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  • Acumen Releases Customer Communication Mgmt Platform for Govt Sector; Jay Tansing Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Acumen Releases Customer Communication Mgmt Platform for Govt Sector; Jay Tansing Comments

    Acumen Solutions has launched a new platform designed to help government agencies manage customer correspondence in print, on mobile and online. The Correspondence Management-a Salesforce Fullforce Solution for Government works to automatically route citizen service requests to the applicable lines of business, Acumen said July 31. “Public sector organizations spend countless hours managing important correspondence […] More

  • MDA to Extend Support for ISS Robotic Servicing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MDA to Extend Support for ISS Robotic Servicing System

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received a $25.7 million contract modification from the Canadian space agency to continue its support for the Mobile Servicing System aboard the International Space Station. MDA said Tuesday the modification extends its support through the end of October 2017. The Canada-built Mobile Servicing System is a robotics suite that consists the Canadarm2, Mobile Base System […] More

  • Lockheed to Provide Commercial Launch Services for EchoStar's Comm Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Provide Commercial Launch Services for EchoStar’s Comm Satellite

    Lockheed Martin‘s commercial launch services subsidiary will support the launch of EchoStar‘s Jupiter 2 or XIX communications satellite in late 2016 aboard United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket. EchoStar said Wednesday the SSL-built EchoStar XIX is a Ka-band satellite that works to provide satellite Internet service to North American customers of HughesNet. The satellite will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force […] More

  • Lockheed Receives DHS Cyber Services Accreditation; Rich Mahler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Receives DHS Cyber Services Accreditation; Rich Mahler Comments

    Lockheed Martin has received an authorization from the Department of Homeland Security to provide cybersecurity services to federal government clients. The company will have access to DHS’ classified cybersecurity threat data under the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services information sharing program to help the department protect organizations from cyber attacks, Lockheed said Monday. “We’ll integrate the Department of Homeland […] More

  • Navy Orders General Dynamics Digital Radios for Ships, Subs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders General Dynamics Digital Radios for Ships, Subs

    General Dynamics has received a potential $29 million contract to supply digital modular radios and related tools to the U.S. Navy for new surface ships and submarines. The contract production of 56 units of AN/USC-61(C) DMRs with the Mobile User Objective System waveform that is designed to help place voice calls with the Defense Department’s MUOS narrowband satellite communications platform, the company said […] More

  • DRS Technologies Awarded Naval Communication, Missile Launch Tech Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Technologies Awarded Naval Communication, Missile Launch Tech Contracts

    DRS Technologies has announced three contracts the company was awarded provide digital combat, network communication and missile launching systems to the U.S. Navy. One contract has $96 million ceiling value over five years and covers work to produce, integrate and deploy the Common Display System Technology Insertion-12 for surface vessels, DRS said Monday. The Navy also awarded the company […] More

  • GeoDecisions Lands Transcom Geospatial Info System Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GeoDecisions Lands Transcom Geospatial Info System Contract

    GeoDecisions will work with the U.S. Transportation Command to report, view and distribute geospatial data under a $6,848,430 contract. The Camp Hill, Pennsylvania-based company will develop geospatial service and information technology applications and perform the work at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois through Sept. 30, 2019, the Defense Department said Monday. Transcom received three proposals for […] More

  • Progeny to Continue Support for Naval Ship System Maintenance Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Progeny to Continue Support for Naval Ship System Maintenance Tool

    Progeny Systems has been awarded a $10.9 million contract modification to continue helping the U.S. Navy build an integrated shipboard and shore-based maintenance decision platform. The Defense Department said Monday the company will create and integrate hardware components and software applications for the military branch to attain system-level functionality onboard naval ships and submarines. Work […] More

  • Ashay Dalvi Promoted to VP, Corporate Controller at Parsons - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ashay Dalvi Promoted to VP, Corporate Controller at Parsons

    Ashay Dalvi, formerly assistant corporate controller at Parsons, has been promoted to vice president and corporate controller at the engineering and construction company. Parsons said Monday Dalvi succeeded Rick Henderson on July 23 as the latter transitions into a new role of senior VP and finance director for the Middle East Africa region. Dalvi has been with […] More

  • Carl Marchetto Named Commercial Satellite VP, GM at Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carl Marchetto Named Commercial Satellite VP, GM at Lockheed

    Carl Marchetto, formerly president and CEO of business development consulting firm Polaris Associates, has been appointed vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin‘s commercial satellite business, Denver Business Journal reported Tuesday. Marchetto succeeds Mike Hamel, who will oversee a joint venture between Lockheed and telecommunications firms in Saudi Arabia, Greg Avery writes. Marchetto is a […] More

  • Forrester Research, LogRhythm to Co-Host Webcast on Analytics as Defense Against Data Breaches - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Forrester Research, LogRhythm to Co-Host Webcast on Analytics as Defense Against Data Breaches

    Forrester Research and security intelligence firm LogRhythm will co-host a webinar on the potential role of automated response and security analytics in preventing potential data breaches and other cyber attacks within organizations. The “Intrusion vs. Breach: How Security Analytics & Automated Response Can Improve Your Chances of Avoiding a Breach” webcast will be held on […] More