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  • Curtiss-Wright, Ink Aircraft Electronics Licensing Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Curtiss-Wright, Ink Aircraft Electronics Licensing Deal

    Curtiss-Wright and Ontic have entered into a licensing agreement for Ontic to take over product lifecycle support of Curtiss-Wright’s aircraft electronic system offerings. The deal covers fire detection systems, power converters and logic modules for the Sikorsky Blackhawk, Sukhoi Superjet 100 and Boeing commercial planes, Ontic said Tuesday. Ontic will provide production, aftermarket manufacturing, maintenance, […] More

  • Airbus To Open New Headquarters in France; Tom Enders Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus To Open New Headquarters in France; Tom Enders Comments

    Airbus Group has started construction of a new office campus in five hectares of land next to the Blagnac Airport in Toulouse, France. The new campus will house the company’s headquarters, a building for support and shared services, a security control room, a canteen, fitness center, concierge and welfare services, the company announced Tuesday. The […] More

  • IBM Ranks First in U.S. Patents for the 21st Straight Time; Bernie Meyerson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Ranks First in U.S. Patents for the 21st Straight Time; Bernie Meyerson Comments

    IBM said that in 2013, its inventors have received 6,809 patents, the 21st consecutive year that the company ranked first in the annual list of patent leaders in the country. Some of the company’s patents for 2013 include inventions for the Watson supercomputer, neuromorphic and synaptronic spiking neural network and an automated validation and execution […] More

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    Stephen Kupcha Appointed SAP NS2 Nonprofit Arm Head, Business Development Specialist

    Stephen Kupcha, a former Navy SEAL and 16-year Defense Department veteran, has joined SAP‘s independent national security subsidiary SAP NS2 as executive director of its nonprofit organization and as a business development senior specialist. He is the first person to hold the executive director title for NS2 Serves and most recently as senior manager of public […] More

  • Tim Dowd Joins Accurate Background's Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Dowd Joins Accurate Background’s Board of Directors

    Tim Dowd, formerly a director at rapid drug-testing company eScreen, has joined Irvine, Calif.-based Accurate Background’s board of directors. Prior to his appointment, Dowd served on the eScreen board from 2008 to 2012, a period that saw the business record a twofold revenue and threefold EBITDA increase, Accurate Background said Tuesday. Dowd currently serves as president […] More

  • Cubic to Build Lockheed F-35 Combat Training System; Dave Schmitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Build Lockheed F-35 Combat Training System; Dave Schmitz Comments

    A Cubic Corp. subsidiary has won an $18.3 million contract to design and manufacture combat training systems for Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 fighter jet. Lockheed picked Cubic Defense Systems to supply debriefing software, airborne instrumentation and ground station planning technologies in the program’s system development phase, Cubic said Tuesday. “The F-35 training subsystem will be embedded […] More

  • D&B, FirstRain Form Big Data Analytics Collaboration; Laura Kelly Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    D&B, FirstRain Form Big Data Analytics Collaboration; Laura Kelly Comments

    D&B has partnered with big data company FirstRain to develop new analytics technology for business information products. Both companies will work to integrate structured and unstructured business data and analytics into FirstRain’s market intelligence portfolio with the goal of helping D&B customers view their content different various sources, the companies said Tuesday. “Finding and identifying […] More

  • URS Updates Cloud-Based Facilities Mgmt Toolset - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    URS Updates Cloud-Based Facilities Mgmt Toolset

    URS Corp. has introduced a new version of its cloud-based facilities management tool in an effort to help customers view the health of their portfolios. The CASCADE life-cycle facilities management suite features a condition assessment module and maintenance management system, URS said Monday. CASCADE is built for customers to fulfill facilities management requirements while reducing […] More

  • Tom McDuffie: Jacobs to Design, Build DLA Distribution Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom McDuffie: Jacobs to Design, Build DLA Distribution Facilities

    Jacobs Engineering Group has won a contract to provide architectural design, engineering and construction management services at military distribution centers run by the Defense Logistics Agency. Jacobs will perform work at various domestic and international DLA sites under the potential three-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Jacobs said Tuesday. “We are delighted to continue our ongoing relationship with […] More

  • Boeing Sends Gov't Signal With New Anti-Jamming Tech; Craig Cooning Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Sends Gov’t Signal With New Anti-Jamming Tech; Craig Cooning Comments

    Boeing has transmitted a protected government signal through a military satellite by using new anti-jamming technology for a demonstration. The signal traveled through the company’s sixth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite with ViaSat’s anti-jamming commercial modem during the test on Dec. 15, Boeing said Monday. “This technology boosts the ability of warfighters to send protected information without enemy […] More

  • CACI to Run FBI's Procurement, Financial Systems; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Run FBI’s Procurement, Financial Systems; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has been awarded potential four-year, $45 million contract to help the FBI implement and maintain a system for managing financial and acquisition processes. This order was awarded under the bureau’s information technology supplies & support services contract vehicle known as Triple S and contains one base year and three option years, CACI said Tuesday. The […] More

  • Leonard Genna: L-3's Intl Customers Want 'Live Virtual Constructive' Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonard Genna: L-3’s Intl Customers Want ‘Live Virtual Constructive’ Tech

    L-3 Communications‘ international customers are increasingly seeking to acquire simulation systems that multiple people can participate in as they want to create a virtual battlespace for training, L-3 Link Simulation & Training President Leonard Genna told Defense News in an interview published Monday. Genna described the goal of the “live virtual constructive” scenarios as being able […] More