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  • 3M's Ceradyne Subsidiary to Build Helmets, Armor Inserts for Army Soldier Protection System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    3M’s Ceradyne Subsidiary to Build Helmets, Armor Inserts for Army Soldier Protection System

    3M‘s Ceradyne subsidiary has received two contracts worth $43 million combined to produce helmet systems and hard body armor inserts to act as components of the U.S. Army‘s Soldier Protection System. 3M said Tuesday Ceradyne secured a $7 million contract to deliver more than 5,300 helmet systems for SPS’ Integrated Head Protection System component. IHPS is designed give soldiers a lighter ballistic helmet […] More

  • Parsons Establishes San Antonio Tech Office to Support Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Parsons Establishes San Antonio Tech Office to Support Govt Clients

    Parsons held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to mark the opening of its new 14,000-square-foot technology office in San Antonio, Texas, that will support  cybersecurity and intelligence efforts of the company’s government customers. The company said Monday the office includes 2,600 square feet of project space designed to help address intelligence community security requirements. The facility also has visualization conference and huddle […] More

  • Chemring to Supply Army & Navy Flares for Helicopter Survivability System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chemring to Supply Army & Navy Flares for Helicopter Survivability System

    The U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy have awarded a Chemring Group subsidiary $17.6 million in contracts to produce and deliver MJU-61A/B flares and M2o6 and M211 infrared decoy flares. Chemring Countermeasures will produce the MJU-61A/B and m206 flares at its Kilgore facility in Toone, Tennessee and the M211 at its Alloy Surfaces facility in Chester Township, […] More

  • DoD to Adapt Aware's Biometric Tech for Applicant Screening Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD to Adapt Aware’s Biometric Tech for Applicant Screening Platform

    Aware will provide web-based biometric products for the Defense Department‘s efforts to gather and store fingerprints as part of DoD’s new SWFT Plus Enrollment applicant screening system. The company said Tuesday its WebEnroll, BioComponents and BioSP tools are designed to collect fingerprints through a web-based biometric enrollment application in an effort to relay, sustain and secure data across the department’s divisions, […] More

  • Army Engineers Visit DPI UAV Systems & Piasecki Aircraft Corp; Eye Small Business Partnerships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Engineers Visit DPI UAV Systems & Piasecki Aircraft Corp; Eye Small Business Partnerships

    Engineers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have visited two aviation companies in Philadelphia to explore opportunities for potential small business partnerships. ARL engineers toured DPI UAV Systems and Piasecki Aircraft Corp. respectively run by Michael Piasecki and his brother John, the U.S. Army said Oct. 19. Rajneesh Singh, a team lead at ARL’s vehicle technology […] More

  • Cray, SGI Federal to Modernize DoD High-Performance Computing Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cray, SGI Federal to Modernize DoD High-Performance Computing Systems

    The U.S. Army has awarded Cray and Silicon Graphics International‘s federal business contract modifications worth $26.6 million each to support the Defense Department‘s high-performance computing modernization program. DoD said Wednesday Cray and SGI Federal will provide HPC systems as well as administration and maintenance services. Work will occur through Apr. 24, 2021 in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland for SGI Federal […] More

  • ICF Evaluates Charles River Analytics' New Semantic-Based Search Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Evaluates Charles River Analytics’ New Semantic-Based Search Tool

    ICF has tested Charles River Analytics‘ new semantic-based search tool designed to help U.S. Army intelligent tutoring system authors to search for existing training reference materials. Charles River said Tuesday ICF conducted a double-blind evaluation of the Content Retrieval and Extraction for Advanced Tutoring Environments in comparison with traditional keyword searching techniques. Instruction system designers who used […] More

  • RFID Global's Enterprise Software Receives Army Certificate of Networthiness, ATO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RFID Global’s Enterprise Software Receives Army Certificate of Networthiness, ATO

    The U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command has awarded RFID Global Solution a certificate of networthiness and authority to operate for the company’s Visi-Trac 3.x enterprise software through June 7, 2019. The certification serves to help the company facilitate automated inventory management and asset tracking through its software and establish compliance with the Army’s data and security standards, RFID Global said Tuesday. Visi-Trac […] More

  • DHS to Integrate General Atomics' Takeoff, Landing System in Predator B Fleet - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS to Integrate General Atomics’ Takeoff, Landing System in Predator B Fleet

    The Department of Homeland Security has unveiled a new flight software program that will work to deploy General Atomics unit’s proprietary takeoff and landing system for the unmanned Predator B Guardian aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems‘ Automatic Takeoff and Landing Capability system works to support the safety and efficiency of Predator B crews, the company said Tuesday. GS-ASI CEO Linden […] More

  • Conti Wins $65M Army FMS Contract for Israel Military Facility Design-Build Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Conti Wins $65M Army FMS Contract for Israel Military Facility Design-Build Project

    Conti Federal Services has been awarded a potential $65 million contract by the U.S. Army to support a military construction project in Israel. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will perform work through Nov. 28, 2018 under a foreign military sales deal. The Army Corps of Engineers received two offers for the project and will obligate the full contract […] More

  • Army Orders Comtech VSAT Satellite Systems & Associated Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Orders Comtech VSAT Satellite Systems & Associated Services

    Comtech Telecommunications has received a $13.4 million order to provide very small aperture terminal satellite systems and associated services for the U.S. Army. The company said Monday its government solutions segment will supply the military branch with secret internet protocol router and non-secure internet protocol router access point VSAT satellite equipment under the order. Comtech added the Army project manager for the […] More

  • Army Taps QSM for Software Cost Estimation Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps QSM for Software Cost Estimation Services

    The U.S. Army has awarded Quantitative Software Management four prime contracts to provide cost estimation and technical support services for the military branch’s software development and maintenance efforts. QSM said Wednesday it will work to help the Army predict cost requirements to develop and maintain software platforms as well as analyze data and establish predictive cost relationships. The contracts support the Army’s efforts to […] More