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  • Leidos to Distribute Fugro's Utility Asset Mgmt Tech Product in North America - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Distribute Fugro’s Utility Asset Mgmt Tech Product in North America

    Leidos will act as the exclusive representative and provider of a Fugro-developed utility asset management system to North American markets under a multiyear partnership agreement between the two companies. Leidos said Thursday it will offer Fugro’s Roames platform that works to help utility operators remotely investigate the condition and performance of geographically distributed assets. The cloud-based platform employs analytics, visualization and simulation tools […] More

  • DISA Files Notice of Corrective Action With GAO Over Army Artillery Data System Contract Award to Leidos - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Files Notice of Corrective Action With GAO Over Army Artillery Data System Contract Award to Leidos

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has submitted a dismissal request and notice of corrective action to the Government Accountability Office after two companies protested the award of a contract to Leidos for a new joint and coalition command-and-control fires support platform, Defense News reported Thursday. A spokesman for DISA said the agency will release a public […] More

  • Draper Lab Receives $54M Navy Contract for Trident Missile Guidance System Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab Receives $54M Navy Contract for Trident Missile Guidance System Production

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles Stark Draper Laboratory a five-year, $53.5 million contract to produce the MK 6 guidance system for Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missiles. Draper Lab will also support failure verification, test, repair and recertification of inertial measurement units, electronic assemblies and electronic modules under the contract, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work will occur […] More

  • Leidos to Continue CBRNE Threat Simulation, Modeling Support for DTRA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Continue CBRNE Threat Simulation, Modeling Support for DTRA

    Leidos has been awarded a potential three-year, $17 million task order to help the Defense Threat Reduction Agency model and simulate chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats. The company said Thursday it will support web-based joint assessment tools that work to facilitate collaboration among subject matter experts and help the Defense Department and other government agencies respond to CBRNE incidents. The order contains […] More

  • DLT, Veracode Partner to Market App Security Tool to Govt Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT, Veracode Partner to Market App Security Tool to Govt Customers

    DLT Solutions and Veracode have signed a partnership agreement to offer public sector customers a technology platform designed to secure applications. The Veracode Application Security Platform works to help users scan an application’s components and provides a central repository of results on the risk posture of each application, DLT said Thursday. Jeremy Young, vice president of DLT’s cybersecurity business, said partnership aims to help […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Starts 'Lenah Higbee' Destroyer Ship Fabrication - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Starts ‘Lenah Higbee’ Destroyer Ship Fabrication

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has started to fabricate an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer for the U.S. Navy at the company’s shipyard in Mississippi. The Lenah H. Sutclifee Higbee destroyer represents the fourth of five vessels Huntington Ingalls will build for the military branch’s DDG 51 program as part a contract awarded in 2013, the company said Thursday. Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, said that […] More

  • Reportlinker: North America to Help Drive Undersea Warfare System Demand Through 2026 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reportlinker: North America to Help Drive Undersea Warfare System Demand Through 2026

    Reportlinker has released a report that predicts a 5.36 percent compound annual growth rate for the global undersea warfare systems market from 2016 to 2026. The “Global Undersea Warfare Systems Market 2016–2026” report predicts North America will dominate the market over the forecast period with a potential 33.5 percent share, Reportlinker said Wednesday. The combat systems sector is […] More

  • Northrop Receives Navy Contract Modification on Development of Common Missile Compartment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Receives Navy Contract Modification on Development of Common Missile Compartment

    Northrop Grumman has received a $22.7 million contract modification to a previously awarded contract to support the development and production of the U.S. Navy‘s Common Missile Compartment. The modification covers support for tactical underwater launcher hardware production as well as technical, design, development, component, full-scale test and evaluation engineering, the Defense Department said Thursday. The […] More

  • Visiongain Report: Global Military Drone Market’s 2016 Revenue Hit $7.4B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Visiongain Report: Global Military Drone Market’s 2016 Revenue Hit $7.4B

    A Visiongain report has estimated worldwide revenue for military unmanned aerial vehicles reached $7.4 billion last year. The company’s Military UAV Market Report 2016-2026 report  also covers analyses and forecasts on high-altitude long endurance UAVs, medium-altitude long-endurance drones and three other military UAV submarkets over the next 10 years in eight countries that include the U.S., Australia and Japan, ReportBuyer […] More

  • IBM Vet John Lainhart Named Senior Strategist at Grant Thornton's Cyber Risk Advisory Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Vet John Lainhart Named Senior Strategist at Grant Thornton’s Cyber Risk Advisory Practice

    John Lainhart, a former leader of the U.S. public sector cybersecurity and privacy group at IBM, has been appointed as senior strategist at Grant Thornton‘s cyber risk advisory practice. He will oversee the development of cybersecurity offerings for the public sector in his new position, Grant Thornton said Thursday. “It’s essential for agencies to invest in cyber defense and preparedness, […] More

  • Mukesh Dalal Named a Principal Scientist at Charles River Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mukesh Dalal Named a Principal Scientist at Charles River Analytics

    Mukesh Dalal, former chief scientist at BAE Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary, has joined Charles River Analytics as principal scientist of the decision management division at the Massachusetts-based defense and intelligence systems developer. Dalal’s research efforts focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning and reasoning, probabilistic modeling and optimization, decisionmaking and big data analytics, Charles River said Monday. He has obtained more than 10 patents and authored at […] More