Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Invests in CarteNav for ISR Product Development

    Lockheed Martin has invested $1.4 million in CarteNav Solutions through Canada’s Industrial and Regional Benefits Investment Framework program to support the latter company’s development work on its flagship intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance product. CarteNav said Wednesday the investment covers two years of development efforts on CarteNav’s AIMS-ISR mission system software that works to deploy hosted sensing, computing and communication technologies on aircraft, vehicle […] More

  • Airbus Silicon Valley Outpost Taps MTSI Team for Self-Piloted Vehicle Flight Test Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Silicon Valley Outpost Taps MTSI Team for Self-Piloted Vehicle Flight Test Services

    A team comprised of Modern Technology Solutions Inc. and nonprofit SOAR Oregon has received a contract from Airbus Group‘s A3 Silicon Valley outpost to provide flight test and range services for A3’s self-piloted flying vehicle platform. MTSI said Thursday it will lead the flight test of A3’s Vahana platform while SOAR Oregon will provide test range support and […] More

  • Report: UK Shortlists BAE, Rheinmetall for Battle Tank Modernization Assessment Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: UK Shortlists BAE, Rheinmetall for Battle Tank Modernization Assessment Phase

    The U.K. defense ministry has chosen separate teams led by BAE Systems and Rheinmetall Landsysteme as “preferred bidders” for the assessment phase of a program to modernize the British army’s main battle tanks, Defense News reported Wednesday. Andrew Chuter writes the U.K. defense ministry aims to finalize two contracts by the end of the year to launch a 24-month, […] More

  • BAE Extends Support for DARPA's Cognitive Electronic Warfare Tech Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Extends Support for DARPA’s Cognitive Electronic Warfare Tech Project

    BAE Systems has received a $13.3 million contract modification from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue support for DARPA’s program that aims to develop electronic warfare technologies that will counter new, unknown and adaptive radars. BAE said Thursday its team will complete algorithm development, advanced readiness tests and key milestones in efforts to transition technologies from […] More

  • ULA Sets Nov. 11 for DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Satellite Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Sets Nov. 11 for DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Satellite Launch

    United Launch Alliance has set a Nov. 11 launch date to lift DigitalGlobe‘s WorldView-4 satellite into space on-board a ULA Atlas V rocket on Nov. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. ULA said Wednesday its team is working to address Atlas V booster issues discovered during final launch preparations. Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business built WorldView-4, which will work to […] More

  • Thomson Reuters Releases App for US Election News & Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomson Reuters Releases App for US Election News & Analysis

    Thomson Reuters has unveiled an application on its Eikon desktop product that will work to offer users market data, news, commentary and analysis before and after the U.S. election Nov. 8. The election app is designed to provide analysis and visuals on segments of the capital markets such as foreign exchange, equities, fixed income and commodities, Thomson Reuter […] More

  • Intel Unveils Four Systems for Digital Economy Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Unveils Four Systems for Digital Economy Defense

    Intel has launched four new platforms designed to protect the digital economy of trust, time and money. The company said Wednesday its unified defense architecture is comprised of the Dynamic Endpoint, Pervasive Data Protection, Data Center and Cloud Defense and Intelligent Security Operations systems. “Cybercriminals are forcing cybersecurity companies to redraft the rules of engagement for defending […] More

  • Mark Forman: Digital Govt Projects Should Incorporate User-Centered Design Methodology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Forman: Digital Govt Projects Should Incorporate User-Centered Design Methodology

    Mark Forman, global public sector head at Unisys, has said agencies should integrate user-centered design methodology into digital government projects to optimize costs, public service and overall mission delivery. Forman wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on Nextgov that the government’s mobile applications and services could be underutilized if project designers do not consider citizen input. […] More

  • Silicon Graphics International to Provide Supercomputers for DoD HPC Modernization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Silicon Graphics International to Provide Supercomputers for DoD HPC Modernization Program

    Silicon Graphics International has received a potential $26.5 million contract from the Defense Department to provide supercomputer systems in support of DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program. SGI said Monday it will implement the company’s SGI ICE XA supercomputers at two Army Research Laboratory Defense Supercomputing Resource Centers as part of HPCMP’s TI-16 technology insertion. The HPC modernization effort aims to update high-performance computing […] More