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  • CenturyLink Awarded GSA VoIP Service Contract; Erich Sanchack Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Awarded GSA VoIP Service Contract; Erich Sanchack Comments

    The General Services Administration has awarded CenturyLink a potential five-year, $6 million to provide a hosted contact center and voice over internet protocol service to the agency’s Federal Acquisition Service. CenturyLink said Monday it aims to help FAS manage approximately 800,000 inbound and outbound calls annually through the hosted contact center. The contract has a one-year base value of $1.3 million plus four one-year options […] More

  • Fraser Optics to Provide Camera Systems to CBP's Air and Marine Operations Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fraser Optics to Provide Camera Systems to CBP’s Air and Marine Operations Unit

    Fraser Optics has landed a firm-fixed-price contract to supply electro-optic camera systems to the air and marine operations division of the Department of Homeland Security‘s Customs and Border Protection agency. The company said Thursday AMO utilizes the Tethered Aerostat Radar System to detect low-altitude aircraft and track suspicious movements of ultralight and short landing aircraft over the southwest border. “It is an […] More

  • Leonardo Receives AW169 Helicopter Order From Argentina - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Receives AW169 Helicopter Order From Argentina

    Argentina’s national gendarmerie has ordered a twin-turbine helicopter from Leonardo  to support law enforcement and border patrol operations within the country. Leonardo said Thursday is scheduled to deliver an AgustaWestland AW169 unit in the second half of this year. Mauro Moretti, CEO and general manager of Leonardo, said the selection of the AW169 by the Argentine gendarmerie helps […] More

  • Hitachi to Resell DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery Products, Services in Japan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi to Resell DigitalGlobe Satellite Imagery Products, Services in Japan

    Hitachi has agreed to distribute DigitalGlobe‘s satellite imagery products and services in the Japanese market under a commercial reseller agreement. DigitalGlobe said Friday Hitachi launched a satellite imagery distribution service and will offer 30-centimeter resolution images from the former’s constellation of satellites to companies, news organizations, municipal offices and government agencies in Japan. Hitachi has also appointed Japan Space Imaging as […] More

  • Honeywell to Update FAA Infrastructure Under Energy Savings Performance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell to Update FAA Infrastructure Under Energy Savings Performance Contract

    Honeywell has secured a potential 23-year, $10.8 million energy savings performance contract from the Federal Aviation Administration to carry out infrastructure upgrades at 21 FAA-run facilities. The company said Thursday that the modernization project will also be funded through the Energy Department‘s Assisting Federal Facilities with Energy Conservation Technologies grant. Honeywell will lead efforts to update air traffic control […] More

  • Northrop, Wesco Extend Agreement on F-35 Supply Chain Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Wesco Extend Agreement on F-35 Supply Chain Services

    Wesco Aircraft has extended its contract with Northrop Grumman for supply chain services in support of the F-35 fighter aircraft program.08 Valencia, California-based Wesco said Thursday it will continue to provide supply chain support for C-class aerospace hardware under the extended agreement with Northrop’s aerospace systems business. Dave Castagnola, president and CEO of Wesco, said the agreement […] More

  • Air Force Taps Engility Subsidiary to Assist Space & Missile Systems Center's Engineering Directorate - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Engility Subsidiary to Assist Space & Missile Systems Center’s Engineering Directorate

    An Engility subsidiary has won a potential $41 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide advisory and assistance services to the Space and Missile Systems Center’s engineering directorate. TASC will assemble an independent readiness review team to help the directorate examine related space organizations that offer technical analysis and risk assessment services for ground, launch and space systems, the […] More

  • Kongsberg Lands Contract to Integrate BAE Australian Arm’s RF Sensor With F-35 Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kongsberg Lands Contract to Integrate BAE Australian Arm’s RF Sensor With F-35 Missile

    A Kongsberg subsidiary has received a potential $17.3 million contract from Australia’s federal government to integrate a BAE Systems-developed radio-frequency sensor platform with the former’s Joint Strike Missile that will fly aboard the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft. BAE’s Australian arm will deliver passive RF sensors to Kongsberg’s defense and aerospace business for use in qualification […] More

  • DARPA Wants Semantic Tech to Interpret Multimedia Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Wants Semantic Tech to Interpret Multimedia Data

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency was scheduled Friday to meet with potential proposers on a program that seeks to aggregate and interpret data from multiple media sources with a “semantic engine.” DARPA said Thursday the Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives project aims to build a platform that will work to general multiple hypotheses on the meaning and implications of real-world events, situations and trends […] More

  • Boeing Wins EPA Award for Energy Efficiency Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Wins EPA Award for Energy Efficiency Efforts

    The Environmental Protection Agency has selected Boeing to receive an award that recognizes the company’s energy conservation efforts. EPA will present the 2017 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence Award to Boeing at a ceremony scheduled to be held April 26 in Washington, D.C., the company said Friday. The recognition will make Boeing an ENERGY STAR awardee for the seventh […] More

  • IT Vet Daniel Osborne Joins TechnoMile as Managing Director; Ashish Khot Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IT Vet Daniel Osborne Joins TechnoMile as Managing Director; Ashish Khot Comments

    Daniel Osborne, formerly managing director at IBM’s Bluewolf subsidiary and a 10-year information technology veteran in the Salesforce.com ecosystem, has been named managing director of Vienna, Virginia-based IT consulting firm TechnoMile. TechnoMile said Friday that Osborne will oversee the development of the company’s  portfolio of goods and services designed to help government and industry clients leverage […] More

  • Kay Kapoor: AT&T Eyes First Responder Service Delivery by Year’s End Under FirstNet Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kay Kapoor: AT&T Eyes First Responder Service Delivery by Year’s End Under FirstNet Partnership

    Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T’s global public sector solutions business, told Dallas Business Journal staff writer Shawn Shinneman in an interview published Thursday that the company plans to provide priority and pre-emption service to first responders by the end of 2017 under a 25-year public-private partnership with the First Responder Network Authority. The Commerce Department’s FirstNet awarded […] More