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  • Lockheed Tests Legion Pod Sensor System on F-16; Paul Lemmo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Tests Legion Pod Sensor System on F-16; Paul Lemmo Comments

    Lockheed Martin has conducted the first flight test for its Legion Pod system integrated into an F-16 fighter aircraft to check the system’s capability for detecting and tracking several airborne targets. The company said Tuesday Legion Pod features an IRST21 infrared sensor, networking and data processing functions and an open systems architecture. “Legion Pod is a production-ready, multisensor system,” […] More

  • CTC & Affiliate Form Alliance With Varley Group, Varley USA; Ed Sheehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CTC & Affiliate Form Alliance With Varley Group, Varley USA; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. and its affiliate Enterprise Ventures Corp. have entered into an alliance with Australia-based Varley Group and its Varley USA subsidiary. Varley Group said Monday the partnership works to expand its aerospace and defense, specialized vehicles and electric motor and generator technology businesses in the U.S. “We look forward to developing a long-term relationship with Varley,” […] More

  • Diane Hockenberry: Iridium's Launch Plans With SpaceX is Flexible - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Diane Hockenberry: Iridium’s Launch Plans With SpaceX is Flexible

    A spokesperson for SpaceX customer Iridium Communications said the explosion Sunday of the Falcon 9 rocket bound for the International Space Station will have little impact on Iridium’s plans for its own payloads, Reuters reported Monday. “It isn’t critical that they make the exact dates — there is some flexibility in our overall launch plans,” Iridium spokeswoman Diane Hockenberry told Reuters. […] More

  • Accenture to Extend MicroPact Case Mgmt Product Usage for Federal Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture to Extend MicroPact Case Mgmt Product Usage for Federal Programs

    Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary and MicroPact have expanded their partnership on the implementation of the latter’s entellitrak case management offering at Accenture’s federal agency clients. Accenture said Monday it will continue to deploy the entellitrak development platform to support case and process management functions for health, financial and civilian agency programs. Vanessa Godshalk, a managing director at […] More

  • Iridium Names Initial Service Providers of Push-to-Talk Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Names Initial Service Providers of Push-to-Talk Service

    Iridium Communications has selected seven businesses as the initial service providers to resell the Iridium Push-to-Talk service to military, search-and-rescue, law enforcement and other customers in the international market. The company said Monday the service works to support instant communication from any location via the Iridium low-earth orbit satellite system and operates as half-duplex communication. The following are […] More

  • Noblis, DoD Scientists Use BioVelocity in Ebola Diagnostics Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Noblis, DoD Scientists Use BioVelocity in Ebola Diagnostics Research

    A team of Noblis and government scientists have reported 10 new genomic signatures of the Ebola virus in a paper published in the Viruses journal, which the nonprofit organization says could indicate potential shortcomings in current diagnostic techniques. Noblis said Thursday it collaborated with the Defense Department‘s Medical Countermeasure Systems organization and used the organization’s BioVelocity tool to help identify genomic signatures […] More

  • WidePoint, Samsung Arm Form Mobile Device Mgmt Alliance; Steve Komar Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint, Samsung Arm Form Mobile Device Mgmt Alliance; Steve Komar Comments

    WidePoint has partnered with Samsung subsidiary Samsung SDS America to deploy the former’s Certificate-on-Device digital certificates on Samsung’s Galaxy S and Galaxy Note mobile devices. WidePoint said Monday the alliance also includes the integration of its Intelligent Telecommunications Management System with Samsung’s CellWe Enterprise Mobility Management software. “WidePoint looks forward to continuing work with Samsung SDSA as we work to grow […] More

  • General Atomics Eyes European Airspace for Reaper; Christopher Ames Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Eyes European Airspace for Reaper; Christopher Ames Comments

    General Atomics is modifying its Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft system to meet NATO regulations as the company aims to fly the drone in European airspace by 2019, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Brendan McGarry writes that the company is adding new features to drive fuel economy and comply with air worthiness requirements in the NATO Standardization Agreement 4671 and […] More

  • Carahsoft Offers Cloud-Hosted Tool for DoD Collaboration, Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Offers Cloud-Hosted Tool for DoD Collaboration, Training

    Carahsoft Technology has launched the cloud-hosted Defense Connect Online II tool, which builds on the company’s DCO offering for military collaboration and training activities. “DCO II can be used by anyone associated with the [Defense Department] who wishes to continue using DCO Connect for their collaboration needs,” Mark Mills, DCO II program manager and vice president at […] More

  • General Dynamics NASSCO Starts Construction of 2nd SEA-Vista Product Tanker - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics NASSCO Starts Construction of 2nd SEA-Vista Product Tanker

    A subsidiary of General Dynamics has begun construction of the second product tanker for SEA-Vista Newbuild III, which will support the transportation of crude oil and refined products. General Dynamics NASSCO said Thursday the tanker, which has a 330,000-barrel cargo capacity and deadweight of 50,000 tons, is based on the ECO MR Tanker design of South Korea’s DSEC. Kevin Graney, vice […] More

  • ICF-AEE: US Natural Gas Pipeline to Meet Power Demand Under CPP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF-AEE: US Natural Gas Pipeline to Meet Power Demand Under CPP

    ICF International worked with Advanced Energy Economy to look into the capability of the U.S. natural gas pipeline system to align with the Environmental Protection Agency‘s Clean Power Plan, Natural Gas Intelligence reported Thursday. Carolyn Davis writes the analysis report says the pipeline can keep up with power generation needs as the proposed CPP calls for a […] More

  • Schafer to Support DHS Nuclear Detection Efforts for $90M; Ramesh Ramaswamy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Schafer to Support DHS Nuclear Detection Efforts for $90M; Ramesh Ramaswamy Comments

    Schafer Corp. will provide scientific engineering and technical assistance services to the Department of Homeland Security‘s Domestic Nuclear Detection Office under a potential three-year, $90 million task order contract. The company said Wednesday its support for DNDO is in line with its chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives portfolio and efforts in the national security sector. “We look […] More