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  • CAE to Continue Air Force KC-135 Aircrew Training Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE to Continue Air Force KC-135 Aircrew Training Support

    CAE‘s U.S. subsidiary has received a $45.4 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to exercise the eight option year under a previously awarded contract for KC-135 aircrew training system support. The Defense Department said Wednesday CAE USA will support KC-135 aircrew training systems at various Air Force facilities in California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, […] More

  • Symantec’s Greg Clark: Govt Should Adopt Custom-Built Security Platforms for Cyber Defense - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec’s Greg Clark: Govt Should Adopt Custom-Built Security Platforms for Cyber Defense

    Greg Clark, CEO of Symantec, has said government agencies should advance the development of “custom, purpose-built security tools” designed to protect its national security systems from potential cyber attacks. Clark wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on The Hill that such tools should be unique and unknown to cyber threat actors and urged the […] More

  • Rockwell Collins, Spirent Partner to Develop Military Code Support Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins, Spirent Partner to Develop Military Code Support Tech

    Spirent Federal Systems and Rockwell Collins have partnered to develop software that will work to support military code for the U.S. Air Force‘s GPS constellation modernization effort. The partnership comes nearly three months after Spirent obtained approval from the service branch’s GPS directorate to develop M-Code support technology with the use of Modernized Navstar Security Algorithm, Spirent said Wednesday. Spirent […] More

  • Raytheon BBN to Help Automate USAF's Foreign Language Info Retrieval Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon BBN to Help Automate USAF’s Foreign Language Info Retrieval Process

    Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary has won a $21.7 million contract to develop an automated technology platform for the U.S. Air Force to retrieve foreign language information. The Defense Department said Wednesday BBN will build the platform to support cross-language information retrieval, machine translation, automatic speech recognition and surprise language summarization. Work will occur in Cambridge, Massachusetts, through Nov. […] More

  • DHS Licenses 2 Cyber Tech Platforms to IP Group - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Licenses 2 Cyber Tech Platforms to IP Group

    The Department of Homeland Security has licensed two Pacific Northwest National Laboratory-built cybersecurity platforms to intellectual property firm IP Group through the science and technology directorate’s Transition to Practice program. IP Group transitioned the Digital Ants and MLSTONES platforms to Cynash, a newly created portfolio company that will work to integrate the technologies with a cyber defense […] More

  • Leanne Caret: Boeing Seeks Top-Line Growth Through M&As - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leanne Caret: Boeing Seeks Top-Line Growth Through M&As

    Leanne Caret, CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, told CNBC in an interview aired Wednesday that the company is a “buyer” and is on the lookout for potential acquisitions. “We are continuing to look at other ways to increase our top line through mergers and acquisitions and we have a continued pipeline we’re assessing,” Caret said […] More

  • Salient CRGT Gets Subcontract for Air Force Intell Comms System Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Gets Subcontract for Air Force Intell Comms System Support

    Salient CRGT has received a subcontract to help Technica perform support work on the U.S. Air Force‘s Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System. Salient CRGT said Thursday it will also support the Air Combat Command’s JWICS program management office and intelligence directorate, 25th Air Force and 625th Air and Space Communications Squadron. The Air Force awarded Technica the potential […] More

  • L3 Delivers Passenger Screening System to Istanbul Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Delivers Passenger Screening System to Istanbul Airport

    L3 Technologies has delivered its ProVision 2 passenger screening system to the Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Turkey. The company said Wednesday the order brings the total number of deployed ProVision platforms to 2,000 systems worldwide. ProVision works to detect metallic and non-metallic objects such as weapons, explosives, liquids, gels, plastics, powders, metals, ceramics and other materials. […] More

  • In the News: Alan B. Thomas, Jr., Commissioner of Federal Acquisition Service at GSA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In the News: Alan B. Thomas, Jr., Commissioner of Federal Acquisition Service at GSA

    Transparency is the name of the game: clear conversations with customers, industry and other stakeholders is a rock in the foundation of the ongoing effort to procure new information technology in line with promoting partnership with the private sector for innovative solutions through programs like the Presidential Innovation Fellows and other efforts employing teamwork in […] More

  • Avaya Opens Bahrain Office to Help Address Communication & Collaboration Tech Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya Opens Bahrain Office to Help Address Communication & Collaboration Tech Demand

    Avaya has opened a new office in Bahrain as the company aims to offer communication and collaboration tools in support of digital transformation projects there. The company said Tuesday some Bahrain-based public and private sector organizations seek to adopt cloud, artificial intelligence, analytics and internet-of-things technologies with the goal to contribute to the country’s economy. The Kingdom’s […] More

  • Raytheon to Supply Mk 54 Torpedo Common Parts Kits to US Navy, Thailand, UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Supply Mk 54 Torpedo Common Parts Kits to US Navy, Thailand, UK

    Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems unit will deliver Mk 54 lightweight torpedo common parts kits to the U.S. Navy and U.K. and Thailand under a $35 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Wednesday the modification also covers Mk 54 Mod 0 lightweight torpedo kits, exercise fuel tanks, spares, production support material and various related engineering and […] More

  • Lockheed, Army Demo Counter-UAV Laser Weapon Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Army Demo Counter-UAV Laser Weapon Prototype

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Army have demonstrated a prototype laser weapon system equipped with sensors, software and specialized optics built to engage adversarial unmanned aerial vehicles. The Advanced Test High Energy Asset system worked to eliminate five Outlaw unmanned aerial systems during a test that took place at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, […] More