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  • Sikorsky's Black Hawk Weapons System Completes Military Standard Qualification Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky’s Black Hawk Weapons System Completes Military Standard Qualification Tests

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has completed the qualification procedure for a comprehensive weapons system developed for S-70M and S-70i Black Hawk helicopters. An independent qualification assurance board confirmed the effectiveness and conformance of Sikorsky’s Black Hawk weapons system to military airworthiness, operational safety and firing standards, Lockheed said Monday. The system employs an electro-optical infrared sensor technology and designed […] More

  • L3 to Develop Platform Mgmt System for BAE's Australian Frigate Contract Pursuit Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 to Develop Platform Mgmt System for BAE’s Australian Frigate Contract Pursuit Team

    BAE Systems has selected L3 Technologies to develop an integrated platform management system as a member of BAE’s industry team pursuing the potential $27.4 billion SEA5000 Future Frigate construction program in Australia. L3 said Sunday it will provide IPMS along with controls and instrumentation tools for the nine Type 26 Global Combat Ships that BAE proposed to build for the […] More

  • Hortonworks' Shaun Bierweiler: Military Health Records System, Commercial Tech Integration 'Not Impossible' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hortonworks’ Shaun Bierweiler: Military Health Records System, Commercial Tech Integration ‘Not Impossible’

    Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ U.S. public sector business, has said it would require a “significant effort” to integrate commercial technology with health records from the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Times reported Friday. Bierweiler told Federal Times in an interview that such effort is “not impossible.” He added that companies should be […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on WMD Exposure Detection Tech Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day on WMD Exposure Detection Tech Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on Feb. 23 in Arlington, Virginia to discuss a program that aims to develop technology that can detect whether an individual has been exposed to materials associated with weapons of mass destruction. DARPA said Friday the Epigenetic Characterization and Observation (ECHO) program would create a portable platform designed […] More

  • USAF Advances Textron, Sierra Nevada/Embraer Offerings to 2nd Light Attack Experimentation Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Advances Textron, Sierra Nevada/Embraer Offerings to 2nd Light Attack Experimentation Phase

    The U.S. Air Force has announced plans to further test non-developmental aircraft offerings from Textron Aviation and the Sierra Nevada–Embraer team through the second phase of the Light Attack Experiment program. The service branch said Friday it will continue to experiment with Textron’s AT-6 Wolverine as well as Sierra Nevada and Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona from May to […] More

  • Grant Thornton-Data Foundation Survey: 82% of Govt, Industry Leaders Cite Progress in Data Standardization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton-Data Foundation Survey: 82% of Govt, Industry Leaders Cite Progress in Data Standardization

    A new survey by Grant Thornton and Data Foundation has found that approximately 82 percent of government and industry leaders said the standardization of information to facilitate open data adoption had improved in the previous year. Data Foundation and Grant Thornton said Thursday they interviewed at least 20 government and private sector executives and respondents […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Navy Contract for Freedom-Variant LCS Engineering Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Navy Contract for Freedom-Variant LCS Engineering Services

    Lockheed Martin has received an $8.4 million contract to provide engineering support services for the U.S. Navy‘s Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships. The Defense Department said Friday the service branch will obligate $473,000 at the time of award from the service branch’s “other” procurement, research, development, test and evaluation funds. Work under the sole-source contract covers program and resource management, cost […] More

  • AWS Tech Helps Federal Customers Manage, Secure Cloud Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS Tech Helps Federal Customers Manage, Secure Cloud Environments

    Multiple federal agencies have adopted Amazon Web Services‘ utility-based cloud technology platforms in efforts to manage, transmit and secure government data. AWS said Friday it uses various tools and methods in a push to comply with security and control requirements under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and Defense Department‘s Security Requirements Guide. The company launched its GovCloud (US) […] More

  • Slovakia Considers Fighting Falcon, Gripen for MiG-29 Fighter Aircraft Replacement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Slovakia Considers Fighting Falcon, Gripen for MiG-29 Fighter Aircraft Replacement

    Slovakia’s defense ministry has announced it is examining Lockheed Martin‘s F-16 Fighting Falcon and Saab‘s JAS-39 Gripen as two options to replace the current MiG-29 fighter aircraft platform of the Slovak military. The ministry said Friday it aims to complete an analysis of both U.S. and Swedish aircraft offerings for submission to the Slovak government by June 29. Slovak Defense Minister Peter Gajdos […] More

  • DOJ Vet Kathleen McGovern Named EY Principal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOJ Vet Kathleen McGovern Named EY Principal

    Kathleen McGovern, a 14-year veteran of the Justice Department, has joined Ernst & Young‘s Washington, D.C. office as a principal in its fraud investigation and dispute services practice. EY said Friday McGovern joins other former government officials working in the company’s FIDS group and brings more than two decades of prosecutorial experience to her new position. She most recently served […] More

  • NASA Names Top Three Teams in Technology Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Names Top Three Teams in Technology Competition

    NASA has announced the top three teams to perform in cycle one of the agency’s competition on innovative technologies. The selection follows the iTech 2018 competition’s recent phase wherein ten finalist groups developed technology projects seeking to improve space exploration and terrestrial life, the agency said Friday. NASA chief technologists, potential investors and leaders from the […] More