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  • Michael Isman: Govt Agencies to Adopt Automated Interactive Messaging For Customer Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Isman: Govt Agencies to Adopt Automated Interactive Messaging For Customer Service

    Michael Isman, a vice president in Booz Allen Hamilton‘s strategic innovation group, has said the firm expects the government and the commercial market to adopt automated interactive messaging technologies for customer service, Fedscoop reported Tuesday. Isman told Fedscoop reporter Samantha Ehlinger chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, automated analytics and crowdsourcing tools could replace call centers in customer service delivery through […] More

  • AINS to Offer USDA HR Applications Under $92M BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AINS to Offer USDA HR Applications Under $92M BPA

    The Agriculture Department will purchase AINS-developed employee relations and labor relations applications under a five-year, $92 million blanket purchase agreement USDA uses to acquire non-core human resource tools for the agency’s National Finance Center systems. AINS said Tuesday the company will offer the eCase HR ER/LR applications to all federal government agencies under the agreement and provide NFC customers a platform […] More

  • Reuters: Lockheed Eyes New MBDA Proposal on Potential $5B German Missile Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Lockheed Eyes New MBDA Proposal on Potential $5B German Missile Defense System

    Lockheed Martin has said it expects its partner MBDA to submit a proposal to Germany’s defense ministry by early August to begin negotiations with the country’s government on a potential $4.5 billion missile defense system, Reuters reported Tuesday. Andrea Shalal writes that Rick Edwards, executive vice president of Lockheed’s missiles and fire control business, has indicated negotiations for the Medium Extended Air Defense System could start […] More

  • Raytheon-Kongsberg Partnership Plans US Hub for Naval Strike Missile, Launcher Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Kongsberg Partnership Plans US Hub for Naval Strike Missile, Launcher Production

    Raytheon plans to collaborate with Norway-based Kongsberg Defence Systems to manufacture the Naval Strike Missile system and launchers in the U.S. Raytheon wants to carry out integration and testing work on NSM at its factory in Tucson, Arizona, and produce the NSM launchers at its Louisville, Kentucky-based facility under the partnership with Kongsberg, Raytheon said Wednesday. NSM is […] More

  • Thales Unveils 'Fulmar X' Unmanned Aerial Surveillance System; Pierre Eric Pommellet Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Unveils ‘Fulmar X’ Unmanned Aerial Surveillance System; Pierre Eric Pommellet Comments

    Thales has introduced an unmanned air system the company developed to support military and civilian customers that perform border surveillance, disaster response and illegal traffic monitoring operations. Fulmar X is made from carbon fiber composite materials and designed to operate for more than eight hours at a range of up to 49 miles, Thales said Tuesday. “Its modular architecture supports multiple configurations so the system is suitable for […] More

  • General Atomics to Provide Certifiable Predator B Variant to UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Provide Certifiable Predator B Variant to UK

    The U.K. defense ministry has selected General Atomics to provide a variant of its Predator B remotely piloted aircraft system in support of the country’s intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance needs. General Atomics said Monday the U.K. will acquire modified Certifiable Predator B RPA systems to replace its line of Predator B aircraft starting 2018. The company added its aeronautical […] More

  • TIBCO Secures FedRAMP Approval for Enterprise Social Collaboration Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TIBCO Secures FedRAMP Approval for Enterprise Social Collaboration Tool

    TIBCO Software Inc. has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for the company’s social enterprise collaboration platform after it completed the government’s security assessment process for cloud offerings. The tibbr 7 platform works to help organizations collaborate with vendors, customers and partners as well as assess collaboration activities through social analytics, TIBCO said Tuesday. “We’re delighted to announce our FedRAMP certification […] More

  • Northrop Breaks $1B Mark in MDA Ballistic Missile Support Subcontracts to Small Businesses - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Breaks $1B Mark in MDA Ballistic Missile Support Subcontracts to Small Businesses

    Northrop Grumman has awarded at least $1 billion in subcontracts to small businesses as the prime awardee of the Missile Defense Agency‘s Joint National Integration Center Research and Development Contract. Forty-nine percent of all subcontracts under JRDC have gone to various classes of small business, the company said Tuesday. Northrop held two events to mark the achievement in Huntsville, Alabama and Colorado Springs, Colorado — the headquarters of small businesses […] More

  • AFRL Seeks Partners for R&D Funding Opportunity on Quantum Computing Sciences - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFRL Seeks Partners for R&D Funding Opportunity on Quantum Computing Sciences

    The Air Force Research Laboratory’s information directorate seeks white papers on ideas that support the research, design, development, concept testing, evaluation and experimentation of quantum computing sciences under a potential $40 million funding opportunity. According to a broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps, the funding opportunity aims to assess algorithm designs and technologies that utilize quantum annealing techniques in support of […] More

  • General Atomics Inks Deal With NLR to Fly UAS in Non-Segregated European Airspace; Linden Blue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Inks Deal With NLR to Fly UAS in Non-Segregated European Airspace; Linden Blue Comments

    General Atomics has signed an agreement with the NLR-Netherlands Aerospace Centre to facilitate the operation of remotely piloted aircraft in non-segregated airspace in Europe. Linden Blue, CEO of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems business, said in a statement released Tuesday the company will leverage NLR’s air traffic control simulation and modeling capabilities to test the potential integration […] More

  • L-3 to Supply Electro-Optical IR Designators for General Atomics Predator XP UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 to Supply Electro-Optical IR Designators for General Atomics Predator XP UAS

    General Atomics’ aeronautical systems unit has ordered electro-optical and infrared designator systems from L-3 Communications’ WESCAM division for installation on a General Atomics-built remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics will integrate L-3’s MX-15D EO/IR designators onto the Predator XP RPA for an international military client, L-3 said Tuesday. The MX-15D features large-aperture, long focal-length optics and patented four-axis gimbal technology designed to support intelligence, surveillance and […] More

  • Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon 'Progresses' on Air Force GPS Satellite Ground Control System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dave Wajsgras: Raytheon ‘Progresses’ on Air Force GPS Satellite Ground Control System

    Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon‘s intelligence, information and services business segment, has said the company will continue to collaborate with the U.S. Air Force to further develop a ground control system for GPS satellites, Reuters reported Tuesday. “We feel good about the progress we’ve made,” he told Reuters reporter Andrea Shalal at the Farnborough International Airshow. […] More