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  • Cubic to Help APAC Country Build Combat Training Centers; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Help APAC Country Build Combat Training Centers; Dave Buss Comments

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has secured a potential $25 million contract to develop three mobile combat training centers for an unidentified Asia-Pacific country. The company said Wednesday it will also help the international customer implement communication system components, integrate exercise control systems and conduct after action reviews.   Dave Buss, president of Cubic Global Defense and an inductee into […] More

  • Salient CRGT to Help Manage DSA Data Warehouse, Business Intell System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT to Help Manage DSA Data Warehouse, Business Intell System

    Salient CRGT has received a potential five-year, $11.5 million contract for information technology and operational support to the Defense Commissary Agency‘s Enterprise Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence system. The company said Wednesday it will provide big data, cybersecurity, data analytics and management and life cycle  services as well as help DeCA sustain the EDW/BI environment. “We are pleased to […] More

  • Microsoft Unveils Cloud-Based Hybrid Network Monitoring System on Azure Government Cloud-Virginia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Unveils Cloud-Based Hybrid Network Monitoring System on Azure Government Cloud-Virginia

    Microsoft has launched a new cloud-based hybrid network monitoring platform on the Azure Government Cloud-Virginia environment. Sarah Weldon, Azure program manager at Microsoft, said in a blog post published Tuesday that the Network Performance Monitor system helps users observe the connectivity between cloud deployments, data centers, multi-tier applications, user locations and web-based applications. Weldon noted […] More

  • Ensco-Leidos Team to Support Phases II and III of DARPA PNT Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco-Leidos Team to Support Phases II and III of DARPA PNT Project

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency selected a Leidos–Ensco partnership to support the second and third phases of a project that aims to create a backup positioning, navigation and timing system. Ensco said Tuesday Phases II and III of DARPA’s Spatial, Temporal and Orientation Information in Contested Environments program will focus on the development of a detailed design and a real-time demonstration […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Brings NOAA Weather Satellite to Vanderberg AFB Launch Site - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Brings NOAA Weather Satellite to Vanderberg AFB Launch Site

    Ball Aerospace has transported the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s polar orbiting weather satellite to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California ahead of the platform’s scheduled launch on Nov. 10. The company said Tuesday it delivered the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 following a pre-ship review at Ball’s Boulder, Colorado-based manufacturing facility. JPSS-1 is part of the JPSS series of […] More

  • Matteo Genna: SSL Aims to Qualify Roll Out Solar Array for Satellite Tech Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matteo Genna: SSL Aims to Qualify Roll Out Solar Array for Satellite Tech Integration

    Matteo Genna, chief technology officer and vice president for product strategy and development at Space Systems Loral, has said SSL partnered with NASA, Air Force Research Laboratory and Deployable Space Systems to develop and test a scalable solar array platform on the International Space Station. Genna wrote in SatMagazine’s September issue the ISS demonstration conducted in […] More

  • MBDA, UK Navy Test Ship-Based Air Missile Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MBDA, UK Navy Test Ship-Based Air Missile Defense System

    MBDA and the U.K. navy have completed the first firings of a new air missile defense system designed to intercept and engage adversarial missiles that travel at supersonic speeds. The Sea Ceptor weapon system was test-fired from the HMS Argyll Type 23 frigate off the coast of Scotland, the U.K. ministry of defense said Monday. Sea Ceptor […] More

  • Enlogica, nLogic Partner Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Enlogica, nLogic Partner Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program

    Enlogica Solutions and nLogic have signed an agreement to facilitate collaboration on business development efforts under the Small Business Administration’s Mentor-Protege program. Enlogica said Tuesday nLogic will serve as a mentor and provide contracting, technology transfer, technical and managerial support to help Enlogica expand its client base. “We are looking forward to adopting nLogic’s business […] More

  • CAE Delivers SW-4 Helicopter Simulator to Polish Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Delivers SW-4 Helicopter Simulator to Polish Air Force

    A CAE full-flight simulator has been accepted into service by Poland’s air force for training of SW-4 utility helicopter pilots. CAE said Tuesday the Polish air force will use the SW-4 FFS installed at the 41st Air Base School in Deblin, Poland, to train the service branch’s cadets to operate the helicopter manufactured by Leonardo subsidiary PZL-Swidnik. “Simulation-based training has proven its […] More

  • Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Rocky Research for Navigation, Ship Control System Components IDIQ

    Rocky Research has landed a five-year, $49.1 million contract to supply the U.S. Navy with navigation and ship control system hardware components. The company will perform contract work in Huntsville, Alabama through September 2022, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division is the contracting office and will obligate $137,559 at the […] More

  • ViaSat Delivers Link 16 Communications Systems for Canadian Navy's Halifax-Class Frigates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViaSat Delivers Link 16 Communications Systems for Canadian Navy’s Halifax-Class Frigates

    ViaSat has supplied an end-to-end Link 16 communications system to support Halifax-class frigates of Canada’s navy. The fleet-wide Link 16 multi-link upgrade will help the Canadian navy boost its communications capacity with U.S., NATO and other allied forces as well as prepare for and address potential at-sea threats, ViaSat said Tuesday. “The Halifax-class frigates are the […] More

  • VSE Gets Navy FMS Delivery Orders for Maritime Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VSE Gets Navy FMS Delivery Orders for Maritime Support Services

    VSE received multiple orders worth a combined $57.4 million from the Naval Sea Systems Command’s International Fleet Support Program Officer during the months of July and August to provide maritime services for 11 foreign military sales clients. The orders cover procurement, repair and maintenance management, planning, logistics, training, engineering and technical assistance support, VSE said Tuesday. VSE […] More