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  • House of Representatives Seeks Industry Sources for Cloud Migration Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    House of Representatives Seeks Industry Sources for Cloud Migration Effort

    The House of Representatives has started its search for industry sources to assist the legislative branch’s web systems group in its plan to transition the chamber’s public-facing website to a cloud computing infrastructure from the current on-premise environment. According to a March 8 request for information, the House’s information systems organization is considering potential directions it could take in a cloud […] More

  • DARPA Calls for Improvised Threat R&D Proposals; John Main Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Calls for Improvised Threat R&D Proposals; John Main Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation for research proposals for the Improv program that aims to build prototypes designed to pose security threats to potential adversaries through commercially available products. A broad agency announcement posted Friday on FedBizOpps stated that DARPA will select the proposals that will enter the feasibility study phase following the submission […] More

  • Draper Lab to Help Navy Develop Multi-Chip Microprocessors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Draper Lab to Help Navy Develop Multi-Chip Microprocessors

    Charles Stark Draper Laboratory has been awarded a five-year, $25.2 million contract by the U.S. Navy to support the controlled technical services work of the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren division. Under the program, Draper will aid in the development of miniature multichip processors and other related technologies, the Defense Department said Monday. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based […] More

  • Abacus Technology to Help Secure C4 Networks at Kirtland AF Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Abacus Technology to Help Secure C4 Networks at Kirtland AF Base

    Abacus Technology has landed a potential $25.7 million contract to provide command, control, communications and computer services to an Air Force facility in New Mexico. The Defense Department said Monday that Abacus Technology will support network monitoring and the implementation of security tools and patches for Kirtland Air Force Base’s C4 infrastructure under the sole-source contract. The military branch’s 377th Mission […] More

  • Saudi Air Force Receives Two Lockheed-Built Super Hercules Refuelers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saudi Air Force Receives Two Lockheed-Built Super Hercules Refuelers

    Lockheed Martin has handed two KC-130J Super Hercules aerial refuelers to Saudi Arabia’s air force under a foreign military sales agreement that country holds with the U.S. government. Saudi will be the 16th country to use the Super Hercules that is designed to refuel tactical aircraft, helicopters and tilt-rotors for airlift and ground refueling of expeditionary forces during missions, Lockheed said […] More

  • Technavio Names Top 5 Vendors in Global Data Loss Prevention Applications Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technavio Names Top 5 Vendors in Global Data Loss Prevention Applications Market

    Technavio has compiled a list of the leading vendors in the company’s global data loss prevention applications market report projected to make an impact in a forecast period of 2015 to 2019. The top five companies in the list are EMC, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro and Websense that are expected to deliver systems that can provide notifications to users during data […] More

  • David Shields Joins ASI Government in Procurement Leadership Role; Timothy Cooke Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    David Shields Joins ASI Government in Procurement Leadership Role; Timothy Cooke Comments

    David Shields, a former managing director of the U.K. government’s procurement service, has joined ASI Government in the same role over the Arlington, Virginia-based firm’s procurement transformation and category management practice. Shields led the U.K. government’s procurement transformation programs from 2005 to 2013 and oversaw an annual spend of $317 billion in the public sector there, ASI Government said […] More

  • ASRC Federal Receives Lockheed Award for Orion Project Support; Mark Gray Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ASRC Federal Receives Lockheed Award for Orion Project Support; Mark Gray Comments

    ASRC Federal has won a Small Business of the Year award from Lockheed Martin in recognition of the company’s work on a contract for NASA’s Orion spacecraft. ASRC Federal’s space and defense business accepted the 2015 Rigel Award in February during a ceremony that was held to commemorate the arrival of the spacecraft’s pressure vessel at […] More

  • CloseWatch Raises Funds for Crime Alert Mobile App; Mike Malcolm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CloseWatch Raises Funds for Crime Alert Mobile App; Mike Malcolm Comments

    CloseWatch has secured $1.49 million in a seed funding round from ECAP Holdings and a group of angel investors to further develop an analytics-based mobile application designed to help citizens report crimes to law enforcement agencies. The CloseWatch-built iWatch mobile app works to classify tips of illegal activities and threats based on the FBI’s standard crime […] More

  • Glynn Phillips: BAE Systems to Upgrade Australian Operational Radar Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Glynn Phillips: BAE Systems to Upgrade Australian Operational Radar Network

    BAE Systems plans to upgrade parts of Australia’s Jindalee operational radar network (JORN) after the government approved the technology’s phase 6 upgrade in December 2015. BAE Systems will submit its tender as a prime contractor for Project Air 2025 which will begin the upgrade in 2018, the company said Friday. “We are currently working closely […] More

  • Research and Markets Sees M2M Homeland Security Market Growth at 57% Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets Sees M2M Homeland Security Market Growth at 57% Through 2019

    Research and Markets has predicted the global machine-to-machine market in homeland security to grow 57 percent from 2015 to 2019, buoyed by the remote monitoring and controlling feature of M2M connected devices. The report attributes the market growth to increased government focus on efforts to address terrorist attacks, cyber-attack and natural disasters, Research and Markets […] More

  • Raytheon to Exhibit New Patriot System Radar Tech at Army Trade Expo - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Exhibit New Patriot System Radar Tech at Army Trade Expo

    Raytheon will display its new gallium nitride-based Active Electronically Scanned Array main antenna designed to work with the Patriot air and missile defense system at the Association of the U.S. Army‘s Global Force Symposium and Exposition Tuesday through Thursday in Huntsville, Alabama. Raytheon said Monday the AESA main array is designed to provide 360-degree coverage enabled by smaller transmitters and replace the current […] More