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  • DigitalGlobe to Extend Support for PSMA Australia's Continent-Wide Mapping Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe to Extend Support for PSMA Australia’s Continent-Wide Mapping Project

    An Australian government-owned company has awarded DigitalGlobe a follow-on contract to provide a geospatial content management platform for a mapping initiative that seeks to host information on more than 15 million buildings across Australia. PSMA Australia will implement DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform to generate geospatial content and location information for PSMA’s Geoscape continent-scale mapping product, DigitalGlobe said Wednesday. Shay Har-Noy, DigitalGlobe platform general manager, said Geoscape […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Australia for 1st Overseas Research Center; Raydon Gates Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Picks Australia for 1st Overseas Research Center; Raydon Gates Comments

    Lockheed Martin plans to unveil a $9.8 million research laboratory in Melbourne, Australia, to focus on the development of software platforms that will work to direct attacks against hostile targets, The Age reported Monday. Daniel Flitton writes the company will open the research center by late 2016 and expects the facility to advance technology development […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Australia MH-60R Seahawk Delivery Under Navy Foreign Military Sales Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Australia MH-60R Seahawk Delivery Under Navy Foreign Military Sales Deal

    Lockheed Martin has turned over Australia’s final MH-60R “Romeo” Seahawk multimission helicopter to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony held Wednesday at a company facility in Owego, New York. The company built a total of 24 Seahawks for the Australian navy under the foreign military sales program to replace the service branch’s fleet of S-70B-2 helicopters, Lockheed said Thursday. “From aircraft […] More

  • Lockheed, Pilatus Aircraft Complete PC-21 Aircraft Initial Production Test Flight - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Pilatus Aircraft Complete PC-21 Aircraft Initial Production Test Flight

    Lockheed Martin and Pilatus Aircraft have conducted an initial production test flight of the first PC-21 training aircraft as part of the estimated $896.8 million AIR 5428 Pilot Training System Program contract signed in 2015. Lockheed said Thursday it will supply integrated ground-based training technologies and pilot training system project management to support future pilots in Australia’s air force, navy and army under […] More

  • Sikorsky Opens Forward Stocking Location for Helicopter Parts in Australia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Opens Forward Stocking Location for Helicopter Parts in Australia

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has unveiled a new forward stocking location for S-76 and S-92 helicopter parts at its Helitech customer support center in Brisbane, Australia. Lockheed said Wednesday the in-country warehousing of spare parts aids Sikorsky’s efforts to boost customer support in the area by facilitating quicker access to materials for Australia-based commercial helicopter operators. “By positioning inventory parts closer […] More

  • NTT Data Receives $534M Contract to Support Victoria, Australia E-Ticketing System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data Receives $534M Contract to Support Victoria, Australia E-Ticketing System

    NTT Data has secured a potential seven-year, $533.7 million to operate the automated fare collection system in Australia’s state of Victoria. The company said Monday it helped Public Transport Victoria build and implement the myki smart card ticketing system across the state’s regional and metropolitan centers in December 2008. Myki is designed to manage as many as 400 million passenger trips via trains, […] More

  • Australia Takes in 3 Boeing Chinook Helicopters, Fleet Stands at 10 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australia Takes in 3 Boeing Chinook Helicopters, Fleet Stands at 10

    Boeing has coordinated with Australia and the U.S. Army to deliver three more H-47 Chinook helicopters to the Australian army 85 days since the company received the order. The company said Wednesday that these three helicopters bring Australia’s fleet to 10 Chinooks, which are designed to provide pilots situational awareness and also monitor and identify the aircraft’s maintenance needs through […] More

  • Report: Lockheed, Australian Defense S&T Agency Partner for 'Over-the-Horizon' Radar Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed, Australian Defense S&T Agency Partner for ‘Over-the-Horizon’ Radar Devt

    Australia’s defense science and technology organization has partnered with Lockheed Martin to develop radar technology for detecting and tracking small, fast-moving targets at a very long range, Defense News reported Friday. Nigel Pittaway writes the Australian DST Group and Lockheed completed the first phase of validation work on ‘over-the-horizon’ radar technology as part of Project Coorong. The report said Lockheed invested in […] More

  • IHS Reports 'Record-Breaking' $65B in 2015 Global Defense Trade - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IHS Reports ‘Record-Breaking’ $65B in 2015 Global Defense Trade

    IHS has reported a “record-breaking” $65 billion in global defense trade for 2015 after examining trends worldwide across 65 countries based on 40,000 programs in the firm’s Aerospace, Defense & Security’s markets forecast database. IHS said Monday the Global Defense Trade Report noted the Middle East as the largest importing region with an approximate $21.6 billion in defense equipment deliveries. “The global […] More

  • Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Receives Aircraft Self-Protection Tech Support Contract From Navy

    Harris subsidiary Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $12.3 million contract by the U.S. Navy to provide engineering services and software support equipment for multiple airborne countermeasure systems. The Defense Department said Monday Exelis will support the Navy’s AN/ALQ-165 self-protection jammers, AN/ALQ-214 integrated defensive electronic countermeasures as well as the service branch’s aircraft self-protection and software modernization projects. […] More

  • CGI Wins Contract to Deploy Debt Recovery Platform in Queensland; Colin Holgate Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Wins Contract to Deploy Debt Recovery Platform in Queensland; Colin Holgate Comments

    CGI has won a potential seven-year, $42.5 million contract from the government of Queensland in Australia to deploy a system designed to facilitate debt recovery operations. CGI said Thursday it will provide and implement the Collections360 platform for Queensland’s state penalties enforcement registry in order to help SPER collect overdue fines. Collections360 will work to […] More