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  • Boeing Subsidiary Gets Navy Surveillance Equipment IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Subsidiary Gets Navy Surveillance Equipment IDIQ

    Boeing‘s Digital Receiver Technology subsidiary has secured a $23.8 million contract to provide ruggedized surveillance equipment and peripherals to the U.S. Navy‘s Combat Direction Systems Activity Dam Neck. The Defense Department said Thursday that CDSA Dam Neck will use the equipment in engineering, technical design and acquisition activities. The service branch will obligate $30,610 in initial contract funds slated to expire at the […] More

  • 4 Firms Win Spots on DoD POL Facility Architect-Engineer Services IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4 Firms Win Spots on DoD POL Facility Architect-Engineer Services IDIQ

    Four companies have won positions on a potential $49 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide architectural and engineering services for Defense Department petroleum, oil and lubricant facilities. DoD said Wednesday the service branch received 21 offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and subsequently made a total of 13 awards. The four initial awardees are AMEC Foster Wheeler […] More

  • Boeing, Oerlikon Form Titanium Additive Manufacturing Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Oerlikon Form Titanium Additive Manufacturing Partnership

    Boeing and Switzerland-based technology and engineering firm Oerlikon have agreed to collaborate on the development of standard metal-based 3D printing processes and materials. The companies will use the data from their collaboration to help additive manufacturing companies qualify their 3D-printed metallic components for aerospace applications under a five-year agreement, Boeing said Tuesday. “This agreement is […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Integrated Satcom Architecture Needs Industry Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Integrated Satcom Architecture Needs Industry Innovation

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said she believes an integrated satellite communications architecture should incorporate industry’s technological advancements to change the cultural misperception about military and commercial satcom. “For space programs, it remains imperative to incorporate advancements from the commercial sector into the baseline [Defense Department] architecture as a […] More

  • Mark Esper: Army Seeks to Accelerate Combat Vehicle Prototyping Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mark Esper: Army Seeks to Accelerate Combat Vehicle Prototyping Effort

    The U.S. Army looks to expedite the process for developing a prototype of the Next-Generation Combat Vehicle, Defense News reported Thursday. Army Secretary Mark Esper told reporters Thursday that the service branch aims to accelerate various programs, including NGCV, to help address goals of the Defense Department’s National Defense Strategy. In September 2017, the Army awarded […] More

  • Lockheed to Produce Additional Towed-Array Sonar Systems for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Produce Additional Towed-Array Sonar Systems for Navy

    Lockheed Martin has received a $50.9 million contract modification to produce and engineer twin line towed-array sonars for the U.S. Navy. The company will supply two TL-29A systems as well as provide one spare array and refurbishment services to the program executive office for submarines at the service branch’s Maritime Surveillance Systems Program Office, the […] More

  • CACI to Help Maintain Army National Guard End Strength Under $60M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI to Help Maintain Army National Guard End Strength Under $60M Contract

    A CACI International subsidiary has won a three-year, $60 million contract from the U.S. Army to develop resources for the service branch’s initiative to increase the end strength of the Army National Guard. CACI-CMS Information Systems will support the National Guard strength maintenance program and deliver specific calls-to-action messaging in various markets as part of […] More

  • COMSAT to Deliver Iridium Certus Broadband Service to DoD; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    COMSAT to Deliver Iridium Certus Broadband Service to DoD; Matt Desch Comments

    COMSAT has agreed to provide Iridium Communications’ broadband service to warfighters and other users within the Defense Department by mid-2018. COMSAT will deliver voice calling, telematics data, environmental assessments, usage statistics, staff tracking applications and other capabilities to DoD users and military personnel through the Iridium Certus broadband service offering under the agreement, Iridium said […] More

  • HackerOne Unveils Results of Second Air Force Bug Bounty Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HackerOne Unveils Results of Second Air Force Bug Bounty Challenge

    HackerOne has released the results of the U.S. Air Force‘s second bug bounty challenge that invited hackers from 26 countries to identify vulnerabilities in the military branch’s systems. The company said Thursday 27 hackers participated in the 20-day Hack the Air Force 2.0 event and found 106 valid vulnerabilities, which earned the participants $103,883 in total bounties. HackerOne […] More

  • FedRAMP Board Approves CDS' Federal Cloud Service Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board Approves CDS’ Federal Cloud Service Offering

    Complete Discovery Source has obtained approval from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s Joint Authorization Board to offer a service meant to help agencies manage records in cloud environments. The board granted authority to operate certification to CDS’ Federal Cloud Services offering after a rigorous security evaluation process, the said Monday. Nyi Htwe, chief technology […] More

  • Mitre Appoints 5 to Visiting Fellows Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Appoints 5 to Visiting Fellows Program

    Mitre has appointed five individuals to the nonprofit company’s Visiting Fellows Program that aims to help address complex national problems. The nonprofit said Thursday its newly appointed visiting fellows possess a background in the organization’s strategic focus areas of national defense, cybersecurity and health. Richard Byrne, senior vice president of programs and technology at Mitre, said the […] More

  • Marine Corps Picks Tactical Edge for Post-Deployment System Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Picks Tactical Edge for Post-Deployment System Support Contract

    Tactical Edge has won a potential five-year, $49 million contract to provide post-deployment system support to the U.S. Marine Corps. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will aim to address the Marine Air-Ground Task Force’s logistics support system requirements through PDSS technical services. San Diego-based Tactical Edge will help the group manage projects, administer systems, develop […] More