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  • Navy Reviews Northrop's Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Reviews Northrop’s Bomb Disposal Robot Design; Dan Verwiel Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have finished a critical design review of a robotic technology the company designed to support explosive ordnance reconnaissance and threat assessment operations. The assessment determined that Northrop’s final design for a dismounted operations variant of the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System is ready to enter  the program’s system fabrication, assembly, integration and testing phases, the company […] More

  • Barak Schriger: Onvia Unveils Specification Library to Support Procurement Authoring Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Barak Schriger: Onvia Unveils Specification Library to Support Procurement Authoring Process

    Seattle, Washington-based business intelligence company Onvia has launched a new specification library where procurement professionals can view previous offers to assist the authoring process. Barak Schriger, Onvia product marketing manager, said in a blog post published Monday the Onvia Exchange will provide access to previous procurement examples for same or similar products and services to purchasing parties. […] More

  • Iridium to Launch Satellite Broadband Service in Q2 2017; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium to Launch Satellite Broadband Service in Q2 2017; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications will release a new satellite communications service offering for the government and enterprise sectors in the second quarter of 2017. The Certus service will be powered by Iridium’s NEXT satellite network and will work to deliver broadband connectivity to public and private sector customers as a standalone option or in conjunction with very small aperture terminals, Iridium said Tuesday. Iridium CEO Matt Desch said the […] More

  • Bechtel to Continue Management Support for 2 Industrial Development Projects in Saudi Arabia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel to Continue Management Support for 2 Industrial Development Projects in Saudi Arabia

    Bechtel has secured a five-year contract extension from an autonomous Saudi Arabian government agency to continue to provide management services for two industrial  development projects in Jubail and Ras Al Khair. The company said Monday its contract with the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu covers projects to construct residential and educational buildings as well as roads, bridges, […] More

  • BlackBerry Updates AtHoc Crisis Mgmt Platform to Address Emergency Communication Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry Updates AtHoc Crisis Mgmt Platform to Address Emergency Communication Issues

    BlackBerry‘s AtHoc division has updated its crisis management platform in an effort to address market trends. BlackBerry said Monday the updates include an option to create rules for forwarding alerts received from external organizations and sources, automated staff mustering, management alerting and severity-codified notifications. “Critical events are inherently complex, and our customers have been asking for faster and more […] More

  • Raytheon-Ponemon Survey: Majority of Companies Wait for Cyber Damage to Find Security Vendors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Ponemon Survey: Majority of Companies Wait for Cyber Damage to Find Security Vendors

    A Raytheon-commissioned study carried out by the Ponemon Institute study found at least two-thirds of businesses wait until cyber attacks damage their systems or steal data to contact managed security services providers. The Don’t Wait: The Evolution of Proactive Threat Hunting survey includes responses from nearly 1,700 information security leaders across 19 countries on the outsourcing of network security activities, Raytheon […] More

  • 12 Tech Firms Join FireEye Cybersecurity Alliance; Ed Barry Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    12 Tech Firms Join FireEye Cybersecurity Alliance; Ed Barry Comments

    Milpitas, California-based security company FireEye has added 12 technology companies to its partner ecosystem that aims to help customers address complex security challenges with a FireEye-built threat management platform. The Cyber Security Coalition works to integrate FireEye’s Global Threat Management platform with various security offerings in an effort to simplify how enterprise clients avoid, detect, examine or respond to attacks, the company said Friday. “Security teams are […] More

  • Defense News: Raytheon, Army to Modernize Old Equipment Under Procurement Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense News: Raytheon, Army to Modernize Old Equipment Under Procurement Strategy

    Raytheon will work with the U.S. Army to modify the service branch’s 1960s-era Patton tanks as part of a procurement formula to modernize old models of equipment, Defense News reported Sunday. Jen Judson writes Raytheon will work to sustain and update old equipment in an effort to help the Army meet modern requirements and cut acquisition costs. Todd Probert, […] More

  • Ridgewood Technology Partners to Support Navy Enterprise Networks Program Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ridgewood Technology Partners to Support Navy Enterprise Networks Program Office

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a potential $8 million contract to Ridgewood Technology Partners to provide program management office support to the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems’ Navy Enterprise Networks program office. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will also provide engineering, testing, implementation, integration, training and help desk services to support the NEN program office. The Space […] More

  • General Atomics, Fokker to Collaborate on Predator UAV Landing Gear Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics, Fokker to Collaborate on Predator UAV Landing Gear Development

    A General Atomics subsidiary has partnered with Fokker Technologies, a division of GKN Aerospace, to develop landing gear technology for the Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft system. Netherlands-based Fokker and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. have worked together to offer Predator B to the Dutch armed forces and aim to integrate Fokker’s technology onto the UAV as the companies anticipate a potential drone procurement by […] More

  • Honeywell, Army Partner for Energy Consumption Project at Electronics Maintenance Depot - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell, Army Partner for Energy Consumption Project at Electronics Maintenance Depot

    Honeywell and the U.S. Army will collaborate on a $29 million modernization project at Tobyhanna Army Depot that will work to reduce energy and water consumption. Honeywell said Thursday the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a 23-year energy savings performance contract to the company in support of a project that looks to address greenhouse gas […] More

  • SunPower to Erect Solar Power Plant for Army's Redstone Arsenal Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SunPower to Erect Solar Power Plant for Army’s Redstone Arsenal Base

    SunPower will construct a 10-megawatt photovoltaic solar power plant to generate 18,000 megawatt hours per year for the Redstone Arsenal U.S. Army post in Alabama under a 27-year renewable energy services agreement and lease. The company said Friday that the Army has an option to purchase 100 percent of energy the Oasis power plant will generate under the power purchase agreement. Richard […] More