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  • GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA's Commercial Weather Data Pilot - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GeoOptics, Spire Global to Provide Data Support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded contracts to GeoOptics and Spire Global worth $695,000 and $370,000, respectively, to provide data support for NOAA’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot project. NOAA said GeoOptics and Spire Global will supply space-based global navigation satellite system radio occultation data in efforts to demonstrate the quality and potential value of commercial data to the agency’s weather forecasts and warnings. […] More

  • Chemring, Minelab Collaborate to Develop Handheld IED Detector for Australian Defense Dept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chemring, Minelab Collaborate to Develop Handheld IED Detector for Australian Defense Dept

    Chemring‘s sensors and electronic systems business will collaborate with Minelab Electronics to develop a handheld detector of buried improvised explosive devices as part of a $5 million contract that MineLab received from Australia’s defense department. The handheld detector prototype will feature Chemring’s ground-penetrating radar and Minelab’s multi-frequency continuous wave metal detection technology, Chemring said Tuesday. Chemring […] More

  • Airbus DS Plans to Design, Build New Set of Earth Observation Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus DS Plans to Design, Build New Set of Earth Observation Satellites

    Airbus‘ defense and space segment has unveiled plans to build and launch four optical satellites in an effort to deliver high-resolution imagery of Earth to customers in 2020 and beyond. The company said Thursday the constellation will be designed to perform intraday revisits to any point on Earth, support satellite tasking reactivity and capture millions of square kilometers of images per day. The satellites […] More

  • Millennium to Provide Systems Engineering, Logistics Support for Navy Sea Warrior Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Millennium to Provide Systems Engineering, Logistics Support for Navy Sea Warrior Program

    Millennium Corp. has secured a five-year, $57 million contract to provide business systems engineering and logistics services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s PMW 240 Sea Warrior program. The company said Wednesday the services are intended to help address the business and readiness challenges of the Navy, the military branch’s sailors and fleet as well as other Defense […] More

  • OpenGov Launches Budgeting Process Mgmt Platform for Gov't Clients; Zac Bookman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OpenGov Launches Budgeting Process Mgmt Platform for Gov’t Clients; Zac Bookman Comments

    OpenGov has introduced a technology platform designed to help government users to prepare annual budget plans and spending reports each fiscal year. The company said Wednesday its Budget Builder platform will work to help departmental budget teams submit proposals and supporting data as well as allow managers to review the proposals through a central online system. Agencies can also implement the platform to create interactive […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Designates Derco as F-16 'Hologram' Repair Center; Laura Frank Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Designates Derco as F-16 ‘Hologram’ Repair Center; Laura Frank Comments

    Lockheed Martin has designated Derco Repair Services as an authorized F-16 repair center under the Lockheed Hologram certified parts program in a move to expand the defense contractor’s global supply chain services for F-16 operators. Lockheed grants the Hologram designation to repair and overhaul facilities that pass its quality assurance requirements, the company said Wednesday. Derco will join two other […] More

  • Carahsoft, OSIsoft Partner to Offer Sensor Data Analysis & Integration Software in Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, OSIsoft Partner to Offer Sensor Data Analysis & Integration Software in Public Sector

    OSIsoft has partnered with Carahsoft to offer public sector organizations the former’s sensor-based data capturing and integration software through the latter’s contracts under the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V. The partnership also seeks to identify new methods to help customer agencies achieve their missions with OSISoft’s PI System, the company said Wednesday. Steven Sarnecki, vice president of the U.S. federal and public sector […] More

  • Avnet Includes Commvault Data Mgmt Platforms on GSA Schedule Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avnet Includes Commvault Data Mgmt Platforms on GSA Schedule Contract

    Avnet has added information management and protection software products of Commvault to the former’s General Services Administration schedule contract. Avnet said Wednesday agencies can purchase Commvault’s data backup and recovery, cloud and infrastructure management platforms and services via the governmentwide procurement vehicle for information technology offerings. Pete Rzonca, president of Avnet’s government solutions business, said the company and its partners will offer Commvault-made technologies […] More

  • EmeSec to Offer Training and Education Package to Help Clients Meet Controlled Unclassified Information Readiness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EmeSec to Offer Training and Education Package to Help Clients Meet Controlled Unclassified Information Readiness

    EmeSec has unveiled a new suite of training services established to help companies prepare for the compliance requirements of the Federal Acquisition Requirements and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations related to controlled but unclassified information. The company said Wednesday it will help government and private contractors assess CUI readiness, validate compliance to requirements mentioned on a National Institute of […] More

  • CHSi Awarded HHS Contract to Provide Medical, Staffing Support to Children’s Shelter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CHSi Awarded HHS Contract to Provide Medical, Staffing Support to Children’s Shelter

    The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Comprehensive Health Services Inc. a contract to provide medical and staffing services to a temporary shelter for unaccompanied children from foreign countries that have entered the U.S. CHSi received the contract from the office of refugee and resettlement under HHS’ division of children’s services, the company said Monday. CHSi said […] More

  • Army Orders Veyance M-88 Track Shoes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Orders Veyance M-88 Track Shoes

    Continental unit Veyance Technologies will supply the U.S. Army with M-88 track shoes under a potential $19.9 million firm-fixed-price contract from the Defense Logistics Agency. The sole-source contract contains one base year and one six-month option that the Army has also exercised at the time of award, the Defense Department said Wednesday. Veyance will perform work in Ohio through March 12, 2018. […] More

  • Navy Taps Wyle to Help Address Naval Aviation Weapons System Corrosion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps Wyle to Help Address Naval Aviation Weapons System Corrosion

    Wyle Laboratories has won a five-year, $41.8 million contract to help the U.S. Navy prevent and mitigate corrosion in the military branch’s naval aviation weapons throughout the systems’ sustainment life cycle. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Wyle will provide engineering support, proficiency training and technical guidance and advice on complex technical problems under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Wyle will perform […] More