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  • Report: Boeing Ends Belgium F-16 Replacement Contract Pursuit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Boeing Ends Belgium F-16 Replacement Contract Pursuit

    Boeing has decided not to submit a proposal for Belgium’s recapitalization program that seeks to replace the country’s fleet of Lockheed Martin-built F-16 jets, FlightGlobal reported Wednesday. “We regret that after reviewing the request we do not see an opportunity to compete on a truly level playing field with the… F/A-18 Super Hornet,” the company said […] More

  • McKinsey Unveils Methodology to Measure Government Spending Productivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McKinsey Unveils Methodology to Measure Government Spending Productivity

    McKinsey and Company‘s government performance research hub has developed a database and benchmarking methodology that works to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of government spending in efforts to advance productivity. The company said that the McKinsey Center for Government’s Government Productivity Scope aims to identify public sector productivity opportunities across healthcare, education, public safety, transportation and taxation. The methodology […] More

  • Quantum3D to Support L3 in Air Force AWACS Trainer Development Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Quantum3D to Support L3 in Air Force AWACS Trainer Development Project

    Quantum3D‘s government systems business has received a contract from L3 Technologies‘ link simulation and training division to support the development of a flight crew training platform for the U.S. Air Force‘s new airborne warning and control system aircraft. Quantum3D said Tuesday it will supply a MANTIS image generation tool, GeoScapeSE worldwide synthetic environment and a CatalystSE digital content […] More

  • Mark Sears: Boeing to Start Materials Procurement Ahead of Super Hornet Service Life Extension Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Sears: Boeing to Start Materials Procurement Ahead of Super Hornet Service Life Extension Work

    Mark Sears, service life modification program director at Boeing, has said the company plans to start the purchase of materials by mid-summer for the service life extension program work on the first F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft, USNI News reported Tuesday. Sears told USNI News in an interview that the company will begin the materials procurement process […] More

  • Avaya: NENA-EENA Collaboration Seeks to Establish Standardized Emergency Response Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya: NENA-EENA Collaboration Seeks to Establish Standardized Emergency Response Strategy

    Avaya has reported that the U.S. National Emergency Number Association and the European Emergency Number Association have launched a global effort to develop a standardized strategy for first responders to save lives with modern technology. The company said Wednesday the NENA-EENA partnership seeks to replace legacy first responder systems which were built on platforms that lack the capacity to accept current modes of […] More

  • MeMed Secures DTRA Funds to Complete Point-of-Care Platform Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MeMed Secures DTRA Funds to Complete Point-of-Care Platform Devt

    The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded MeMed a $9.2 million contract to fund development work on a medical technology designed to help clinicians diagnose bacterial and viral infections at the point of care. The company said Wednesday it has teamed up with several researchers and clinicians worldwide in efforts to create a human immune signature that will work […] More

  • VSE Unit to Overhaul Engines of State Dept's UH-1H Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Unit to Overhaul Engines of State Dept’s UH-1H Fleet

    A business unit of VSE has received a potential five-year, $16.6 million contract to overhaul, modify and repair engines in the State Department‘s fleet of 85 UH-1H “Huey” helicopters. Prime Turbines will perform work on T53-L-703 engines in support of the aviation office at DoS’ Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, the company said Tuesday. Paul Goffredi, president and chief operating officer of VSE’s aviation […] More

  • GSA Posts RFI on Planned EIS Transition of Small Agencies, Tribal Gov'ts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Posts RFI on Planned EIS Transition of Small Agencies, Tribal Gov’ts

    The General Services Administration has issued a request for information on plans to transition small agencies and tribal government customers from expiring telecommunications and network services contracts to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions procurement vehicle. GSA said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice it has created an approach to help small agencies and native American tribes complete their shift from […] More

  • BAE's US Arm Lands DARPA Dispersed Computing Research Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s US Arm Lands DARPA Dispersed Computing Research Contract

    BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary has been awarded a four-year, $9.7 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to conduct research under DARPA’s Dispersed Computing initiative. The Defense Department said Tuesday the DCOMP program aims to produce software instantations of algorithms and protocol stacks that can use dispersed computing platforms to help boost application and network performance. […] More

  • CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Opens Crystal City, VA Office; Bob Kubler Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has opened an office in Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia, as part of a push to bring the nonprofit applied scientific research and development firm’s employees closer to Defense Department customers. CTC said Monday 14 of its employees work daily from the new office and another 25 personnel conduct business at the facility. Bob Kubler, senior director of […] More

  • Orbital ATK Launches 7th Cargo Resupply Mission to Space Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Launches 7th Cargo Resupply Mission to Space Station

    Orbital ATK launched a Cygnus spacecraft Tuesday as part of the company’s seventh operational cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station under NASA‘s Commercial Resupply Services-1 contract. The company said Tuesday the spacecraft, nicknamed S.S. John Glenn, lifted off at 11:11 a.m. Eastern time from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket on a mission […] More

  • CSRA to Help Manage EPA's Supercomputing Systems, Laboratory Projects; Paul Nedzbala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Help Manage EPA’s Supercomputing Systems, Laboratory Projects; Paul Nedzbala Comments

    The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded CSRA a potential $58 million contract to provision, maintain and support EPA’s high-performance computing environment and laboratory projects related to environmental modeling and visualization. CSRA said Tuesday it will also provide technical support for scientific computing projects and visualization platforms under the contract. “We are thrilled to secure this new contract […] More