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  • Capstone Gets SeaPort-e Task Order for Navy Regional Command Operations Center Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capstone Gets SeaPort-e Task Order for Navy Regional Command Operations Center Support

    Capstone has secured a task order from the Naval Supply Systems Command’s Fleet Logistics Center for staffing services to nine U.S. Navy regional command operations centers. Capstone said Monday it teamed up with Tenica and Associates to provide watch stander support for the military branch’s operations centers in the mid-Atlantic, Japan, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia regions. The order was […] More

  • Engility Lands Army Task Order for Chikungunya Vaccine Clinical Trials; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Lands Army Task Order for Chikungunya Vaccine Clinical Trials; Lynn Dugle Comments

    The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research has awarded Engility a potential five-year, $10 million task order to perform clinical trials of experimental vaccines against Chikungunya virus. Engility said Thursday it received the task order under a potential four-year, $900 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded by the U.S. Army in January. Engility CEO Lynn Dugle said the company […] More

  • Lockheed to Update Army Apache Helicopter Sensors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Update Army Apache Helicopter Sensors

    Lockheed Martin has secured a $49 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide sensor upgrades for AH-64E Apache helicopters. The company said Monday the contract covers 42 Modernized Day Sensor Assembly kits and spares to update the Apache aircraft’s Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor. Lockheed will carry out Lot 1 production at the company’s Orlando and […] More

  • General Atomics Unveils New Data Management Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Unveils New Data Management Software

    General Atomics has introduced a software platform designed to manage big data workloads. The company said Thursday Nirvana 5.0 works to help clients in energy exploration, scientific research and media sectors manage data-intensive workflows as well as locate information through the use of workflow-defined metadata. General Atomics’ metadata software is designed to consolidate multiple storage silos into […] More

  • Netizen Corp. to Provide Cyber, Risk Assessment Services for Army Tech Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Netizen Corp. to Provide Cyber, Risk Assessment Services for Army Tech Systems

    Netizen Corp. has landed a five-year, $9.9 million contract to provide cybersecurity, compliance and risk assessment services for the U.S. Army‘s technology systems on classified and unclassified networks. Allentown, Pennsylvania-based Netizen said Monday it will support the Army’s efforts under the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Risk Management Framework Security Control Assessor-Validator. NIST RMF contains a series of processes […] More

  • Newtec to Supply Satellite Modem for Canada's Auror Aircraft Modernization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Newtec to Supply Satellite Modem for Canada’s Auror Aircraft Modernization Efforts

    General Dynamics‘ Mission Systems-Canada subsidiary has awarded Newtec a contract to provide an ATR-sized airborne modem to Canada in support of the country’s efforts to modernize its CP-140 Aurora patrol aircraft fleet. Canada’s defense department will install Newtec’s MDM9000 Satellite Modem to the Aurora as part of the military’s Aurora Incremental Modernization Project Block IV program, Newtech said Thursday. Koen Willems, Newtec […] More

  • DoD Joint Interoperability Test Command Approves API Technologies' Security Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Joint Interoperability Test Command Approves API Technologies’ Security Platforms

    API Technologies‘ ION Networks security brand has achieved certification to be included on the Defense Department‘s Unified Capabilities Approved Product List. The company said Thursday the Joint Interoperability Testing Command certified that API Technologies’ ION SA5600 and ION PRIISMS platforms are compliant with the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s Security Technical Implementation Guides. UC-APL features a […] More

  • Honeywell-Pratt & Whitney JV to Develop Engine Tech for Vertical Lift Combat Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell-Pratt & Whitney JV to Develop Engine Tech for Vertical Lift Combat Helicopters

    A Honeywell–Pratt & Whitney joint venture has secured a contract from the U.S. Army to develop and demonstrate new engine technologies to power a new fleet of vertical lift combat helicopters. Advanced Turbine Engine Co. aims to build and test a new engine that will work to increase the vertical lift function, range, speed, payload, endurance and reliability […] More

  • Pentagon Leaders, Trade Associations Discuss Defense Industry's Environment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon Leaders, Trade Associations Discuss Defense Industry’s Environment

    Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall met with three defense trade associations in an effort to understand and address issues that affect the aerospace and defense industry. CEOs and senior executives from the National Defense Industrial Association, Aerospace Industries Association and the Professional Services Council discussed acquisition and budget challenges within the […] More

  • IBM Develops Documentation Software for Social Services Grant Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Develops Documentation Software for Social Services Grant Program

    IBM has developed a software tool to help nonprofit social service organizations evaluate and document their initiatives as part of the company’s $18 million grant program. IBM said Thursday its free cloud-hosted SafetyNet software works to support record keeping and analysis to help organizations address budgetary accountability, program quality and customer service issues. SafetyNet is based on IBM Curam‘s open source technology […] More

  • IAP Worldwide Services Activated to Support FEMA Regions IV and V - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IAP Worldwide Services Activated to Support FEMA Regions IV and V

    IAP Worldwide Services has been tasked to deliver assistance and emergency power to Federal Emergency Management Agency regions IV and V in support of the agency’s response to Hurricane Matthew. IAP said Thursday it has deployed numerous teams to Initial Support Bases located along the East Coast such as Fort Bragg, North Carolina and Orlando, Florida to support several states […] More

  • Law Enforcement Vets Ronald Sloan, Robert Fahlman Join Wynyard Advisory Council - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Law Enforcement Vets Ronald Sloan, Robert Fahlman Join Wynyard Advisory Council

    Former Colorado Bureau of Investigation Director Ronald Sloan and Robert Fahlman, a 35-year veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, have joined the advisory council at crime analytics firm Wynyard. Both Sloan and Fahlman will bring their investigative and criminal intelligence experiences as well as provide insight on the needs of law enforcement agencies to the […] More