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  • BAE Taps Evoqua to Supply Biofouling Control Tech for Australian Navy's Frigates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Taps Evoqua to Supply Biofouling Control Tech for Australian Navy’s Frigates

    BAE Systems‘ Australian subsidiary has chosen Pittsburgh-based Evoqua Water Technologies to design and produce seawater electrochlorination technology for Australia’s warships. Evoqua said Thursday it expects to deliver Chloropac systems to BAE during the next six years for installation onboard eight ANZAC-class frigates of the Australian navy. The system will work to prevent marine growth in the ships’ seawater cooling systems, according to […] More

  • Air Force Plans F-15 Update, Sustainment Support Contract Award to Boeing - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Plans F-15 Update, Sustainment Support Contract Award to Boeing

    The U.S. Air Force plans to award a sole-source contract to Boeing to update and sustain the service branch’s F-15 Strike Eagle aircraft. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps presolicitation notice posted Monday the proposed indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will cover software and hardware design, installation of updated kits, product support, structural and subsystem component production, development […] More

  • Booz Allen Designated as ICAgile Member Corporate Organization; Gary Labovich Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Designated as ICAgile Member Corporate Organization; Gary Labovich Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton has been designated as a member corporate organization of the International Consortium for Agile, a global agile certification and accreditation body. Under the partnership, Booz Allen will support ICAgile’s learning roadmap and training providers as they administer ICAgile-accredited courses, Booz Allen said Thursday. Booz Allen intends for the partnership to apply agility […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Adds 2 Potential Int'l Defense Customers for WorldView-4 Satellite Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Adds 2 Potential Int’l Defense Customers for WorldView-4 Satellite Capacity

    DigitalGlobe has entered into separate letters of intent with two international defense and intelligence agencies to provide the organizations access to imagery from the company’s WorldView-4 satellite. One agency is slated to become the company’s 12th Direct Access Program client under a multi-year commitment to task and receive imagery from all WorldView satellites, DigitalGlobe said Thursday. The company noted the second agency expressed interest for WorldView-4 […] More

  • UTC's Vehicle Assessment Tool Seeks to Evaluate USAF C-5 Aircraft Sensors Under Flight Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UTC’s Vehicle Assessment Tool Seeks to Evaluate USAF C-5 Aircraft Sensors Under Flight Trials

    A United Technologies Corp. unit has begun flight trials of a vehicle health monitoring platform to assess the airworthiness of sensors onboard the U.S. Air Force’s C-5 Galaxy aircraft. The flight tests on the UTC Aerospace Systems-built Pulse Health Monitoring System are part of a contract awarded by the service branch to Metis Design, UTC said […] More

  • Salient CRGT Promotes John Edgar as SVP; Kevin Bahumian & Anuj Mathur to VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Promotes John Edgar as SVP; Kevin Bahumian & Anuj Mathur to VP

    Salient CRGT has elevated John Edgar, former company vice president and chief strategist for information technology transformation, as a senior VP while Kevin Bahumian and Anuj Mathur have been promoted to the roles of vice president from their former directorial positions. The software development and technology services company said Thursday Edgar will continue to manage Salient’s innovation centers and provide leadership […] More

  • Vincent Orange Named DC Chamber of Commerce President and CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vincent Orange Named DC Chamber of Commerce President and CEO

    Outgoing Washington city council member Vincent Orange has been selected as the D.C. Chamber of Commerce’s next president and CEO, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. Andy Medici writes Orange, who currently serves as chairman of the committee on business, consumer and regulatory affairs, will continue his term as councilman until January 2017 and will take helm as D.C. […] More

  • Steven Demetriou Adds Board Chairman Role at Jacobs; Linda Fayne Levinson Named Lead Director - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steven Demetriou Adds Board Chairman Role at Jacobs; Linda Fayne Levinson Named Lead Director

    Jacobs Engineering Group has appointed Steven Demetriou, company president and CEO, to take the additional role of chairman of the board and named Linda Fayne Levinson, a director at Jacobs and VendareNetblue chairman, as lead director. “The board concluded it is in the best interest of the company and its shareholders to combine the roles of chairman and CEO,” Noel […] More

  • Curtiss-Wright Releases New Video Mgmt Tech for Air, Ground Vehicles - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright Releases New Video Mgmt Tech for Air, Ground Vehicles

    Curtiss-Wright has released a new compact switch technology the company’s defense solutions unit designed to transmit video camera data to multiple displays. The RVG-SDI Crossbar Video Switch consists of eight external miniBNC connectors and works to route 3G, high-definition and standard definition serial digital interface video sources, Curtiss-Wright said June 13. “A growing challenge for system integrators is how to get the most effective use out […] More

  • Sentient Vision Updates Automated Land & Maritime Object Detection Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sentient Vision Updates Automated Land & Maritime Object Detection Software

    Australia-based computer vision systems provider Sentient Vision Systems has unveiled the latest update to its automated object detection software for land and maritime applications. Sentient said July 19 the Kestrel 4.0 update includes functions that work to cut image processing requirements by 50 percent and support high-definition image processing on a processor. “This upgrade allows our ground-based customers […] More

  • DFNDR Armor to Use Honeywell's Ballistic Composite Materials for Body Armor Plate Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DFNDR Armor to Use Honeywell’s Ballistic Composite Materials for Body Armor Plate Production

    DFNDR Armor has selected Honeywell‘s Spectra Shield ballistic composite materials to produce body armor plates for potential use in the U.S. public sector. The companies said Wednesday Honeywell’s Spectra fiber-based materials will also support DFNDR Armor’s research-and-development work on “next generation” body armor technology for U.S. military, law enforcement and civilians. DFNDR Armor CEO Dave Fernandez said the body armor manufacturer uses Honeywell Spectra exclusively […] More