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  • VA Issues Mobile Navigation App RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Issues Mobile Navigation App RFI

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun its search for potential contractors that can deliver an application designed to provide veterans and their families outdoor and indoor navigation support at VA’s medical facilities. VA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted May 10 the MyVA Way app seeks to provide 24/7 navigational support to users, reduce […] More

  • IAP to Help Indiana National Guard Build Cyber C2 Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IAP to Help Indiana National Guard Build Cyber C2 Platform

    IAP Worldwide Services has secured a $45 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop a cyber command-and-control platform for the Indiana National Guard. The contract was awarded through the Army’s Rapid Response Third Generation  procurement vehicle and covers the development and integration of C2 technology for the Atterbury-Muscatatuck Cyber Technology Environment, IAP said Tuesday. Indiana National Guard operates the […] More

  • L3 Subsidiary Unveils ISR Kits for Fixed- and Rotary-Wing Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Subsidiary Unveils ISR Kits for Fixed- and Rotary-Wing Aircraft

    L3 Technologies‘ Wescam subsidiary has introduced a set of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system kits designed for fixed- and rotary-wing platforms. Matrix ISR kits consist of commercial off-the-shelf technologies built to support multiple aircraft ISR systems for defense and security missions, L3 said Tuesday. Wescam President Mike Greenley said that the kits contain qualified subsystems intended to help […] More

  • Carahsoft, CloudPassage Partner to Offer Workload Security Platform in Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, CloudPassage Partner to Offer Workload Security Platform in Public Sector

    CloudPassage has partnered with Carahsoft to offer on-demand server and workload security service to the public sector through the latter’s positions on the General Services Administration Schedule 70 and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract vehicles. Carahsoft said Tuesday that it will act as master government aggregator of CloudPassage’s  Halo platform in an effort to help agencies protect servers in cloud computing […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Hot Fire Tests on 3D-Printed Engine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Conducts Hot Fire Tests on 3D-Printed Engine

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed a series of hot fire tests on its liquid-fueled rocket engine that was built through additive manufacturing or 3D printing. The company said Monday the activity was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and involved 17 tests that validated the Bantam rocket engine’s performance, durability and reusability. Bantam is a 30,000 pound-force thrust-class engine that is […] More

  • CAE Completes Helicopter Simulator Upgrade for German Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Completes Helicopter Simulator Upgrade for German Navy

    CAE has completed a one-year modernization effort on the German navy’s Sea King MK41 helicopter simulator, which has re-entered service at the Nordholz Naval Airbase in Germany. The company said Tuesday it carried out a series of updates on the Sea King simulator such as the addition of a CAE Medallion-6000 image generator with Common Database architecture; […] More

  • Cyberbit to Implement Security Platforms at Govt Ministries Compound in Israel - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cyberbit to Implement Security Platforms at Govt Ministries Compound in Israel

    Deloitte has selected Elbit Systems‘ subsidiary to provide a suite of cybersecurity platforms for installation at a government ministries compound under construction in the Israeli capital. Cyberbit said Wednesday it will implement SCADAShield and Endpoint Detection and Response technologies to help secure the Ram Compound’s future converged network. Arison Group–Solel Boneh Infrastructure, which manages the construction of the Ram Compound, tapped Deloitte to oversee […] More

  • Northrop Demos 2 Maritime Security Tools at INSA Innovators’ Showcase; Ginger Wierzbanowski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos 2 Maritime Security Tools at INSA Innovators’ Showcase; Ginger Wierzbanowski Comments

    Northrop Grumman demonstrated two tactical decision aids that work to help troops detect hostile maritime threats at the 2017 Intelligence and National Security Alliance Innovators’ Showcase held May 4 in McLean, Virginia. The company said Tuesday it presented the Automated Real-Time Maritime Detection and Analysis and Blue Wide Area Situational Processor platforms before a panel of […] More

  • Symantec: Machine Learning Tools Helped Block 22M Ransomware Attempts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec: Machine Learning Tools Helped Block 22M Ransomware Attempts

    Symantec has said the use of machine learning platforms and efforts to share threat intelligence data in real time have helped the company to stop nearly 22 million ransomware attempts in approximately 300,000 endpoint devices worldwide. Symantec said Monday it has blocked Wannacry attacks through threat intelligence sharing between the Symantec Endpoint Protection platform and […] More

  • Raytheon to Support US-Germany Rolling Airframe Missile Program Under Navy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Support US-Germany Rolling Airframe Missile Program Under Navy Contract

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon a $26.8 million contract option to support a U.S.-Germany cooperative project to develop and produce a rolling airframe missile system. Raytheon’s missile systems business will provide design agent and engineering services to the MK-31 RAM guided missile weapon development and production effort, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Work also covers design, logistics engineering, maintainability, quality assurance, reliability, […] More

  • Paul Davis to Offer Agencies Emergency Services Under GSA Schedule 84 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Davis to Offer Agencies Emergency Services Under GSA Schedule 84

    Property restoration services company Paul Davis has secured a position on the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 84 contract vehicle to offer emergency services to government agencies. Paul Davis said Monday the contract will help the company’s franchise owners across U.S. to expand their businesses and services. Brad Cowan, senior vice president of business development at Paul Davis, said the […] More

  • Lockheed Updates Exoskeleton to Help Boost Soldier Mobility, Load-Carrying Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Updates Exoskeleton to Help Boost Soldier Mobility, Load-Carrying Capacity

    Lockheed Martin has updated its computer-controlled exoskeleton to help increase user mobility and load-carrying capacity as well as reduce the risk of overstress on the lower back and legs. The company said Tuesday it built the FORTIS Knee Stress Release Device using Dermoskeleton bionic augmentation technology from B-Temia under a licensing agreement signed in April. FORTIS K-SRD is designed to help […] More