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  • FireEye, Cybergy Labs Form Gov't-Commercial Sector Cyber Defense Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye, Cybergy Labs Form Gov’t-Commercial Sector Cyber Defense Partnership

    FireEye and a Cybergy Partners subsidiary have teamed up to combine their technology offerings and services in an effort to help government and commercial enterprises protect their information technology infrastructures from cyber threats. FireEye will work to integrate its Multi-Vector Virtual Execution tool and Mandiant’s endpoint security and incident response services with Cybergy Labs’ SmartFile system under […] More

  • Third Inmarsat Global Xpress Satellite Enters Orbit; Rupert Pearce Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Third Inmarsat Global Xpress Satellite Enters Orbit; Rupert Pearce Comments

    A new Boeing-made satellite lifted off Friday from Kazakhstan onboard an International Launch Services-built Proton Breeze M space vehicle to become part of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communications network. Rupert Pearce, CEO of Inmarsat, said Thursday the new GX satellite joins a constaellation that works to help customers quickly introduce new applications and offer remote mobile broadband services to […] More

  • DARPA to Host Proposers' Day for 'Gremlins' UAS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Proposers’ Day for ‘Gremlins’ UAS Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Tactical Technology Office plans to unveil information on its Gremlins program during a Proposers’ Day from Sept. 24 to 25. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps said registration is open through Sept. 18. According to DARPA, the Gremlins program aims to utilize small unmanned aircraft systems for coordinated support during distributed U.S. military […] More

  • Lockheed, WUT Conclude Airborne Systems Integration Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, WUT Conclude Airborne Systems Integration Research Project

    Lockheed Martin and the Warsaw University of Technology in Poland have wrapped up their collaborative research of new methods to integrate manned and unmanned airborne technologies. The company said Friday it helped university researchers develop software during the Optimizing Unmanned System of Systems research project. The partnership sought to identify techniques to enable aircraft systems […] More

  • Tropical Storm Delays Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tropical Storm Delays Lockheed-Built MUOS-4 Satellite Launch

    The launch of a new Lockheed Martin-built Mobile User Objective System satellite has been moved to Wednesday due to tropical storm Erika, SpaceFlight Insider reported Monday. Lockheed said Friday MUOS-4 will join the other three satellites in the U.S. Navy’s communications satellite network that works to provide video, data and voice capabilities for mobile uniformed personnel through an Internet protocol-based platform. […] More

  • General Dynamics to Provide Engineering Support for Naval Surface Warfare Acoustic Research Unit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Provide Engineering Support for Naval Surface Warfare Acoustic Research Unit

    The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics’ information technology business a potential five-year, $39.8 million contract to provide technical and engineering support services for the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock division’s acoustic research detachment. General Dynamics will perform work through August 2020 and the Navy obligate $2,775,000 at the time of award from fiscal 2015 research, test, […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global Soldier Modernization Market to Reach $13B by 2025 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Global Soldier Modernization Market to Reach $13B by 2025

    A Research and Markets report predicts the global soldier modernization market will hit $12.8 billion by 2025 from $8.3 billion in 2015. The report analyzed drivers, spending pattern, modernization trends and growth stimulators for the soldier modernization market in a span of 10 years, Research and Markets said Tuesday. It set the compound annual growth rate at 4.38 percent, with technological […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Builds 100th SM-3 Propulsion Control System for Raytheon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Builds 100th SM-3 Propulsion Control System for Raytheon

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has built and delivered its 100th throttling divert and attitude control system for the Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IB interceptor. Aerojet said Wednesday that TDACS is currently the only MIL-STD 1901A standards-compliant solid rocket propulsion system being used by the U.S. Navy. The company also manufactures first- and second-stage SM-3 Block IB booster […] More

  • CSG Government Solutions Participates in 2015 Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSG Government Solutions Participates in 2015 Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference

    Several state healthcare and human services professionals from CSG Government Solutions attended last week’s Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference in Iowa to discuss issues concerning Medicaid systems and initiatives. The company said Tuesday the participants delivered presentations or spoke in panels about topics such as Medicaid enrollment systems, standards compliance, privacy and security measures, and the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture. Andrea Danes, director […] More

  • Ray O'Farrell Named VMware CTO, Chief Development Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ray O’Farrell Named VMware CTO, Chief Development Officer

    Ray O’Farrell, formerly general manager of VMware‘s software-defined data center division, will assume the combined role of chief technology officer and chief development officer. The company said Wednesday O’Farrell succeeds Ben Fathi and will be in charge of the CTO team and manage the research and development business units. “He brings extensive and invaluable experience in […] More

  • Boston Engineering to Help Air Force Design UAV Motor Controller Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boston Engineering to Help Air Force Design UAV Motor Controller Tech

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boston Engineering a $150,000 contract to help build an embedded motor control technology for unmanned aerial vehicles. Boston Engineering aims to demonstrate a motor controller that could reduce noise of drone systems as well as support propulsion and sensor functions in unmanned aircraft, the company said Friday. Mark Smithers, […] More

  • Engility to Subject Systems Engineers to INCOSE Certification Process; Tony Smeraglinolo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Subject Systems Engineers to INCOSE Certification Process; Tony Smeraglinolo Comments

    Engility Holdings has inked a memorandum of agreement with the International Council on Systems Engineering to encourage Engility’s engineering workforce to secure systems engineering professional certifications from INCOSE. Engility said Thursday individuals that intend to secure an INCOSE SEP certification need to undergo an evaluation process to test their proficiency in systems engineering. Tony Smeraglinolo, president […] More