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  • Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Navy Approval for IED Countermeasure System

    The U.S. Navy has approved a countermeasure technology Lockheed Martin developed to help protect U.S. and coalition forces against improvised explosive devices. Lockheed said Tuesday its Symphony Block 40 platform is mounted on vehicles and designed to jam electronic trigger signals of radio-controlled IED threats. The company integrated an open architecture into the counter-IED system to provide continuous threat spectrum coverage for military users. Joe Ottaviano, […] More

  • Cohesity's Encryption Module Achieves NIST Data Security Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cohesity’s Encryption Module Achieves NIST Data Security Certification

    Cohesity has achieved the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Federal Information Processing Standards 140-2 certification for the company’s encryption module. The company said Tuesday the certification allows government agencies to use Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary storage offering to handle sensitive information. Cohesity added security tests of the encryption module took place part of Cohesity’s storage platform and on the same hardware that the […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Virtustream Cloud Software to Public Sector Offerings; Craig Abod Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Virtustream Cloud Software to Public Sector Offerings; Craig Abod Comments

    Carahsoft Technology has included Virtustream‘s suite of enterprise-grade cloud software products and services on three contracting vehicles managed by the General Services Administration, NASA and the U.S. Army. Carahsoft said Tuesday it will begin to market Virtustream offerings to agencies through the GSA Schedule as well as NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V and the Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions–Software vehicles. “We are excited to […] More

  • Northrop-Built Global Hawk Hits 200K Flight Hours; Mick Jaggers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop-Built Global Hawk Hits 200K Flight Hours; Mick Jaggers Comments

    The Northrop Grumman-built Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system has logged 200,000 flight hours. The company said Tuesday Global Hawks operated by the U.S. Air Force recorded 88 percent of the total flight hours while UAVs run by NASA, U.S. Navy and Germany logged the remaining flight hours. “This milestone is especially meaningful as it comes just […] More

  • Accutype Services Certified to Offer Medical Transcription Services Under GSA Schedule 36 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accutype Services Certified to Offer Medical Transcription Services Under GSA Schedule 36

    Accutype Services has received certification to deliver medical transcription services to the federal government under the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 36 contract. The woman-owned company said Tuesday its medical transcription offering is registered on the GSA Advantage electronic ordering system. Deborah Walton, Accutype Services operations manager, said the contract works to open new markets for the company and expand its services beyond the […] More

  • Baldwin Aviation Partners With FAA, Mitre for Flight Safety Data Sharing Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Baldwin Aviation Partners With FAA, Mitre for Flight Safety Data Sharing Program

    Baldwin Aviation will facilitate client information exchange through a Federal Aviation Administration-run flight safety data sharing system under an agreement with Mitre and FAA. The South Carolina-based software company said Monday the executive board of FAA’s Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing program approved a protocol that allows Baldwin Aviation customers to share relevant data through the company. “Based on Baldwin’s Master MOU, our […] More

  • Ball Aerospace, XTAR Demo High-Throughput ISR Service; Rob Freedman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace, XTAR Demo High-Throughput ISR Service; Rob Freedman Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and XTAR have demonstrated a high-throughput intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance service on a C-130 hatch with the use of the former company’s AIRLINK X-1 antenna. AIRLINK X-1 was certified to access XTAR satellites after a terminal sent 4.5 megabits per second of data through the XTAR-LANT satellite during the demonstration that occurred […] More

  • DoD Office Orders Decision Sciences Contraband Detection System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Office Orders Decision Sciences Contraband Detection System

    Decision Sciences International Corp. has received a $5.26 million contract from the Defense Department‘s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office to provide and deploy a system built to detect contraband and weapons.. The company said Tuesday the Multi-Mode Passive Detection System Gen 3 platform works to automatically scan vehicles, cargo containers and other vehicles to identify and discover shielded and […] More

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    NASA Approves Sierra Nevada’s Strategy to Get Dream Chaser Cargo System to ISS Under CRS-2 Contract

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has received approval from NASA for its strategy to launch and send the Dream Chaser spacecraft’s cargo system to the International Space Station. The approval marks the completion of the second integration certification phase for the space vehicle that will perform at least six cargo flights to the ISS from 2019 through […] More

  • Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Seeks Feedback on Technical Requirements of Cloud Migration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Seeks Feedback on Technical Requirements of Cloud Migration

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has requested information on potential industry sources of cloud-based technology platforms as CFPB plans to migrate its data workloads to the cloud in fiscal year 2017. In a FedBizOpps sources sought notice posted Tuesday, CFPB asked interested vendors to provide feedback on the cost, timeline and technical requirements of its planned cloud adoption. The […] More

  • SAIC Delivers 1 Millionth Tire for DLA Tire Successor Initiative Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Delivers 1 Millionth Tire for DLA Tire Successor Initiative Program

    Science Applications International Corp. has delivered its 1 millionth tire under the Defense Logistics Agency‘s Tire Successor Initiative program contract awarded to the company in 2011. SAIC said Tuesday it delivered the 1 millionth tire to the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California. The company is the prime contractor on potential nine-year, $1.1 billion TSI program for chain management […] More

  • NCR Receives Second USPS Supplier Performance Award; Stan Ratcliffe Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCR Receives Second USPS Supplier Performance Award; Stan Ratcliffe Comments

    NCR has received a second Supplier Performance Award from the U.S. Postal Service which recognizes the company’s supply chain management and customer service support for post offices across the U.S. The Duluth, Georgia-based company said Wednesday it accepted the distinction June 29 during the 2015 Supplier Performance Awards ceremony and reception at the USPS Headquarters Building in Washington. “NCR takes great pride in its long-standing […] More