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  • Leonardo DRS Hands Over 100th Naval Destroyer Gas Turbine Platform to GE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS Hands Over 100th Naval Destroyer Gas Turbine Platform to GE

    Leonardo DRS has manufactured and delivered to General Electric a gas turbine package built for an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy. The GE-designed LM2500 platform is intended for installation on the USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG 126), Leonardo DRS said Monday. Jamie McMullin, senior director of naval power systems group at Leonardo DRS, said the delivery […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tech Helps Power NASA Mars Lander; Eileen Drake Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tech Helps Power NASA Mars Lander; Eileen Drake Quoted

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has built the propulsion devices that powered a NASA spacecraft during a journey to Mars as part of a mission to study the planet’s seismology, rotation and internal temperature. InSight, which landed Monday on the Martian surface, used MR-107N 50 engines, an RL10C-1 main engine, MR-106 reaction control thrusters and MR-111C thrusters in its nearly six-month trip […] More

  • ECS Supports Second AWS GovCloud Region Launch; John Sankovich Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ECS Supports Second AWS GovCloud Region Launch; John Sankovich Quoted

    ECS, a premier consulting partner of Amazon Web Services, took part in the launch of the AWS GovCloud (US-East) region. John Sankovich, vice president for cloud solutions at ECS, said in a statement released Tuesday the company works with customers to help them implement cloud-based applications and systems as a GovCloud skills partner. “We are honored to partner with AWS […] More

  • General Atomics' RPA Ground Control Station Completes Initial Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ RPA Ground Control Station Completes Initial Test

    General Atomics has tested a ground control station in conjunction with an MQ-9B SkyGuardian remotely piloted aircraft during a flight test that took place in Yuma, Ariz. The company said Wednesday its “certifiable” GCS houses flight, payload and weapons management systems for the SkyGuardian and uses a human machine interface designed to provide a single view of tactical mission scenarios. […] More

  • DoD Puts SafeNet Encryption Tech on Approved Products List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Puts SafeNet Encryption Tech on Approved Products List

    The Defense Department has certified SafeNet Assured Technologies‘ encryption technology designed to secure data across an Ethernet network. SafeNet said Wednesday its CN9000 series of encryptors can be found on the DoD Information Network Approved Products List under the fixed network element category. The approval signifies that the technology has met the department’s interoperability and information assurance requirements. Kirk Spring, president of SafeNet, […] More

  • DLT Becomes AWS Public Sector Distribution Partner; Brian Strosser Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT Becomes AWS Public Sector Distribution Partner; Brian Strosser Quoted

    Amazon Web Services has designated DLT Solutions as a public sector distribution partner to help government technology vendors transform business operations with cloud computing platforms. DLT said Tuesday it will support partners through the Cloud Navigator program that includes marketplace, sales and marketing, account management, cost optimization and billing support services. Brian Strosser, president of DLT, said the company has leveraged […] More

  • DynCorp to Perform Navy TH-57 Helicopter Maintenance Work in Florida, Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp to Perform Navy TH-57 Helicopter Maintenance Work in Florida, Alabama

    DynCorp International will provide logistics services and materials needed to maintain the U.S. Navy‘s TH-57 helicopters under a $152M contract the Naval Air Systems Command awarded last month. DynCorp said Tuesday it will conduct organizational- and intermediate-level maintenance efforts at Naval Air Station Whiting Field in Milton, Fla., and will perform depot-level support at a company facility in Andalusia, […] More

  • Stratcom Seeks Input to Update Nuclear C3 Enterprise Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stratcom Seeks Input to Update Nuclear C3 Enterprise Architecture

    U.S. Strategic Command has issued a request for information on potential approaches to modernize and operate a nuclear command, control and communications enterprise. Stratcom will use ideas from commercial and academic entities regarding the transition of the Defense Department toward a new NC3 environment, the U.S. Air Force said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. The […] More

  • Lockheed, AWS Partner to Facilitate Satellite Data Access; Rick Ambrose Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, AWS Partner to Facilitate Satellite Data Access; Rick Ambrose Quoted

    Amazon Web Services and Lockheed Martin have agreed to combine their technology platforms to provide clients the capability to download and upload satellite data and commands. Lockheed will integrate its Verge antenna network with the AWS Ground Station to help users quickly download, analyze and process satellite data amid weather disturbances and other unplanned outages, the […] More

  • BAE to Help DARPA Build Machine Learning Tools for RF Signal Detection - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help DARPA Build Machine Learning Tools for RF Signal Detection

    BAE Systems has received a $9.2M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop data-based machine learning algorithms for military and commercial users to identify radio frequency signals in different operating environments. The company said Tuesday it will use cognitive approaches to create signals differentiation tools under the first phase of DARPA’s Radio Frequency Machine Learning System […] More

  • AWS Launches Program to Facilitate Authorization Process for Software Providers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Launches Program to Facilitate Authorization Process for Software Providers

    Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new program that seeks to help independent software vendors secure authority-to-operate certifications through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and other compliance programs. The ATO on AWS initiative aims to provide ISVs with tools, training, control implementation details and CloudFormation templates as well as guidance from the company’s […] More

  • Report: OPM Plans Rebid for ID Theft Protection Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: OPM Plans Rebid for ID Theft Protection Contract

    The Office of Personnel Management will launch a competitive solicitation for the recompete of a contract to provide identity theft protection and credit monitoring services to former and current federal employees, Nextgov reported Tuesday. ID Experts provides the services to more than 20M people affected by government data breaches in 2015 under a contract that […] More