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  • Harris to Supply Morocco F-16 Electronic Warfare Suite; Ed Zoiss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Supply Morocco F-16 Electronic Warfare Suite; Ed Zoiss Comments

    Harris will produce a set of electronic warfare systems for Morocco’s F-16 fighter jets as part of a potential $91 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract the U.S. Air Force awarded in November 2016. The company said Tuesday it will equip the Moroccan air force’s F-16s with the AN/ALQ-211 Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite in an effort to help defend the aircraft […] More

  • CGI to Develop Cloud-Based Flood Forecasting System for England's Environment Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Develop Cloud-Based Flood Forecasting System for England’s Environment Agency

    CGI has secured a three-year, $6.1 million contract to design and operate a cloud-based system for England’s environment agency to generate and disseminate flood forecasts. The company said Tuesday that EA’s Future Flood Forecasting System will be designed to run on Microsoft‘s Azure Cloud platform and employ rich data analysis and visualization technologies. CGI will base FFFS on the company’s Digital Insight Platform to support data analytics and […] More

  • GSA Adds GuidePoint Under Schedule 70 Cybersecurity Special Item Numbers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Adds GuidePoint Under Schedule 70 Cybersecurity Special Item Numbers

    The General Services Administration has selected GuidePoint Security to offer cybersecurity services under four new special item numbers of GSA’s Information Technology Schedule 70 procurement vehicle. GuidePoint said Tuesday it submitted written documents and underwent oral technical interviews as part of the evaluation process to qualify for the “highly adaptive” cybersecurity service SINs. The Herndon, Virginia-based cybersecurity company will offer services to public sector agencies under penetration […] More

  • Textron Releases New Data Integration, Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Releases New Data Integration, Mgmt Platform

    Textron‘s systems advanced information solutions unit has updated a technology platform that works to integrate and manage data from multiple remote platforms such as sensors and information feeds. The company said Tuesday the iCommand 2.5 is designed to help users obtain a single pane view of previously disparate data and attach critical information to raw data necessary for mission planning activities. […] More

  • Raytheon Gets Navy Airborne Targeting System Order Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Gets Navy Airborne Targeting System Order Modification

    Raytheon will provide seven multi-spectral targeting systems in D configuration to the U.S. Navy under a $19.2 million modification to a previously awarded job order. The Defense Department said Tuesday the MTS airborne sensor works to provide long-range surveillance, high altitude target acquisition, tracking, and range-finding capability to military users. The technology is designed to adapt to future updates and incorporates multiple fields […] More

  • SGT to Provide NOAA Meteorological Observational Data; Curtis Marshall Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SGT to Provide NOAA Meteorological Observational Data; Curtis Marshall Comments

    SGT has been awarded a three-year, $45 million contract to supply meteorological observational data from non-federal observing networks to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA plans to use the observation data to support meteorological, hydrologic and related environmental observing systems that are designed to facilitate local-scale weather event prediction, SGT said Monday. SGT will collaborate with Earth […] More

  • Foundations, Investors, Academic Institutions Seek to Advance Ethics in AI Devt Via $27M Fund - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Foundations, Investors, Academic Institutions Seek to Advance Ethics in AI Devt Via $27M Fund

    LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network and other institutions have created a potential $27 million fund that seeks to consider ethical and accountability issues in research and development of artificial intelligence. The MIT Media Lab and Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society will act as […] More

  • White House Adds Mark Pincus to Presidio Trust Board, Reappoints John Keker; Paula Collins Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    White House Adds Mark Pincus to Presidio Trust Board, Reappoints John Keker; Paula Collins Comments

    The White House has reappointed John Keker, founder of law firm Keker, Van Nest & Peters, and added Mark Pincus, co-founder and chairman of social gaming company Zynga, to the Presidio Trust board of directors. Keker takes the seat that Alex Mehran of Sunset Development Company has vacated while Pincus fills in for Keker, Presidio Trust said […] More

  • Eaton Joins Program to Help Promote DOE Energy-Efficient Homes Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eaton Joins Program to Help Promote DOE Energy-Efficient Homes Initiative

    Eaton has joined iShow‘s NextGen Home Experience program to help promote an Energy Department initiative that seeks to encourage the construction of energy-efficient homes. The company said Friday it will provide Halo light-emitting diode units for the 2017 NextGen First to the Future online television series and supplied Halo Surface LED Downlights for the tiny home project in support of […] More

  • Hughes' Rick Lober on Commercial Satcom Trends Agencies & Company's Airbus Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes’ Rick Lober on Commercial Satcom Trends Agencies & Company’s Airbus Partnership

    Rick Lober oversees Hughes Network Systems‘ defense and intelligence systems division as its vice president and general manager with responsibility over sales of satellite communications technologies and services to military and other national security agencies. Lober has advocated for government customers to increase their adoption and usage rates of satcom tools from the commercial arena […] More

  • NetCentrics to Offer Agencies Cybersecurity Services Under GSA's New Special Item Numbers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetCentrics to Offer Agencies Cybersecurity Services Under GSA’s New Special Item Numbers

    The General Services Administration has included NetCentrics‘ cybersecurity services under four new special item numbers of GSA’s Schedule 70 contract vehicle in an effort to help federal agencies address security challenges in cyberspace. NetCentrics said Monday it is one of 20 vendors eligible to deploy offerings through the existing “highly adaptive” cybersecurity service SINs. HACS SINs were introduced by GSA in September 2016 and cover […] More

  • Navy Eyes Modification for BAE Electromagnetic Railgun Pulsed Power Tech Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Eyes Modification for BAE Electromagnetic Railgun Pulsed Power Tech Contract

    The U.S. Navy plans to award a contract modification to BAE Systems to continue development work on a pulsed power system for the service branch’s electromagnetic railgun, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes Naval Sea Systems Command officials said the sole-source contract to be awarded to BAE’s platforms and services business segment will also cover […] More