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  • Navy Taps Advanced Acoustic Concepts for P-8A, MH-60R Trainer Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Advanced Acoustic Concepts for P-8A, MH-60R Trainer Updates

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a $13.8 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contract to Advanced Acoustic Concepts for the procurement of the Common Acoustic Simulation Environment Fidelity Implementation system to support P-8A and MH-60R operators. The Defense Department said Monday CASE-FI works to provide tactical operational flight trainers and weapons tactics trainers updated anti-software warfare tactical environment platforms. The Naval Air Warfare Center […] More

  • CH2M Selected For DC Reagan Airport Pavement Inspection, Evaluation Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M Selected For DC Reagan Airport Pavement Inspection, Evaluation Contract

    CH2M has been awarded a contract to inspect pavements and help implement modifications to the airfield and infrastructure at Washington-based Reagan National Airport in an effort to help pilots navigate the area without confusion and avoid widely-reported hot spots. The company said Tuesday it will work to address issues such as nonstandard airfield geometry under […] More

  • Harris Orders Norsat Solid-State Power Amplifiers; Dewayne Barrington Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Orders Norsat Solid-State Power Amplifiers; Dewayne Barrington Comments

    Norsat International has secured orders for 24 compact solid-state power amplifiers worth $3.8 million from Harris to replace the latter company’s nine large racks of legacy equipment. Norsat said Monday it will provide an array of 100W Ku-band ATOM series SSPAs for a Harris system designed to upconvert and amplify L-band composite signals. “Norsat and Harris have worked closely together over the past […] More

  • Unisys to Continue Systems Development Support for GSA's Public Buildings Service; Casey Coleman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys to Continue Systems Development Support for GSA’s Public Buildings Service; Casey Coleman Comments

    Unisys has landed a potential two-year, $12.6 million contract from the General Services Administration to build and implement applications and systems for GSA’s Public Buildings Service organization. Unisys said Monday it aims to help PBS adopt a DevOps software development model and work closely with software developers in a push to accelerate the application development system process. The company noted it will support […] More

  • Leidos Demos Unmanned Anti-Sub Vessel for DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Demos Unmanned Anti-Sub Vessel for DARPA Program

    Leidos has conducted a series of initial performance trials on an autonomous vehicle it is developing for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. Leidos said Monday its 132-foot trimaran Sea Hunter either met or exceeded speed, maneuverability, stability, seakeeping, acceleration/deceleration and fuel consumption performance requirements under the two-year DARPA and Office of Naval Research […] More

  • Bollinger Shipyards Orders $160M in L-3 Coast Guard Ship C4ISR Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bollinger Shipyards Orders $160M in L-3 Coast Guard Ship C4ISR Systems

    L-3 Communications has received a nine-year $160 million, subcontract from Bollinger Shipyards to provide an integrated C4ISR system for the U.S. Coast Guard‘s future Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutters. L-3 said Monday it will provide initial design updates to the FRC ships such as antenna arrangement and analysis, exterior communications and other situation awareness platforms. The company will also deliver, […] More

  • Air Force Examines Potential Close-Air Support Aircraft Models for Light Attack Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Examines Potential Close-Air Support Aircraft Models for Light Attack Missions

    The U.S. Air Force has examined two close-air support aircraft models to perform light attack missions and potentially serve as a short-term replacement for the service branch’s current fleet, FlightGlobal reported Sunday. Leigh Giangreco writes Air Force has investigated Beechcraft’s AT-6 and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano as possible short-term replacements to its Fairchild Dornier A-10 fleet and seeks to […] More

  • Air Force Taps Veramine for Phase 1 Cyber Deception R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Veramine for Phase 1 Cyber Deception R&D Contract

    Bothell, Washington-based software development company Veramine has landed a $149,979 contract from the U.S. Air Force under the Small Business Innovation Research program to conduct cyber deception research in support of the military branch’s network defense efforts, C4ISRNET reported Friday. Mark Pomerleau writes Veramine will design and develop tools for use in a representative cyber scenario as well as perform […] More

  • USAF to Assess Airworthiness of Textron AirLand Multimission Aircraft Under CRADA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF to Assess Airworthiness of Textron AirLand Multimission Aircraft Under CRADA

    The U.S. Air Force will perform an airworthiness test on a multimission aircraft built by a Textron and AirLand Enterprises joint venture under a cooperative research and development agreement, Defense News reported Thursday. Valerie Insinna writes the certification for Textron AirLand‘s Scorpion aircraft could lead to direct commercial sales to foreign militaries and accelerate the domestic purchase process for […] More

  • Onvia Report Shows 2Q Decline on State, Local, Educational Procurements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Onvia Report Shows 2Q Decline on State, Local, Educational Procurements

    An Onvia study has revealed nationwide state, local and educational procurements including bids and requests-for-proposals has declined by 1.4 percent in the second quarter of 2016 from Q2 of 2015. Onvia said Thursday its “State & Local Procurement Snapshot for Q2 2016” report showed the year’s first half showed an 0.6 percent increase compared to the same period in 2015. “Onvia […] More

  • Northrop to Help Army Develop, Maintain Global Combat Support IT System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Army Develop, Maintain Global Combat Support IT System

    The U.S. Army has awarded a $21 million contract modification to Northrop Grumman to build an enterprise resource planning system for the service branch to manage tactical logistics and financial management functions. The Defense Department said Thursday Northrop will develop, sustain, field and maintain the Global Support System-Army. Army Contracting Command will obligate $1.4 million from fiscal 2014 to […] More

  • Accenture Unveils Tech Prototype to Address Gender Pay Gap Issues in Freelance Labor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Unveils Tech Prototype to Address Gender Pay Gap Issues in Freelance Labor

    Accenture has launched a prototype technology designed to identify and address pay gaps in support of gender pay parity in the freelance labor market. The company said Tuesday Accenture Labs developed the prototype to help provide transparency in the hiring process using open source technologies in order to facilitate equal pay negotiations and reduce bias. The prototype builds on Accenture’s signing of the White […] More