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  • CGI Launches Records Mgmt Offering For Government Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Launches Records Mgmt Offering For Government Users

    CGI has unveiled a new records management platform meant to help government agencies meet the White House’s target dates for the government-wide electronic records management modernization directive. The company said Monday its Records Management as a Service offering is based on OpenText‘s Content Suite platform and Microsoft‘s Azure Government cloud computing system. CGI added it designed RMaaS to meet the Defense Department‘s electronics records […] More

  • FedScoop: 18F Issues RFP For Interagency Identity Mgmt Platform Under Agile BPA Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedScoop: 18F Issues RFP For Interagency Identity Mgmt Platform Under Agile BPA Vehicle

    The General Services Administration‘s 18F organization has issued a request for proposals via GitHub that seeks implementation support for a consumer-facing interagency authentication platform for citizen services, FedScoop reported Friday. Billy Mitchell writes 18F wants a vendor team that could provide technical features to the login.gov identity management platform, which is scheduled to be launched in November 2016. The chosen contractor would help 18F integrate […] More

  • Raytheon Selects CPI Aerostructures to Supply EW Jammer Pod Housings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Selects CPI Aerostructures to Supply EW Jammer Pod Housings

    Raytheon has awarded an estimated $4 million contract to CPI Aerostructures to supply structural pod housings for tests and airworthiness certification activities on Raytheon’s new electronic warfare jammer pods. CPI Aero said Friday it will provide the jammer pod structures through 2018 to aid the engineering and manufacturing development phase of Raytheon’s Next Generation Jammer program with the U.S. Navy. Raytheon secured […] More

  • UK Defense Ministry Picks Airbus Data Security Offering for F-35; Phil Jones Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Defense Ministry Picks Airbus Data Security Offering for F-35; Phil Jones Comments

    The U.K. defense ministry has selected Airbus to provide data protection technology for the British version of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 fighter jet and other military aircraft, Defense News reported Sunday. Andrew Chuter writes the Airbus local key management system technology will work to store, protect and distribute encrypted data on F-35, Airbus-built Voyager A330 inflight […] More

  • Kevin Robinson: MTSI to Continue Acquisition Support for MDA Through BCF Solutions Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin Robinson: MTSI to Continue Acquisition Support for MDA Through BCF Solutions Partnership

    Modern Technology Solutions Inc. and BCF Solutions will collaborate to provide technical, engineering, advisory and management support advisory and assistance services to the Missile Defense Agency under a potential $110 million contract. MTSI said Friday it will serve as a primary subcontractor to BCF Solutions and support the agency’s efforts to develop and implement the Ballistic Missile Defense System. “MTSI is thrilled to continue our long-term support […] More

  • CAE, Draken Enter Global Air Training Services Partnership; Gene Colabatistto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE, Draken Enter Global Air Training Services Partnership; Gene Colabatistto Comments

    CAE and Draken International signed a memorandum of understanding Friday at the Royal International Air Tattoo to explore opportunities in the global market for adversary and aggressor air training services. CAE said Friday the companies aim to offer an integrated live-virtual-constructive training system to air combat support, embedded and threat simulation, contracted adversary and aggressor air training and joint terminal attack controller training programs. “Over […] More

  • Germany’s Potential $4.5B Missile Defense Deal With Lockheed-MBDA Team Faces Possible Delay - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Germany’s Potential $4.5B Missile Defense Deal With Lockheed-MBDA Team Faces Possible Delay

    Germany may not be able to wrap up by the end of 2016 a potential $4.5 billion deal with Lockheed Martin and MBDA for a missile defense system, Reuters reported Sunday. Andrea Shalal writes Ralf Brauksiepe, Germany’s state secretary, wrote in a document released Friday that it is uncertain whether the Medium Extended Air Defense System program […] More

  • Cubic Receives Subcontract for British UAS Tactical Common Data Links - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Receives Subcontract for British UAS Tactical Common Data Links

    Cubic Corp. has been awarded a three-year, $1.4 million subcontract extension award from UAV Tactical Systems to provide additional Tactical Common Data Links for the U.K. defense ministry of defense’s Watchkeeper Unmanned Aircraft System program. The TCDL is a wireless connection system designed to facilitate image and data transfers from UAS platforms to ground control stations through digital signal processing […] More

  • Boeing, Mahindra Launch C-17 Training Center for India's Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Mahindra Launch C-17 Training Center for India’s Air Force

    Boeing and Mahindra Defense Systems have launched a new facility at the Flight Simulation Technique Center in Gurgaon, India, to support C-17 pilot and loadmaster training for the Indian air force. The full-service center is designed to train  C-17 aircrews for military airlift operations, humanitarian missions, aerial refueling and emergency procedures through simulation, courseware and computer-based training, Boeing said Friday. The company added that the facility will […] More

  • Finland Picks L-3 Division to Supply Infrared Imaging Tools for Airbus-Built H215 Choppers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Finland Picks L-3 Division to Supply Infrared Imaging Tools for Airbus-Built H215 Choppers

    An L-3 Communications division has secured an order from an agency in Finland to supply infrared imaging tools for installation onboard Airbus Group-built H215 helicopters. L-3 WESCAM will integrate its MX-15 electro-optical and infrared imaging systems with Finnish Border Guard’s H215 aircraft designed for use in search-and-rescue and maritime border patrol missions, L-3 Communications said Monday. […] More

  • Army Concludes Raytheon Patriot PDB-8 Developmental Test; Ralph Acaba Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Concludes Raytheon Patriot PDB-8 Developmental Test; Ralph Acaba Comments

    The U.S. Army has completed the last of four developmental tests for the Post Deployment Build 8 configuration of Raytheon‘s Patriot Integrated Air and Missile Defense system. Raytheon said Friday the PDB-8 Patriot system worked to detect, track and engage a cruise missile target and a fighter aircraft with the Guidance Enhanced Missile TBM and the Lockheed Martin-built PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors, respectively, during the test. “Using an […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands Contract to Demo EW Upgrades for Air Force Decoy Missile

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a potential $34.8 million contract to demonstrate an updated electronic warfare technology for the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer. Raytheon said Sunday it is scheduled to complete development of MALD-X, successor of the current MALD-J model, within a 24-month period and will conduct two flight demonstrations to showcase the aerial decoy’s EW upgrades. MALD-X will feature an EW payload, a low-altitude flight mode and […] More