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  • USAF Taps Advanced Technology Systems for Egyptian Border Surveillance Tech FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Taps Advanced Technology Systems for Egyptian Border Surveillance Tech FMS Contract

    Advanced Technology Systems Co. has received a potential $64.1 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a mobile surveillance sensor security system for Egypt’s border guard personnel. The Defense Department said Friday ATSC’s STARA Technologies subsidiary will carry out work in Gilbert, Arizona, with a an expected completion date of Aug. 20, 2019. The Air Force will provide […] More

  • Lockheed to Engineer Air Force C-5 Surveillance Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Engineer Air Force C-5 Surveillance Tech

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business unit has secured a $14.7 million contract modification to support engineering and manufacturing development work on communications, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s C-5 transport aircraft. The Defense Department said Friday the company will also help the military service incorporate an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast out technology into […] More

  • Harris Unveils Mobile Radio Tech for Public Safety Professionals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Unveils Mobile Radio Tech for Public Safety Professionals

    Harris has introduced a land mobile radio technology designed to help public safety professionals transmit data and voice communications over a single-band channel. The XL-185P radio is based on open standards architecture and works to converge LMR voice and date through through Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and wireless LTE networks, Harris said Sunday. The company also unveiled its XL-200Pi multiband radio […] More

  • Leidos Gets Recognition for Work Under DARPA's Unmanned Anti-Submarine Vessel Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Gets Recognition for Work Under DARPA’s Unmanned Anti-Submarine Vessel Program

    Leidos has received recognition for its work to build an unmanned surface vessel under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. The science and technology company said Monday its GCN dig IT award in the robotics, automation and unmanned systems category covers its support for DARPA to develop the Sea Hunter unmanned […] More

  • Kaspersky Lab, Partners Introduce Cyber Talent Discovery Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kaspersky Lab, Partners Introduce Cyber Talent Discovery Program

    Kaspersky Lab has partnered with PWC, Dassault Systems and Schlumberger to facilitate a cybersecurity talent search program targeted at students and young professionals regardless of security background. The alliance seeks to help address a skills shortage in the information security industry through the Cybersecurity for the Next Generation program, Kaspersky said Friday. Participants will engage in various tasks such […] More

  • Saab Tapped for MBDA's 'Meteor' Missile Radar Subsystem - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Tapped for MBDA’s ‘Meteor’ Missile Radar Subsystem

    Saab has received a contract worth approximately $18.35 million for the delivery of radar subsystems to be incorporated into air-to-air missiles that MBDA is developing under a European multi-lateral program. The order covers the delivery of Saab’s radar proximity fuze subsystems for integration with Meteor Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missiles through 2021, Saab said Thursday. Saab’s PFS is designed […] More

  • Noblis Subsidiary Opens Georgia Facility Near AF Base Client - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noblis Subsidiary Opens Georgia Facility Near AF Base Client

    Noblis has opened a Warner Robins, Georgia-based facility for its Noblis ESI subsidiary that supports the U.S. Air Force‘s command, control, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance division. The office is located at Industrial Park Boulevard near Robins Air Force Base and has multiple technology-equipped conference rooms and meeting areas designed for use by both Noblis ESI employees and clients, the […] More

  • IARPA Awards Biometric Presentation Attack Detection Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Awards Biometric Presentation Attack Detection Contracts

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded four contracts under a multiyear project that aims to develop and evaluate biometric presentation attack detection technologies. Teams led by Cross Match Technologies, SRI International, Michigan State University and University of Southern California will explore new algorithms, tools and sensors to detect presentation attacks as part of Odin program’s Thor […] More

  • Lockheed Reports $100M in Navy Super Hornet Sensor Upgrade Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Reports $100M in Navy Super Hornet Sensor Upgrade Contracts

    Boeing has awarded Lockheed Martin a pair of contracts worth up to $100 million combined to update an infrared search-and-track sensor technology used on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. Lockheed said Thursday it will develop software, update hardware and deliver prototypes in an effort to optimize the detection, tracking and ranging capacity of […] More

  • New Zealand Defense Force Taps Barrett to Provide Anti-Material Weapons, Sniper Rifles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    New Zealand Defense Force Taps Barrett to Provide Anti-Material Weapons, Sniper Rifles

    Murfreesboro, Tennessee-based weapons manufacturer Barrett Firearms Manufacturing has received a potential $2.8 million contract to deliver weapon systems for New Zealand’s Defence Force (NZDF). NZDF said in a report published Wednesday that the contractor will deliver 40 M107A1 anti-materiel weapons, 42 Multi-Role Adaptive Design sniper rifles, optics, suppressors and ballistic computer auxiliary equipment. Maj. Gen. Peter […] More

  • Report: Air Force Eyes Increased Use of 'Other Transaction Authority' Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force Eyes Increased Use of ‘Other Transaction Authority’ Contracts

    Maj. Gen. Sarah Zabel, U.S. Air Force director of information technology acquisition process development, has said the military branch is interested in using more “other transaction authority” contracts to speed up procurement especially in IT acquisitions, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. OTAs permit the Defense Department and military services to award contracts outside the traditional acquisition process, and […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Test Fires RS-25 Engine for NASA Exploration Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Test Fires RS-25 Engine for NASA Exploration Mission

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested an engine for NASA‘s second exploration mission at the space agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. The RS-25 engine, dubbed as E2063, was fired up for 500 seconds in a move to evaluate the system’s capacity to support the EM-2 exploration mission, Aerojet Rocketdyne said Thursday. RS-25 engines will continuously fire […] More