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  • Rockwell Collins to Help Manage USAF Airborne Radio Parts Supply Chain - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Help Manage USAF Airborne Radio Parts Supply Chain

    Rockwell Collins has received a three-year, $22 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to manage the supply chain for replacement parts on U.S. Air Force airborne radio systems. The initial contract covers supply chain management services for AN/ARC-171, AN/ARC-190 and AN/ARR-85 communications platforms being maintained at Robins Air Force Base, the company said Wednesday. Alan Prowse, vice […] More

  • Gibbs & Cox to Help Lockheed Design Saudi Arabia's Future Surface Combatant Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gibbs & Cox to Help Lockheed Design Saudi Arabia’s Future Surface Combatant Ship

    Lockheed Martin has selected Gibbs & Cox to support functional design work on a  multi-mission surface combatant platform for Saudi Arabia. Gibbs & Cox said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia’s navy chose an MMSC offering that Lockheed based on the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship in a bid to help the service branch confront maritime and economic security threats. […] More

  • OST Global Seeks to Offer Mentoring Support to Small Businesses Via ‘GovCon Incubator’ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OST Global Seeks to Offer Mentoring Support to Small Businesses Via ‘GovCon Incubator’

    OST Global Solutions has unveiled an incubator program that seeks to help small businesses secure federal contracts and transition into prime contractors. The GovCon Incubator will work to provide member companies networking and mentoring services through its in-house consulting personnel, the company said Wednesday. The incubator also has a curriculum in entrepreneurship, business development, operations and […] More

  • BAE Unit Awarded DARPA Program Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Unit Awarded DARPA Program Support Contract

    BAE Systems‘ information and electronic systems integration business has received a $7.9 million contract to support a research program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA is obligating $1.3 million in fiscal 2017 research and development funds at the time of award., the Defense Department said Wednesday. Contract work will occur at various locations […] More

  • Former VMware, IBM Exec Mercer Rowe to Head Avaya Cloud Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former VMware, IBM Exec Mercer Rowe to Head Avaya Cloud Business

    Mercer Rowe, former vice president of strategic partners at IBM‘s Watson and cloud computing platforms, has been named senior VP and general manager of a newly formed cloud business at Avaya. He will oversee research, development and sales of public, private and hybrid cloud offerings in his new position, Avaya said Wednesday. Jim Chirico, president and CEO at […] More

  • NSA Vet Richard Ledgett Joins Polaris Alpha's Board of Advisers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSA Vet Richard Ledgett Joins Polaris Alpha’s Board of Advisers

    Richard Ledgett, former deputy director of the National Security Agency, has joined the board of advisers at Washington, D.C.-based defense technology company Polaris Alpha. Polaris Alpha said Monday its advisory board members provide strategic guidance and advice to the firm’s executive leadership team on efforts to serve military and intelligence community clients. Ledgett held the no. 2 position […] More

  • Boeing Backs Military Service Initiative With $10M Donation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Backs Military Service Initiative With $10M Donation

    Boeing has provided a $10 million donation to support programs and services of the Military Service Initiative of the George W. Bush Institute. The company said Wednesday it donated the money as part of a multiyear, $30 million investment geared toward veteran recovery and rehabilitation and military transition services. “Through our support of the Military Service Initiative, […] More

  • Donald Williams Named Global Engineering EVP at Polycom - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Donald Williams Named Global Engineering EVP at Polycom

    Donald Williams, formerly vice president and head of engineering at software company  Prysm, has been named executive VP of worldwide engineering at Polycom. Polycom said Monday Williams will lead the firm’s efforts to develop audio, video and content sharing platforms, as well as manage engineering team members in North America, China and India. “Don brings considerable experience […] More

  • Humanetics Names Former Navy Surgeon General Matthew Nathan to Medical Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Humanetics Names Former Navy Surgeon General Matthew Nathan to Medical Advisory Board

    Matthew Nathan, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, has joined Humanetics‘ medical advisory board and he will provide guidance to the company’s efforts to develop medical countermeasures to protect warfighters. He supervised 64,000 military personnel as the 37th Navy surgeon general and chief of the service branch’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Humanetics said Thursday. “[Nathan] possesses […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Wins Lockheed Freedom LCS Team's Supplier of the Year Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Wins Lockheed Freedom LCS Team’s Supplier of the Year Award

    Rolls-Royce has received a supplier of the year award from a Lockheed Martin-led industry team contracted to build Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships for the U.S. Navy. Lockheed said Wednesday that Rolls-Royce was given recognition during the 30th annual Surface Navy Association National Symposium held Tuesday. Rolls-Royce produces the MT30 gas turbines and Mk1 waterjets for the Freedom-variant LCS’ combined diesel and […] More

  • Report: Turkey Solicits Bids for F-35 Info System Integration Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Turkey Solicits Bids for F-35 Info System Integration Project

    Turkey has launched a bidding process for a project to link information systems of the country’s future F-35 aircraft to an information network of the Turkish air force, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. The report said Turkey’s undersecretariat for defense industries will accept proposals for the F-35/Air Force Information System Integration Project through Feb. 28. The country intends to buy 116 units of […] More

  • TWD & Associates to Develop Updated CRM Tool to Boost DHS Communications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TWD & Associates to Develop Updated CRM Tool to Boost DHS Communications

    TWD & Associates looks to create and deploy a customer relationship management tool that can help the Department of Homeland Security‘s Office of Partnership and Engagement upgrade stakeholder communications and collaboration capacities. The company said Tuesday it will integrate agile Scrum methodologies and cloud capacities on the new CRM platform to help boost the effectiveness […] More