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  • Airbus Silicon Valley Outpost Taps MTSI Team for Self-Piloted Vehicle Flight Test Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Silicon Valley Outpost Taps MTSI Team for Self-Piloted Vehicle Flight Test Services

    A team comprised of Modern Technology Solutions Inc. and nonprofit SOAR Oregon has received a contract from Airbus Group‘s A3 Silicon Valley outpost to provide flight test and range services for A3’s self-piloted flying vehicle platform. MTSI said Thursday it will lead the flight test of A3’s Vahana platform while SOAR Oregon will provide test range support and […] More

  • Report: UK Shortlists BAE, Rheinmetall for Battle Tank Modernization Assessment Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: UK Shortlists BAE, Rheinmetall for Battle Tank Modernization Assessment Phase

    The U.K. defense ministry has chosen separate teams led by BAE Systems and Rheinmetall Landsysteme as “preferred bidders” for the assessment phase of a program to modernize the British army’s main battle tanks, Defense News reported Wednesday. Andrew Chuter writes the U.K. defense ministry aims to finalize two contracts by the end of the year to launch a 24-month, […] More

  • BAE Extends Support for DARPA's Cognitive Electronic Warfare Tech Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Extends Support for DARPA’s Cognitive Electronic Warfare Tech Project

    BAE Systems has received a $13.3 million contract modification from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to continue support for DARPA’s program that aims to develop electronic warfare technologies that will counter new, unknown and adaptive radars. BAE said Thursday its team will complete algorithm development, advanced readiness tests and key milestones in efforts to transition technologies from […] More

  • Navy Orders Themis-Built Computer Rugged Servers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Themis-Built Computer Rugged Servers

    The U.S. Navy has ordered $1.6 million in computer rugged servers from Themis Computer via the company’s reseller Strictly Technology LLC, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Wednesday. John Keller writes the order covers four Themis RES-XR5 1U standard-density rack mounted servers along with shock-mounting kits, cabling, optical transceivers, Gigabit Ethernet switches, disk-on-module data storage and auxiliary […] More

  • Metron to Develop Counter-ISR Planning System for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Metron to Develop Counter-ISR Planning System for Navy

    Metron has won a potential $12.8 million contract to develop an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance planning system for the U.S. Navy to counter adversarial ISR networks. The Navy will use the C-ISR system to plan coordinated friendly force movement emissions control, denial and deception operations, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The contract contains an 18-month base period, three optional […] More

  • Dicom Systems Awarded DoD Dental Records Archiving Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dicom Systems Awarded DoD Dental Records Archiving Contract

    Dicom Systems has received a contract from the Defense Department’s dental information systems center in San Antonio, Texas to provide a technology platform for DISC to migrate and archive exams data from more than 150 U.S. Army dental clinics. DISC will transition more than 27 million dental exams from the center’s archive into the company’s Unifier Enterprise […] More

  • Silicon Graphics International to Provide Supercomputers for DoD HPC Modernization Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Silicon Graphics International to Provide Supercomputers for DoD HPC Modernization Program

    Silicon Graphics International has received a potential $26.5 million contract from the Defense Department to provide supercomputer systems in support of DoD’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program. SGI said Monday it will implement the company’s SGI ICE XA supercomputers at two Army Research Laboratory Defense Supercomputing Resource Centers as part of HPCMP’s TI-16 technology insertion. The HPC modernization effort aims to update high-performance computing […] More

  • Alaska Communications Receives Potential $197M FCC Internet Service Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Alaska Communications Receives Potential $197M FCC Internet Service Order

    Alaska Communications has secured a potential 10-year, $197 million order from the Federal Communications Commission to deploy broadband to rural locations in Alaska. The company said Tuesday it will provide internet service to 31,500 locations across the state including approximately 26,000 unserved areas as part of FCC’s Connect America Fund Phase II program. FCC will issue $19.7 million in funds every […] More

  • EHS Technologies Awarded Navy Cybersecurity, Logistics Support Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EHS Technologies Awarded Navy Cybersecurity, Logistics Support Contracts

    EHS Technologies has received two new contracts worth $37 million combined from the U.S. Navy to carry out cybersecurity, engineering and logistics services for two service branch divisions. EHS said one $8 million contract with the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock division covers cybersecurity services to that organization. EHS will perform engineering and logistics support for the Navy’s […] More

  • CSRA Lands $73M Contract to Manage VA Cloud Computing Services; Paul Nedzbala Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Lands $73M Contract to Manage VA Cloud Computing Services; Paul Nedzbala Comments

    CSRA has been awarded a four-year, $73 million contract to handle enterprise cloud computing services for the Department of Veterans Affairs in a move to help facilitate veteran health benefits and service delivery programs. The company will identify, consolidate and manage cloud computing services across several vendors and internal VA offerings under the Enterprise Cloud Services […] More

  • 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

  • Air Force Picks Applied Defense Solutions Team for Space Data Contract; Tom Kubancik Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Applied Defense Solutions Team for Space Data Contract; Tom Kubancik Comments

    Applied Defense Solutions will collaborate with Lockheed Martin, Pacific Defense Solutions and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary RT Logic to supply space surveillance data to the U.S. Air Force under a contract awarded Oct. 19, Space News reported Monday. Phillip Swarts writes the industry team will provide commercially sourced space situational awareness data to the Joint Interagency Combined […] More