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  • Grace Hopper, Newt Minow Among Latest Medal of Freedom Recipients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grace Hopper, Newt Minow Among Latest Medal of Freedom Recipients

    Grace Hopper, former U.S. Navy admiral and a computer pioneer, and Newt Minow, former Federal Communications Commission chairman, have been awarded the final Medals of Freedom for President Barack Obama’s term in office. Hopper previously held roles with the U.S. Naval Reserve, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sperry, Association of Computer Programmers […] More

  • National Advanced Mobility Consortium Elects New Board Members & Director of Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    National Advanced Mobility Consortium Elects New Board Members & Director of Operations

    The National Advanced Mobility Consortium has elected three new members to the nonprofit organization’s board of directors. NAMC said Tuesday Christopher Rohe will serve as president of the board of directors, while Michael Ladika and Gerald Lane have been appointed respectively as vice president and treasurer of the manned and unmanned ground vehicle-focused consortium. Rohe serves as senior […] More

  • Klas Telecom Govt Adds Lawrence Brock to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Klas Telecom Govt Adds Lawrence Brock to Board of Directors

    Klas Telecom Government has appointed Lawrence Brock, a retired U.S. Army major general and former commanding general of the 311th Signal Command, to the board of directors for the company’s U.S. government and defense business. Dave Huisenga, Klas Telecom Government president and CEO, said Tuesday Brock will help the company formulate its strategy to deliver new communications equipment to warfighters and operators. […] More

  • IBM to Open Four Cloud Data Centers with Infused Cognitive Intelligence in the UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Open Four Cloud Data Centers with Infused Cognitive Intelligence in the UK

    IBM will add four new cloud data centers that possess cognitive intelligence capacities in the U.K. to meet a growing client demand. IBM said Monday the new facilities will triple the U.K.’s cloud center capacity as well as support the company’s commitment to deliver new products and services to the country’s market. The new facilities will provide users […] More

  • CACI Receives Defense Dept Travel Call Center Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Receives Defense Dept Travel Call Center Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a $26 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic organization to provide travel call center support to the Defense Department. The company will support all Defense Travel System components through customer service for DoD personnel that travel worldwide and also offer outreach and training support services […] More

  • Saab to Help Army Implement Training System Interoperability Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Help Army Implement Training System Interoperability Updates

    Saab has secured three orders from the U.S. Army‘s program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation to implement interoperability updates to two of the military branch’s training systems. The orders cover mid-life service upgrades to the 7th Army Training Command’s Deployable Instrumentation System-Europe and the Combat Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System in an effort to address forward […] More

  • Kratos Gets Satcom Equipment Order From US Govt Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Gets Satcom Equipment Order From US Govt Agency

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a $9.5 million contract to provide satellite communications signal processing, monitoring and communications equipment to an unspecified government agency. Kratos said Tuesday it will manufacture equipment and systems under the contract at a protected company facility. The company also produces command and control, signal processing, monitoring, communications, radio frequency, […] More

  • Sauer to Construct Navy Littoral Combat Ship Operational Training Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sauer to Construct Navy Littoral Combat Ship Operational Training Facility

    Sauer has secured a $25 million contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to build a Littoral Combat Ship operational training facility at Naval Station Mayport in Florida. The U.S. Navy said Monday the facility will be equipped with systems trainers, simulators, classrooms, personnel support space, a high-bay operational training area and applied instruction space to facilitate crew training for […] More

  • Deloitte's Orlando Tech Center Expansion Seeks to Add Up to 850 Jobs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte’s Orlando Tech Center Expansion Seeks to Add Up to 850 Jobs

    Deloitte plans to expand the professional services firm’s U.S. Technology Delivery Center in Orlando, Florida and hire additional software development, system analysis and information technology workers as part of the expansion initiative, the Orlando Economic Development Commission reported Thursday. Laureen Martinez writes Deloitte has partnered with the City of Lake Mary, CareerSource Central Florida and the Orlando Economic […] More

  • Fortinet Forecasts 2017 Cybersecurity Trends in Cloud, Internet of Things - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fortinet Forecasts 2017 Cybersecurity Trends in Cloud, Internet of Things

    Fortinet predicts cyber threat actors to exploit approximately 20 billion internet of things-based endpoint devices in order to perform attacks on cloud environments as well as obtain money from victims through ransomware in 2017. The threat research team under the company’s FortiGuard Labs expects consumers, vendors and industry groups to call for the implementation of security […] More

  • Iridium Secures Follow-On DoD Satellite Network Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Secures Follow-On DoD Satellite Network Support Contract

    Iridium Communications has been awarded a potential five-year, $45.8 million contract by the U.S. Navy to continue to provide communication services in support of the Defense Department‘s tactical, operational and strategic operations. DoD said Tuesday the follow-on contract has a base value of $8.7 million and covers satellite-based network services in the satellite, ground node, user equipment/terminal software and hardware development, integration […] More

  • General Dynamics to Build Ship Monitoring Platforms, Processors Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Build Ship Monitoring Platforms, Processors Under Navy Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics a potential 20-month, $7.2 million contract modification to produce technology insertion-16 Total Ship Monitoring Systems and multipurpose processors. General Dynamics’ mission systems business will perform work in Virginia and Massachusetts through July 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded the cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to exercise […] More