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  • Lockheed Unveils New Ground-Based Radar Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Unveils New Ground-Based Radar Platform

    Lockheed Martin has introduced a ground-based radar platform designed to reduce array power consumption. The gallium nitride-based Digital Array Row Transceiver platform is a line-replaceable unit that consists of a row transmitter and row receiver, Lockheed said Tuesday. DART has been deployed in TPS-77 Multi Role Radar system that works for aerial surveillance operations and can be […] More

  • Unisys Extends IT Work for Colombian Public Utilities Firm; Carlos Ferrer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Extends IT Work for Colombian Public Utilities Firm; Carlos Ferrer Comments

    Unisys Corp. has been awarded a one-year extension to provide information technology services to Empresas Publicas de Medellin, a public utilities company in Colombia. Unisys will produce additional devices, firewalls, servers and applications for the new contract, the company said Tuesday. In 2014, the company began its work to identify and respond to security incidents […] More

  • Galois Subsidiary, Partners Work on IoT-Enabled Smart Home, Transit Systems Under NIST Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Galois Subsidiary, Partners Work on IoT-Enabled Smart Home, Transit Systems Under NIST Grant

    Galois has received a $1.86 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace to provide a data storage system with privacy and Internet of Things functions. Tozny, the authentication and mobile security subsidiary of Galois, said it will be the technical lead on the pilot program and will […] More

  • CyberTech Unveils Azure-Powered Public Safety Incident Mgmt Platform; Vince Rosales Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CyberTech Unveils Azure-Powered Public Safety Incident Mgmt Platform; Vince Rosales Comments

    CyberTech Systems and Software has rolled out a cloud-based public safety technology that works to help law enforcement agencies detect and investigate criminal activities. GeoShield C3 is powered by Microsoft‘s Azure Government platform and designed to comply with  transparency and incident response policies set forth by the FBI‘s criminal justice information services division, CyberTech said Nov. 10. Vince […] More

  • MIL to Offer Agencies Financial Services Under GSA MOBIS-PSS Catalog Conversion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIL to Offer Agencies Financial Services Under GSA MOBIS-PSS Catalog Conversion

    MIL Corp. will offer additional services to government agencies following the catalog conversion of the General Services Administration‘s Mission Oriented Business Integrated Services contract to the Professional Services Schedule. The company said Monday the conversion adds financial management, auditing and financial training work to its current portfolio of consulting, facilitation, program integration and management services. “This GSA schedule […] More

  • Lockheed Gets FAA Nod for Hybrid Airship Plan; Robert Boyd Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets FAA Nod for Hybrid Airship Plan; Robert Boyd Comments

    The Federal Aviation Administration has approved Lockheed Martin‘s plan to certify the company’s hybrid airship project. That project specific certification plan describes how Lockheed will carry out the hybrid criteria approved by the FAA in April 2013, Lockheed said Tuesday. “The approval of the certification plan represents an important risk reduction milestone for our customers,” said […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Lands FAA Flight Inspection Support Contract; David Poltorak Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Lands FAA Flight Inspection Support Contract; David Poltorak Comments

    Rockwell Collins has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration‘s aerial surveys of navigational aids and flight procedures in domestic airspace. The company said Monday it will provide a suite of ARINCDirect planning, scheduling and tracking, safety data management, aircraft datalink and international trip services in support of the agency’s flight inspection activities. David Poltorak, […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Contract Modification to Update Aegis BMD on Navy Ships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Gets Contract Modification to Update Aegis BMD on Navy Ships

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential one-year, $36.7 million contract modification to provide engineering support and upgrade the Aegis Ballistis Missile Defense system aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG-51-class guided missile destroyers and CG57-class cruisers. The company will perform work in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia through September 2016 under the service branch’s Aegis Modernization Advanced Capability […] More

  • Northrop, Army Demo Integrated Battle Command System; Dan Verwiel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Army Demo Integrated Battle Command System; Dan Verwiel Comments

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army have completed a flight test on an integrated air and missile defense system built to help soldiers identify and destroy targets. A Patriot Advanced Capability 3 interceptor engaged a cruise missile target through the command-and-control input provided by the IAMD battle command system during the demonstration, Northrop said Monday. “The IBCS gives […] More

  • Radisys, Octasic, Quortus Unveil New Multiradio System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Radisys, Octasic, Quortus Unveil New Multiradio System

    Radisys, Octasic and Quortus have introduced a multiradio system designed for use in military and public safety operations. Radisys said Monday the ruggedized radio system is designed as a combination of its small cell software systems with Octasic’s platforms and Quortus’ virtualized evolved packet core service into a complete, network-in-a-box tool. The system is built for military and public safety professionals […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, Coast Guard Name Legend-Class Cutter ‘Munro’ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls, Coast Guard Name Legend-Class Cutter ‘Munro’

    Huntington Ingalls Industries and the U.S. Coast Guard christened the agency’s sixth National Security Cutter ship during a christening ceremony Saturday at the company’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division unveiled the Legend-class NSC ship’s name as Munro at the ceremony attended by nearly 600 guests, HII said Saturday. Munro, a 418-foot-long vessel, is named after Signalman First Class Douglas Munro, […] More

  • Raytheon Concludes Navy Jammer Design Review; Daniel Theisen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Concludes Navy Jammer Design Review; Daniel Theisen Comments

    Raytheon will move to design work on a new airborne electronic attack system after the company and U.S. Navy completed the jammer program’s design review phase. The Navy intends for the jammer system to replace the ALQ-99 jamming pods on board the EA-18G Growler from 2021 onward, Raytheon said Friday. Daniel Theisen, director of airborne electronic attack programs […] More