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  • Drone Aviation to Provide L-3 Comm Package for BAE's Aerostat Upgrade Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation to Provide L-3 Comm Package for BAE’s Aerostat Upgrade Contract

    BAE Systems has selected Drone Aviation Corp. to provide parts and services for the upgrade of two Winch Aerostat Small Platform systems of the U.S. Army‘s Space and Missile Defense Command Battle Lab. DAC said Wednesday it will also work with L-3 Communications subsidiary L-3 Communication Systems-West to integrate the new WASP electro-optical and infrared imaging tactical surveillance system and […] More

  • Cisco-IMD: Digital Disruption to Displace 40% of Business Incumbents Within 5 Years - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco-IMD: Digital Disruption to Displace 40% of Business Incumbents Within 5 Years

    A study by the Global Center for Digital Business Transformation — an initiative between Cisco and the IMD business school — says digital disruption could supplant 40 percent of incumbent firms within the next five years. Cisco said Wednesday the researchers sought the outlook of 941 business leaders across 12 industries on the impact of digital disruption in reshaping […] More

  • US-UK Team Tests 'Ski-Jump' Launch for F-35B Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US-UK Team Tests ‘Ski-Jump’ Launch for F-35B Jets

    A joint U.S. and U.K. team is conducting initial tests on the short takeoff capability of Lockheed Martin‘s F-35B fighter jet led by BAE Systems test pilot Peter Wilson. The U.K. defense ministry said Tuesday the phase one tests are in preparation for the jet’s planned aircraft carrier operations aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth. “[The] de-risking that we’re […] More

  • CAE Offers Tablet-Operated Software to Control Patient Simulator; Robert Amyot Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Offers Tablet-Operated Software to Control Patient Simulator; Robert Amyot Comments

    CAE‘s healthcare business has unveiled its new tablet-operated software for controlling the METIman patient simulator’s physiology and responses to treatment during patient care training. The company said Tuesday Vivo provides facilitators full manual control of the patient simulator and enables alternative physiological models for training sessions. “We developed Vïvo for today’s healthcare learning environment, which is fast-paced, rapidly changing and […] More

  • NASA, Govt & Industry Partners Test Collision Avoidance Functions on UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Govt & Industry Partners Test Collision Avoidance Functions on UAS

    NASA and its partners General Atomics, Honeywell International and the Federal Aviation Administration are conducting a series of tests under the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System program. The space agency said Tuesday the team will perform tests on several UAS at the Armstrong Flight Research Center through July. Previous tests under the first phase have […] More

  • Lockheed Subcontracts Aerojet Rocketdyne for Satellite Propulsion Systems; Warren Yasuhara Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Subcontracts Aerojet Rocketdyne for Satellite Propulsion Systems; Warren Yasuhara Comments

    Lockheed Martin has selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to provide the XR-5 Hall Effect and MR-510 Arcjet electric propulsion subsystems and monopropellant rocket engines for Lockheed’s contract with Arabsat. Aerojet Rocketdyne said Tuesday Lockheed will fit the subsystems and rocket engines onto two modernized A2100 satellites as part of efforts to boost mission flexibility. Warren Yasuhara, vice president of space systems at Aerojet Rocketdyne, added […] More

  • HII's Shipbuilding Unit Breaks Ground on Future Manufacturing Facility; Matt Mulherin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII’s Shipbuilding Unit Breaks Ground on Future Manufacturing Facility; Matt Mulherin Comments

    The Newport News Shipbuilding division of Huntington Ingalls Industries has broken ground on a new joint manufacturing assembly facility to support the production of submarines and aircraft carriers. The company said Monday the facility will open in 2017 to help boost efficiency in HII’s contracts for the U.S. Navy‘s Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and Virginia-class submarines. Matt Mulherin, president […] More

  • IRS Commissioner John Koskinen: Govt-Industry Agreement to Address Tax Fraud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IRS Commissioner John Koskinen: Govt-Industry Agreement to Address Tax Fraud

    The Internal Revenue Service has partnered with state tax officials and the tax industry on a collaborative project to bolster information sharing and analytics as part of efforts against identity theft and refund fraud. IRS said June 11 the government-industry project aims to establish steps for validating tax filing information, standardize sharing of identity theft information and […] More

  • Vencore to Support App Test, Development Work at Sandia Labs; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore to Support App Test, Development Work at Sandia Labs; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore will provide support to Sandia National Laboratories on the development and testing of technologies for military applications under a $10 million sole-source, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The company said Tuesday it will work on formal software and system testing, custom software development, documentation and testing for classified programs at Sandia. Mac Curtis, president and CEO of Vencore, noted that […] More

  • Versar Subsidiary to Support National Guard Civil Engineering Activity at Andrews AFB - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Versar Subsidiary to Support National Guard Civil Engineering Activity at Andrews AFB

    A subsidiary of Versar will provide professional engineering and program management advisory and support services to the National Guard Bureau under a potential $2.8 million contract from the General Services Administration. The company said Tuesday its J.M. Waller Associates subsidiary will provide on-site support for civil engineering operations at the Air National Guard Readiness Center of Andrews Air Force Base. […] More

  • General Atomics Lands Navy Production Contract for JFK Carrier Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lands Navy Production Contract for JFK Carrier Components

    General Atomics has secured a production contract from the U.S. Navy to provide the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and Advanced Arresting Gear for the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) aircraft carrier. The company said Monday its electromagnetic systems group will provide program management, design, engineering and manufacturing services at its facility in Mississippi and subcontract component manufacturing to other U.S. vendors. […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-NGA Open Source Project Eyes Geospatial Big Data Analytics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe-NGA Open Source Project Eyes Geospatial Big Data Analytics

    DigitalGlobe has partnered with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to launch the Hootenanny open source project in an effort to offer developers software tools for crowdsourced mapping and geospatial big data analytics functions. DigitalGlobe said Monday Hootenanny features the interactive iD Editor interface for editing map features and the OpenStreetMap architecture for integrating geospatial big data. “Our human geography product […] More