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  • Thales to Provide Operational Support for Lyon Airport - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales to Provide Operational Support for Lyon Airport

    Thales has received a contract to provide operational support for France’s Lyon international airport. Lyon-Saint Exupery Airport will utilize the company’s Airport Operation Control Centre to help consolidate security and information technology systems, handle technical monitoring and carry out event management, Thales said Monday. According to the company, the Aeroports de Lyon management, which announced […] More

  • API To Build Custom Photodiode for Navy’s Guided Missile Weapon System; Richard Kurtz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    API To Build Custom Photodiode for Navy’s Guided Missile Weapon System; Richard Kurtz Comments

    Advanced Photonix Inc. will develop a custom-built photodiode for the U.S. Navy’s ship self-defense weapon under a $1.6 million, 18-month contract from an unnamed military contractor. The photodiodes, semiconductor devices that convert photons of light to generate current, will be made for the RIM-116 rolling airframe missile program, API said Monday. API will design the […] More

  • Sean Rice: Boeing Team Demos 'Talon' Comm System's Interoperability - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sean Rice: Boeing Team Demos ‘Talon’ Comm System’s Interoperability

    Boeing has wrapped up a design review on a U.S. Air Force communication and information sharing system following the technology’s demonstration on various platforms. Boeing developed the Talon HATE system to consolidate data from fighter networks, national sources and joint command and control infrastructure for data-link transmission to joint aircraft, ship and ground stations, Boeing said Tuesday. “The Boeing team demonstrated communications […] More

  • Sandia Labs Researchers Sequence Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Strain's Genome - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sandia Labs Researchers Sequence Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Strain’s Genome

    A team of scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories has sequenced the genome of an antibiotic-resistant pathogen strain to understand how its resistance operates and spreads to other bacteria. Patti Koning writes in a piece published Aug. 22 that Sandia’s Zach Bent, Corey Hudson, Robert Meagher and Kelly Williams studied the composition of the Klebsiella pneumoniae strain and encoded the New […] More

  • Scott Kaine: Cyveillance Threat Intell Platform to Focus on Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scott Kaine: Cyveillance Threat Intell Platform to Focus on Analysis

    A QinetiQ subsidiary has launched a new cloud-based platform that aims to help security and risk professionals perform their own analyses of available threat intelligence using various investigative tools and data sources. Cyveillance‘s Cyber Threat Center platform also works to use intelligence reports, web search and social media monitoring to collect threat data that can be “distilled” to generate actionable security […] More

  • Jim Anderson: Progressive Insurance Adopts BAE's Anti-Fraud Tool to Evaluate Claims - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Anderson: Progressive Insurance Adopts BAE’s Anti-Fraud Tool to Evaluate Claims

    Progressive Insurance has adopted BAE Systems‘ anti-fraud technology in an effort to identify potentially fraudulent activities in personal auto insurance claims. The insurance company will incorporate the BAE Systems Applied Intelligence-built NetReveal insurance counter-fraud tool for internal systems and operations, BAE Systems said Monday. “Our NetReveal solution will help Progressive with evaluating the risk of claims throughout the lifecycle, reducing fraud […] More

  • Report: ULA, Blue Origin Form Rocket Engine Development Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: ULA, Blue Origin Form Rocket Engine Development Team

    United Launch Alliance will announce on Wednesday a collaboration with Blue Origin to develop and offer a rocket engine for U.S. space programs, Reuters reported Monday. Andrea Shalal writes the partnership seeks to replace Russian-made RD-180 engines that are used on ULA’s Atlas V rockets to lift off U.S. military satellites. Frank Kendall, the Defense […] More

  • Battelle's Matthew Shaw: US, Int'l Partners Focus on Early Bio-Threat Detection Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle’s Matthew Shaw: US, Int’l Partners Focus on Early Bio-Threat Detection Systems

    Battelle‘s Matthew Shaw has outlined what he says is a growing focus of U.S. and international government, intelligence and law enforcement organizations on technologies to detect and classify biological threats that are both natural man-made. Shaw, head of the CBRNE defense business within Battelle’s national security segment, writes in a piece published Monday on Homeland Security Today that the […] More

  • Lockheed Hands F-35 'ALIS' Logistics System to Test Sites; Mary Ann Horter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Hands F-35 ‘ALIS’ Logistics System to Test Sites; Mary Ann Horter Comments

    Lockheed Martin has delivered the logistics system for the F-35 fighter jet to several flight test sites for validation work ahead of the system’s planned deployment next year. The U.S. military will evaluate the Autonomic Logistics Information System‘s high-speed data download and other capabilities before the scheduled integration into the F-35 fleet for military operations in 2015, Lockheed said Tuesday. Mary Ann Horter, vice president of F-35 […] More

  • Rod Meranda: Boeing to Build Air Force Surveillance Aircraft for 30-Year Lifespan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rod Meranda: Boeing to Build Air Force Surveillance Aircraft for 30-Year Lifespan

    Boeing seeks to increase the engine power of its 737 aircraft over the coming years as it looks to replace the U.S. Air Force‘s joint surveillance target attack radar system aircraft, Defense News reported Monday. Aaron Mehta writes that Boeing has determined that the 737 airframe requires a 10-member crew, an extra seat and two pilots to fulfill operational demands […] More

  • Ahmed Jazzar: Boeing, Saudi Arabian University Forge Aerospace Tech R&D Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ahmed Jazzar: Boeing, Saudi Arabian University Forge Aerospace Tech R&D Partnership

    Boeing has established an aerospace-focused research facility on the campus of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, Arab News reported Monday. Arab News reports the Boeing Research and Technology office seeks to work with other companies through the KAUST Industrial Cooperation program, as well as to develop young professionals’ technical […] More

  • Sean Poulley: IBM Enters Big Data Link-Up With Yonyou China - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sean Poulley: IBM Enters Big Data Link-Up With Yonyou China

    IBM has partnered with software vendor Yonyou Software to optimize IBM’s database server technology for NC, Yonyou’s ERP, supply chain and human resources application suite. The collaboration will see the China-based enterprise management solutions provider utilizing the Cognos business intelligence software to develop an ecosystem that uses big data and analytics technologies for application testing, technical help, marketing […] More