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  • Turkey's Aselsan Lands Work for Serial Production of Military Air Defense Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Turkey’s Aselsan Lands Work for Serial Production of Military Air Defense Systems

    Turkey-based Aselsan will begin the serial production of towed guns, air-defense systems, airburst ammunition and a fire-control center for the Turkish military under a contract with the country’s defense procurement agency, Defense News reported Jan. 18. The report said Aselsan’s indigenous air-defense gun system platoon is programmed to perform low-altitude air-defense operations to counter air-to-ground and cruise missiles, […] More

  • Sera-Brynn Signs Agreement to Exchange Information With DHS Branch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sera-Brynn Signs Agreement to Exchange Information With DHS Branch

    Sera-Brynn has signed a two-year cooperative research and development agreement to facilitate information exchange with a cybersecurity laboratory branch of the Department of Homeland Security. The CRADA serves as grounds in which Sera-Brynn can jointly conduct R&D with DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, seeking to support infrastructure, networks and systems […] More

  • Nick Michaelides: Cisco Cloud Security Platform Receives FedRAMP ATO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nick Michaelides: Cisco Cloud Security Platform Receives FedRAMP ATO

    A Cisco-built cloud security offering has received an authority to operate at the moderate level from the program management office of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Nick Michaelides, vice president of Cisco’s U.S. federal sales organization, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the Cloudlock platform also met eligibility requirements for impact level 2 […] More

  • Carahsoft to Resell Secureworks Threat Intell Products, Services to Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Resell Secureworks Threat Intell Products, Services to Public Sector

    Carahsoft and Dell Technologies‘ Secureworks subsidiary have partnered to offer a suite of threat intelligence products and services to the public sector government contract acquisition vehicles. Secureworks said Wednesday its offerings are designed to help organizations avoid breaches and are now available to agencies through Carahsoft’s positions on the General Services Administration Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solutions Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract. Carahsoft […] More

  • Lexmark Unveils Self-Service Documentation Kiosk for Govt Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lexmark Unveils Self-Service Documentation Kiosk for Govt Agencies

    Imaging systems vendor Lexmark has rolled out a kiosk offering designed to help government agencies provide documentation assistance to citizens. MFP Kiosk is a self-service platform that guides citizens through paperwork and documentation processes, Lexmark said Wednesday. The company incorporated its “smart” multifunction tools and an intuitive touchscreen interface into the kiosk system. “The slow, manual processes associated with […] More

  • FAA Records 1M Civilian Drone Users Through CSRA-Built Registry Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FAA Records 1M Civilian Drone Users Through CSRA-Built Registry Platform

    A CSRA-developed online registry platform has helped the Federal Aviation Administration document more than 1 million owners of civilian drones throughout the U.S. CSRA said Wednesday more than 870,000 of the registered drones are from hobbyists while the remaining 122,000 registrations are for individually documented commercial and public drones. The company helped FAA design, build and […] More

  • Orbital ATK to Update Extended Range Configuration for Navy Anti-Radiation Missile Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK to Update Extended Range Configuration for Navy Anti-Radiation Missile Tech

    Orbital ATK has received a contract to help the U.S. Navy update the configuration of an extended range variant of an airborne tactical missile system designed to engage and destroy enemy air defenses. The company said Wednesday it aims to mature the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range design ahead of the program’s engineering and manufacturing development phase. AARGM-ER is […] More

  • Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Gets Modification for Army Tactical Network Project Manager Support

    Comtech Telecommunications has received a $1 million delivery order modification to provide support services to the U.S. Army project manager for tactical networks. The company said Wednesday its command and control technologies group will support communications assets for U.S. expeditionary unit readiness. Fred Kornberg, president and CEO at ComTech, said the company aims to deliver  communications systems to the military’s […] More

  • Connexta to Help Update Air Force's DCGS Integration Backbone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Connexta to Help Update Air Force’s DCGS Integration Backbone

    Connexta has won a potential five-year, $83 million contract to develop a fifth version of the U.S. Air Force‘s Distributed Common Ground/Surface System Integration Backbone. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will help the service branch develop DIB software and related software as well as support the DCGS/Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise. DCGS is designed to receive, process, […] More

  • BAE Unveils Modernized CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unveils Modernized CV90 Infantry Fighting Vehicle

    BAE Systems has introduced a new variant of its CV90 infantry fighting vehicle at the International Armored Vehicles Conference in London. CV90 MkIV is designed to feature a Scania-built engine with up to 1,000 horsepower, updated drive train capacities along with active damping technology built to help increase speed and handling in the battlefield, BAE Systems […] More

  • Northrop to Help Engineer Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Engineer Army Unmanned Aircraft Systems

    Northrop Grumman has received a one-year, $12.5 million contract modification to perform engineering work on U.S. Army‘s fleet of Hunter unmanned aircraft systems The Defense Department said Wednesday that Northrop’s technical services business in Sierra Vista, Arizona, will perform work through Jan. 17, 2019. Hunter is designed to help Army personnel collect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data in the battlefield with […] More

  • Sparton-Ultra Electronics JV to Produce Sonobuoys for Navy Qualification, Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sparton-Ultra Electronics JV to Produce Sonobuoys for Navy Qualification, Test

    A Sparton–Ultra Electronics Holdings joint venture has received a potential three-year, $9.7 million delivery order to design representative sonobuoys for qualification and testing by the U.S. Navy. ERAPSCO will also support engineering and development of underwater active multiple ping sonobuoys under the order, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Naval Air Systems Command will obligate $1.8 […] More