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  • Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Provide R&D Support for Air Force Weapon Systems Testing Program

    Engility has won a five-year, $49 million contract to provide research and development support for the U.S. Air Force‘s weapon systems testing technology program. The Defense Department said Friday Engility will develop multi-spectral and multi-modal phenomenology modeling tools as well as help the Air Force build and transition weapon systems under the Kinetic Kill Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation Technology […] More

  • Navy Orders Lockheed Periscope Detection Radar Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Lockheed Periscope Detection Radar Kits

    Lockheed Martin‘s rotary and mission systems unit has secured a four-year, $27 million contract modification to supply the U.S. Navy with periscope detection and discrimination radar kits. The Defense Department said Friday Lockheed will deliver 16 standard and SEED retrofit kits to the Navy’s H-60 Automatic Radar Periscope Detect and Discrimination program. Work under the modification […] More

  • Jimmy Pappas Joins Grant Thornton as Forensic Advisory Services Partner - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jimmy Pappas Joins Grant Thornton as Forensic Advisory Services Partner

    Jimmy Pappas, formerly a managing director of professional services company PwC, has been named a partner at Grant Thornton‘s forensic advisory services business. Grant Thornton said Friday the more than 20-year forensic and audit accounting veteran will be responsible for helping expand the firm’s forensic accounting, civil litigation, corporate governance and internal investigation service offerings in […] More

  • Textron Systems CEO Lisa Atherton Joins Boulder Crest Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Systems CEO Lisa Atherton Joins Boulder Crest Board

    Textron Systems President and CEO Lisa Atherton has joined the board of directors at Bluemont, Virginia-based nonprofit organization Boulder Crest. Atherton will work with Board Chairman Ken Falke, Vice Chairman Fred Malek, Executive Director Dusty Baxley and 15 other directors, Boulder Crest said Monday. The nonprofit provides support to military veterans who are dealing with post-traumatic […] More

  • Lieberman Software Details Cyber Support for Govt Agencies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lieberman Software Details Cyber Support for Govt Agencies

    Lieberman Software has released a new white paper which details how the company helps boost the cybersecurity of government agencies via the Department of Homeland Security‘s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. The company said Thursday that its Lieberman RED rapid enterprise defense technology covers five cybersecurity modules designed to help information technology organizations repair potential […] More

  • Iridium Eyes Space-Based IoT Services Expansion Through Magnitude Space Partnership; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Eyes Space-Based IoT Services Expansion Through Magnitude Space Partnership; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications has partnered with Dutch satellite company Magnitude Space to facilitate the delivery of space-based internet of things service offerings through the development of low power global area network technology platforms. Iridium said Thursday it will work to investigate and develop low power, high latency IoT service alternatives under a memorandum of understanding with […] More

  • Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Help Build Air Force Cyber Operations System

    Northrop Grumman has secured a potential three-year, $37 million task order to develop and deploy a cyber operations system for the U.S. Air Force. The company said Thursday it will continue to develop, integrate, field and sustain the Cyber Mission Platform under the contract, which has a one-year base period valued at $9.4 million. The Air Force […] More

  • UK to Acquire New General Purpose Frigates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK to Acquire New General Purpose Frigates

    The U.K. government has issued a National Shipbuilding Strategy that calls for the procurement of new general purpose frigates. The first five Type 31e frigates would cost less than $329 million each and are slated to enter service by 2023, the British government said in a press release posted Wednesday. Type 31e vessels will be built in […] More

  • KeyW's Sotera Business to Provide Software Engineering Services to Army CECOM - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KeyW’s Sotera Business to Provide Software Engineering Services to Army CECOM

    A KeyW subsidiary has secured an $18 million task order to provide software engineering and sustainment, business consulting, information technology infrastructure and procurement management support for the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command. The three-year task order awarded to Sotera Defense Solutions is part of a $7 billion indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract designated for software and systems engineering services, KeyW reported Thursday. Sotera […] More

  • IRS Seeks Potential SaaS Cloud Application Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Seeks Potential SaaS Cloud Application Sources

    The Internal Revenue Service has begun its search for potential sources of software-as-a-service applications designed to run on a Microsoft-built cloud platform. A presolicitation notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps says IRS plans to buy several SaaS cloud offerings that include PowerBI, Project Online, Office applications, SharePoint Online, Cloud Private Branch Exchange, Skype for Business, Visio, […] More

  • LA County Orders Sikorsky Aerial Firefighting Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LA County Orders Sikorsky Aerial Firefighting Helicopters

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has secured a contract to assemble and deliver a pair of baseline configuration S-70i Black Hawk helicopters to the Los Angeles County fire department. S-70i is equipped with wide chord rotor blades, an updated airframe, a digital glass cockpit, a cockpit voice and flight data recorder and an integrated vehicle health management […] More

  • IBM’s Greg Souchack: Army Could Leverage AI Platform to Analyze Transportation Costs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Greg Souchack: Army Could Leverage AI Platform to Analyze Transportation Costs

    Greg Souchack, partner for managed services and cloud solutions at IBM’s global business services unit, has said the U.S. Army could leverage the company’s Watson artificial intelligence platform to help analyze spending on the transportation of spare parts and other shipment, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “The Army would like to see if Watson could look at all of […] More