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  • Fluor, Partners Reach Financial Agreement on $6B Maryland Light Rail Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fluor, Partners Reach Financial Agreement on $6B Maryland Light Rail Project

    A team comprised of Fluor, Meridiam Infrastructure Purple Line and Star America Purple Line has achieved financial close on Maryland’s $5.6 billion Purple Line Light Rail project. The Fluor-led Purple Line Transit Partners will finance, design, build, operate and maintain the project for Maryland’s transportation department and transit administration through a 36-year period, Fluor said Monday. The company added the team received financing […] More

  • FDA OKs Emergency Use of Hologic's Zika Virus Diagnostic Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FDA OKs Emergency Use of Hologic’s Zika Virus Diagnostic Tool

    Massachusetts-based medical technology developer Hologic has received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a device the company developed to help clinicians detect Zika virus infections. Hologic said Friday its Aptima molecular diagnostic assay is designed for qualitative detection of ribonucleic acid from the mosquito-borne virus in human blood samples. The assay is based on the company’s Panther system that works to […] More

  • Calibre Enters Partnership With Triple-i for Veterans Affairs IT Services IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Calibre Enters Partnership With Triple-i for Veterans Affairs IT Services IDIQ

    Calibre has partnered with Information Innovators Inc. to offer a range of information technology and project management services under the Department of Veteran Affairs‘ Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation contract vehicle. Alexandria, Virginia-based Calibre said Friday it will work to support Triple-i’s position as a prime contractor for the VA’s T4NG vehicle that covers work in areas […] More

  • OPM Seeks Small Biz Partner to Support Federal Disability Recruitment Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OPM Seeks Small Biz Partner to Support Federal Disability Recruitment Initiative

    The Office of Personnel Management seeks a small business that can help federal agencies  to recruit people with disabilities for government job opportunities. In a FedBizOpps solicitation posted Wednesday, OPM said it plans to award a potential three-year blanket purchase agreement for support services to the agency’s Disability Recruitment Initiative. The selected contractor will use government’s Schedule A Hiring Authority to find eligible disabled individuals for […] More

  • Microsoft's Susie Adams: Federal Agencies Should Factor IoT in Mobile Device Security Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft’s Susie Adams: Federal Agencies Should Factor IoT in Mobile Device Security Strategies

    Federal agencies should include concepts and changes in technology surrounding the Internet of Things as they work to secure mobile devices inside their networks, Microsoft‘s Susie Adams told MeriTalk in an interview published Monday. Adams, federal chief technology officer for the software giant, said the mindset of federal agencies should be to have a network of secure […] More

  • Oshkosh Defense Chooses Telephonics for JLTV Intercommunications Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oshkosh Defense Chooses Telephonics for JLTV Intercommunications Systems

    Griffon subsidiary Telephonics has received a subcontract from Oshkosh‘s defense segment to provide the NetCom vehicle intercommunications systems for the future U.S. Army and Marine Corps Humvee replacement Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. Telephonics said Tuesday NetCom works to provide crew intercommunications and radio management systems for up to 20 users. NetCom also features noise cancellation technology to optimize audio intelligibility and protect […] More

  • Sikorsky, Turkey Enter Agreements to Produce 109 Black Hawk-Based Utility Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky, Turkey Enter Agreements to Produce 109 Black Hawk-Based Utility Helicopters

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has entered agreements with Turkey’s government and aerospace companies in the country to license production of 109 T70 utility helicopters based on Black Hawk aircraft. Sikorsky said Thursday Turkish Aerospace Industries will build and deliver T70 aircraft within the next 10 years as prime contractor for the $3.5 billion Turkish Utility Helicopter Program. Sikorsky will provide engineering data […] More

  • Raytheon-Built Aerial Navigation Payload Launched Into Orbit; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Built Aerial Navigation Payload Launched Into Orbit; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    A GPS navigation payload Raytheon built for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System was launched aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday. Raytheon said Wednesday the WAAS GEO 5 payload is designed to support air navigation of commercial airline and general aviation pilots over a 12-year period. “Extremely accurate navigation technologies make this system a critical resource to […] More

  • BAE Receives Navy Contract for Customized EO/IR Maritime Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Receives Navy Contract for Customized EO/IR Maritime Defense System

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has received a $3.9 million contract from the Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory to develop a custom variant of its maritime defense system to support ONR’s Combined Electro-optic/infrared Surveillance and Response System program. BAE Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will provide a variant of its Lock-on Naval Electro-optic/infrared Sensor […] More

  • RSA Study: 75% of Gov't, Commercial Orgs Face 'Significant' Cyber Risk Exposure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RSA Study: 75% of Gov’t, Commercial Orgs Face ‘Significant’ Cyber Risk Exposure

    A study conducted by EMC‘s security division RSA has found 75 percent of 878 respondent organizations across more than 24 industries worldwide believe they face a “significant” risk of exposure to cyber threats. RSA said Tuesday its second annual Cybersecurity Poverty Index study offered participants from 81 countries an opportunity to self-assess the maturity of their cybersecurity programs against a framework developed by […] More

  • Raytheon's GPS OCX System Passes Air Force Qualification Test, Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s GPS OCX System Passes Air Force Qualification Test, Design Review

    Raytheon has passed a qualification test and design review for the Global Positioning System Next Generation Operational Control System the company is developing for the U.S. Air Force contract. The company said Thursday the GPS OCX Monitor Station Receiver Element met the requirements of an electromagnetic interference test with a 100 percent passing rate as well as a design review which approves transition […] More

  • General Dynamics Installs, Tests 2 Waveguide Antennas For NASA's Deep Space Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Installs, Tests 2 Waveguide Antennas For NASA’s Deep Space Network

    General Dynamics has installed and tested two beam waveguide antennas to support NASA‘s modernization efforts for the agency’s Deep Space Network. The company said Tuesday its satellite communications technologies team installed the 34-meter antennas near Canberra, Australia to aid communications and tracking of Mars space probes and spacecraft missions outside the Milky Way. “Each antenna is the width of […] More