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  • General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Demos C4 Capacities With Airborne, Underwater Assets

    General Dynamics‘ Electric Boat and mission systems businesses have showcased multiple mission command, control and communication capacities that connected a simulated submarine combat control center with unmanned underwater and aerial vehicles. General Dynamics said Tuesday it linked Bluefin Robotics-built UUVs and AeroVironment‘s Blackwing UAV to the AN/BYG-1 submarine control facility during the 2017 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise that took […] More

  • Battelle, Aerobotix Demo Robotic Collision Avoidance Software Tool in Aircraft Component - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, Aerobotix Demo Robotic Collision Avoidance Software Tool in Aircraft Component

    Battelle and Aerobotix have demonstrated on a mock-up of a military aircraft’s air inlet duct a software platform designed to predict collisions of robotic systems with sensitive industrial components and parts. Battelle said Tuesday its PathPlan software worked to protect the robotic platform and aircraft from potential collisions through prediction of the robot’s movement based on […] More

  • Harris, exactEarth Seek to Accelerate Vessel Tracking Service Delivery With 5 More Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris, exactEarth Seek to Accelerate Vessel Tracking Service Delivery With 5 More Satellites

    Canada-based exactEarth has teamed up with Harris to bring into service five additional satellites as part of the former’s automatic identification system satellite constellation designed to support the delivery of a real-time ship tracking service to the maritime market. The addition of five more exactEarth satellites brings the total number of operational systems in the […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Backs PSMA Australia Digital Mapping Program With WorldView-4 Satellite Imagery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Backs PSMA Australia Digital Mapping Program With WorldView-4 Satellite Imagery

    DigitalGlobe has handed over to PSMA Australia WorldView-4 satellite-based high-resolution imagery in support of the latter’s digital mapping initiative for the Australian continent. PSMA Australia will use DigitalGlobe’s satellite imagery for the Geoscape program that seeks to create a digital representation of the built environment for approximately 20 million buildings across Australia that include building […] More

  • Koniag Subsidiary to Help Manage Air Force Space Command's Financial Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Koniag Subsidiary to Help Manage Air Force Space Command’s Financial Mgmt System

    A Koniag subsidiary has received a contract of an undisclosed value to help the Air Force Space Command manage, update and maintain financial management systems and business process re-engineering functions. Koniag Services Inc. will support information technology systems and networks of AFSPC, the command’s comptroller units, the Air Force Academy and their related financial management platforms, the company said […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop Talent Mgmt Platform for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Talent Mgmt Platform for Navy

    Charles River Analytics has secured a potential $2 million contract to develop an automated platform for the U.S. Navy to understand skills and manage training of the military branch’s personnel. The Crowdsourced Acquisition of Models of Learning Transfer Strategies project is part of Charles River’s efforts to address instructional needs and individual differences through intelligent tutoring, the company said Tuesday. […] More

  • Phoenix Logistics to Help Army Deploy Common Battle Command Simulation Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phoenix Logistics to Help Army Deploy Common Battle Command Simulation Equipment

    Phoenix Logistics has won a potential five-year, $44.5 million contract to procure and deploy common battle command simulation equipment, hardware and software licenses on behalf of the U.S. Army‘s Program Executive Officer for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will support a program of record that involves the Program Manager for Integration […] More

  • Jacobs Gets SOCOM Enterprise O&M Support Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Gets SOCOM Enterprise O&M Support Contract Modification

    Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a $7.3 million modification to a previously-awarded task order for enterprise operations and maintenance services to the U.S. Special Operations Command. The Defense Department said Tuesday the modification increases the total potential value of the task order from $771.3 million to $778.6 million. The Special Operations Forces Acquisitions, Technology and Logistics office initially […] More

  • Narendra Gupta Elected Red Hat Board Chair - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Narendra Gupta Elected Red Hat Board Chair

    Narendra Gupta, co-founder and managing director of investment firm Nexus Venture Partners, has been named chairman of the board of directors at open source software provider Red Hat. Red Hat said Tuesday Gupta has served on the company’s board since 2005 and succeeds H. Hugh Shelton, who retired after seven years of chairmanship. Gupta co-founded Integrated Systems […] More

  • Cubic to Present Combat Training Systems at International Defense Exhibition; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Present Combat Training Systems at International Defense Exhibition; Dave Buss Comments

    Cubic will showcase a range of combat training systems and service offerings at the 25th International Defense Industry Exhibition MSPO that will take place in Kielce, Poland from Sept. 5 to 8. The company said Wednesday it will exhibit live training; performance-based training; live, virtual, constructive and gaming training; and augmented reality and geometric pairing platforms during […] More

  • Army Unveils List of Top Industry Suppliers for 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Unveils List of Top Industry Suppliers for 2017

    The U.S. Army has released this year’s Superior Supplier Incentive Program list that ranks the top industry suppliers for the military in 2017 based on cost, schedule, technical performance, management, regulatory compliance and small business utilization. The service branch announced Tuesday that SSIP serves as a basis for companies to learn and improve on the areas that factor into their overall performance […] More

  • Boeing Pledges $1M for Harvey Disaster Relief - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Pledges $1M for Harvey Disaster Relief

    Boeing has pledged to give the American Red Cross a $1 million donation through the aerospace and defense contractor’s charitable trust to assist Texas communities hit by Hurricane Harvey. The company said Tuesday it will match employee contributions made to the humanitarian organization’s disaster relief efforts in the aftermath of storm. “Our thoughts are with […] More