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  • Army Taps Subsystem Technologies for Weapon Logistics Support; Indra Nayee Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps Subsystem Technologies for Weapon Logistics Support; Indra Nayee Comments

    Subsystem Technologies has received a multimillion dollar contract to perform logistics engineering and product support analysis work on U.S. Army weapons and equipment. The company said Monday it will provide LEPSA services to the lifecycle supportability division of the Army’s Armament Research and Engineering Center in New Jersey. Indra Nayee, director of Subsystem Technologies’ defense […] More

  • Report: IT Sector's Public Cloud Revenues Hit $22B in Q2 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: IT Sector’s Public Cloud Revenues Hit $22B in Q2 2015

    Synergy Research Group reports that information technology companies generated a combined revenue of $22 billion from public cloud platforms and services during 2015’s second quarter. The market research firm said Thursday hardware, software and data center infrastructure accounted for $10 billion of the IT industry’s quarterly public cloud revenue. IT firms collectively sold about $12 […] More

  • CRN: Dell to Debut ID Mgmt Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CRN: Dell to Debut ID Mgmt Offering

    Dell will launch a new identity management and access control offering in an effort to help customers secure their cloud environments, CRN reported Monday. Matt Brown writes the Dell One Identity Manager 7.0 security platform is designed to provide an integrated identity and access management strategy to clients. Dell intends for the new offering to […] More

  • Orbital ATK Subsidiary to Work on NASA Space Propulsion System; Mike Kahn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Subsidiary to Work on NASA Space Propulsion System; Mike Kahn Comments

    Orbital ATK has secured a contract to perform research and design work on space propulsion systems for NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. NASA awarded the Research and Technologies for Aerospace Propulsion Systems 2 contract to Orbital ATK’s Alliant Techsystems Operations subsidiary, Orbital ATK said Monday. In July, NASA awarded Orbital ATK and 12 other companies five-year […] More

  • HHS to Back Regeneron's Ebola Drug Development, Manufacturing Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS to Back Regeneron’s Ebola Drug Development, Manufacturing Efforts

    Regeneron Pharmaceuticals has landed a potential 23-month, $38 million contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to further develop the company’s experimental drug against Ebola virus. HHS’ Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority could provide $11.3 million in additional funds for Regeneron to produce alternative anti-Ebola monoclonal antibody drugs for clinical research […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Info on Aerial Comm Systems for Nuclear Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Info on Aerial Comm Systems for Nuclear Environments

    The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on airborne communications systems for nuclear environments as well as pricing and other market details for a potential broad agency announcement. The service said in the notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps that interested parties should submit an abstract that contains the requested information to the Air Force Materiel […] More

  • Air Force Eyes Laser-Shooting Combat Aircraft By 2020; Gen. Hawk Carlisle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Eyes Laser-Shooting Combat Aircraft By 2020; Gen. Hawk Carlisle Comments

    The U.S. Air Force could start to use laser weapons in combat missions within five years, Ars Technica reported Friday. Air Force Gen. Hawk Carlisle told the Air Force Association Air & Space Conference this week he believes directed-energy weapons pods could be installed in a fighter plane “very soon,” Sean Gallagher reports. “That day is a lot closer than I think a […] More

  • CACI to Help Navy Build, Install Airborne C4I Systems; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Help Navy Build, Install Airborne C4I Systems; Ken Asbury Comments

    The U.S. Navy has awarded CACI International a 20-month, $63.5 million contract to support the Naval Air Warfare Center’s research and development work on C4I (command, control, computers, communications, intelligence) technologies. CACI said Monday it will help NAWCAD design, produce and install rapid reaction aerial vehicle C4I systems for the Navy and Marine Corps. “This […] More

  • Deltek: Agencies Increased Use of LPTA Method to Evaluate IT Bid Proposals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: Agencies Increased Use of LPTA Method to Evaluate IT Bid Proposals

    A new Deltek report indicates that federal agencies’ use of the “lowest price-technically acceptable” methodology to acquire professional services and information technology offerings rose from 29 percent in fiscal 2012 to 32 percent during fiscal 2014. Overall, the U.S. government adopted an LPTA source selection process in 5,740 acquisition activities last year, a 24 percent […] More

  • DHS Awards Galois, Waverley Labs DDoS Defense Program Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Awards Galois, Waverley Labs DDoS Defense Program Contracts

    The Department of Homeland Security has awarded $2.33 million in contracts to Galois and Waverley Labs for support of the science and technology directorate’s cybersecurity research and development program on distributed denial of service attacks. DHS said Friday the $1.7 million “DDoS Defense for a Company of Peers” contract with Oregon-based Galois covers the development of a DDoS response tool […] More

  • Northrop Picks Kitron to Supply F-35 Avionics Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Picks Kitron to Supply F-35 Avionics Components

    Kitron AS has entered into a 10-year agreement to manufacture electronic modules that Northrop Grumman will use in the production of F-35 communications, navigation and identification systems. Northrop integrates software-based radio technology into its CNI platform for Lockheed Martin-built F-35s in an effort to help pilots transmit data and voice communications during their missions, Kitron […] More

  • FLIR Surveillance Awarded Navy Infrared Imaging System Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FLIR Surveillance Awarded Navy Infrared Imaging System Contract

    FLIR Surveillance has received a 10-year, $49.9 million contract to supply an imaging infrared system to the U.S. Navy. The Combatant Craft Forward Looking Infrared variant 2 imaging platform has image processing tools and optics that work to detect infrared radiation or light that emanates from surface targets during day and night, the Defense Department said Friday. CCFLIR2 […] More