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  • Report: Sikorsky to Offer Black Hawk Variant to Air Force Huey Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Sikorsky to Offer Black Hawk Variant to Air Force Huey Replacement Program

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary plans to offer a modified version of the Black Hawk helicopter as a potential replacement for the U.S. Air Force‘s UH-1N Huey aircraft, DoD Buzz reported Wednesday. Oriana Pawlyk writes Sikorsky will pitch its HH-60U platform that is currently part of the Air Force’s inventory to the UH-1N replacement program. The military branch looks to procure 84 new helicopters as part of efforts […] More

  • Engility Develops Data Link Offering for In-Theater Operations; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Develops Data Link Offering for In-Theater Operations; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has developed a new data link offering to aid interoperability, situational awareness and connectivity for in-theater operations. The company said Wednesday the Tactical Data Link Lite system is designed to integrate with Android and Windows devices and address size, weight and power requirements of military customers for the use of such technology in adverse environments. Engility will showcase the ruggedized platform during the JRE Operator’s Working Group […] More

  • CTC to Explore AI Automation Tools Under NGA Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC to Explore AI Automation Tools Under NGA Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has won a $498,000 contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to research artificial intelligence-based automation technologies. CTC said Wednesday it aims to develop an AI Analyst Virtual Assistant platform that would process large quantities of information through NGA’s Boosting Innovative GEOINT initiative. Ed Sheehan, CTC president and CEO, said the contract gives CTC an opportunity to “contribute to a […] More

  • InfoReliance Enters Multistate IaaS Platform Marketing Agreement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    InfoReliance Enters Multistate IaaS Platform Marketing Agreement

    The state of Utah has awarded InfoReliance a 10-year master agreement to offer an infrastructure-as-a-service platform to state agencies and education institutions that are part of the NASPO ValuePoint cooperative procurement program. InfoReliance said Tuesday it will sell 53 IaaS offerings such as cloud services for initial setup, access, training and support under the agreement. The company also […] More

  • PwC Offers Strategies for Defense Contractors That Seek Emerging Market Opportunities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PwC Offers Strategies for Defense Contractors That Seek Emerging Market Opportunities

    PwC‘s strategy and consulting team has suggested various strategies the group believes can help defense companies win contracts in emerging countries such as Saudi Arabia, India, South Korea and Japan. PwC advisers Randy Starr and Anurag Garg wrote in a 2017 trend report they forecast that defense contractors will increasingly seek business with individual nations as military budgets in traditional defense […] More

  • Fulcrum to Assist SOCOM's Military Info Support Operations Branch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fulcrum to Assist SOCOM’s Military Info Support Operations Branch

    The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Fulcrum a $850,000 task order for manpower augmentation services to the SOCOM’s J39-Military Information Support Operations Branch. Fulcrum will also support senior military engagement, complex analysis and global planning efforts at MISO under the three-year task order, the company said Feb. 1. “We are proud to have Fulcrum subject matter experts […] More

  • Former JCS Vice Chairman James Winnefeld Named Perthera Senior Adviser - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former JCS Vice Chairman James Winnefeld Named Perthera Senior Adviser

    James Winnefeld, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a retired U.S. Navy admiral, has joined Perthera as a senior adviser of the McLean, Virginia-based precision medicine company. The 37-year Navy veteran will advise Perthera on business matters, the company said Tuesday. “I have had the opportunity to become a board member or a strategic adviser to some exciting […] More

  • Magellan Health Exec Karen Amstutz Named Committee Member in NQF Medicaid Innovator Accelerator Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Magellan Health Exec Karen Amstutz Named Committee Member in NQF Medicaid Innovator Accelerator Program

    Karen Amstutz, chief medical officer of Magellan Health, has joined the coordinating committee of the nonprofit National Quality Forum’s Medicaid Innovator Accelerator Program. The company said Wednesday Amstutz will work with other committee members to establish measures that drive reforms in state Medicaid programs’ payment and delivery systems to address quality and cost concerns. The group will focus […] More

  • Mitre, University of Virginia Offer Systems Engineering Fellowship to Fed Employees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre, University of Virginia Offer Systems Engineering Fellowship to Fed Employees

    Mitre has partnered with University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science to offer a fellowship opportunity to military and federal civilian employees in the field of systems engineering. The nonprofit company said Wednesday the 12-month Systems Engineering Fellowship for Federal Employees program seeks to provide future government technology leaders access to hands-on research and project experience at Mitre and […] More

  • Jacobs Secures GSA Task Order for Logistics Support to USMC Training Regiment; Darren Kraabel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Secures GSA Task Order for Logistics Support to USMC Training Regiment; Darren Kraabel Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a potential $39 million task order contract from the General Services Administration to provide logistics services at Camp Lejeune and Camp Pendleton in support of a U.S. Marine Corps training regiment. The company said Wednesday the task order covers weapons system sustainment, material management, supply administration, warehouse operations and transportation support to the Marine Corps Special […] More

  • Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Navigation System for MALD-J Flight Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, Air Force Test Updated Navigation System for MALD-J Flight Vehicle

    The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon have conducted six flight tests that validated the performance of an updated navigation system for a programmable, expendable flight vehicle. Raytheon said Tuesday B-52 and F-16 aircraft were flown to test the GPS Aided Inertial Navigation System II of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer vehicle at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. GAINS II modifications also […] More

  • NASA’s Raven System With SSL-Built Gimbal Mechanism Arrives at ISS; Rich White Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s Raven System With SSL-Built Gimbal Mechanism Arrives at ISS; Rich White Comments

    NASA’s Raven technology with a Space Systems Loral-built two-axis gimbal equipment has reached the International Space Station following the Feb. 19 launch of SpaceX’s 10th ISS cargo resupply mission. NASA’s satellite servicing projects division developed the Raven system designed to test components of a spacecraft navigation system that aims to facilitate satellite servicing, asteroid exploration and […] More