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  • Douglas Steil: BAE Adds Mach 1 File Tracking Tool to Document Manager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Douglas Steil: BAE Adds Mach 1 File Tracking Tool to Document Manager

    Douglas Steil, general manager of cybersecurity products at BAE Systems, said the company has updated its document manager with watermarking technology to further build up the security product’s features. The company worked on its SIBA data collaboration and dissemination tool in cooperation with Mach 1 Development, the maker of the DocuTRACER technology that tracks where each file was shared […] More

  • Lockheed Approves DeLorme Communicators for General Aviation, Military Pilots - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Approves DeLorme Communicators for General Aviation, Military Pilots

    Lockheed Martin Flight Services has approved the use of DeLorme‘s inReach satellite communicators for support of the LMFS Adverse Condition Alerting Service and Surveillance-enhanced Search and Rescue services used by general aviation and military pilots. Once an inReach device in enrolled in the free program, pilots submitting flight plans with LMFS can receive ACAS alerts […] More

  • ULA Launches Secondary Payload on Delta IV Rocket; Jim Sponnick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches Secondary Payload on Delta IV Rocket; Jim Sponnick Comments

    United Launch Alliance has launched the AFSPC-4 mission aboard a Delta IV rocket as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program to deliver military and government payloads to space. ULA said Tuesday that the launch, its 85th since December 2006, was supported by an Aerojet Rocketdyne engine and ATK rocket motors. “The ULA […] More

  • Esri, OSIsoft Agree on Unified Geographic Info Product Approach; Jeff Peters Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri, OSIsoft Agree on Unified Geographic Info Product Approach; Jeff Peters Comments

    Government customers will be able to purchase unified products from GIS mapping software maker Esri and operational intelligence provider OSIsoft through the immixGroup marketplace. The two companies announced Tuesday that they have agreed to make their PI System and ArcGIS tools available under the General Services Administration’s IT Schedule 70 for commercial technology vendors. Esri and […] More

  • Lockheed Awards General Dynamics $25M for GPS III Satellite Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awards General Dynamics $25M for GPS III Satellite Components

    General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will build components for the network communications element on GPS III space vehicles seven and eight under a $25 million full-production contract awarded by Lockheed Martin. The NCE components are built to help the satellites carry out communications functions and include the ground-to-space command and control channel, space-to-space inter-satellites and other communication […] More

  • John Borghese: Rockwell Collins-Sandia Labs Team to Help DARPA Build Miniature Comms Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Borghese: Rockwell Collins-Sandia Labs Team to Help DARPA Build Miniature Comms Tech

    Rockwell Collins and Sandia National Laboratories’ alliance will work with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to integrate nanoscale architectures into military communication systems. The company said Tuesday the goal of DARPA’s Mesodynamic Architectures program is to develop a mesoscale method for building smaller technology for communication, electronic warfare and networking applications. “Once this is […] More

  • Microsoft, Akamai to Back Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Akamai to Back Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator

    Microsoft and Akamai Technologies will work with venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners to construct an accelerator in Israel that will focus on helping startup cybersecurity firms in the country. Participants will receive professional sessions and active mentoring from JVP, who will invest in $1 million in one of the cybersecurity startups at the program’s end, Microsoft said Tuesday. “Tech […] More

  • Study: North America's Security, Surveillance Radar Market to Hit $2B in 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Study: North America’s Security, Surveillance Radar Market to Hit $2B in 2019

    A MicroMarket Monitor report forecasts the North American security and surveillance radar market to be worth up to $2.03 billion in 2019, a compound annual growth rate of 4.64 percent over the next five years. The market research firm said Sunday that the region would keep its status as the top spender on security and surveillance radar systems, […] More

  • Leidos to Help DLA's Energy Office Analyze Leak Detection Systems; Larry Hill Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Help DLA’s Energy Office Analyze Leak Detection Systems; Larry Hill Comments

    Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $25 million prime contract from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to provide the Defense Logistics Agency – Energy with technical, systems engineering and management support. The company said Tuesday it will perform engineering analysis and advisory services on the Fuels Manager Defense leak detection systems of its […] More

  • Cubic to Upgrade Fare System in Washington D.C.; Matt Newsome Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Upgrade Fare System in Washington D.C.; Matt Newsome Comments

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business has won an $8 million contract from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to replace its paper magnetic farecard vending machines with SmarTrip sales and reload devices. The company said Monday it will convert at least 500 machines as WMATA seeks to completely modernize its fare system to the contactless smart card […] More

  • Future Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski to Focus on Asia, Firm's 'Vision 2020' Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Future Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski to Focus on Asia, Firm’s ‘Vision 2020’ Strategy

    Horacio Rozanski, successor to Ralph Shrader as CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton, plans to focus his efforts on helping the firm navigate the current budget environment and a potential expansion into Asia, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Rozanski told Post reporter Amrita Jayakumar that the firm’s Vision 2020 strategy aims to leverage Booz Allen’s new technology and engineering offerings as its government client base […] More

  • Pentagon's ORS-1 Reconnaissance Satellite Logs 4 Years in Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon’s ORS-1 Reconnaissance Satellite Logs 4 Years in Space

    A U.S. military satellite carrying United Aerospace Systems-built intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors has completed four years in orbit. The Operationally Responsive Space-1 satellite works to provide the U.S. Central Command with imagery and data to help increase warfighters’ battlefield awarenesss, UTC Aerospace Systems said Monday. ORS-1 launched aboard a Minotaur I rocket from NASA’s […] More