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  • Esterline to Supply Visual Systems for UK Air Force's Eurofighter Typhoon Simulators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esterline to Supply Visual Systems for UK Air Force’s Eurofighter Typhoon Simulators

    Esterline has received a contract from BAE Systems to deliver visual systems for the U.K. air force’s Eurofighter Typhoon simulators. BAE said Tuesday Esterline is scheduled to deliver two TREALITY SEER display systems for Eurofighter Typhoon simulator facilities at Royal Air Force Lossiemouth in Scotland by the end of the year. The visual systems will support the training […] More

  • GENBAND, Polycom Expand DoD Unified Comms Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GENBAND, Polycom Expand DoD Unified Comms Offerings

    GENBAND and Polycom have expanded their unified communications offerings with Defense Department-approved voice and video communications platforms. GENBAND said Tuesday its Application Server was added to the DoD Information Network’s Approved Products List as an Enterprise Session Controller, which authorizes the platform to support enterprise-wide DoD deployments in the cloud. Polycom also added its RealPresence Collaboration Server and RealPresence […] More

  • Harris Reaches F-35 Avionics Delivery Milestone; Ed Zoiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Reaches F-35 Avionics Delivery Milestone; Ed Zoiss Comments

    Harris has completed delivery milestones and helped meet cost-saving goals under an avionics production program that supports Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter aircraft. Harris said Tuesday it collaborated with industry partners to ship more than 780,000 items such as vibration isolated and liquid cooled avionics racks, power supplies, network interface units and phased array antennas for the F-35 […] More

  • DHS Taps Kiana Analytics to Update CBP Passenger Screening Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Taps Kiana Analytics to Update CBP Passenger Screening Tech

    Kiana Analytics has been awarded a $179,800 contract by the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to update the passenger screening technology of the Customs and Border Protection agency. DHS said Tuesday the company will use its real-time location and analytics platforms to help CBP process more than a million travelers that arrive in the country via air, land and […] More

  • NIC’s Pete Eichorn: Agencies Should Apply Microservices in Govt Digital Services Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIC’s Pete Eichorn: Agencies Should Apply Microservices in Govt Digital Services Devt

    Pete Eichorn, director of technology at Kansas-based government information services provider NIC, has said agencies should work to adopt microservices to develop and build up government digital services and keep up with citizens’ expectations. Eichorn wrote in a GCN article published Monday that microservices work to operate independently and communicate via an application programming interface […] More

  • Lockheed, Northrop Conclude Soft-Kill Demonstrator Integration for Army Modular Active Protection Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Northrop Conclude Soft-Kill Demonstrator Integration for Army Modular Active Protection Platform

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Northrop Grumman to complete initial integration work on a soft-kill demonstrator platform for the U.S. Army’s Modular Active Protection System. Lockheed said Tuesday it combined its Open Architecture Processor with Northrop’s Multifunction Electro-Optic System countermeasure equipment and Passive Infrared Cueing Sensor to develop an open-architecture soft-kill platform for MAPS. Both companies performed the […] More

  • Rolf Ziesing Joins General Atomics as Programs VP for Electromagnetic Systems Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolf Ziesing Joins General Atomics as Programs VP for Electromagnetic Systems Business

    Rolf Ziesing, former vice president of national security programs and nuclear equipment manufacturing at BWX Technologies, has been named VP of programs at General Atomics‘ electromagnetic systems business unit. General Atomics said Tuesday Ziesing will oversee the day-to-day operations of the company’s Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear programs as well as help transition technology […] More

  • Ashton Carter Named Belfer Center Director at Harvard Kennedy School - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ashton Carter Named Belfer Center Director at Harvard Kennedy School

    Ashton Carter, former secretary of the Defense Department, has been named director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Gazette reported Tuesday. He will succeed Graham Allison, who will continue to serve as Douglas Dillon professor of government, and serve as professor of technology and global affairs […] More

  • Leidos Civil Group Lead Angie Heise Joins Mission Support Alliance Board; Roger Krone Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Civil Group Lead Angie Heise Joins Mission Support Alliance Board; Roger Krone Comments

    Angie Heise, president of Leidos‘ civil business group, has been named to the Mission Support Alliance‘s board of directors. MSA is composed of Leidos, Jacobs Engineering and Centerra Group as well as several partners that support nuclear cleanup efforts at the Hanford site in Washington, Leidos said Wednesday. “Angie’s deep industry experience and work with civil agencies makes her […] More

  • Senior Air Force Leader Tim Rudolph Named Evolver VP, Cybersecurity Tech Lead - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Senior Air Force Leader Tim Rudolph Named Evolver VP, Cybersecurity Tech Lead

    Tim Rudolph, senior technical adviser on integrated information capabilities at the U.S. Air Force, is set to join information technology company Evolver as vice president and cybersecurity technology lead. Evolver said March 8 that Rudolph will lead the company’s Boston office, oversee security concepts for the internet of things and provide strategic direction and integration across various cyber offerings in […] More

  • VA Issues Cyber Operations Center Support RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Issues Cyber Operations Center Support RFI

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a request for information on potential small businesses that could support VA’s Network Security Operations Center. VA said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice it looks for a veteran-owned company to help NSOC develop and provide enterprise-wide information security and network defense services. Scope of work will include project management, reporting, data calls, threat intelligence, security […] More

  • Reports: NATO to Award $3B in Satcom, IT Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: NATO to Award $3B in Satcom, IT Contracts

    NATO plans to award up to $3.2 billion in contracts for satellite communications, air and missile defense, cybersecurity and software support services, Bloomberg reported Monday. Jonathan Stearns writes NATO officials will discuss the planned contracts at an industry conference to be held in Ottawa, Canada on April 24 to 26. The international alliance aims to gain approval from member countries on specific […] More