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  • MDA Seeks IT Management, Analysis Support for Worldwide Data Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA Seeks IT Management, Analysis Support for Worldwide Data Systems

    The Missile Defense Agency plans to award a potential five-year contract to provide information technology management and analysis support services to MDA’s information management and technology operations directorate. MDA said in a presolicitation notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps potential contractors will provide such services under a small business set-aside contract in support of global information systems across all agency […] More

  • AFCEA DC Elects Executive Board Members for 2016-2017; Dean Economou Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFCEA DC Elects Executive Board Members for 2016-2017; Dean Economou Comments

    The Washington-based chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association has elected new members to its executive board for 2016 to 2017 and named Dean Economou, sales director for the Defense Department program at CenturyLink, as president. Nathan Jones, vice president of federal sales at Red Hat, will serve as executive VP of AFCEA […] More

  • Sarah Schacht Named Operations Manager of Identity Ecosystem Steering Group - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sarah Schacht Named Operations Manager of Identity Ecosystem Steering Group

    Sarah Schacht, a principal consultant at Smarter Civic, has been appointed as operations manager at the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. The private sector-led organization said Thursday Schacht will help grow IDESG’s Identity Ecosystem Framework registry and foster collaborations with companies, government agencies and civil organizations in the areas of privacy, security and identity management. “We are excited to […] More

  • Patrick Binning to Lead Johns Hopkins APL's Natl Security Space Mission Area - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patrick Binning to Lead Johns Hopkins APL’s Natl Security Space Mission Area

    Patrick Binning, formerly a program manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been appointed as mission area executive for national security space at APL. Binning will lead the organization’s efforts to build space-based technologies for the national security sector, APL said Thursday. He is an aerospace industry veteran with 25 years of program management, research,  development, technology transfer, satellite operations and […] More

  • Lockheed, Submergence Group Partner for USSOCOM Combat Submersible Production; Erika Marshall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Submergence Group Partner for USSOCOM Combat Submersible Production; Erika Marshall Comments

    Lockheed Martin has partnered with Submergence Group to build, integrate and test three undersea transport vehicles for the U.S. Special Operations Command. The companies will collaborate to produce Dry Combat Submersibles under a potential five-year, $166 million contract awarded by USSOCOM, Lockheed said Thursday. Erika Marshall, general manager and program director at Lockheed’s Palm Beach site, said the DCS vehicles […] More

  • AirMap Integrates Wildfire Alert Service Into DJI Drone Geofencing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AirMap Integrates Wildfire Alert Service Into DJI Drone Geofencing System

    AirMap and DJI have partnered to add real-time wildfire alerts to the latter company’s geofencing system for unmanned aerial vehicles in an effort to help operators avoid flying UAVs near wildfire-fighting locations, HSToday reported Wednesday. Amanda Vicinanzo writes AirMap works to gather wildfire information from the U.S. Interior Department and transmits the data to DJI’s Geospatial Environment Online platform via the GO flight […] More

  • Elbit Systems to Deliver Thermal-Imaging Observation Systems to European Country - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems to Deliver Thermal-Imaging Observation Systems to European Country

    Elbit Systems has received multiple contracts worth approximately $30 million combined from a European country to deliver thermal-imaging observation systems over a one-year period. The company said Wednesday it will provide Long View CR, LOROSS and XACT observation systems to support all of the customers’s army command levels. LVCR is a long-range observation system for dismounted soldiers with day and night target acquisition functions, […] More

  • Draken Intl Deploys 6 A-4 Skyhawks for USAF Air Education and Training Command - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draken Intl Deploys 6 A-4 Skyhawks for USAF Air Education and Training Command

    Draken International has deployed six A-4 Skyhawks with 28 pilots and maintainers from Nellis Air Force Base in support of the U.S. Air Force‘s Air Education and Training Command’s exercises. The company said Wednesday it flew 36 sorties for the Air Force’s F-16 requalification training at the Luke Air Force Base and AETC’s F-35 coalition instructor pilot training to deliver Red […] More

  • Accenture Unveils Tech Prototype to Address Gender Pay Gap Issues in Freelance Labor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Unveils Tech Prototype to Address Gender Pay Gap Issues in Freelance Labor

    Accenture has launched a prototype technology designed to identify and address pay gaps in support of gender pay parity in the freelance labor market. The company said Tuesday Accenture Labs developed the prototype to help provide transparency in the hiring process using open source technologies in order to facilitate equal pay negotiations and reduce bias. The prototype builds on Accenture’s signing of the White […] More

  • Comtech to Install, Manage Washington State's 911 Emergency System; Stanton Sloane Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech to Install, Manage Washington State’s 911 Emergency System; Stanton Sloane Comments

    Comtech Telecommunications‘ commercial solutions business unit has secured a potential five-year, $45 million contract to provide IP-based next-generation 9-1-1 technology to support emergency communications across Washington state. The company said Wednesday will install and manage a statewide enterprise system designed to comply with the National Emergency Number Association’s NG911 geospatial call routing and reporting standards. Comtech President and CEO Stanton […] More

  • Michael Fallon: UK Wants DoD to Finalize Procurement Deal for Lockheed’s F-35s - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Fallon: UK Wants DoD to Finalize Procurement Deal for Lockheed’s F-35s

    Michael Fallon, U.K. defense minister, has said the U.K. has called on the U.S. Defense Department to finalize and approve the former country’s request to procure 138 Lockheed Martin-built F-35 aircraft under two contracts worth approximately $15 billion, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Anthony Capaccio writes the contracts include the potential sale of nine Lockheed’s F-35B short-takeoff […] More

  • GSA Solicits Proposals for New US Courthouse Site in Des Moines, Iowa - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Solicits Proposals for New US Courthouse Site in Des Moines, Iowa

    The General Services Administration seeks proposals on a Des Moines, Iowa-based site where a new U.S. courthouse could be built to replace a courthouse in downtown Des Moines and a leased courthouse annex. GSA said Wednesday the $136.6 million it plans to allocate for the new facility will go to the acquisition, design and construction of the new facility, which will house nine […] More