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  • Vencore, Havas Health Form Medical Data Analytics JV; Steve Costalas Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore, Havas Health Form Medical Data Analytics JV; Steve Costalas Comments

    Vencore has formed a joint venture with Havas Health to offer data analytics and predictive modeling services intended to help biopharmaceutical companies gain insight into the rare-disease market. HVH Patient Precision Analytics aims to collect, aggregate and analyze huge amounts of healthcare data to help clients identify people with rare diseases as well as to aid early diagnosis […] More

  • Dennis Muilenburg: Boeing Eyes Space Tourism, Plans to Send 1st Human to Mars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dennis Muilenburg: Boeing Eyes Space Tourism, Plans to Send 1st Human to Mars

    Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has said the Chicago-based aerospace company plans to land the first human on Mars and that he expects space tourism to develop into a “viable commercial market” over the next 20 years, Bloomberg Technology reported Tuesday. “I’m convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing […] More

  • Patriot Group International Subcontracts Tempus for Northcom Aerial ISR Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patriot Group International Subcontracts Tempus for Northcom Aerial ISR Support

    Patriot Group International has awarded Tempus Applied Solutions a $24.4 million subcontract to provide aerial intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance services for U.S. Northern Command. Tempus said Wednesday the airborne ISR services will aid a counter narcotics and global threats contract that PGI secured in September. Tempus will install aerial surveillance hardware and software into a Pilatus PC-12 aircraft to conduct more than 1,500 flight […] More

  • L-3 Achieves Air Force Military GPS Security Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Achieves Air Force Military GPS Security Certification

    L-3 Communications has completed a U.S. Air Force security certification process for the company’s GPS system for military users. L-3 said Wednesday its Military Code GPS User Equipment is built and certified through the Air Force’s MGUE program administered by the GPS directorate of Los Angeles Air Force Base’s Space and Missile Systems Center. An independent government team ran the certification assessment of […] More

  • Northrop Demos Counter-UAS Tech Platforms; Chuck Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Demos Counter-UAS Tech Platforms; Chuck Johnson Comments

     has demonstrated the company’s mobile acoustic sensing and electronic attack systems during the Defense Department’s annual counter-unmanned aerial systems exercise. The Mobile Application for UAS Identification and the Drone Restricted Access Using Known EW technologies were exhibited as part of DoD’s Black Dart exercise managed by the Joint Integrated Air and Missile Defense Organization, Northrop said […] More

  • Pwnie Express Adds Former Raytheon CEO William Swanson to Board of Directors; Paul Paget Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pwnie Express Adds Former Raytheon CEO William Swanson to Board of Directors; Paul Paget Comments

    William Swanson, former chairman and CEO of Raytheon, has joined the board of directors of Pwnie Express, a developer of device threat detection technology for wired, wireless and connected devices. Swanson led Raytheon for nearly 10 years before he retired from the defense company in September 2014 after a 42-year career there, Pwnie Express said Wednesday. “Bill’s leadership […] More

  • INSA Names Defense & Intell Analyst Larry Hanauer as Policy VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    INSA Names Defense & Intell Analyst Larry Hanauer as Policy VP

    Larry Hanauer, a former senior international policy analyst at RAND Corp., has joined the Intelligence and National Security Alliance as vice president for policy. He will oversee the nonprofit organization’s councils, task forces and other member-driven groups that aim to address national security issues through thought leadership and collaborative, public-private recommendations, INSA said Wednesday. At RAND, Hanaeur analyzed […] More

  • Elbit Systems Unit to Provide Gunner Hand Stations for Army's Bradley Combat Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Unit to Provide Gunner Hand Stations for Army’s Bradley Combat Vehicles

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded an Elbit Systems subsidiary a two-year, $7.3 million contract to provide the U.S. Army gunner hand stations for the BAE Systems-built Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Elbit Systems of America will deliver Gunner’s Hand Stations that will operate alongside Commander’s Hand Stations to relay control signals to the Bradley M2A3/M3A3 turret fire control systems to support turret movement […] More

  • NovAtel's GPS Anti-Jamming & Interference Tech to Support DoD Information Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NovAtel’s GPS Anti-Jamming & Interference Tech to Support DoD Information Network

    NovAtel has received an order from the U.S. Naval Observatory for its anti-jamming antenna system in efforts to address the core controlled reception pattern antenna requirements of the Defense Department‘s main global enterprise network. The company said Monday its GPS Anti-Jam Technology will serve to support the DoD Information Network, which facilitates voice, data, video and bandwidth services. “GAJT has now been shipped and is […] More

  • Army Receives Initial Northrop-Made Common IR Countermeasure Systems; Carl Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Receives Initial Northrop-Made Common IR Countermeasure Systems; Carl Smith Comments

    Northrop Grumman has shipped an initial batch of Common Infrared Countermeasure missile defense systems to the U.S. Army as part of an engineering and manufacturing development contract awarded in August 2015. The Army received the CIRCMs after the company completed software qualification tests to evaluate the system’s performance and compliance with program requirements, Northrop said Tuesday. CIRCM is designed to help protect rotary […] More

  • AeroVironment Releases Remote Launch System for Blackwing UAS, Switchblade Missiles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AeroVironment Releases Remote Launch System for Blackwing UAS, Switchblade Missiles

    AeroVironment has released a new launch system that will work to allow remote deployments of the company’s Switchblade Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System and Blackwing tube-launched unmanned aircraft system. The company said Tuesday the Multi-Pack Launcher supports integration at forward operating bases and tactical ground vehicles to help provide incoming fire and force protection and on-the-go intelligence, surveillance and […] More

  • PAE, Vectrus Subsidiary Form JV to Pursue Army Logistics Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PAE, Vectrus Subsidiary Form JV to Pursue Army Logistics Support Contract

    PAE and Vectrus‘ Vectrus Systems Corporation subsidiary have formed a joint venture to bid for the U.S. Army‘s Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V contract vehicle. PAE said Tuesday Scott Welker, former deputy commander of the U.S. Army‘s Joint Munitions Command, will lead the PAE Vectrus JV as president. Welker said the PAE Vectrus team offers experience in international contingency mission support with operations on all continents. […] More