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  • Patriot Shipping to Transport USS Fitzgerald to HII Facility in Mississippi - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patriot Shipping to Transport USS Fitzgerald to HII Facility in Mississippi

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Patriot Shipping a $3.1 million firm-fixed-price contract to transport the damaged guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald to Pascagoula, Mississippi, for repairs. The company will heavy-lift the ship from Yokosuka, Japan, to Pascagoula to undergo repairs by Huntington Ingalls Industries, the Navy said Friday. USS Fitzgerald suffered damages as a result of its collision with […] More

  • Army Wants Info on Financial Mgmt System Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Wants Info on Financial Mgmt System Sources

    The U.S. Army seeks information on industry sources of an integrated information and financial management system that can support the Army headquarters’ G-8 force development directorate and other agencies. The Army said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that the integrated system should feature fiscal programming; budget and execution; and equipment modeling functions to support force modernization […] More

  • Microsoft Unveils Monitoring Tool for Agencies on Azure Government Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Unveils Monitoring Tool for Agencies on Azure Government Cloud

    Microsoft has released a monitoring and analytics tool on the Azure Government cloud environment to help government agencies assess the state and performance of various resources. Tom Keane, head of global infrastructure for Microsoft Azure, said in a blog post published Wednesday that the Azure Monitor platform helps users troubleshoot resources as well as evaluate […] More

  • CSRA Cyber Institute Gets CompTIA Authorized Delivery Partner Designation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Cyber Institute Gets CompTIA Authorized Delivery Partner Designation

    The Computing Technology Industry Association has accredited CSRA‘s Cyber Institute as an authorized delivery partner. CSRA said Friday its Cyber Institute offers training for networks and systems development, maintenance, analysis and defense to commercial and government customers. The CompTIA authorization is given to training organizations that offer at least one CompTIA certification course; uses CompTIA-approved quality content; and employ […] More

  • DARPA Holds Kickoff Meeting for IP Reuse Strategy-Based 'Chiplets' Devt Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Holds Kickoff Meeting for IP Reuse Strategy-Based ‘Chiplets’ Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency held a kickoff meeting with approximately 100 participants from commercial, academic and military sectors for the Common Heterogeneous Integration and Intellectual Property Reuse Strategies program. The CHIPS program aims to create a community of technologists and researchers as well as establish a technological framework designed to facilitate the segregation of […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Begins Construction of 3rd Navy Gerald R. Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Begins Construction of 3rd Navy Gerald R. Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier

    Huntington Ingalls Industries has kicked off the construction of the U.S. Navy‘s third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in Virginia. The company said Thursday that it cut a 35-ton steel plate as part of the construction of USS Enterprise (CVN 80), the ninth Navy ship to bear its name. […] More

  • GSA Unveils First Task Order for CDM Program Phase 3 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Unveils First Task Order for CDM Program Phase 3

    The General Services Administration has begun to solicit proposals for the first task order under the third phase of a governmentwide effort to protect civilian government agency websites from cyber attacks, FCW reported Friday. The initial task order under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program Phase 3 will cover “Group B” agencies such as the […] More

  • Raytheon Opens Defense Customer Engagement Hub in Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Opens Defense Customer Engagement Hub in Australia

    Raytheon has opened a customer engagement center in Canberra, Australia, that features a virtual reality immersive environment designed for the company’s defense customers, engineers and industry partners. The company said Monday the center’s opening event was attended by Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy; Michael Ward, managing director of Raytheon’s Australian subsidiary; and Christopher Pyne, Australian minister for defense industry. […] More

  • Capstone to Help Navy Installations Command Manage Equipment Tracking System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capstone to Help Navy Installations Command Manage Equipment Tracking System

    Capstone has won a task order to configure, implement, administer and sustain a catalog ordering logistic tracking system for the Commander, Navy Installations Command. The company said Thursday it will provide COLTS database support services as part of the Naval Security Forces Ashore Antiterrorism and Force Protection Equipment Program. “We are excited about this opportunity to assist […] More

  • Orbital ATK-Built Minotaur Rocket Sends Air Force ORS-5 Satellite to Low-Earth Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK-Built Minotaur Rocket Sends Air Force ORS-5 Satellite to Low-Earth Orbit

    The U.S. Air Force’s Operationally Responsive Space-5 satellite took off Saturday aboard the Orbital ATK-built Minotaur IV rocket that launched at 2:04 a.m. Eastern time from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The ORS-5 satellite that launched into low-Earth orbit is designed to provide space-based situational awareness data to the U.S. Strategic Command through […] More

  • CTC Unveils Nuclear Reactor Design Hub in Pennsylvania; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Unveils Nuclear Reactor Design Hub in Pennsylvania; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has opened at its Richland Township, Pennsylvania-based facility a new center that will work to design compact modular reactors in support of small-scale nuclear plants, GovTech.com reported Friday. CTC President and CEO Ed Sheehan said the Center for Advanced Nuclear Manufacturing at the company’s Richland campus will employ approximately 30 people from the […] More

  • Lockheed to Pair Indago Quadrotor With MyDefence Counter-UAS Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Pair Indago Quadrotor With MyDefence Counter-UAS Platform

    Lockheed Martin and MyDefence Communication have agreed pair a quadrotor unmanned aerial system with a counter-UAS platform under a collaborative development agreement between the two companies. Both companies aim to offer rapid response aerial surveillance services through the combination of Indago and KNOX platforms, MyDefence Communication said. The resulting technology will look to help users detect potential threats as […] More