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  • Bill Rebarick: Cubic to Offer Game-Based Training Tools for Govt Through 'EDGE' Consortium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Rebarick: Cubic to Offer Game-Based Training Tools for Govt Through ‘EDGE’ Consortium

    A Cubic subsidiary that builds game-based training platforms has joined an industry alliance designed to encourage collaboration among technology developers, universities and government agencies. The EDGE Innovation Network offers a collaborative environment for organizations to build new tools to help first responders, warfighters and law enforcement officers perform their missions, Cubic said Wednesday. Bill Rebarick, […] More

  • Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anne Ostroff: Northrop Lands Subcontract for SBIRS Satellite 5, 6 Payloads

    Lockheed Martin has tasked Northrop Grumman to provide sensor payloads for the fifth and sixth geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites in the U.S. Air Force‘s Space Based Infrared System under a $422 million subcontract. “Northrop Grumman looks forward to joining our partner and prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, to produce the GEO-5/6 IR payloads,” Anne Ostroff, vice president of Northrop’s military and civil […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Tech Demo Mission to Fly 3 DoD Payloads - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Tech Demo Mission to Fly 3 DoD Payloads

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies and NASA will fly a set of experimental Defense Department scientific payloads on the planned Green Propellant Infusion Mission for 2016 under a $3.4 million payload integration contract. The company said Wednesday the DoD Space Experiments Review Board selected the Integrated Miniaturized Electrostatic Analyzer Reflight, Small Wind and Temperature Spectrometer and Space Object Self-tracker payloads to be part of the GPIM […] More

  • Tom McGuire: Lockheed Aims to Build Nuclear Fusion Tech for Power Generation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom McGuire: Lockheed Aims to Build Nuclear Fusion Tech for Power Generation

    Lockheed Martin is developing a small reactor the company believes has potential to generate power through nuclear fusion, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Tom McGuire, a program lead at Lockheed’s Skunk Works unit, said the organization seeks to attract government, academic and commercial partners for its compact fusion reactor project. Skunk Works conducted a study […] More

  • MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc. to Supply Mitsubishi Electric With Ku-/Ka-Band Antennas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MacDonald, Dettwiler & Assoc. to Supply Mitsubishi Electric With Ku-/Ka-Band Antennas

    Japan-based Mitsubishi Electric has chosen MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates to provide Ku-band and Ka-band antenna subsystems as part of a new contract worth $10 million. MDA said Thursday that the antennas will equip a commercial telecommunications satellite as the company works to expand its multibeam communications portfolio in the Japanese market. MDA is a communications and information company that […] More

  • Raytheon Delivers 10th MDA AN/TPY-2 Radar; Dave Gulla Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Delivers 10th MDA AN/TPY-2 Radar; Dave Gulla Comments

    Raytheon has delivered the tenth installment of its AN/TPY-2 radar for the Missile Defense Agency’s Ballistic Missile Defense System program. The company said Tuesday the current project was completed half a year ahead of its scheduled delivery, with two additional radars under current production. The mobile X-band defense radar works to identify and track ballistic […] More

  • Ramesh Ramaswamy: Schafer Expands Support to DHS Nuclear Detection Ops Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ramesh Ramaswamy: Schafer Expands Support to DHS Nuclear Detection Ops Center

    Schafer‘s government services sector business will support Advantage SCI as a subcontractor on the Technical Acquisition and Business Support Services contract for the Department of Homeland Security. The company will provide 24-7 watch officer services for the Joint Analysis Center of DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, expanding its current support for information analysis at JAC, Schafer said Thursday. Ramesh […] More

  • Internet of Things Reference Model Unwrapped at World Forum; Wim Elfrink Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Internet of Things Reference Model Unwrapped at World Forum; Wim Elfrink Comments

    Industry has unveiled an Internet of Things reference model to help define the technology, identify its challenges and standardize IoT terminology for developers, chief information officers and IT leaders. The Internet of Things World Forum Steering Committee drafted the framework, unwrapped at this week’s Cisco-hosted IoTWF in Chicago, in a bid to push IoT adoption […] More

  • Richard Waddell: APL to House DOJ Criminal Justice R&D Center, Evaluate Tech Outcomes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Richard Waddell: APL to House DOJ Criminal Justice R&D Center, Evaluate Tech Outcomes

    Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory will host a research center for the Justice Department‘s National Institute of Justice to test and conduct operational evaluations of non-forensic technologies for state and local law enforcement, corrections agencies, and courts. APL has signed a five-year cooperative agreement with DOJ to house the National Criminal Justice Technology Research, Test and […] More

  • Northrop Reveals Humvee Modernization Offering; Jeff Wood Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Reveals Humvee Modernization Offering; Jeff Wood Comments

    Northrop Grumman has launched a modernization offering that works to drive fuel efficiency and enable extended life for High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, also known as Humvees. The company said Tuesday that it collaborated with Meritor Defense and Pratt & Miller Engineering to develop the offering, which aims to achieve lower sustainment and life-cycle costs. Jeff Wood, director of vehicle modernization at Northrop Grumman Technical […] More

  • DRS Launches Small Signals Intell Sensors; Stephen Robillard Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DRS Launches Small Signals Intell Sensors; Stephen Robillard Comments

    DRS Technologies has introduced a new small signals intelligence sensor system, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. Colin Clark writes the Finmeccanica subsidiary designed the ruggedized sensor to fulfill the combat requirements of U.S. troops. Stephen Robillard, DRS vice president for SIGINT business development, told Breaking Defense that he sees the the SIGINT market to grow by tens of millions […] More

  • CA Technologies Updates Unified Infrastructure Mgmt Offering; John Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CA Technologies Updates Unified Infrastructure Mgmt Offering; John Smith Comments

    CA Technologies has updated its unified infrastructure management offering in an effort to help customers monitor critical information technology assets. The company rolled out updates to the tool’s analytics, alerting and cloud monitoring systems for users to avoid problems through predictive identification of threats in performance, CA said Thursday. “CA UIM’s scalable, end-to-end monitoring capabilities help IT organizations and service […] More