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  • Lynn Dugle: Future Raytheon Texas Office to House 1,700 Employees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lynn Dugle: Future Raytheon Texas Office to House 1,700 Employees

    Raytheon plans to transfer its operations from Garland, Texas to a new office complex in Richardson by the fourth quarter of the company’s 2015 fiscal year. The company intends to construct three buildings at the Richardson site on 489,000 square feet of space, Raytheon announced Wednesday. Raytheon’s Garland complex houses employees from the company’s missile systems; space […] More

  • Honeywell to Help CPS Energy Implement Smart Grid Tech; Jeremy Eaton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell to Help CPS Energy Implement Smart Grid Tech; Jeremy Eaton Comments

    Honeywell and Texas-based CPS Energy have kicked off a two-year program that seeks to help local business facilities manage their electricity costs by implementing smart grid technology. CPS Energy will also leverage Honeywell’s automated demand response tools and services for the municipal utility to maintain the stability of Texas’ power grid during peak usage times, Honeywell said […] More

  • INDUS Obtains CMMI Level 3 Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INDUS Obtains CMMI Level 3 Certification

    INDUS Corp. has obtained level three of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration certification. The CMMI level three certification indicates that INDUS’ processes comply with certain standards and procedures, INDUS said Tuesday. INDUS provides business analytics, cloud, critical infrastructure protection, information technology, health IT, network defense, mobility and software applications management services to customers. […] More

  • Mark Sirangelo: Lockheed-Sierra Nevada Team Uses NASA Facility to Build Spacecraft Parts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Sirangelo: Lockheed-Sierra Nevada Team Uses NASA Facility to Build Spacecraft Parts

    Lockheed Martin and Sierra Nevada‘s alliance has moved to increase manufacturing work on a private space taxi at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. SNC has been contracted to build the next-generation Dream Chaser spacecraft for NASA and is working with Lockheed to produce the spaceship’s composite structures, the companies said Tuesday. “We will […] More

  • MITRE, Allied Minds Forge Tech Transfer Alliance; Mark Maybury, Barry Costa Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE, Allied Minds Forge Tech Transfer Alliance; Mark Maybury, Barry Costa Comment

    The MITRE Corp. and Allied Minds Inc. have forged a commercial technology transfer partnership with the goal of introducing MITRE’s cyber and mobile security systems to the market and forming a new business. Allied Minds’ federal innovations subsidiary will work to evaluate MITRE’s technologies for commercial applications and licensing under the agreement, Allied Minds said […] More

  • TCS Establishes 911 SMS Interface Testing Lab; Thomas Ginter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TCS Establishes 911 SMS Interface Testing Lab; Thomas Ginter Comments

    TeleCommunication Systems has established a technology laboratory for vendors to test if their telephony software and interfaces are capable of processing 911 emergency text messages. TCS’ ESInet Interoperability Lab is scheduled to open in April and was built for testing of text-to-911 architectures prior to a system’s deployment at public safety answering points, TCS said Tuesday. […] More

  • Siemens, Associated British Ports Pump $511M into Wind Turbine Factory; Michael Suess Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens, Associated British Ports Pump $511M into Wind Turbine Factory; Michael Suess Comments

    Siemens Plc and Associated British Ports have invested a total of $511 million into an offshore production factory for wind turbine rotor blades in Britain. The sites will function as manufacturing facilities for 6-megawatt class rotor blades and a new logistics and service center for Green Port Hull, Siemens said Tuesday. “Our decision to construct […] More

  • Alicia Ryan: Pentagon Approves LSINC-Deloitte Mentorship Arrangement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alicia Ryan: Pentagon Approves LSINC-Deloitte Mentorship Arrangement

    Deloitte will work to help Huntsville, Ala.-based small business LSINC compete for prime and subcontract awards under the Defense Department’s Mentor-Protege program. LSINC said Thursday it brings its woman-owned small business status, community connections and its engineering and manufacturing offerings to the partnership as the companies pursue federal and commercial projects in the U.S. “We […] More

  • BIll Doll: Battelle Tool Built to Help Navy Dig for Bomb Debris - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BIll Doll: Battelle Tool Built to Help Navy Dig for Bomb Debris

    Battelle has developed a metal detecting tool for U.S. Navy helicopter crews to help cleanup personnel at the Pinecastle Bombing Range in Florida find bomb debris, the Orlando Sentinel reported Sunday. Erica Rodriguez writes that the tool will be used to plot the locations of bomb and target debris on a heat map following pilot training exercises, […] More

  • GDNexus Issues ISR Need Statement; Jay Mork Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GDNexus Issues ISR Need Statement; Jay Mork Comments

    GDNexus, General Dynamics’ online community of technology providers, has released a need statement for the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sector. The first ISR domain need statement outlines the integration of analytics into image and video processing, General Dynamics said Monday. Jay Mork, chief technology officer at General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, said GDNexus aims to […] More

  • MCR to Help Virginia Org Run Export Development Program; Neil Albert Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MCR to Help Virginia Org Run Export Development Program; Neil Albert Comments

    MCR Federal LLC will work with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to manage a two-year program that aims to help Virginia-based companies increase exports. The Virginia Leaders in Export Trade initiative is designed to help local businesses grow by selling goods and services in international markets, MCR said Monday. “MCR sees many growth opportunities in […] More

  • Lisa Hook: Neustar to Buy .CO Domain in Registry Services Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lisa Hook: Neustar to Buy .CO Domain in Registry Services Push

    Neustar Inc. has agreed to buy .CO Internet S.A.S., which maintains the registry for Internet addresses with the “.co” domain, Neustar said Thursday. Lisa Hook, president and CEO of Neustar, said the company intends to integrate .CO Internet’s domain marketing technologies into Neustar’s distribution network and technical resources in order to grow its registry services. .CO Internet […] More