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  • Engility Awards Cyber Scholarships to 2 Army Veterans; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility Awards Cyber Scholarships to 2 Army Veterans; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has selected U.S. Army veterans Magdalena Seitz and Leo Bastidas as the first two recipients of the company’s cybersecurity scholarships. The company said Wednesday it partnered with the Center for Cyber Safety and Education to establish the CyberWarrior Scholarship, which will give military veterans funds to pursue cybersecurity certifications. “We are grateful for our veterans’ commitment to […] More

  • Comtech Subsidiary to Produce Mobile Satellite Transceivers for Army Blue Force Tracker - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Subsidiary to Produce Mobile Satellite Transceivers for Army Blue Force Tracker

    A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has received an $11.7 million initial order to supply mobile satellite transceivers for a U.S. Army system built to help commanders and troops obtain situational awareness in the battlefield. Comtech Mobile Datacom will provide thousands of MT-2025 transceivers in support of the military branch’s Blue Force Tracking-2 system, the company said Wednesday. BFT-2 is part of the […] More

  • SRI International to Support Army Battlefield Tech Security Research Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI International to Support Army Battlefield Tech Security Research Initiative

    A research team that includes SRI International has received five-year, $25 million grant from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop analytic tools and services intended to secure cyber-physical systems in the battlefield. SRI said Wednesday the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will lead the Alliance for IoBT Research on Evolving Intelligent Goal-driven Networks. ARL, Carnegie Mellon University, […] More

  • Retired Army Gen. John Campbell Named NS2 Serves Chairman - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Retired Army Gen. John Campbell Named NS2 Serves Chairman

    John Campbell, a retired U.S. Army general, has been named chairman of a SAP National Security Services-backed nonprofit organization. He will succeed Joseph Kernan, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral who was confirmed by the Senate as defense undersecretary for intelligence in November, as chairman of NS2 Serves, the nonprofit organization said Wednesday. Campbell will […] More

  • Kratos Books $81M US Govt Order for Unmanned Drone Systems, C3 Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Books $81M US Govt Order for Unmanned Drone Systems, C3 Services

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has received a potential five-year, $81 million contract to supply unmanned drone systems to a U.S. government agency. The company said Tuesday it will also provide command, control and communications services to the customer agency through the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Eric DeMarco, president and CEO of Kratos, said the company’s unmanned systems division […] More

  • Army Seeks Industry Info on IT Modernization Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Industry Info on IT Modernization Tech

    The U.S. Army wants industry feedback on technologies that can help modernize the Army Research Laboratory’s information technology environment. The military branch said Tuesday in a FedBizOpps notice that it plans to use cloud computing, virtualization and self-service tools to modernize ARL’s IT systems. ARL seeks to develop a computing environment that can expand and contract services; deliver optimized services […] 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

  • CACI Director William Wallace Receives U.S. Military Academy Graduate Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Director William Wallace Receives U.S. Military Academy Graduate Award

    William Wallace, a member CACI International‘s board of directors since 2009 and a retired U.S. Army general, has received the U.S. Military Academy’s Distinguished Graduate Award. CACI said Tuesday the award recognizes West Point graduates whose military service, stature and character reflect the academy’s “Duty, Honor, Country” motto. Wallace graduated from West Point in 1969 and is the second board director at the company […] More

  • Teledyne Subsidiary Gets Army Missile Defense Modeling, Simulation Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Teledyne Subsidiary Gets Army Missile Defense Modeling, Simulation Order

    A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has received a potential $45.7 million task order to provide system modeling and simulation tools for the U.S. Army‘s missile defense program. Teledyne Brown Engineering will provide its Extended Air Defense Simulation  platform to the service branch under the task order from the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, the company said Friday. EADSIM is designed […] More

  • Cog-MSI Team Lands Contract to Build Army Medical Data Segregation Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cog-MSI Team Lands Contract to Build Army Medical Data Segregation Platform

    The U.S. Army and Defense Health Agency have chosen a Cog–Management Sciences Inc. team to develop a dual-persona mobile system that can tunnel the service branch’s unclassified medical information through a classified tactical network. Cog said Thursday it will collaborate with MSI to build a prototype multilevel security platform for Army medics to bypass the declassification process when […] 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

  • Polaris-ARA-Neya Team Unveils Unmanned Transport Vehicle at AUVSI Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Polaris-ARA-Neya Team Unveils Unmanned Transport Vehicle at AUVSI Conference

    Polaris has launched at the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International conference an unmanned ground vehicle the company and its partners proposed for the U.S. Army’s Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport program, Defense News reported Wednesday. Polaris partnered with Applied Research Associates and Neya Systems in September 2017 to offer the MRZR X unmanned vehicle for […] More