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  • Navy to Release Undersea Warfare Combat System Production RFP in December - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy to Release Undersea Warfare Combat System Production RFP in December

    The U.S. Navy has issued a draft statement of work on the production of a surface ship undersea warfare combat system and the service branch plans to seek proposals next month. The Navy said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday that the USW combat system program will involve Advanced Capability Build software integration and Technical Insertion hardware development, […] More

  • Safran to Open Identity & Security Tech Hub in Silicon Valley; Anne Bouverot Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Safran to Open Identity & Security Tech Hub in Silicon Valley; Anne Bouverot Comments

    Safran‘s identity and security business will open a new facility in Silicon Valley at the end of 2016 in a move to familiarize the development community interact with the company’s products. The facility is located in Redwood City, California, and will feature an innovation center focused on digital payment, digital identity and internet of things, Safran said […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe's Radiant Purchase Seeks to Help Support Intell Agencies' Cloud Goals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe’s Radiant Purchase Seeks to Help Support Intell Agencies’ Cloud Goals

    Intelligence analysts must be able to access data from cloud computing platforms to support information-based services and insights for agencies, DigitalGlobe services business lead Tony Frazier told National Defense magazine in an article published Monday. Longmont, Colorado-based DigitalGlobe announced its $140 million acquisition of geospatial information services provider The Radiant Group Oct. 11 and will add 400 employees with secret security clearances with 250 of them software developers. […] More

  • Navy Explores Industry Sources to Facilitate New Defense Systems R&D Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Explores Industry Sources to Facilitate New Defense Systems R&D Project

    The U.S. Navy has begun a market survey in search of potential vendors that can help the service branch to research and develop new technology that will work to advance defense systems-related scientific and technical data. A sources source notice posted Wednesday on FedBizOpps stated the Naval Surface Warfare Center-Panama City division looks to conduct weapons systems R&D as part of the Navy’s Rapid […] More

  • Next Century Consolidates Maryland Operations in Annapolis Junction Location - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Next Century Consolidates Maryland Operations in Annapolis Junction Location

    Next Century has moved its Maryland-based operations to 2701 Technology Drive, Suite 100, Annapolis Junction, Maryland. The software company has 134 employees who develop software for the Defense Department, Next Century said Monday. John McBeth, Next Century president, CEO and co-founder, said the new offices give Maryland employees room for expansion as well as collaboration spaces. The company secured a […] More

  • Salient CRGT Gets CMMI Level 3 Rating; Brad Antle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Gets CMMI Level 3 Rating; Brad Antle Comments

    Salient CRGT has received a capability maturity model integration for development level 3 appraisal from Carnegie Mellon University’s CMMI Institute. The appraisal indicates the software development company works to continuously improve its business processes and performance, Salient CRGT said Wednesday. Salient CRGT CEO Brad Antle said the company follows CMMI principles in efforts to manage customer service and increase organizational efficiency. A quality team began […] More

  • Air Force Picks Vencore for Cyber Weapon Characterization Software R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Picks Vencore for Cyber Weapon Characterization Software R&D Contract

    A Vencore subsidiary has won a four-year, $9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop software that will work to localize and characterize cyber weapons that have entered the country’s power grid infrastructure. Vencore Labs will research, create and demonstrate the Scalable and Holistic Energy CybeR-weapon Localization and Characterization platform under the contract, the Defense Department said Friday. The SHERLOC […] More

  • SRI Gets Air Force Software Devt Contract Under DARPA’s Power Grid Cyber Attack Detection Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI Gets Air Force Software Devt Contract Under DARPA’s Power Grid Cyber Attack Detection Program

    SRI International has received a potential four-year, $7.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop software under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to develop systems designed to detect and respond to cyber attacks on the power grid. The company will perform software development work through the Threat Intelligence for Grid […] More

  • Unisys to Continue Systems Development Support for GSA's Public Buildings Service; Casey Coleman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys to Continue Systems Development Support for GSA’s Public Buildings Service; Casey Coleman Comments

    Unisys has landed a potential two-year, $12.6 million contract from the General Services Administration to build and implement applications and systems for GSA’s Public Buildings Service organization. Unisys said Monday it aims to help PBS adopt a DevOps software development model and work closely with software developers in a push to accelerate the application development system process. The company noted it will support […] More

  • Air Force Taps Veramine for Phase 1 Cyber Deception R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Veramine for Phase 1 Cyber Deception R&D Contract

    Bothell, Washington-based software development company Veramine has landed a $149,979 contract from the U.S. Air Force under the Small Business Innovation Research program to conduct cyber deception research in support of the military branch’s network defense efforts, C4ISRNET reported Friday. Mark Pomerleau writes Veramine will design and develop tools for use in a representative cyber scenario as well as perform […] More

  • Ball Aerospace Eyes New Maryland Office for Cyber Business Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace Eyes New Maryland Office for Cyber Business Expansion

    Ball Aerospace and Technologies plans to open a new office in Columbia, Maryland  this summer as part of expansion initiatives after the company completed its acquisition of specialized engineering cyber services provider Wavefront Technologies. The company said Tuesday it seeks candidates from various fields such as systems engineering, software development, cybersecurity, intelligence analysis and computer science to join the Maryland office. Ball Aerospace […] More