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  • General Dynamics-Led Team Eyes Training Facility in Pursuit of Canada SAR Aircraft Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics-Led Team Eyes Training Facility in Pursuit of Canada SAR Aircraft Contract

    A team comprising General Dynamics, DRS Technologies and Leonardo-Finmeccanica will build a training facility in Comox, British Columbia if the team wins a $3 billion contract to build search-and-rescue aircraft for Canada. Former Canadian Air Force chief Steve Lucas told a press conference that Team Spartan offers to construct a 73,000-square-foot building to serve as the location for the group’s […] More

  • Lockheed Demos Q-53 Radar's UAS Counter, Tracking Functions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Demos Q-53 Radar’s UAS Counter, Tracking Functions

    Lockheed Martin has demonstrated the AN/TPQ-53 counterfire radar’s unmanned aerial systems tracking and identification functions designed to support information relay to a command and control node. The company built Q-53 to detect, classify, track and locate indirect fire from enemies in 36o- and 90- degree modes, as well as deliver multi-mission radar functions through its rockets, […] More

  • White House Sci-Tech Policy Office Seeks Information on AI Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    White House Sci-Tech Policy Office Seeks Information on AI Technologies

    The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy has asked for information on artificial intelligence technologies that could support OSTP’s efforts to recommend research directions and determine challenges and opportunities. In a Federal Register notice posted Monday, OSTP said it seeks feedback from academic and industry researchers, consumers, private companies and charitable foundations to inform the office’s view on AI research, tools, technologies and […] More

  • China’s Rocket for Proposed Space Station Completes Inaugural Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    China’s Rocket for Proposed Space Station Completes Inaugural Flight

    A China-built rocket designed to transport spacecraft and astronauts to the country’s proposed space station launched Saturday at 8 a.m. Eastern time from a launch pad on Hainan Island in the South China Sea, SpaceFlight Now reported Saturday. China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp., the prime contractor on the Chinese space program, said the Long March 7 […] More

  • Iron Mountain's Underground Data Center to Support NEC Private Cloud & Operations Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain’s Underground Data Center to Support NEC Private Cloud & Operations Service

    NEC Corp. has selected Iron Mountain‘s underground western Pennsylvania data center to serve as primary colocation provider of the former’s private cloud and operations service. Iron Mountain said Tuesday that its facility has been selected to support SAP HANA for its comprehensive compliance support and security, federal-ready services as well as its data center marketplace and cloud services provider […] More

  • Air Industries Group to Develop KC-135 Landing Gear - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Industries Group to Develop KC-135 Landing Gear

    Air Industries Group has received $2.3 million in subcontract awards from Helicopter Tech to develop landing gear component made from forged aluminum for the KC-135 aircraft. Nassau Tool Works, Air Industries’ subsidiary, will produce the part over a period of two years with the start of deliveries slated for early 2018, Air Industries said Monday. Dan Godin, Air Industries Group president […] More

  • Austal USA Delivers 'Montgomery' Littoral Combat Ship to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Austal USA Delivers ‘Montgomery’ Littoral Combat Ship to Navy

    Austal USA formally turned over the USS Montgomery littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy at a ceremony held Thursday at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The Navy said Friday Montgomery, which is scheduled to be commissioned in September,  will be the military branch’s seventh LCS and fourth ship of its Independence class. Capt. Tom Anderson, the Navy’s LCS program manager, said the service […] More

  • Cisco, Israel Eye Digital Services Hub Under Strategic Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, Israel Eye Digital Services Hub Under Strategic Partnership

    Cisco has forged a strategic partnership with Israel that seeks to expedite the deployment of digital platforms in the country over the next three years. The company will work with Israel’s social justice ministry and regional governors to turn eastern Negev into the country’s first smart region and establish a digital hub to facilitate delivery […] More

  • AFR: IBM to Open Canberra Cyber Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AFR: IBM to Open Canberra Cyber Center

    IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has announced the company plans to establish a cybersecurity center in the country’s capital of Canberra, the Australian Financial Review reported Tuesday. Paul Smith writes Kevin Zuccato, former director of Australia’s High Tech Crime Centre, was appointed to lead IBM’s National Cyber Security Centre. The center will offer collaboration with security specialists and access to […] More

  • STG to Provide IT Support Services to 2nd Regional Cyber Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    STG to Provide IT Support Services to 2nd Regional Cyber Center

    STG has received a contract modification worth $34 million from the U.S. Army to provide information technology support to the 2nd Regional Cyber Center Western Hemisphere at Ft. Huachuca in Arizona. The Defense Department said Monday that STG is expected to complete the services by June 2017. DoD added that the Army Contracting Command had obligated […] More

  • ViaSat Hits 500-Unit Milestone for Small Tactical Terminal Production - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViaSat Hits 500-Unit Milestone for Small Tactical Terminal Production

    ViaSat has reached the 500-unit production milestone for its KOR-24A small tactical terminal under a rate that works to roll out more than 20 terminals per month. The company said Monday STT two-channel radios have worked to provide direct Link 16 network interoperability for U.S. and international military users through more than 1,000,000 operational flight hours. “We produced and delivered over 210 STTs to customers over […] More

  • RKF Engineering Wins Contract From DISA for Defense Electromagnetic Spectrum Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RKF Engineering Wins Contract From DISA for Defense Electromagnetic Spectrum Services

    RKF Engineering Solutions has won a one-year, $19.7 million contract to support a Defense Information Systems Agency organization’s electromagnetic environmental effects engineering and analysis activities. The Washington, D.C.-based company will perform the contract work in Annapolis, Maryland, and Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, through June 26, 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. RKF Engineering Solutions will collaborate with […] More