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  • SPAWAR Taps Cambridge International to Help Build Bahamas' Maritime Surveillance System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SPAWAR Taps Cambridge International to Help Build Bahamas’ Maritime Surveillance System

    Cambridge International Systems has received a delivery order from the U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to provide a maritime surveillance system to the Bahamas’ navy. The company said Wednesday it will build a multi-sensor station comprising a radar, day and night optics, Global Maritime Distress and Safety System components, a very small aperture terminal and an automatic identification technology […] More

  • Klas Telecom's US Govt Support Unit Rebrands to Highlight Customer Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Klas Telecom’s US Govt Support Unit Rebrands to Highlight Customer Base

    Communications network technology design and engineering company Klas Telecom has changed the name of its subsidiary Klas Telecom Services in a move to emphasize the unit’s work with U.S. public sector clients. The organization rebranded as Klas Telecom Government and will continue to offer  communications product design and support, integration, sales and training services to government and Defense Department agencies, Klas Telecom said Friday. “It’s important […] More

  • CAE, Quebec Extend Medical Simulation Tech R&D Agreement; Marc Parent Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE, Quebec Extend Medical Simulation Tech R&D Agreement; Marc Parent Comments

    The Quebec provincial government in Canada has agreed to continue to support CAE‘s efforts to develop healthcare-focused simulation and training platforms through 2020. CAE said Thursday the agreement also adjusts the value of Quebec’s financial contribution to the company’s medical simulation and training R&D program to $54.1 million in repayable investment from approximately $77.1 million in 2009. The program now has an estimated value of $148.6 million, […] More

  • C3 IoT to Provide Machine Learning Platform, Application Suite for State Dept's Energy Mgmt Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    C3 IoT to Provide Machine Learning Platform, Application Suite for State Dept’s Energy Mgmt Initiatives

    C3 IoT has received a potential $25 million contract provide a suite of enterprise Internet-of-Things software applications and machine learning technology for the State Department to monitor and analyze energy management at department-run facilities globally. The company said Monday its platforms will also work to help the State Department predict looming equipment failure and track the health of sensors and device infrastructure throughout its more than 22,000 […] More

  • DARPA, Lockheed Demo Cognitive Electronic Warfare System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Lockheed Demo Cognitive Electronic Warfare System

    Lockheed Martin and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have collaborated to demonstrate a cognitive electronic warfare system that is designed to detect, characterize and counter wireless communication threats. Lockheed said Monday that Raytheon‘s Silencer EW technology hosted machine-learning software for the Behavioral Learning for Adaptive Electronic Warfare system onboard a modified Piper Navajo aircraft during a series of flight tests. The Lockheed-Raytheon team flew the aircraft to […] More

  • DOE Aims to Help Commercialize 2 Energy Technologies From Los Alamos Nat'l Lab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Aims to Help Commercialize 2 Energy Technologies From Los Alamos Nat’l Lab

    The Department of Energy has awarded $850,000 in funds to support groundwater restoration and fractured rock characterization projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico under DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund. DOE picked a total of 54 energy technology projects that involve collaboration between 12 national laboratories and 52 companies as part of an effort to help businesses move technologies from the lab to the market, LANL said […] More

  • Sikorsky Subcontracts Bluedrop Subsidiary for Aircrew Training Instructors & Courseware - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Subcontracts Bluedrop Subsidiary for Aircrew Training Instructors & Courseware

    A Bluedrop Performance Learning subsidiary has secured a $13 million contract from Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary to provide aircrew training instructors and courseware in support of a maritime helicopter program in Canada. Bluedrop Training & Simulation said Tuesday the contract requires 30 technician and aircrew instructors, simulator operators and training program support personnel to train the 406 Operational and Training Squadron to operate Canada’s CH-148 […] More

  • Boeing's Jeppesen Subsidiary to Support Istanbul Airport Construction Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Jeppesen Subsidiary to Support Istanbul Airport Construction Project

    Boeing has signed an agreement with Turkey-based company iGA Havalimani Isletmesi to provide technical assistance services for an international airport infrastructure development project in Istanbul. Under the deal, Boeing unit Jeppesen will supply a Total Airport and Airspace Modeler tool to help iGA and the General Directorate of State Airports Authority of Turkey design airpace structure for the Istanbul New Airport as well as develop an operations […] More

  • Smiths Detection Gets DHS Follow-On Order for Handheld Radiation Detector Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection Gets DHS Follow-On Order for Handheld Radiation Detector Tech

    Smiths Detection has received a $40.9 million follow-on task order from the Department of Homeland Security to supply a handheld radiation detection and identification system to DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. The company said Tuesday it will provide its RadSeeker technology for department  personnel to detect, locate and identify the source of radiological materials. “RadSeeker technology was developed in cooperation with […] More

  • Lpath Receives DoD Grant to Study Potential Traumatic Brain Injury Pain Treatment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lpath Receives DoD Grant to Study Potential Traumatic Brain Injury Pain Treatment

    California-based biotechnology firm Lpath has secured a two-year, $1.45 million grant from the Defense Department to examine the use of a monoclonal antibody drug as a potential treatment for neuropathic pain associated with traumatic brain injury. Lpath said Monday it will conduct preclinical studies to assess the effect of the company’s experimental drug Lpathomab on pain that follows neurotrauma as the company seeks to validate the findings […] More

  • Infor Eyes FedRAMP Certification for Public Cloud Software Suite Through AWS Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Infor Eyes FedRAMP Certification for Public Cloud Software Suite Through AWS Partnership

    Infor has partnered with Amazon Web Services as the New York-based enterprise software company aims to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based software suite to government agencies. The agreement allows Infor to host its CloudSuite Public Sector offering on AWS’  GovCloud (US) as well as receive guidance from cloud technology consulting and implementation services provider Day1 Solutions, an AWS Partner Network […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Support DARPA's Battlespace Decision Aiding Program With Raytheon, STR Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Support DARPA’s Battlespace Decision Aiding Program With Raytheon, STR Partnerships

    Charles River Analytics has partnered with Systems and Technology Research and Raytheon in an effort to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  produce decision support tools for military command-and-control operators to manage complex missions. STR and Charles River will collaborate to design and build a distributed planning and assessment suite under DARPA’s Resilient Synchronized Planning and Assessment for the Contested Environment program as part […] More