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  • Louis Berger-Cummins JV to Help FEMA Distribute Emergency Generator Sets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Louis Berger-Cummins JV to Help FEMA Distribute Emergency Generator Sets

    A joint venture of Louis Berger and Cummins Power Generation holds a position on a five-year, $45 million contract to aid the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the distribution of generator sets during relief operations. Berger/Cummins will help FEMA to facilitate the agency’s disaster and emergency response missions in the U.S. and overseas, Louis Berger said Thursday. Frank Jordano, president of […] More

  • Parsons Tasked to Design Florida I-95 Traffic Management System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Tasked to Design Florida I-95 Traffic Management System

    The Florida Department of Transportation district two has tasked Parsons to design the FDOT’s freeway traffic management system expansion on a 17-mile stretch on I-95 Parsons will develop the traffic management system’s backbone and identify and design the individual devices needed to cover the area between north of Jacksonville International Airport and the Georgia state line. […] More

  • General Atomics Subsidiary Development, Production Process Receives CMMI Level 5 Rating - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Subsidiary Development, Production Process Receives CMMI Level 5 Rating

    A General Atomics subsidiary has received the Capability Maturity Model Integration Maturity level 5 rating for its aircraft systems business unit’s full-directed programs, systems and software development and production processes. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. received the highest attainable maturity level award, which acknowledges companies considered to be working at an optimized level, General Atomics said Thursday. “Absent an externally-levied […] More

  • NIST to Fund Organizations in 11 States to Operate Manufacturing Centers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST to Fund Organizations in 11 States to Operate Manufacturing Centers

    The Commerce Department‘s National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun the fourth round of competitions for cooperative funding agreement opportunities for Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers across 11 states. NIST said Thursday it will provide a potential $60 million to fund organizations in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada, North Dakota, South Carolina and Wyoming to operate the MEP […] More

  • Fluor, Heijmans Capital, 3i Infrastructure Land Motorway Design-Build Contract in the Netherlands - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fluor, Heijmans Capital, 3i Infrastructure Land Motorway Design-Build Contract in the Netherlands

    A consortium of Fluor, Heijmans Capital and 3i Infrastructure has been selected to design, build and manage a potential $245 million public-private partnership motorway project in the Netherlands. The 3Angle consortium will also perform financing and maintenance work on the A27/A1 motorway project and is scheduled to complete work in 2019, Fluor said Thursday. The project seeks […] More

  • SAIC Partners With NCI to Support Cybercom Missions; Brian Clark Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Partners With NCI to Support Cybercom Missions; Brian Clark Comments

    NCI has received a subcontract from Science Applications International Corp. to support cybersecurity operations of the U.S. Cyber Command. SAIC is one of the six prime contractors on a potential $460 million Cybercom mission services contract awarded in May and will collaborate with NCI in efforts to help protect and manage Defense Department networks, NCI said Thursday. Cybercom seeks to acquire new […] More

  • UK Eyes Domestic UAV Training Center; CAE's Gene Colabatistto Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Eyes Domestic UAV Training Center; CAE’s Gene Colabatistto Comments

    The U.K. government plans to build its own training center for General Atomics-built unmanned air vehicles as space for allies at the U.S. Air Force’s UAV training school continues to shrink, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Beth Stevenson writes the Air Force began to ration the slots for foreign partners at the Holloman Air Force Base in […] More

  • BAE Updates Software of UK Air Force's Typhoon Aircraft Simulators - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Updates Software of UK Air Force’s Typhoon Aircraft Simulators

    BAE Systems has completed a software update to the Emulated Deployable Cockpit Trainers for the British air force’s Typhoon fighter aircraft simulators. The company said Wednesday that updated EDCT system at Royal Air Force Coningsby and Lossiemouth bases will work to simulate missions for Typhoon pilots to familiarize themselves with geographical area, conditions and layout prior to deployment. “This update to the UK’s synthetic […] More

  • Carahsoft, Pixlogic Join AWS Intell Community Cloud Tech Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, Pixlogic Join AWS Intell Community Cloud Tech Marketplace

    Carahsoft Technology and Pixlogic are included in a list of vendors authorized to market cloud-based products and services to the U.S. intelligence community via an Amazon Web Services-run online marketplace. Carahsoft will offer Pixlogic-made image and video automated search software piXserve to 17 IC agencies through the AWS Marketplace as Pixlogic’s government distributor, Pixlogic said Thursday. The platform is designed to […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop Decision Support Tool for Army CLEANSE Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Decision Support Tool for Army CLEANSE Effort

    The U.S. Army has awarded Charles River Analytics with a potential one-year, $1 million contract to develop a decision support tool for the Contamination and Lasting Effects Analysis for Negative Substance and Elements effort. Charles River Analytics said Wednesday that the decision support tool will work to support the enhancement of the military testing and training facilities’ […] More

  • Hitron Technologies to Help DHS Engineer Body-Worn Camera Activation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitron Technologies to Help DHS Engineer Body-Worn Camera Activation System

    Hitron Technologies Inc. has been awarded a 16-month, $441,706 contract with the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate to develop an automated activation system for body-worn cameras for first responders. The company said Thursday it aims to incorporate sensors that use short-range radio signals into the system to automate the activation of a responder’s body-worn camera depending […] More

  • Boeing Unveils Missouri Lab for Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles; Nancy Pendleton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Unveils Missouri Lab for Collaborative Unmanned Vehicles; Nancy Pendleton Comments

    Boeing has opened an 8,100-square-foot laboratory in St. Charles, Missouri to facilitate the development and validation of software and hardware designed to support collaboration among unmanned ground, maritime and aerial vehicles. The company said Thursday the Collaborative Autonomous Systems Laboratory features a motion capture system that will work to help users operate multiple unmanned vehicles in a […] More