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  • NTT Data Receives $534M Contract to Support Victoria, Australia E-Ticketing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data Receives $534M Contract to Support Victoria, Australia E-Ticketing System

    NTT Data has secured a potential seven-year, $533.7 million to operate the automated fare collection system in Australia’s state of Victoria. The company said Monday it helped Public Transport Victoria build and implement the myki smart card ticketing system across the state’s regional and metropolitan centers in December 2008. Myki is designed to manage as many as 400 million passenger trips via trains, […] More

  • Honeywell, IAI to Jointly Develop UAS Sense & Avoid System; Carey Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell, IAI to Jointly Develop UAS Sense & Avoid System; Carey Smith Comments

    Honeywell and Israel Aerospace Industries have forged a partnership to develop a sensor system for IAI’s Heron unmanned aircraft systems product line with funds from the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation. The sense-and-avoid technology will utilize Honeywell’s software, algorithms, hardware and inputs from various sensors contained in a line-replaceable unit to help track nearby aircraft and avoid collision […] More

  • Booz Allen, Conversable Partner to Offer Automated Interactive Messaging For Customer Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Conversable Partner to Offer Automated Interactive Messaging For Customer Service

    Booz Allen Hamilton has partnered with Conversable to jointly test and deliver automated interactive messaging tools and services to support customer care. The team will explore messaging, natural language processing, machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to address two areas of customer needs including integrated and tailored customer service as well as on-demand access to content, products and services, Booz […] More

  • Accenture Opens Baltimore CMS, SSA Contract Support Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture Opens Baltimore CMS, SSA Contract Support Hub

    An Accenture subsidiary has unveiled a facility in Baltimore in order to provide support for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services‘ and Social Security Administration‘s information technology programs and contracts. Accenture Federal Services will use the Innovation Center for Technology to support SSA’s Specialized Assistance and Advisory Services initiative and IT Support Services Contract as well […] More

  • Next Century to Help IARPA Develop SIGINT-Based Event Forecasting Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Next Century to Help IARPA Develop SIGINT-Based Event Forecasting Tool

    Next Century has received a three-year contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a signals intelligence-based tool that will work to forecast societal events as part of IARPA’s Mercury Program. The SIGINT-based Anticipation of Future Events technology will be built to detect and predict terrorist or military activities, civil unrest and rare disease outbreaks in the Middle […] More

  • Reuters: Norway Eyes Purchase of Up to 6 Boeing-Built Maritime Surveillance Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reuters: Norway Eyes Purchase of Up to 6 Boeing-Built Maritime Surveillance Aircraft

    Norway could purchase five to six units of a Boeing-built maritime surveillance aircraft as the country seeks to expand its military cooperation with the U.S., Reuters reported Monday. Andrea Shalal writes U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Dean Peters, program executive officer for anti-submarine warfare, assault and special missions programs, has asked potential P-8 Poseidon customers to place orders by summer 2017. Peters has indicated […] More

  • NJVC Opens 4th St. Louis Office to Support Software Services Practice; Bill Cloin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NJVC Opens 4th St. Louis Office to Support Software Services Practice; Bill Cloin Comments

    NJVC has unveiled a new corporate office in St. Louis to provide enterprise information technology services to government clients and support the company’s software services practice. The facility headquartered at the CIC St. Louis technology hub will house employees of the firm’s software services group that works to develop custom applications and related tools designed to help […] More

  • PARC Receives DARPA Funds to Develop Autonomous 'Vanishing' Air Delivery Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PARC Receives DARPA Funds to Develop Autonomous ‘Vanishing’ Air Delivery Tech

    Xerox‘s PARC subsidiary has received funds from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to support a program designed to develop a prototype autonomous air vehicle that delivers small payloads and “vanishes” upon completing the mission. PARC said Monday it will work with AeroVironment to create specialized materials for an autonomous air delivery system under a project within DARPA’s Inbound, Controlled, Air‐Releasable, […] More

  • Textron, Thales Launch 'Fury' Guided Weapon From Tactical UAS in Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron, Thales Launch ‘Fury’ Guided Weapon From Tactical UAS in Test

    Textron‘s weapon and sensor systems business and Thales have launched a Fury guided glide weapon from a tactical unmanned aircraft system to engage static vehicle targets as part of a test at the U.S. Army‘s Yuma Proving Ground. The team released Fury from a Textron-built Shadow TUAS, after which the weapon performed a global positioning system guided fly-out maneuver, transitioned […] More

  • FAA Grants Experimental Certificate to General Atomics-built Predator C Avenger - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FAA Grants Experimental Certificate to General Atomics-built Predator C Avenger

    General Atomics has received an experimental certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration for its Predator C Avenger remotely piloted aircraft. The FAA certificate would allow the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems-built Avenger system to operate in the U.S. National Airspace System, the company said Monday. The Avenger unmanned aerial vehicle has an electro-optical/infrared sensor, Lynx radar […] More

  • Boeing, Embraer to Jointly Market KC-390 Aircraft & Support Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Embraer to Jointly Market KC-390 Aircraft & Support Services

    Boeing has signed an collaborative agreement with Embraer to jointly market and discover new business opportunities for the Embraer KC-390 transport and aerial refueling aircraft, plus sustainment and support services. Embraer will supply the aircraft while Boeing will take charge of in-service support under the agreement, Boeing said Monday. Jackson Schneider, Embraer’s defense and security president and CEO, […] More

  • Booz Allen's Systems Delivery Group Gets CMMI Maturity Level 5 Appraisal; Gary Labovich Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Systems Delivery Group Gets CMMI Maturity Level 5 Appraisal; Gary Labovich Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton’s systems delivery organization has achieved Maturity Level 5 rating under the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development framework. The CMMI ML 5 status was granted after an independent appraiser evaluated Booz Allen’s implementation of process-based methods in software development, the company said Monday. Gary Labovich, executive vice president at Booz Allen, said the […] More