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  • Andy Start: NSSLGlobal Joins Inmarsat SATCOM Net's Reseller Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andy Start: NSSLGlobal Joins Inmarsat SATCOM Net’s Reseller Network

    NSSLGlobal a has agreed to work as value-added reseller of Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress satellite constellation for military and government customers in the European market, extending the companies’ existing GX VAR partnership for maritime services. Inmarsat said Tuesday it intends for NSSLGlobal to help address bandwidth, mobility, coverage and service availability needs for European government customers. “We are very pleased […] More

  • Northrop Hands Air Force GPS Satellite Antennas to Lockheed Team; Dan Johansen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Hands Air Force GPS Satellite Antennas to Lockheed Team; Dan Johansen Comments

    Northrop Grumman has transported antennas for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS satellites to the Lockheed Martin team that is developing the spacecraft in Littleton, Colo. Northrop’s Astro Aerospace business unit delivered 32 JIB antennas for GPS III satellite numbers three through six, Northrop said Wednesday. Dan Johansen, a program manager at Astro Aerospace, said the unit plans to […] More

  • General Dynamics Unit Transports 2nd MLP Auxiliary Ship to Navy; Fred Harris Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Unit Transports 2nd MLP Auxiliary Ship to Navy; Fred Harris Comments

    General Dynamics NASSCO has handed to the U.S. Navy a second mobile landing platform-class vessel that is designed for amphibious staging and vehicle transfer operations. The General Dynamics subsidiary began construction work on the USNS John Glenn in April 2012 and plans to undock the third MLP ship in November, NASSCO said Wednesday. Fred Harris, NASSCO […] More

  • Boeing, L-3 Wrap Up CF-188 Fighter Jet Modifications for Canada - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, L-3 Wrap Up CF-188 Fighter Jet Modifications for Canada

    Boeing International has delivered the last of the 76 CF-188 fighter jets that the Canadian air force ordered through a contract awarded in March 2011.  The contract called for the modified CF-188 fighters to have an upgraded electronics warfare suite and modified air-to-air and ground-to-air threats protection equipment, the Canadian Air Force said March 4. L-3 Military […] More

  • Jerker Ahlqvist: Saab Aims For Growth in Africa With New Botswana Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jerker Ahlqvist: Saab Aims For Growth in Africa With New Botswana Office

    Saab has opened a marketing office in Gaborone, Botswana in a move to further its presence in the sub-Saharan Africa region and add on to company’s offices in South Africa and Kenya. “With the growing economies in many countries in Africa there is a growing demand for defense and security products,” Jerker Ahlqvist, head of the Botswana office, said Wednesday. […] More

  • John Ontiveros: Winner Water Services to Use Battelle Tech for Pennsylvania Treatment Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Ontiveros: Winner Water Services to Use Battelle Tech for Pennsylvania Treatment Facility

    A joint venture between Winner Global LLC and Battelle will install an acid mine water treatment facility in Pennsylvania to produce water resources for oil and gas operations in the area, Rigzone reported Tuesday. Karen Boman writes Winner Water Services intends to separate iron and sulfate from water using the Hydro Flex treatment system in order […] More

  • Mason Morfit of ValueAct Capital Joins Microsoft Board; John Thompson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mason Morfit of ValueAct Capital Joins Microsoft Board; John Thompson Comments

    Mason Morfit, ValueAct Capital president, has been elected to join the board of directors at Microsoft Corp. Morfit will also serve in the board’s audit committee, Microsoft said Tuesday statement. Since Aug. 30, 2013 ValueAct Capital has worked with Microsoft since August 2013 under a cooperation agreement that granted Morfit an option to join the board.. […] More

  • Sean McCarron Joins Smartronix as Sales VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sean McCarron Joins Smartronix as Sales VP

    Sean McCarron will serve as vice president of sales at Smartronix and will lead the company’s sales and business development efforts in the commercial cloud computing market. He was most recently the business development manager at Amazon Web Services, Smartronix announced Tuesday. Before AWS, the 14-year industry veteran held positions at Microsoft and Esri. On his […] More

  • Chris Bernhardt: DynCorp Extends Int'l, Commercial Firefighter Support Work to Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Bernhardt: DynCorp Extends Int’l, Commercial Firefighter Support Work to Australia

    DynCorp International will provide aircraft, pilots and a maintenance team to Touchdown Helicopters in support of an aerial fighting program run by the state of New South Wales’ rural fire service under a potential three-year subcontract. Chris Bernhardt, DynCorp president, said Wednesday the deal is part of the company’s strategy to provide commercial and international customers the similar […] More

  • Northrop Integrates Payload Antennas for Lockheed AEHF Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Integrates Payload Antennas for Lockheed AEHF Satellite

    Northrop Grumman has started to integrate two downlink phased array antennas into the payload of a fourth advanced extremely high frequency military communications satellite being built by Lockheed Martin. The companies are working together to integrate the AEHF satellite payload under a hybrid integration framework, Northrop said Tuesday. Northrop designed the AEHF antennas to operate […] More

  • Dell: Legacy System Modernization a Top Federal IT Priority - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell: Legacy System Modernization a Top Federal IT Priority

    Modernizing legacy systems is one of the top priorities in federal information technology for addressing adaptability and efficiency, Ann Braley-Smith writes in a piece posted on Dell’s blog Monday. According to Braley-Smith, agencies stand to benefit from technology upgrades by converting information silos into open data and addressing redundancy issues. The report cited studies that support […] More

  • Michael Strianese: L-3 Reorganizes Business Segments in Sales, Tech Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Strianese: L-3 Reorganizes Business Segments in Sales, Tech Push

    L-3 Communications has reorganized the company’s business segments in a move that Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese called an effort to further the company’s technology and sales push. John McNellis has been named president of the new aerospace systems segment that combines the former platform and logistics segment and the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems […] More