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  • Trust Automation to Build Motion Control Tech for Lockheed Radars - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trust Automation to Build Motion Control Tech for Lockheed Radars

    Lockheed Martin has awarded Trust Automation a contract to manufacture a vehicle automation system for the former’s Q-53 counterfire target acquisition radars. Trust Automation said Tuesday it will supply motion control systems to support Lockheed’s production of Q-53s for the U.S. Army. Craig Von Ilten, vice president of business development at Trust Automation, said the award represents the company’s fifth […] More

  • Clayton County Police Dept in Georgia to Deploy Utility Inc's Body Cameras - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Clayton County Police Dept in Georgia to Deploy Utility Inc’s Body Cameras

    The Clayton County Police Department in Georgia will use 200 Utility-developed body cameras with automatic recording and redaction functions in support of efforts to protect citizen and police officer privacy. Utility said Thursday the BodyWorn technology features policy-based auto-recording triggers, automatic redaction software, instant video playback and a real-time offloading function that sends videos to an Amazon Web Services cloud server. Michael […] More

  • SimplyHome to Develop Voice Command Platform for Assistive Tech Under VA Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SimplyHome to Develop Voice Command Platform for Assistive Tech Under VA Grant

    SimplyHome has received a $200,000 grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop a technology platform for voice commands to control assistive technology under the Specially Adapted Housing Assistive Technology program. The company said Tuesday the platform will work to enable physically disabled veterans and service members to use voice commands to trigger pre-customized actions on the technologies installed […] More

  • Hill Associates Secures DOJ Enterprise IT Support Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hill Associates Secures DOJ Enterprise IT Support Contract Option

    The Justice Department has exercised the first option under a previously awarded five-year, $65 million task order to Hill Associates Corporation for information technology management and technical support services to DOJ’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. Hill Associates said Tuesday it will continue to help the department manage wide area network, voice modernization and network infrastructure projects. The company […] More

  • Force Protection Video to Supply Body Camera Kits to US Forest Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Force Protection Video to Supply Body Camera Kits to US Forest Service

    Force Protection Video Equipment has secured an order from the U.S. Forest Service for LE50 high-definition body camera kits built on Ambarella chip sets. Force Protection Video said Tuesday LE50 is designed to provide 10 hours of 1080-pixel record time or 12 hours of 720p recording, as well as 50 hours of standby time with 32 gigabytes of internal storage. The camera kits […] More

  • Jacobs Chosen for UK Defense Land Project Requirements Evaluation Contract; Alan Seywright Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Chosen for UK Defense Land Project Requirements Evaluation Contract; Alan Seywright Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been selected to evaluate requirements for a U.K. defense ministry contract related to a land equipment project in the country. Jacobs said Wednesday it will support the service provision and transformation contract for the ministry’s strategic support supplier project that aims to make training and operations equipment available to the British navy, army […] More

  • Northrop Prepares AF Polar Region Satcom System for System Acceptance Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Prepares AF Polar Region Satcom System for System Acceptance Test

    Northrop Grumman has helped deploy elements of a ground system that will work to provide satellite communications coverage for U.S. Air Force users in the North Polar region under a contract with the service branch. The company said Tuesday the Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment is set to undergo system acceptance testing in 2017. Northrop delivered CAPS operations and test equipment hardware […] More

  • HII-Built 'Munro' National Security Cutter Completes Builder's Sea Trials - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII-Built ‘Munro’ National Security Cutter Completes Builder’s Sea Trials

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ sixth National Security Cutter ship for the U.S. Coast Guard has completed the three-day builder’s sea trials held at the Gulf of Mexico. Munro underwent ship propulsion, electrical systems, anchor handling, small boat operations, damage control and combat systems tests as well as a four-hour, full-power propulsion run during the trial, HII said Tuesday. Derek Murphy, HII’s […] More

  • DHS Seeks Wearable First Responder Tech From Startup Companies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Seeks Wearable First Responder Tech From Startup Companies

    The Department of Homeland Security currently explores startup-developed wearable technologies that work to support first responders through a business accelerator program of the DHS science and technology directorate. DHS said it seeks startup companies that can provide body-worn electronics, advanced sensors and gear-embedded voice and data communication technologies as part of the EMERGE 2016: Wearable Technology accelerator program. The department added the […] More

  • In-Q-Tel, Anomali Enter Agreement to Develop Threat Intelligence Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel, Anomali Enter Agreement to Develop Threat Intelligence Platforms

    Anomali and In-Q-Tel have signed a technology development agreement to build cyber analytics offerings for the intelligence sector. IQT said Tuesday it also invested in Anomali through venture funding rounds to help further develop the latter’s Enterprise and ThreatStream threat intelligence platforms. George Hoyem, investment lead for enterprise IT at In-Q-Tel, said Anomali’s framework  “offers the government a way to aggregate and rationalize […] More

  • Lockheed Receives MDA Contract to Install Aegis Ashore Equipment in Poland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Receives MDA Contract to Install Aegis Ashore Equipment in Poland

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $36.4 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to integrate, test and install the Aegis Ashore platform onboard a deckhouse and support facility. MDA awarded the fixed-price-incentive contract through a competitive procurement process and will obligate the full contract amount from fiscal 2015 defense procurement funds at the time of […] More

  • DARPA, Lockheed Partner for Optical Systems Research Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Lockheed Partner for Optical Systems Research Project

    Lockheed Martin has received a $7.1 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform research into optical systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday the research project is part of the Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks program that aims to explore technologies for the development of ultra-compact light detection and ranging systems. DARPA obligated $2.0 million […] More