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  • Northrop Closes Review Phase of Air Force's Polar Comms System; Linnie Haynesworth Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Closes Review Phase of Air Force’s Polar Comms System; Linnie Haynesworth Comments

    Northrop Grumman  has completed the integrated baseline review for the U.S. Air Force‘s Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Communication technology. The company performed production, deployment and initial sustainment evaluation for the communications system the Air Force uses to transmit telemetry and supplies configuration commands and cryptographic planning to polar users, Northrop said Monday. The military’s satellite communications systems directorate […] More

  • Domingo Urena Raso: Airbus Open to US Partnerships for NATO Fighter Jet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Domingo Urena Raso: Airbus Open to US Partnerships for NATO Fighter Jet

    Domingo Urena Raso, executive vice president for military aircraft at Airbus‘ defense and space business, said that international industry cooperation is possible to address demand for technology around the world, Defense News reported Sunday. “Industry knows how to cooperate internationally.. there is not a program that is made only by one company as far as I remember,” Raso […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Delivers Camera, Antenna Systems for Orion Spacecraft; Jim Oschmann Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Delivers Camera, Antenna Systems for Orion Spacecraft; Jim Oschmann Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has supplied four phased array antennas and three cameras for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft. Orion’s antenna system is comprised of more than 5,000 components and designed to transmit data and voice communications from the capsule’s liftoff until its splashdown, Ball Aerospace said Friday. The company based its Orion flight test […] More

  • SAP Plans $150M Investment in Australian Digital Service Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Plans $150M Investment in Australian Digital Service Facilities

    SAP‘s Australian business plans to invest $150 million over a five-year period in the future SAP Institute of Digital Government and a new data center in Canberra, Inside SAP reported Monday. Freya Purnell reports that the data center will offer SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud services to support citizen services and cloud-first policies at Australian federal government agencies. The SAP Institute of […] More

  • Chris Crane: Federal Regulators Green-Light Exelon, Pepco Merger - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Crane: Federal Regulators Green-Light Exelon, Pepco Merger

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has cleared Exelon‘s proposed acquisition of power distribution company Pepco Holdings. “FERC’s approval is another step forward toward completing this transaction,” Chris Crane, president and CEO of Exelon, said Friday. The companies aim to merge their electric and natural gas utility operations in a bid to expand their footprint in […] More

  • Air Force Wants Info on Aerial Directional Data Links, Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Wants Info on Aerial Directional Data Links, Networks

    The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit information on a directional tactical data links and networks that are designed to work at higher frequencies. A Nov. 18 request for information calls for details on industry offerings and research and development efforts on tactical data links and interoperable networking systems. The service also seeks industry input on waveform agility to create capacity, latency, jam resistance […] More

  • IBM, Fluor, USC to Offer Personalized IT Learning at Applied Innovation Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Fluor, USC to Offer Personalized IT Learning at Applied Innovation Center

    IBM, Fluor and the University of South Carolina have unveiled a new Center for Applied Innovation as part of their public-private partnership and efforts to deliver personalized learning on analytics and higher education application services. IBM said Friday the team aims to help students acquire further information technology skills and knowledge, particularly in the field of applied computing, and to […] More

  • Allied Market Research: Global Internet Security Market Worth $43B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Allied Market Research: Global Internet Security Market Worth $43B by 2020

    A new report from Allied Market Research projects the global Internet security market to be worth $42.8 billion by 2020 due to what the firm sees as increasing use Internet-based applications, particularly for online financial transactions. The firm said Thursday the market value for Internet security will climb at a compound annual growth rate of 8.1 percent over the next six years as […] More

  • Mary McLaughlin: Bechtel, Siemens Finish Work on Panda Sherman Power Plant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary McLaughlin: Bechtel, Siemens Finish Work on Panda Sherman Power Plant

    A Bechtel and Siemens alliance has completed work to build a 758-megawatt combined-cycle gas plant in Sherman, Texas, for Panda Power Funds. The companies finished commissioning of the Panda Sherman Power natural gas facility two weeks ahead of schedule, Bechtel said Thursday. Bechtel managed the overall project and led construction, procurement and engineering work, while […] More

  • Battelle, ID Quantique Quantum Computing Defense Working Group; Don Hayford Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, ID Quantique Quantum Computing Defense Working Group; Don Hayford Comments

    Battelle and ID Quantique have formed an industry alliance group in a move to combat potential security threats posed by adversarial quantum computers. The Quantum-Safe Security Working Group will work to educate, adopt and apply quantum key distribution and post-quantum cryptography to help government agencies and enterprises protect their critical infrastructures, Battelle said Wednesday. “Forming the QSS working group will allow us […] More

  • Lockheed Opens Navy Innovation Center to External Research; Jim Sheridan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Opens Navy Innovation Center to External Research; Jim Sheridan Comments

    Lockheed Martin has opened a new innovation center for the research and development of technologies for the U.S. Navy in a push to continue work on new products for the branch. The Surface Navy Innovation Center will serve as a research, development and demonstration facility for industry, government and academia researchers to develop new combat systems, Lockheed said Wednesday. “The SNIC establishes […] More

  • Lockheed, Concord Blue Partner for Bioenergy Power Generation Project in Germany - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Concord Blue Partner for Bioenergy Power Generation Project in Germany

    Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue have expanded their partnership to build a power plant in Herten, Germany, that will be designed to generate up to five megawatts of biomass electricity. Lockheed said Wednesday it will design, construct and engineer the bioenergy generation facility with the goal of delivering electric power to approximately 5,000 households and […] More