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  • Elbit Systems Subsidiary Demos Cockpit Tech at AUSA Event; Raanan Horowitz Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Subsidiary Demos Cockpit Tech at AUSA Event; Raanan Horowitz Comments

    Elbit Systems‘ U.S. subsidiary will feature new aircraft cockpit technologies for degraded visual environments at the Association of the United States Army event this week. The company said Saturday Elbit Systems of America will demonstrate products that work to help U.S. Army aviators perform their missions through poor weather or flight conditions. The technologies work utilize sensors, flight controls, computing, […] More

  • Lockheed Launches Counter-UAS System at AUSA Meeting - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Launches Counter-UAS System at AUSA Meeting

    Lockheed Martin has unveiled at the Association of the United States Army annual meeting a new software system that works to detect and intercept threats from commercially available unmanned aircraft systems. Lockheed said Monday Icarus operates defensively and combines electronic warfare, cybersecurity, sensor and nonkinetic technology or techniques. According to Deon Viergutz, vice president of cyber solutions at Lockheed Martin, […] More

  • Report: Managed Security Services Market to Hit 11% CAGR Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Managed Security Services Market to Hit 11% CAGR Through 2019

    A new Research and Markets report predicts that the global managed security services market will climb in value from 2014 to 2019 at a compound annual growth rate of 11.3 percent. The company said Monday the growth is due to increased demand for cloud services and adoption of bring-your-own-device practices, which have resulted in the need for security […] More

  • DOE Selects 2 Universities for Energy Delivery System Cyber R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Selects 2 Universities for Energy Delivery System Cyber R&D

    The Energy Department has awarded the University of Arkansas and the University of Illinois $34.7 million in grants to develop technologies for the defense of U.S. energy critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. DOE said Friday the universities will conduct research and development activities in support of efforts to secure the electric grid and other energy delivery systems. “Cybersecurity […] More

  • Lockheed F-35C Jets Complete 2nd At-Sea Test Round - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed F-35C Jets Complete 2nd At-Sea Test Round

    Lockheed Martin has completed a second round of F-35C at-sea tests aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower to check the maneuver, launch and nighttime operations of the F-35‘s carrier-based variant, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes those tests included night flights in which pilots used helmets that Rockwell Collins and Elbit Systems redesigned for the U.S. Navy. The Navy […] More

  • Nextgov: Autonomic Resources' Open Source PaaS Gets FedRAMP Approval - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nextgov: Autonomic Resources’ Open Source PaaS Gets FedRAMP Approval

    Autonomic Resources has been certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its ARCWRX open source platform-as-a-service cloud offering to the federal government, Nextgov reported Friday. Frank Konkel writes that ARCWRX is the first PaaS offering to achieve FedRAMP compliance. John Keese, director of government cloud solutions for Computer Sciences Corp., told Nextgov some federal agencies have expressed interest […] More

  • Orbital ATK Unveils $105M in US, Int'l Ammo Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Unveils $105M in US, Int’l Ammo Orders

    Orbital ATK has received orders from domestic and international customers for $105 million in medium- and large-caliber ammunition as part of an award through the U.S. Army‘s project manager for maneuver ammunition systems. The company said Monday the contracts include 20-millimeter, 25-millimeter and 30-milimeter tactical and target practice ammunition such as the PGU-27 and PGU-28 incendiary, MK244 and M940 cartridges, M792 incendiary with tracer and […] More

  • Harris Awarded $66M in EMEA Region Falcon Radio Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Awarded $66M in EMEA Region Falcon Radio Orders

    Harris Corp. will supply Falcon tactical radios to customers in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa as part of orders valued at $66 million for the first quarter of the company’s 2016 fiscal year. The company said Monday the orders are for various configurations of the multiband Falcon radios as well as for associated support services. […] More

  • DARPA Awards Phase 1 Contracts for Automated Language Tech Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Awards Phase 1 Contracts for Automated Language Tech Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Phase 1 contracts to 13 organizations from industry and academia to help develop automated translation technology for DARPA’s Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents program. DARPA said Thursday LORELEI aims to utilize public information sources in local languages to support quick-response operations such as disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping and infectious disease response […] More

  • Northrop Builds Spacecraft Bus for Webb Telescope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Builds Spacecraft Bus for Webb Telescope

    Northrop Grumman has completed the production and assembly of the spacecraft bus for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope at Northrop’s Redondo Beach facility in California. The company said Thursday the structure is made of carbon fiber composites and works to integrate Webb’s optical telescope, instrument electronics and sunshield. It also houses the propulsion system, communications system and electrical power, and mounts Webb […] More

  • ULA Launches NRO Payload, 13 Rideshare CubeSats; Jim Sponnick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches NRO Payload, 13 Rideshare CubeSats; Jim Sponnick Comments

    United Launch Alliance has launched a National Reconnaissance Office payload and 13 CubeSats for the Government Rideshare Advanced Concepts Experiment aboard an Atlas V rocket as part of the NROL-55 mission. The Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture said Thursday the mission is in support of national defense and is the company’s 10th launch since the beginning of the year. Jim […] More

  • PPD Lands 2 Contracts for R&D, Vaccine Services to Army & BARDA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PPD Lands 2 Contracts for R&D, Vaccine Services to Army & BARDA

    Pharmaceutical Product Development will provide research and development and vaccine services to the U.S. Army and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority as part of two new contracts. The company said Thursday it will support Army R&D activities that work toward force readiness, improved health outcomes and the delivery of high-quality medical and preventative care to deployed service members […] More