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  • Boeing Offers MH-139 Helicopter for Air Force Huey Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Offers MH-139 Helicopter for Air Force Huey Replacement Program

    Boeing has unveiled its MH-139 helicopter as its entry in a U.S. Air Force program that seeks to replace the service branch’s UH-1N Huey fleet. MH-139 is based on Leonardo‘s AW139 multi-mission helicopters that currently serve more than 250 government, military and industry customers worldwide, Boeing said Thursday. David Koopersmith, Boeing vice president and general manager for vertical lift, said MH-139 […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils 'Paragon' Direct Attack Munition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils ‘Paragon’ Direct Attack Munition

    Lockheed Martin has introduced the Paragon brand name for the company’s dual-mode, laser-guided bombs. The Bethesda, Maryland-based defense contractor said Thursday Paragon is guided by an inertial navigation system and designed to engage fixed, relocatable and moving targets. Joe Serra, director of precision guided systems at Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, said the direct attack munition […] More

  • Australian Air Force, Airbus Partner for KC-30A Aerial Refueling Automation Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australian Air Force, Airbus Partner for KC-30A Aerial Refueling Automation Project

    Airbus‘ defense and space business has signed a research agreement with the Australia’s air force to collaborate on the development of an automatic air-to-air refueling capacity for the country’s multirole tanker transport aircraft, Defense News reported Thursday. Nigel Pittaway writes the two-year project aims to integrate an automatic refueling feature into the KC-30A aircraft’s aerial refueling boom system that will […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Help Army Predict Military Operation System Flaws - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Help Army Predict Military Operation System Flaws

    Charles River Analytics has secured two contracts from the U.S. Army to help the service branch predict faults in military operations systems using a company-owned open-source, probabilistic programming language. The company said Wednesday it will use the Figaro programming language to support the Energy Models of Critical Components and the Probabilistic Operations Warranted for Energy Reliability Evaluation and […] More

  • NIAP Certifies Axway API Gateway for Access Control, Policy Mgmt Standard Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIAP Certifies Axway API Gateway for Access Control, Policy Mgmt Standard Compliance

    The National Information Assurance Partnership has certified an Axway-built gateway platform as compliant with access control and policy management requirements under the international Common Criteria certification program. The certification allows Axway to market its API Gateway product to federal agencies, international governments and highly regulated industries, the company said Thursday. API Gateway is designed to help organizations secure, manage […] More

  • Altamira Secures Intell Community Mission System Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Altamira Secures Intell Community Mission System Support Contract

    Altamira Technologies has secured a five-year, $18 million contract to perform classified full life cycle development, engineering and sustainment work on a mission critical system that supports the U.S. intelligence community. The company said Friday the contract will expand the company’s portfolio in Chantilly, Virginia, the reach of its business in other mission areas. “This award represents a deepening relationship with one of […] More

  • McMurdo to Help UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency Update Search-and-Rescue Satellite Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McMurdo to Help UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency Update Search-and-Rescue Satellite Tech

    Orolia‘s McMurdo subsidiary has received a four-year contract from the U.K.’s maritime and coastguard agency to support upgrade work on a satellite technology designed for search-and-rescue missions. McMurdo said Thursday it will install local user terminals for MCA’s Medium-altitude Earth Orbit Search and Rescue satellites and update ground stations that operate on geostationary and low-Earth orbiting SAR satellites. The company […] More

  • Greg Clark: Symantec's New Venture Capital Arm to Focus on Cybersecurity Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greg Clark: Symantec’s New Venture Capital Arm to Focus on Cybersecurity Tech

    Symantec has launched a venture capital business in a push to help startup companies accelerate the introduction of new technology platforms to the cybersecurity market. Symantec Ventures will offer entrepreneurs access to the firm’s Integrated Cyber Defense Platform and Digital Safety Platform, artificial intelligence expertise, go-to-market resources and civilian threat intelligence network, the company said Thursday. Greg Clark, CEO of […] More

  • Datapipe Obtains FedRAMP Certification for PaaS Cloud Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Datapipe Obtains FedRAMP Certification for PaaS Cloud Platform

    Datapipe has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for the company’s platform-as-a-service offering to government agencies. FedRAMP’s Joint Authorization Board certified the Datapipe Government Cloud platform as compliant with 800-53 Revision 4 controls that cover privacy and additional security measures. Datapipe provides operating and security services to support an organization’s virtual operating system and virtual network layer through PaaS. Dan Tudahl, president and general manager […] More

  • Trowbridge & Trowbridge Awarded Navy IT, Cybersecurity Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trowbridge & Trowbridge Awarded Navy IT, Cybersecurity Support Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Trowbridge & Trowbridge a $23.4 million contract for  information technology, system administration and cybersecurity services to the Naval Air Warfare Center’s weapons division. The Defense Department said Thursday the contract covers hardware, software, licensing, technical support, lab warranty services, technological refreshment and enhancements, life cycle support and customer services. Work will occur […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Auxiliary Engines for Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft; Eileen Drake, Mike Hawes Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Auxiliary Engines for Lockheed-Built Orion Spacecraft; Eileen Drake, Mike Hawes Comment

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted hot-fire acceptance tests on eight auxiliary engines to be used on the inaugural flight of NASA‘s Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System next year. The company said Wednesday it oversees the development of auxiliary engines for the European Space Agency’s European Service Module that will provide air and water, temperature control, power and propulsion capacity for Orion crew […] More

  • Former Cisco, Intel Exec Andy Elder Named Riverbed Sales SVP for EMEA Region - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Cisco, Intel Exec Andy Elder Named Riverbed Sales SVP for EMEA Region

    Andy Elder, formerly president of Intel‘s security business operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has joined Riverbed Technology as SVP of sales in the same regions. Riverbed said Thursday the 25-year industry veteran will oversee sales and go-to-market strategies as well as help drive the company’s growth and transformation efforts across EMEA in his new position. “Andy’s proven inspirational leadership […] More