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  • Cubic to Develop Mobile App for LA County's Contactless Fare Payment System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Develop Mobile App for LA County’s Contactless Fare Payment System

    A business unit of Cubic has received a contract of an undisclosed value to develop an integrated mobile application for commuters who use the the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s contactless fare payment system. Cubic Transportation Systems will build the application to help TAP card users manage their account balances, load value or passes and […] More

  • Kratos Reports New Unmanned Aerial Drone Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Reports New Unmanned Aerial Drone Orders

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received multiple orders for unmanned aerial vehicles and related systems worth a combined $3.2 million. Kratos said Wednesday its modular systems division will produce drones and other system products at multiple production facilities for undisclosed customers. Thomas Mills, president of Kratos MSD, said that the business aims to support the security […] More

  • Reportlinker Forecasts Military Cybersecurity Market Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reportlinker Forecasts Military Cybersecurity Market Growth

    Reportlinker has released a forecast study that the military cybersecurity market is projected to increase from $9.8 billion to $13.8 billion at a compound annual growth rate of 3.5 percent between 2017 and 2027. The research firm said Wednesday the market is expected to globally hold a cumulative value of more than $130 billion during the period of forecast. […] More

  • Army to Expand Use of Vocera-Built Comms Tech at 3 Military Healthcare Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army to Expand Use of Vocera-Built Comms Tech at 3 Military Healthcare Facilities

    The U.S. Army will expand its use of Vocera Communications-developed technology platforms at three military health facilities as part of a $2.8 million contract with the company. Vocera said Wednesday the Army Regional Health Command-Pacific will deploy the company’s mobile and wearable devices at the Brian Allgood Army Hospital in South Korea and at the Tripler Army […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Multisource Exploitation Assistant Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Multisource Exploitation Assistant Tool

    The U.S. Air Force has posted a broad agency announcement to solicit proposals for the research, development, integration, test and evaluation of a digital assistant tool that would provide analytical answers. USAF said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday it plans to allocate $24.9 million for the Multi-Source Exploitation Assistant for the Digital Enterprise project and award […] More

  • Reportlinker Study Projects Global Military Submarine Market to Reach $34B by 2027 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reportlinker Study Projects Global Military Submarine Market to Reach $34B by 2027

    A new Reportlinker study predicts the current $22 billion global military submarine and related maintenance, repair and overhaul market to grow at a compound annual growth of 4.5 percent through 2027 and reach approximately $34 billion. Reportlinker said Wednesday it expects nuclear attack submarines to account for approximately 40 percent of the global market spending […] More

  • Bell-Boeing to Deliver Test and Evaluation Services for Navy V-22 Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell-Boeing to Deliver Test and Evaluation Services for Navy V-22 Aircraft

    A joint venture between Bell Helicopter and Boeing has received a $23.3 million order to deliver flight test and evaluation services for the U.S. Navy‘s V-22 Osprey aircraft. The Naval Air Systems Command obligated the whole amount in fiscal 2018 funds which will not expire upon the conclusion of the current fiscal year, the Defense Department said Tuesday . The company will perform 90 […] More

  • Aitech Introduces Power Supply Unit Designed to Support Military Embedded Computing Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aitech Introduces Power Supply Unit Designed to Support Military Embedded Computing Systems

    Aitech Defense Systems has unveiled a new power supply unit for CompactPCI, VME and VPX embedded computing systems, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Tuesday. The 500-Watt 3U VITA 62 power supply called P233 was designed to support military embedded computing systems as well as offer added system reliability and redundancy. The MIL-STD-704-compliant P233 also caters to ENABLE#, FAIL#, […] More

  • NASA's Atmosphere Research Mission to Launch With Airbus-Built Commercial Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA’s Atmosphere Research Mission to Launch With Airbus-Built Commercial Satellite

    NASA has announced an instrument the agency designed to study the region between earth’s atmosphere and space will fly as hosted payload onboard a commercial satellite. The agency said Wednesday its Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk mission will launch with a geostationary communications satellite that Airbus Group built for Luxembourg-based operator SES. SES-14 is scheduled to lift […] More

  • Agari: Rise in Federal DMARC Deployment Linked to DHS Email Security Directive - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Agari: Rise in Federal DMARC Deployment Linked to DHS Email Security Directive

    A new report by cybersecurity firm Agari has found that federal agencies’ adoption of an email authentication standard – Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance – rose 38 percent from Nov. 18 to Dec. 18, 2017. Agari’s report attributed the increase in DMARC adoption to agencies’ compliance with a new binding operational directive the Department […] More

  • Synergetics Gets New ISO Quality Mgmt Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Synergetics Gets New ISO Quality Mgmt Certification

    Synergetics has received new certification that recognizes the company’s compliance with leadership and management quality standards established by the International Organization for Standardization. The company said Tuesday it transitioned to the ISO 9001:2015 credential after it held the ISO 9001:2008 certification over the past nine years. Colorado-based Synergetics offers a range of information technology services to federal agencies through the General Services Administration’s 8(a) STARS […] More

  • Lockheed Delivers First C-130J Airlifter to French Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Delivers First C-130J Airlifter to French Military

    France’s military received an initial C-130J Super Hercules airlifter from Lockheed Martin in December. The C-130J-30 aircraft that arrived at Orleans Air Base in France is the first of four Lockheed-built planes ordered by the French directorate general of armament through a contract with the U.S. government, the French ministry of the armed forces said Dec. 22. The ministry expects the […] More