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  • NASA Finds 1st Exoplanet with Ball Aerospace's Kepler Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Finds 1st Exoplanet with Ball Aerospace’s Kepler Spacecraft

    NASA has discovered the first exoplanet with a repurposed version of the Ball Aerospace-developed Kepler spacecraft. Lead researcher Andrew Vanderburg studied data collected by Kepler in February during a K2 mission test in which the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo’s HARPS-North spectrograph took measurements that confirmed the new find, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. “Kepler may well deliver the first […] More

  • Exelis, Iridium, DISA Demo Satellite-Based Tactical Comms Service; Mark Adams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis, Iridium, DISA Demo Satellite-Based Tactical Comms Service; Mark Adams Comments

    The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency has collaborated with Exelis and Iridium Communications to test a satellite-based communications service designed to connect military and intelligence personnel anywhere across the globe. Exelis, Iridium and DISA demonstrated the push-to-talk voice and data exchange service for the agency’s  Distributed Tactical Communication System, Exelis said Friday. “We remain committed […] More

  • Research and Markets: Cloud Computing to Drive Mega Data Center Market Through 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Cloud Computing to Drive Mega Data Center Market Through 2018

    Research and Markets has projected a 4.62 compound annual growth rate for the global mega data center market from 2014 to 2018. Cloud computing technology will be among the primary growth drivers in the large enterprise data hubs industry, the research firm said Thursday. Analysts also see a trend toward interconnection between big data centers […] More

  • Dan Hart: Boeing Preps for Next GPS IIF Launch as 8th Satellite Joins Constellation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dan Hart: Boeing Preps for Next GPS IIF Launch as 8th Satellite Joins Constellation

    Boeing‘s GPS Space Vehicle-69 satellite has joined the 31-satellite GPS System IIF constellation after almost two months of on-orbit checkout and validation as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s network modernization efforts. The company said Thursday this is the eighth of 12 planned GPS IIF satellites and the fourth launched this year to support a growing number of users and […] More

  • QinetiQ NA to Help Refurbish Army, Navy TALON Robots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ NA to Help Refurbish Army, Navy TALON Robots

    QinetiQ North America has received a $17.5 million contract from the U.S. Army and a separate $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy to refurbish and modernize the services’ TALON IV military robots. QNA will provide spare parts for the TALON systems fielded in Afghanistan and Iraq and upgrade services to help protect U.S. warfighters in operations, […] More

  • Jeffrey Tarr: DigitalGlobe Invests in WorldView Satellite Life Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeffrey Tarr: DigitalGlobe Invests in WorldView Satellite Life Extension

    DigitalGlobe has invested an undisclosed amount of money to increase the useful lives of the company’s two older Earth observation satellites. The goal is to extend the WorldView-1 service life by 2.5 years until the fourth quarter of 2020 and the WorldView-2 lifespan by 2 years through 2022, DigitalGlobe said Thursday. Jeffrey Tarr, DigitalGlobe CEO, […] More

  • Rob Weiss: Lockheed to Continue Open Architecture Support for USAF Aircraft Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rob Weiss: Lockheed to Continue Open Architecture Support for USAF Aircraft Modernization

    Lockheed Martin has deployed its Skunk Works Enterprise Open Systems Architecture to integrate multiple sensors that are compliant with the U.S. Air Force‘s Open Mission Systems standard into the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft. The company said Dec. 10 that the three-week flight test series utilized Lockheed’s mission management software, an IP-based data link and four OMS-compliant sensor payloads to perform mission operations. Rob Weiss, […] More

  • Richard Montoni: MAXIMUS Delivers UK Work Program to Additional Region - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard Montoni: MAXIMUS Delivers UK Work Program to Additional Region

    MAXIMUS will deliver the U.K. department for work and pensions’ Work Program to North East Yorkshire and the Humber beginning Feb. 2, 2015, as part of a performance-based contract potentially worth $14 million. MAXIMUS CEO Richard Montoni said Thursday that the company works to support government welfare reform programs by providing personalized assistance to job seekers in the region. The Work Program […] More

  • IBM Modifies Cloud Contract Structure for Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Modifies Cloud Contract Structure for Clients

    IBM has drafted what it says is a “simplified” contract for its cloud offerings as it sought to provide clients with an option for accelerated service delivery. The new two-page document is a condensed version one-fifths shorter than traditional service agreements, IBM said Thursday. “It’s ironic that cloud computing represents a faster and more innovative […] More

  • Research and Markets: Small Arms Market Set for 2% CAGR - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Small Arms Market Set for 2% CAGR

    The global small arms market is set for a 2.21 percent year-over-year growth from 2014 to 2018, new analysis from Research and Markets revealed. The report, entitled “Global Small Arms Market 2014-2018,” highlighted efforts to innovate in light weapons technology, such as the U.S. government’s LSAT program, as a chief influencer in product development, the […] More

  • Lockheed Selects L-3 Digital Data Link for Small UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects L-3 Digital Data Link for Small UAS

    Lockheed Martin has awarded a subcontract to L-3 Communications to equip the U.K. defense ministry’s Desert Hawk III DDL digital platform with the MICRO Secure Digital Data Link. The companies said Dec. 1 that L-3’s MICRO SDDL will support communications for the small unmanned aircraft system’s command-and-control and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations. Kevin Westfall, director of LM MST’s unmanned solutions business, said that […] More

  • NSR: SATCOM Tech Demand to Drive UAS Market Through 2023 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSR: SATCOM Tech Demand to Drive UAS Market Through 2023

    NSR projects global revenues of the satellite-based unmanned aerial systems market to be $3.1 billion by 2023, up from $1.3 billion last year. Growth will be driven by demand for satellite communications technology intended to support drones used in homeland security, disaster management and peacekeeping operations, NSR said Thursday. Commercial satellite operators are projected to […] More