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  • Deltek’s Alex Rossino: DoD Recorded $19M in Cloud Spending in First Half of FY 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: DoD Recorded $19M in Cloud Spending in First Half of FY 2016

    A new Deltek report says the Defense Department spent nearly $19 million on cloud computing platforms and services during the first two quarters of fiscal year 2016. Deltek’s analysis of easily identified cloud contracts at DoD also showed that the U.S. Air Force landed the top spot when it comes to cloud spending from Oct. 1, 2015 through […] More

  • General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has begun flight testing an extended-range variant of the MQ-1C unmanned aircraft system at the company’s El Mirage flight operations facility in California. The company said Thursday the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range series is designed to increase endurance and payload capacity of the Gray Eagle UAS platform, which has recorded more than 300,000 flight […] More

  • Army Orders $69M in BAE Rocket Propellant Grains - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Orders $69M in BAE Rocket Propellant Grains

    BAE Systems has secured a $69 million contract from the U.S. Army to manufacture additional propellant grains for rotary- and fixed-wing aircraft rockets. The company said Wednesday it will produce MK90 propellants at the BAE-operated Radford Army Ammunition Plant in Virginia through October 2018. Reed McPeak, vice president and general manager of BAE’s ordnance systems business, said the propellants are designed […] More

  • Army Taps Robertson for Black Hawk External Fuel System A-Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps Robertson for Black Hawk External Fuel System A-Kits

    Robertson Fuel Systems has secured a five-year, $42.1 million contract to supply 541 crashworthy external fuel systems bussed aircraft A-kits for the U.S. Army‘s UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will perform work under the firm-fixed-price contract through Dec. 8, 2021. The Army Contracting Command received one bid for the procurement effort through an online solicitation […] More

  • DLA Taps Veyance Technologies for $77M Abrams Track Assembly Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Taps Veyance Technologies for $77M Abrams Track Assembly Contract

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Veyance Technologies a potential two-year, $77 million contract to produce M1 Abrams track assemblies for the U.S. Army. The sole-source contract has one base year and one option year and work will occur in Ohio through Dec. 5, 2017, the Defense Department said Monday. DLA’s land and maritime organization […] More

  • FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec's Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FirstNet Senior Manager Steven Smith Joins Sevatec’s Advisory Board

    Steven Smith, senior manager of the First Responder Network Authority, has joined the board of advisers of Fairfax, Virginia-based technology services contractor Sevatec. He brings to Sevatec’s advisory board three decades of information technology management experience in both the public and private sectors, the company said Thursday. “We are fortunate to have [Smith] lending his broad federal government […] More

  • Army Taps TrellisWare to Develop Narrowband Mode for Soldier Radio Waveform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps TrellisWare to Develop Narrowband Mode for Soldier Radio Waveform

    TrellisWare Technologies has secured a contract from the U.S. Army to develop a narrowband mode for the service branch’s Solider Radio Waveform. The company said Tuesday the SRW Narrowband capacity will be developed, field tested and prototyped on the Army ground tactical radios over a three-year period and will operate in VHF, UHF and reduced L-band. Rockwell Collins […] More

  • Rockwell Collins' Manpack Radio Tech Completes Army Qualification Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins’ Manpack Radio Tech Completes Army Qualification Test

    Rockwell Collins has completed the qualification test procedure for its military communication radio system as part of a potential $12.7 billion U.S. Army contract awarded in February. The company said Thursday it delivered 30 two-channel, software-defined AN/PRC-162 radios for the qualification tests under the Army’s Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit competition. Rockwell Collins, General Dynamics and Harris were selected to compete for the HMS contract to supply tactical radio systems, […] More

  • CACI Lands $79M Army Intell Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Lands $79M Army Intell Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    The U.S. Army has awarded CACI International a three-year, $79 million task order to provide intelligence systems engineering support for the military branch’s intelligence and information warfare directorate. CACI said Tuesday it will work to mature technologies in order to fulfill the Army’s intelligence and electronic warfare requirements in collaboration with academia. Under the task order, the company and […] More

  • William Lynn: Partnerships With Israeli Firms Help DRS Field Tech Platforms in Support of US Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    William Lynn: Partnerships With Israeli Firms Help DRS Field Tech Platforms in Support of US Military

    William Lynn, chairman and CEO of DRS Technologies, has said partnerships with Israel-based firms have helped DRS facilitate the integration and deployment of Israel-made technology platforms in the U.S. market in support of the U.S. military. Lynn told Defense News bureau chief Barbara Opall-Rome in an interview published Monday that DRS has secured a potential $400 million […] More

  • Trustwave Receives Army Networthiness Certification for Database Security Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trustwave Receives Army Networthiness Certification for Database Security Platforms

    Trustwave has obtained Certificates of Networthiness from the U.S. Army for the company’s database security platforms that work to secure and automate data collection. The company said Monday its Trustwave DbProtect and AppDetective Pro can now be used in the Army Enterprise Infrastructure to help automate the collection and evaluation of database ecosystem information. AppDetective Pro […] More

  • Raytheon Demos Cyber, Electromagnetic Battle Mgmt Tool; Frank Pietryka Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Demos Cyber, Electromagnetic Battle Mgmt Tool; Frank Pietryka Comments

    Raytheon has demonstrated the interoperability of the company’s cyber and electromagnetic battle management tool with an electronic warfare asset management system used by the U.S. Marine Corps. The company said Monday it integrated the CEMBM tool into Raptor-X to showcase how the unified system could facilitate data sharing across the joint battlespace environment. “We’ve achieved an interoperability breakthrough with CEMBM,” […] More