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  • Marty Williams: Govt Agencies Should Take 'Product & Platform Approach' to Digital Services Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marty Williams: Govt Agencies Should Take ‘Product & Platform Approach’ to Digital Services Delivery

    Marty Williams, technology vice president of digital government services provider NIC, has said government agencies could address the need for citizen-centric digital services through a “product and platform” delivery approach. Williams wrote in an article published Thursday on GCN that a product and platform mindset allows information technology teams to continuously deploy microservices within a platform […] More

  • Inmarsat's Peter Hadinger: Integrated Commercial Satcom Key to Support Military Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Peter Hadinger: Integrated Commercial Satcom Key to Support Military Operations

    Peter Hadinger, president of Inmarsat‘s U.S. government business unit, has said that ongoing military operations require an improved acquisition model for satellite communications and further integration of commercial satcom systems. Hadinger stated during a presentation at the Global MilSatCom 2017 event in London that military satcom challenges stem from budget, acquisition and cultural issues instead of technological capabilities, Inmarsat said Friday. […] More

  • Report: Canadian Air Force Commander Seeks to Accelerate Fighter Aircraft Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Canadian Air Force Commander Seeks to Accelerate Fighter Aircraft Procurement

    Lt. Gen. Michael Hood, commander of the Canadian air force, has said he wants to speed up the purchase of new fighter aircraft to replace Canada’s fleet of F/A-18 Hornet jets, Defense News reported Saturday. Hood told the publication that Canada currently plans to release a request for proposals by 2019 for 88 fighter jets that will replace […] More

  • Enveil Secures Investments to Expand Data Security Tech Availability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Enveil Secures Investments to Expand Data Security Tech Availability

    Data security company Enveil has raised $4 million in strategic funding from investors such as Thomson Reuters and an affiliate of the USAA group of financial services companies. Enveil said Thursday it will use the money to update the firm’s technology, grow operations and execute a go-to-market strategy to increase the availability of its Never Decrypt data security […] More

  • Orbital ATK's Cygnus Spacecraft Lifts Off for 8th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Cygnus Spacecraft Lifts Off for 8th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    Orbital ATK‘s Cygnus spacecraft launched Sunday morning at NASA‘s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia aboard an Antares rocket to bring approximately 7,400 pounds of cargo to the International Space Station. Cygnus lifted off at 7:19 a.m. Eastern time to deliver equipment, supplies and experiments to ISS crew as part of Orbital ATK’s eighth Commercial Resupply Services mission, the company said Sunday. […] More

  • Reports: Germany Wants Lockheed-Built F-35 for Tornado Fighter Aircraft Replacement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: Germany Wants Lockheed-Built F-35 for Tornado Fighter Aircraft Replacement

    The German air force has indicated a preference for Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft to replace the service’s fleet of Tornado fighter jets, Jane’s 360 reported Wednesday. A senior official from Germany’s air force told Jane’s 360 that the military branch has shortlisted potential Tornado replacements and it believes F-35 meets most program requirements and offers […] More

  • Thales Alenia Space Deploys 'Collaborative' Robots to Aid Satellite Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Alenia Space Deploys ‘Collaborative’ Robots to Aid Satellite Production

    Thales Alenia Space has begun to operate company-developed “collaborative” robots to support satellite production efforts alongside human employees at two separate facilities. The company said Wednesday its Collaborative Robot Addressed To Operative Solutions platform is currently deployed at a plant in L’Aquila, Italy, while the Saphir robot is located at a facility in Cannes, France. CRATOS works to […] More

  • Collab9 to Deploy Unified Comms Platform for CBP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collab9 to Deploy Unified Comms Platform for CBP

    Collab9 will deploy its unified communications-as-a-service platform for the Customs and Border Protection as part of a contract awarded to collab9’s partner company Presidio. The award — issued through the EAGLE II procurement vehicle — requires Presidio to perform professional, managed and ongoing support services such as strategy, consulting, design and implementation support, collab9 said Wednesday. Collab9’s cloud-based […] More

  • SSL-Built Telesat Satellite Arrives in Eastern Russia Ahead of Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL-Built Telesat Satellite Arrives in Eastern Russia Ahead of Launch

    A small satellite built by Maxar Technologies‘ SSL subsidiary for Telesat has been delivered to the Vostochny Cosmodrome launch base in Eastern Russia ahead of its scheduled late November launch aboard a Soyuz-2 rocket. SSL said the satellite will be one of two Phase 1 spacecraft that will help Telesat test the key performance parameters of its future low […] More

  • Report: DoD, Japan in Talks Over Potential Missile Defense Tech Sale - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: DoD, Japan in Talks Over Potential Missile Defense Tech Sale

    The Defense Department has begun to exchange initial price and technical data with Japan on the ground-based Aegis missile defense system to kick-off an acquisition process that could lead to a formal notification to Congress of a potential foreign military sale,  Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Japan aims to purchase two Aegis Ashore systems from the U.S. government and start […] More

  • Supermicro to Help Expand Computing & Data Analytics Capacity for NASA Climate Simulation Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Supermicro to Help Expand Computing & Data Analytics Capacity for NASA Climate Simulation Center

    NASA has selected Super Micro Computer to help expand the capacity of computing and data analytics systems at the space agency’s Center for Climate Simulation. Supermicro said Monday it will provide a company-built Rack Scale platform that will offer 1.56 petaflops of additional computing capacity to NCCS. NCCS is located within the Computational and Information Sciences and Technology […] More