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  • Lockheed Tests Second Trainer Aircraft for Air Force T-X Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Tests Second Trainer Aircraft for Air Force T-X Competition

    Lockheed Martin has conducted the first flight test of a second trainer aircraft that the company plans to offer in the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X trainer competition. The company said Monday the demonstration of its second production-ready T-50A  aircraft occurred in Greenville, South Carolina, where Lockheed’s final assembly and checkout facility is located. T-50A is designed to train pilots of F-22 […] More

  • ManTech Secures VA Health IT Support Subcontract; Daniel Keefe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Secures VA Health IT Support Subcontract; Daniel Keefe Comments

    ManTech International has received a potential $20 million subcontract from Liberty IT Solutions to provide support services to the Department of Veterans Affairs‘ Office of Information & Technology. ManTech said Friday it will perform troubleshooting, systems engineering, software development and operational support work on VA’s telemedicine and VistA Imaging  platforms. Daniel Keefe, president and chief operating officer of ManTech’s […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan Report: Govt-Military Sector Accounts for 87% of US Satellite Service Spending - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan Report: Govt-Military Sector Accounts for 87% of US Satellite Service Spending

    A new report from Frost & Sullivan estimates the U.S. government and military sector currently accounts for 87.2 percent of the country’s overall satellite services spending. The research firm’s “U.S. Government and Military Satellite Market, Forecast to 2022” report also shows that SES and Intelsat have the biggest presence in the domestic military market with a combined 57.7 percent market share, Frost & Sullivan said […] More

  • NASA Picks 5 Space Technologies for Flight Test Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Picks 5 Space Technologies for Flight Test Program

    NASA has chosen five space technologies to test fly on high-altitude balloons, suborbital rockets or aircraft that simulate low gravity. The agency said Saturday the selected experiments are part of the Flight Opportunities program that aims to test space technologies through methods that simulate spaceflight. Stephan Ord, technology manager for NASA’s Flight Opportunities program, said the program works to help NASA […] More

  • Microsoft Signs MoU to Help Jharkhand, India, Adopt Cloud Tech for Citizen Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Signs MoU to Help Jharkhand, India, Adopt Cloud Tech for Citizen Services

    Microsoft‘s India-based subsidiary has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian state of Jharkhand to explore cloud technologies that will work to address the state’s digital transformation goals. The company said Friday it will help Jharkhand explore cloud, machine learning and mobile platforms in a push to optimize citizen services and update education and agriculture facilities under the agreement. “Over the past year […] More

  • Report: Air Force Reschedules Issuance of Final UH-1N Helicopter Replacement RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force Reschedules Issuance of Final UH-1N Helicopter Replacement RFP

    The U.S. Air Force has postponed the release of a final request for proposals on the military branch’s UH-1N Huey fleet replacement program to summer 2017, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Oriana Pawlyk writes the interested bidders informed the Air Force that they could not meet baseline requirements outlined in the original draft RFP for the UH-1N Replacement Program. The service branch plans to issue a second draft RFP […] More

  • MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Automated Assessment Tool for Wargame Weapons - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Taps Raytheon to Develop Automated Assessment Tool for Wargame Weapons

    Raytheon has received a contract to develop an automated tool for the Missile Defense Agency to assess the effectiveness of missiles, interceptors, cyber and electronic warfare weapons in wargames. The company said Thursday it will create the tool as part of the Coordinated Cyber/Electronic Warfare Integrated Fires program that seeks to evaluate the probabilities of success in a wargame scenario […] More

  • NTT DATA to Offer IaaS Platform via Multistate Cooperative Contract; Tim Conway Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT DATA to Offer IaaS Platform via Multistate Cooperative Contract; Tim Conway Comments

    NTT DATA has secured a master agreement to provide an infrastructure-as-a-service platform to participating state agencies and local institutions under the NASPO ValuePoint multistate cooperative procurement program. The company said Thursday its IaaS platform is designed to help government and enterprise customers secure cloud environments. Tim Conway, president of NTT DATA’s public sector group, said the agreement offers an opportunity for the company to expand offerings and […] More

  • Harris to Provide Voice Comms System for Turkey's Air Traffic Mgmt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Provide Voice Comms System for Turkey’s Air Traffic Mgmt Program

    Harris has been selected to provide a voice over internet protocol communication system in support of an air traffic management program in Turkey. The company said Thursday it will provide the cloud-based Voice Communication System for the 21st Century platform for Turkey’s air navigation service provider known as Devlet Hava Meydanlari Isletmesi. Harris will install VCS21 system at seven facilities in the country. VCS21 works […] More

  • Northrop, UK Air Force Demo Communication Interoperability Between F-35, Typhoon Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, UK Air Force Demo Communication Interoperability Between F-35, Typhoon Jets

    The U.K.’s air force and Northrop Grumman have collaborated to test communications interoperability between the Typhoon FGR4 fighter aircraft and Lockheed Martin-built F-35B. Northrop said Wednesday it provided an airborne gateway for the two-week Babel Fish III trial that was held in Mojave Desert, California. F-35 jets communicate through the Multifunction Advanced Data Link while the Typhoon aircraft uses Link 16 to share data, Northrop […] More

  • Thales Partners With 4 Cloud Service Providers to Support Customer Encryption Key Mgmt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Partners With 4 Cloud Service Providers to Support Customer Encryption Key Mgmt

    Thales has integrated its data security technology with cloud technology platforms from Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce as part of efforts to help customers manage their encryption keys. Microsoft collaborated with Thales to provide key management services for Azure and Office 365, which will support users’ efforts to control their data on premise or in the cloud, […] More

  • CSRA, Perspica Partner to Offer AI-Based Analytics Tech in Federal Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA, Perspica Partner to Offer AI-Based Analytics Tech in Federal Sector

    CSRA and Perspica have partnered to offer federal government customers an artificial intelligence-powered analytics technology designed to process and analyze large amounts of data. Both companies formed the alliance through CSRA’s Emerging Technology initiative and will use Perspica’s predictive analytics tool in efforts to help customer agencies identify threats that could cause service outages or performance decline, CSRA said Wednesday. Perspica’s analytics platform works […] More