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  • Sikorsky's Colombia Facility to Support Black Hawk Operators in Mexico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky’s Colombia Facility to Support Black Hawk Operators in Mexico

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary will provide maintenance, repair and pilot simulator training support to Mexico’s UH-60 Black Hawk operators through Sikorsky’s facility in Colombia. Lockheed said Thursday Black Hawk operators in Mexico can go to the helicopter flight simulator center at the Colombian Air Force Base in Melgar to utilize its five-axis flight simulator as well as the depot repair facility at Tolemaida […] More

  • SAIC Releases Cloud Migration Methodology for IT Applications & Systems; Charles Onstott Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Releases Cloud Migration Methodology for IT Applications & Systems; Charles Onstott Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. has unveiled a new five-phase multi-tiered methodology intended to help government agencies migrate and transform information technology applications and systems into a cloud computing environment. SAIC said Thursday the Cloud Migration Edge system uses specialized tools, processes and practices to guide cloud migration life cycles through the implementation of a mission-centric cloud computing environment […] More

  • L-3 Receives 1st Task Order Under AF Warfighter Readiness, Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Receives 1st Task Order Under AF Warfighter Readiness, Training Support Contract

    An L-3 Communications division has received an initial $23.5 million task order to provide training systems to the U.S. Air Force as part of a potential seven-year, $200 million contract awarded in April. L-3 said Wednesday its link simulation and training division will act as prime contractor on the Air Force’s Warfighter Readiness & Training program that seeks advanced tools for the military branch to train and […] More

  • Lockheed Eyes Potential $15B India-Based F-16 Production Line; George Standridge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Eyes Potential $15B India-Based F-16 Production Line; George Standridge Comments

    Lockheed Martin has proposed to transfer all production of the company’s F-16 fighter jet from its Fort Worth, Texas aeronautics facility to India in an effort to fulfill up to $15 billion in exports, Economic Times reported Thursday. Manu Pubby writes the U.S. government supports the Lockheed proposal to set up the F-16 line in India under a technology transfer agreement to […] More

  • Todd McDonell: Inmarsat Aims to Help Address Connectivity Demand in Military Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Todd McDonell: Inmarsat Aims to Help Address Connectivity Demand in Military Sector

    Todd McDonell, vice president of global government solutions at Inmarsat, has told Talk Satellite in an interview the company uses its L-band and Ka-band satellite platforms to help military customers address connectivity requirements. He noted in the interview that the emergence of the network centric warfare concept has increased a demand for interconnection between systems and people, Inmarsat said Wednesday. “Global Xpress is […] More

  • Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV Awarded 5-Year IDIQ to Assess Marine Corps Facilities

    A joint venture of Cardno and Amec Foster Wheeler has landed a five-year, $30 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect-engineering contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to evaluate the state of U.S. Marine Corps-operated buildings. The Cardno-Amec Foster Wheeler JV will use the Defense Department‘s BUILDER Sustainment Management System to conduct building condition assessments on USMC facilities worldwide, Cardno said Wednesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers‘ Construction […] More

  • General Dynamics Business Unit Secures Navy Aircraft Carrier Maintenance Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Business Unit Secures Navy Aircraft Carrier Maintenance Contracts

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $23 million cost-plus-award-fee contract modification to General Dynamics‘ NASSCO-Norfolk business unit for support services during a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier’s fiscal 2016 planned incremental availability. General Dynamics said Tuesday it will perform depot-level maintenance, modifications and ship repairs to update the USS Harry S. Truman‘s military and technical capacity. The company noted it […] More

  • Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Lands DARPA R&D Program Support Contract

    Harris has been awarded a potential $27 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform the first phase of a research and development program. The Defense Department said Tuesday DARPA will obligate $22.3 million in fiscal  year 2015 and fiscal 2016 R&D funds at the time of award. Ninety percent of contract-related work will occur in Palm Bay, Florida and the […] More

  • Navy Explores Options to Continue MUOS-5 Satellite Transfer Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Explores Options to Continue MUOS-5 Satellite Transfer Process

    The U.S. Navy will consider alternate orbit adjustment options, calculate mission impact and investigate options to address a propulsion system failure that occurred on the service branch’s communications satellite launch, Space News reported Tuesday. Mike Gruss writes the fifth Lockheed Martin-developed Mobile User Objective System has not transferred to geosynchronous orbit as a result of a orbit raising propulsion […] More

  • Grant Thornton Joins HITRUST Network to Implement Healthcare Industry Standards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Joins HITRUST Network to Implement Healthcare Industry Standards

    The nonprofit Health Information Trust Alliance has designated Grant Thornton as a HITRUST CSF Assessor to help promote information security and privacy standards for the healthcare industry. Grant Thornton said Tuesday that designation grants the firm authority to offer services through the HITRUST CSF privacy and security framework designed to help address healthcare organizations’ security, privacy and regulatory challenges. David Reitzel, […] More

  • Spider Strategies to Support Army's Business Transformation Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Spider Strategies to Support Army’s Business Transformation Office

    Alexandria, Virginia-based software company Spider Strategies has secured a potential five-year, $42 million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army to support the military branch’s office of business transformation. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will offer its services to the OBT’s Strategic Management Support Program Office through August 3, 2021. The Army Contracting Command has awarded the […] More

  • CompTIA Standard Aims to Help IT Firms Establish Cybersecurity Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CompTIA Standard Aims to Help IT Firms Establish Cybersecurity Program

    Information technology trade group CompTIA has established a new cybersecurity standard with the goal to help IT companies prepare for breach incidents. CompTIA said Monday its Channel Standard for Cybersecurity is based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity and suggests threat identification, protection, detection, response and recovery strategies. “Adherence to these industry standards and best practices […] More