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  • LGS Innovations to Build Optical Intersatellite Comm Terminals for DARPA; Kevin Kelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LGS Innovations to Build Optical Intersatellite Comm Terminals for DARPA; Kevin Kelly Comments

    LGS Innovations has been selected to develop optical communication terminals meant to facilitate communication between two micro-satellites of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in low-Earth orbit. LGS will build a pair of lightweight, low-power laser communication terminals that DARPA plans to launch on the agency’s small satellites as part of the Inter-Satellite Communication Link initiative, the company said Wednesday. “Small satellites […] More

  • Exostar Integrates Seclore's Digital Rights Management Tech Into Collaboration Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exostar Integrates Seclore’s Digital Rights Management Tech Into Collaboration Platform

    Exostar has integrated Seclore‘s Enterprise Digital Rights Management system into a collaboration platform that works to provide data protection for defense contractors to support compliance with the Defense Department‘s Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement provisions. Exostar said Wednesday the collaboration platform is designed to provide document-centric protection for users of Exostar’s ForumPass cloud-based, software-as-a-service offering. The company added the newly incorporated system works to […] More

  • NexDefense, General Dynamics IT Unit Form Industrial Control System Cyber Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NexDefense, General Dynamics IT Unit Form Industrial Control System Cyber Partnership

    NexDefense has agreed to offer its industrial network security monitoring and anomaly detection system to General Dynamics’ information technology business unit under a new collaboration pact between both organizations. The commercial cyber services organization within General Dynamics’ IT unit will utilize NexDefense’s Sophia product to expand cybersecurity monitoring services into the industrial control system market, NexDefense said Tuesday. “Critical […] More

  • Colorado DOT Picks AECOM-Flatiron Team to Work on C-470 Tolled Express Lane Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Colorado DOT Picks AECOM-Flatiron Team to Work on C-470 Tolled Express Lane Project

    A team composed of AECOM and Flatiron Construction has been selected by the Colorado Department of Transportation to design and construct the C-470 highway’s express lanes in Denver’s south metro area as part of a $215 million project. AECOM said Tuesday Colorado DOT held a bidding process for the project on March 30 and selected […] More

  • CenturyLink to Offer Colocation, Cloud & Security Services via G2G Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Offer Colocation, Cloud & Security Services via G2G Marketplace

    CenturyLink will offer its colocation, cloud and security services to state and local government agencies through the G2G Marketplace online procurement portal. G2G Marketplace works to provide technology services to agencies through its website, which can also facilitate the purchase of technology and professional services with pre-negotiated blanket purchase agreements, CenturyLink said Tuesday. Rick Buyens, CenturyLink regional sales vice president, said […] More

  • Belden Updates Industrial Security Appliance Offering; Rekha Shenoy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Belden Updates Industrial Security Appliance Offering; Rekha Shenoy Comments

    Belden has updated the company’s industrial security appliance offering to include support for energy-specific communication protocols meant to help guard power generation and transmission facilities against cyber threats. The Tofino Xenon platform works to counter malicious and unauthorized access, increase supervisory control and data acquisition system and secure industrial control system devices, Belden said Tuesday. “Protecting the critical infrastructure that drives […] More

  • BMC's Digital Service Mgmt Application Receives FedRAMP Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BMC’s Digital Service Mgmt Application Receives FedRAMP Certification

    BMC‘s cloud-based digital service management application has been certified under the U.S. governmentwide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program that makes the product available to federal agencies. The Agriculture Department-sponsored Remedy OnDemand service for federal agencies will use the FedRAMP-certified Amazon Web Services cloud to provide IT service management options to help clients meet mission requirements, BMC said Wednesday. “Security […] More

  • Esri to Exhibit ArcGIS-Based Geospatial Tools; John Day Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri to Exhibit ArcGIS-Based Geospatial Tools; John Day Comments

    Esri is scheduled to showcase the company’s geospatial technology offerings at the GEOINT Symposium from May 15 to 18 and conduct a free training session during the event slated to take place in Orlando, Florida. Esri staff will discuss on-site how ArcGIS platform-based geospatial technologies provide intelligence on defense and national security to customers, Esri said Tuesday. […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Saab Optronic Sensors for Canadian Navy's Fire Control Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Picks Saab Optronic Sensors for Canadian Navy’s Fire Control Directors

    Saab has come to an agreement with Lockheed Martin‘s subsidiary in Canada to install additional optronic sensors in the former’s Ceros 200 fire control directors used by the country’s navy on the branch’s Halifax-class frigates and land-based test sites. The optronic sensors will work to deliver additional support to the radar functions of the Ceros 200, Saab said Monday. Ceros 200 […] More

  • Naval Research Lab, General Atomics to Collaborate on Radar Tech Integration Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Naval Research Lab, General Atomics to Collaborate on Radar Tech Integration Project

    The Naval Research Laboratory has partnered with a General Atomics subsidiary to embed NRL-built inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging software into the company’s Lynx multimode radar system. NRL and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will work to build integrated radar technology for joint warfighter missions under a cooperative research and development agreement, according to an article published Tuesday on the U.S. Navy website. Thomas Pizzillo, […] More

  • Thales to Supply Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing System to Spain's Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales to Supply Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing System to Spain’s Air Force

    Thales has been awarded a contract from Spain’s defense ministry to supply and install 80 of the company’s Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems on that country’s fleet of EF-18 Hornet aircraft flown. The company said Thursday it will develop and produce the helmet cueing systems plus conduct a viability study, tests, integration with test aircraft, qualification support and fleet integration for Spain’s […] More

  • Textron Unit Unveils New UAS Training, Maintenance Facility to Support Nat'l Airspace Integration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Unit Unveils New UAS Training, Maintenance Facility to Support Nat’l Airspace Integration

    A Textron business unit has established a new facility for unmanned aircraft system training and maintenance activities to support research on UAS integration into national airspace. The unmanned systems service and support center houses Textron Systems‘ training and global service operations, the company’s schoolhouse for operators and maintainers and its sustainment operations for the Aerosonde small UAS, Textron said Monday. “With this […] More