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  • Italy Renews Lease on Lockheed's Gulfstream SIGINT Aircraft Through 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Italy Renews Lease on Lockheed’s Gulfstream SIGINT Aircraft Through 2016

    Italy has extended its lease on Lockheed Martin‘s Gulfstream III signals intelligence aircraft through the spring of 2016 amid security concerns in Libya and Tunisia, Defense News reported Saturday. Tom Kington writes that Lockheed’s Airborne Multi-INT Laboratory provides communications and electronic intelligence functions and works as a “flying ISR test bed” equipped with a ground data link and electro-optic sensor. […] More

  • GATR Technologies Moves to Full-Rate Production of Inflatable SATCOM Antenna for Marines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GATR Technologies Moves to Full-Rate Production of Inflatable SATCOM Antenna for Marines

    GATR Technologies will move forward to full-rate production of its Inflatable Satellite Communications Antenna for the U.S. Marine Corps as part of the High Bandwidth Special Intelligence-Palletized Terminal program of record. The company said Monday it will initially produce 36 terminals with X- and Ku-band capability for the Marines’ radio and intelligence battalions under a $440 million contract awarded earlier this […] More

  • Novetta Updates Network-Traffic Analytics Software; Jim Cushman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Novetta Updates Network-Traffic Analytics Software; Jim Cushman Comments

    Novetta has unveiled a new version of its network-traffic analytics software Novetta Cyber Analytics, which features new functions for prebuilt queries, asynchronous decoding and query sharing. The company said Thursday Novetta Cyber Analytics version 4.4 works to provide near-real-time visibility into the enterprise network. “As a whole, the cybersecurity industry continues to focus on automating security analysis,” said […] More

  • Report: Global Aviation Cybersecurity Market Worth $1B in 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Global Aviation Cybersecurity Market Worth $1B in 2015

    A new Visiongain report released by Reportbuyer indicates that the global aviation cybersecurity market will reach a value of $1.8 billion this year as the sector works to protect its information and computer technologies. “Disruption of this sector would invariably have a profound effect on the global economy and more widespread social ramifications, making it crucial […] More

  • Boeing-Led AH-64E Apache Team Seeks Engagement With Polish Defense Industry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Led AH-64E Apache Team Seeks Engagement With Polish Defense Industry

    Boeing and its industry partners in the AH-64E Apache program are exploring business opportunities with the Polish Armaments Group as part of an initiative in support of Poland’s defense modernization program. The company said Thursday it is working with partners General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Longbow and Raytheon to engage with the consortium of Polish state-owned defense companies. “We are […] More

  • Deltek's John Slye: IT Budget Reporting Another Focus Area for OPM Cyber Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s John Slye: IT Budget Reporting Another Focus Area for OPM Cyber Modernization

    Deltek‘s John Slye has urged the Office of Personnel Management to work on the consistency of its information technology budget reporting as it moves to modernize its cybersecurity measures in the aftermath of data breaches at the agency. Slye, an advisory research analyst at Deltek, wrote in a blog entry posted Thursday that OPM seeks an additional […] More

  • Lockheed to Install 2nd Instrument on NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Install 2nd Instrument on NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft

    Lockheed Martin‘s space systems business will install a point spectrometer developed by NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center for the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer. The space agency said Wednesday the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer will work to help OSIRIS-REx identify water resources and organic materials on the surface of the Bennu asteroid by […] More

  • Army Taps 4 Companies for $25M Medical Research Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps 4 Companies for $25M Medical Research Support Contract

    The U.S. Army has selected four companies to provide laboratory research animals and devices to the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and other Defense Department agencies under a $25 million contract. DoD said Wednesday the firm-fixed-price contract covers support for basic research through July 12, 2020. The following companies may receive blanket purchase agreements within […] More

  • Battelle, Astrotech Subsidiary Advance to Chemical Detector Program's 2nd Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle, Astrotech Subsidiary Advance to Chemical Detector Program’s 2nd Phase

    Battelle and its Astrotech subsidiary partner will continue their collaboration in developing a portable mass spectrometer onto the second phase of the U.S. military’s three-phase Next Generation Chemical Detector program. Astrotech said Tuesday Battelle and 1st Detect Corp. will move forward to testing and evaluation of the latter’s prototype Multi-Sample Identifier Detector. “We are working in close collaboration with our key partner […] More

  • Ensco to Equip Canadian Nat'l Railway Vehicles With Track Inspection Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco to Equip Canadian Nat’l Railway Vehicles With Track Inspection Systems

    A business unit of Ensco will provide track geometry measurement and machine vision joint bar inspection systems for two hi-rail vehicles of the Canadian National Railway as part of efforts to ensure safer railway operations. The company said Tuesday Ensco Rail will equip the hi-rail vehicles with its RailScan Lite Track Geometry Measurement System and Joint Bar Inspection System to support […] More

  • Energy Dept Seeks Partners for Sandia Labs Transfer of Active Authentication Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Energy Dept Seeks Partners for Sandia Labs Transfer of Active Authentication Tech

    The Energy Department has issued a solicitation for industry partners to help facilitate the market readiness and commercialization of Sandia National Laboratories’ active authentication technologies. DOE said in a special notice posted June 26 on FedBizOpps that Sandia has worked to develop a Quasi-Physically Unclonable Digital ID that uses data scrambling to authenticate devices and counter digital […] More

  • Cubic to Exhibit Military Training Tech at Capitol Hill M&S Expo; John Roberti Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Exhibit Military Training Tech at Capitol Hill M&S Expo; John Roberti Comments

    A Cubic Corp. business unit, Cubic Global Defense has received an invitation from the National Training and Simulation Association to exhibit the company’s military training technologies at the 10th Annual Capitol Hill Modeling and Simulation Expo on July 9. Cubic said Tuesday the showcase will provide an opportunity to demonstrate virtual training systems for homeland security, national defense and […] More