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  • OGSystems Updates Aerial Imaging & Image Processing Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OGSystems Updates Aerial Imaging & Image Processing Platforms

    OGSystems has rolled out its updated three-dimensional aerial imaging system and sensor-based processing system for 2D and 3D images. The PeARL aerial imaging platform is equipped with a modern sensor that works to provide approximately 1.6 inches of ground sample distance at a 10,000 feet above ground level with about 2,000-yard configurable swath width, OGSystems said Thursday. The company updated the imaging […] More

  • Lockheed to Continue Trident II D5 Missile Production for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Continue Trident II D5 Missile Production for Navy

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business has secured a $43.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to produce Trident II D5 submarine-launched fleet ballistic missiles and carry out support for deployed D5 systems. The Defense Department said Friday work will occur in California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Washington, Utah and Virginia through Sept. 30, 2017. The Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs will obligate […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Concludes 3rd Integration Review on Dream Chaser Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Concludes 3rd Integration Review on Dream Chaser Spacecraft

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has completed the third integration review for the Dream Chaser spacecraft as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract with NASA. The company said Thursday the integration assessment for the space vehicle covers the completion of the agency’s phase 1 safety evaluation and NASA’s approval of 16 safety data packages and 32 hazard reports […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Navy Build Airborne Mine Neutralization Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Help Navy Build Airborne Mine Neutralization Tech

    Raytheon has received a potential two-year, $58.1 million contract to assemble, fabricate and test airborne systems designed to help the U.S. Navy neutralize bottom and moored mines. The Defense Department said Friday that Raytheon’s integrated defense systems unit will also provide engineering and support services for the AN/ASQ-235 Airborne Mine Neutralization Systems under the firm-fixed-price contract. The Navy will deploy the AMNS from MH-60S […] More

  • Massachusetts Seeks Proposals for Potential RAN Alternative to FirstNet’s National Public Safety Broadband Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Massachusetts Seeks Proposals for Potential RAN Alternative to FirstNet’s National Public Safety Broadband Network

    The state of Massachusetts has requested proposals from potential vendors that can develop and maintain a statewide radio access network designed for public safety operations, Urgent Communications reported Thursday. Curtis Wood, undersecretary for forensic science and technology at Massachusetts’ executive office of public safety and security, said the state governor and his personnel have not yet […] More

  • CTC Named to 2017 Military Times ‘Best for Vets’ Employers List; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC Named to 2017 Military Times ‘Best for Vets’ Employers List; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has been named to Military Times’ Best for Vets employers list for the seventh time in recognition of the company’s efforts to provide employment opportunities to U.S. veterans. The 2017 Best for Vets list of 82 companies is based on the results of a 100-question survey and assessment of the firms’ corporate culture and […] More

  • IT Security Market Vet Frank Mong Named Hortonworks Chief Marketing Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IT Security Market Vet Frank Mong Named Hortonworks Chief Marketing Officer

    Frank Mong, former senior vice president of product, industry and solutions at Palo Alto Networks, has been appointed chief marketing officer at Santa Clara, California-based open data technology provider Hortonworks. Mong will oversee Hortonworks’ global marketing strategy to build on the company’s growth efforts, according to a May 22 press release. Raj Verma, president and chief operating officer of Hortonworks, said […] More

  • Denise Perry Promoted to Full-Time Ensco HR Division Manager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Denise Perry Promoted to Full-Time Ensco HR Division Manager

    Denise Perry, acting manager of Ensco‘s human resources division since February, has been promoted to manage the division on a full-time basis. Ensco said Wednesday she led efforts to increase the Falls Church, Virginia-based company’s HR efficiency and quality of customer service as part of her previous duties as deputy division manager. Boris Nejikovsky, president of Ensco, said he believes Perry’s […] More

  • Accenture Report: 66% of Civil Service Tech Leaders Eye Public-Private Partnerships to Accelerate Service Delivery - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Report: 66% of Civil Service Tech Leaders Eye Public-Private Partnerships to Accelerate Service Delivery

    A new Accenture report says 66 percent of technology leaders in public service agencies said they are willing to adopt public-private partnerships and new commercial frameworks to facilitate the delivery of services to citizens. Accenture said Thursday the Emerging Technologies in Public Service report is based on an online survey of 774 public service professionals across nine […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Air Force Funds to Integrate Subsystem for Next 2 SBIRS Missile Warning Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Air Force Funds to Integrate Subsystem for Next 2 SBIRS Missile Warning Satellites

    Lockheed Martin has secured a nearly $46 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to integrate an additional subsystem for the fifth and sixth Space Based Infrared System geosynchronous missile warning satellites. The Defense Department said Thursday Lockheed will also modify SBIRS GEO-5 and GEO-6 propulsion systems under the modification. Lockheed’s space systems business will perform work at a company facility in Sunnyvale, […] More

  • QinetiQ, Rockwell Collins Enter Satellite Navigation Tech, Service Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ, Rockwell Collins Enter Satellite Navigation Tech, Service Partnership

    QinetiQ and Rockwell Collins have partnered to develop a multi-constellation open service offering as both companies aim to help address mission requirements of government and military customers as well as infrastructure operators. The partnership will also produce and offer a suite of Global Navigation Satellite System  receivers to support clients’ operational and geographical needs, Rockwell Collins said Thursday. Colin Mahoney, senior vice president of […] More

  • DOT to Seek Bids on Civil Integrated Mgmt Data Standards Identification Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOT to Seek Bids on Civil Integrated Mgmt Data Standards Identification Research Project

    The Transportation Department’s Federal Highway Administration plans to issue a solicitation for proposals on June 15 for a research project that seeks to identify and develop digital transportation data standards and governance approaches to support the creation of a Civil Integrated Management framework. FHWA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday the CIM framework seeks […] More