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  • Boeing Unveils Missouri Lab for Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles; Nancy Pendleton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Unveils Missouri Lab for Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles; Nancy Pendleton Comments

    Boeing has opened an 8,100-square-foot laboratory in St. Charles, Missouri to facilitate the development and validation of software and hardware designed to support collaboration among unmanned ground, maritime and aerial vehicles. The company said Thursday the Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory features a motion capture system that will work to help users operate multiple unmanned vehicles in a […] More

  • USAF Unveils First Operational Loss Replacement Pave Hawk Chopper - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Unveils First Operational Loss Replacement Pave Hawk Chopper

    The U.S. Air Force has unveiled its first fully built HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter under the Operational Loss Replacement program that works to bring the HH-60G fleet back to its authorized size and replace aircraft lost in previous combat operations. The Air Force said Tuesday 21 Sikorsky-built UH-60L Black Hawks will be integrated with modifications kits and additional equipment to build HH-60Gs under the OLR […] More

  • Esri Supports White House's Data-Based Law Enforcement Effort; Jeff Peters Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Supports White House’s Data-Based Law Enforcement Effort; Jeff Peters Comments

    Esri has pledged $500,000 to a White House initiative that seeks to exclude low-risk offenders from the criminal justice system with the use of technology platforms. The company said Thursday it seeks to help law enforcement officials to identify rehabilitation programs available to non-dangerous offenders through the ArcGIS geographic information system software. “Using ArcGIS, law enforcement, health departments […] More

  • BAE to Deliver 32 Military Vehicles to Austria Under Govt Agreement with Sweden - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Deliver 32 Military Vehicles to Austria Under Govt Agreement with Sweden

    Austria will purchase military vehicles from BAE Systems PLC under a government-to-government with Sweden to support the Austrian European Union Mountain Training Warfare Initiative. BAE said Thursday it will deliver 32 BvS10 units of the Armored Personnel Carrier variant that feature crew ergonomics, updated internal volume and advanced protection for transportation of personnel or cargo in combat and disaster relief scenarios in […] More

  • Globecomm to Expand Coverage in Africa and Europe through Telesat Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Globecomm to Expand Coverage in Africa and Europe through Telesat Satellite

    Globecomm will look to expand the reach of its DTH video footprint across sub-Saharan Africa and Europe through Telesat‘s high throughput satellite. Globecomm said Thursday its use of Telstar 12 VANTAGE‘s Ku-band coverage and power will help expand the company’s geographic coverage and services for customers in the media, maritime, government and Internet of Things markets. “Globecomm and Telesat […] More

  • Kitty Nix, Phil De-Bodene Take SVP Roles at Three Wire Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kitty Nix, Phil De-Bodene Take SVP Roles at Three Wire Systems

    Three Wire Systems has appointed Kitty Nix, a former director at Serco‘s North American subsidiary, as senior vice president of strategy and development and named Phil De-Bodene, former vice president of business development at Calibre Systems, as SVP of BD. Nix and De-Bodene will be responsible for helping develop and implement Three Wire’s business development and growth initiatives in the government consulting market, […] More

  • Army Eyes General Dynamics for Combat Vehicle SIGINT System Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Eyes General Dynamics for Combat Vehicle SIGINT System Upgrade Contract

    The U.S. Army plans to award General Dynamics a sole-source contract to update signals intelligence technology of the branch’s combat vehicles in order to help troops identify and counter signal emissions in the battlefield, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes the potential contract with General Dynamics’ mission systems segment covers work to convert 47 AN/MLQ-44A Prophet SIGINT vetronics […] More

  • CenturyLink Adds Cybersecurity Services to GSA Schedule; Tim Meehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Adds Cybersecurity Services to GSA Schedule; Tim Meehan Comments

    CenturyLink has included a suite of cybersecurity services in its General Services Administration Schedule contract as the company aims to help customer agencies protect their information technology systems. The company said Thursday its Enhanced Cybersecurity Services portfolio comprises  email filtering, domain name system protection and signature-based intrusion prevention offerings. “Adding ECS to our IT Schedule 70 contract underscores our commitment to help […] More

  • Lockheed's Sandia Subsidiary to Receive Energy Tech Project Funds From DOE - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Sandia Subsidiary to Receive Energy Tech Project Funds From DOE

    The Energy Department will support two technology development initiatives at Sandia National Laboratories for eventual transmission into the commercial market. Sandia Labs said Tuesday its Sandia Cooler and BA-BZT-BT capacitors projects will receive an equal amount of non-federal money with the other selected energy projects from TCF to match the federal investment. Lockheed Martin‘s Sandia Corp. subsidiary operates the laboratory […] More

  • Tripwire Survey: 73% of Federal IT Professionals Believe Networks Would Generate Unauthorized Access Alerts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tripwire Survey: 73% of Federal IT Professionals Believe Networks Would Generate Unauthorized Access Alerts

    A new Tripwire survey says 73 percent of information technology professionals in the federal government believe their IT systems would send e-mail notifications or alerts of non-privileged access to files within hours. Tripwire said Thursday it commissioned market research firm Dimensional Research to poll 763 IT executives from different sectors, including 103 federal government respondents, in order […] More

  • Exide Receives DoD Grant to Expand Submarine Batteries Production at Fort Smith - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exide Receives DoD Grant to Expand Submarine Batteries Production at Fort Smith

    Exide Technologies has signed a five-year, $30.7 million cost-sharing agreement with the U.S. government under the Defense Production Act Title III program to automate and modernize submarine batteries manufacturing processes at a company facility in Fort Smith, Arkansas. Under the agreement, the company will receive $18.7 million in DPA grant funds and invest $12 million to adopt new systems designed to […] More

  • Canadian Military Looks to Build Arctic Satellite Comms System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Canadian Military Looks to Build Arctic Satellite Comms System

    The Canadian military plans to solicit ideas from industry on a satellite communications infrastructure dedicated to the Arctic region, Space News reported Thursday. Mike Gruss reports Col. Jeff Dooling, director of space requirements for the Canadian Department for National Defense, told the MilSatCom conference in Virginia that the Enhanced Satcom project is estimated to cost $1.8 billion […] More