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  • CSRA to Develop Ship Mgmt Training Devices for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Develop Ship Mgmt Training Devices for Navy

    CSRA has secured a potential five-year, $49.3 million contract to develop, support and update ship management training devices for the U.S. Navy. The company will provide equipment for the service branch’s Navigations Seamanship Shiphandling Trainers program, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DoD noted the Navy will obligate $3.4 million in fiscal 2017 “other” procurement funds at the […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Gets Navy Funds to Plan USS Ford Post-Shakedown Availability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Gets Navy Funds to Plan USS Ford Post-Shakedown Availability

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has received a $9.2 million modification under a U.S. Navy contract to plan the post-shakedown availability and selected restricted availability of the USS Gerald R. Ford supercarrier. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will also use a portion of contract funds to obtain materials needed for PSA/SRA work on USS Ford. The Naval Sea Systems […] More

  • USAF Completes Factory Mission Readiness Test on Lockheed-Built GPS III Satellite, Raytheon’s OCX - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Completes Factory Mission Readiness Test on Lockheed-Built GPS III Satellite, Raytheon’s OCX

    The U.S. Air Force has wrapped up a factory mission readiness test on the first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite along with the launch-and-checkout system of a Raytheon-developed ground control platform. Lockheed said Tuesday the GPS III SV01 satellite received and processed commands from the Next Generation Operational Control System’s LCS component during the FMRT demonstration […] More

  • Warren King Named Advisory Board Chair at Northrop's Australian Arm - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Warren King Named Advisory Board Chair at Northrop’s Australian Arm

    Warren King, former CEO of Australia’s defense materiel organization, has been appointed to chair the advisory board of Northrop Grumman‘s Australian subsidiary. The more than 35-year defense sector veteran will lead the advisory board that provides guidance to Northrop Grumman Australia leaders on market dynamics and development strategies, the company said Wednesday. Ian Irving, CEO of Northrop Grumman […] More

  • Irving Tan Named Cisco Operations, Digital SVP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Irving Tan Named Cisco Operations, Digital SVP

    Irving Tan, senior vice president of Cisco‘s business operations in Asia Pacific and Japan, will transition to a new role as SVP for operations and digital at the San Jose, California-based technology company. Tan will oversee digital transformation initiatives in partnership with sales, engineering and other departments of the company in his new position, Cisco said Thursday. […] More

  • Lockheed Martin to Supply More Laser-Guided Bomb Kits to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin to Supply More Laser-Guided Bomb Kits to Navy

    Lockheed Martin has secured a $22.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to manufacture laser-guided bomb kits and associated components for the U.S. Navy. The company said Wednesday it will produce Paveway II Plus Laser Guided Bomb kits, including guidance kits and air foil groups or tail kits, for the 500-pound GBU-12 configuration for delivery to the Navy by late […] More

  • Symantec Endpoint Protection Tech Added to BT Security Portfolio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec Endpoint Protection Tech Added to BT Security Portfolio

    BT has added a Symantec-built endpoint protection technology to the communications firm’s security products portfolio in an effort to help enterprise customers avoid cyber attacks. Symantec said Tuesday its Endpoint Protection 14 offering employs machine learning, file reputation analysis, behavior monitoring and memory exploit mitigation tools designed to protect business systems from ransomware, ‘zero-day’ and unknown threats. “Today’s attacks are multi-faceted, multi-staged […] More

  • Avaya to Support NORAD Santa Tracking Program With Contact Center Tech; Jerry Dotson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya to Support NORAD Santa Tracking Program With Contact Center Tech; Jerry Dotson Comments

    Avaya will deploy its contact center technology platform to support the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s annual Tracks Santa program that will kick off Dec. 24. The Avaya Customer Engagement platform works to help volunteers at the NORAD operations center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado track the flight of Santa Claus during Christmas and […] More

  • Army Demos Northrop Battle Command System in Phase II Soldier Checkout Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Demos Northrop Battle Command System in Phase II Soldier Checkout Event

    The U.S. Army has conducted a live-air exercise to evaluate the Northrop Grumman-built Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System in a joint force operational environment. IBCS helped soldiers gather and combine data from ground and aerial sensors to establish an integrated aerial view needed to carry out multi-domain defense operations with the U.S. Marine […] More

  • A-P-T Research Gets NASA Safety & Mission Assurance Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A-P-T Research Gets NASA Safety & Mission Assurance Support Contract

    A-P-T Research has secured a potential five-year, $52 million contract to provide safety and mission assurance support services to NASA‘s Washington headquarters. The company will also provide similar services to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center and other facilities that host KSC-backed programs and projects, NASA said Wednesday. SMASS III tasks also include risk assessments, inspections, investigations, engineering analyses […] More

  • Nicole Gardner: IBM Looks to Hire 2K More Military Veterans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nicole Gardner: IBM Looks to Hire 2K More Military Veterans

    Nicole Gardner, a vice president of IBM’s global business services division, has said the company intends to employ 2,000 additional veterans, Park Cities People reported Tuesday. Gardner said during a panel discussion on the “Keeping America’s Promise” program that veterans are great team players and contribute to companies through their problem-solving skills. “They are obviously up for […] More

  • Thales to Supply Multiband Tactical Radios to Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales to Supply Multiband Tactical Radios to Army

    Thales has received a potential $37 million contract to supply the U.S. Army‘s security force assistance brigades with updated multiband tactical radios. The Army Chief of Staff picked the AN/PRC-148C Improved Multiband Inter-Intra Team Radio technology to facilitate communications for SFABs, Thales said Tuesday. IMBITR is designed to support interoperability between joint and coalition forces through narrowband, wideband and satellite […] More