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  • Leidos, Exelis Continue Work on DARPA's Counter-Radar Program; Mitch Friedman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, Exelis Continue Work on DARPA’s Counter-Radar Program; Mitch Friedman Comments

    Exelis will continue to provide technology development support to Leidos for the second phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Adaptive Radar Countermeasures program as part of a potential $15.6 million subcontract. Exelis said Wednesday it will integrate its electronic warfare hardware with Leidos’ software-based algorithms and demonstrate counter-radar functions in a loop test environment. “The work we’re doing […] More

  • USAF Orders 8 More General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper Drones for $72M - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Orders 8 More General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper Drones for $72M

    General Atomics will supply the U.S. Air Force with an additional eight production configuration MQ-9 Reaper Block 5 unmanned aerial vehicles under a $72 million contract modification. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company’s aeronautical systems business will perform contract work in Poway, California, through Dec. 31, 2017. DoD noted that the full obligated amount is from fiscal 2014 […] More

  • Lockheed Selects Saft Batteries to Power JLTV for Production Phase - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Selects Saft Batteries to Power JLTV for Production Phase

    Lockheed Martin has chosen Saft to provide Li-ion battery systems for the production phase of the U.S. Army‘s Joint Light Tactical Vehicles program. Saft said Tuesday it will continue as Lockheed’s JLTV battery supplier following previous agreements to provide batteries for the program’s engineering and manufacturing development phase and production readiness review. “This partnership represents the growing adoption of lithium-ion battery technology […] More

  • Tom Frana: Vion Eyes Added Health, Life Sciences Footprint Through NIH CIO-CS Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tom Frana: Vion Eyes Added Health, Life Sciences Footprint Through NIH CIO-CS Vehicle

    Vion will compete as the only small business original equipment manufacturer awardee on a 10-year, $20 billion governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology products and services awarded by a National Institutes of Health office. The company said Thursday it will offer cloud and other IT products and services in the areas of health and life sciences via the Chief Information Officer – Commodities […] More

  • SAIC Gets $17M Modification on Army FMS Contract for Systems, Computer Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Gets $17M Modification on Army FMS Contract for Systems, Computer Support

    Science Applications International Corp. will provide systems and computer support services for the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command under a $17.4 million modification to a foreign military sales contract. The Defense Department said Tuesday SAIC will perform contract work at Redstone Arsenal through Feb. 20, 2017. Contract work will occur in the following countries: Afghanistan Australia Bahrain Central African Republic […] More

  • Adam Famularo: Verizon to Train Partners for New Public Sector Channel Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Adam Famularo: Verizon to Train Partners for New Public Sector Channel Program

    Verizon‘s enterprise business is expanding its partner program to the public sector by training partners to deliver the company’s services to U.S. government customers, CRN reported Tuesday. Mark Haranas writes that the public sector channel program seeks to meet the needs of government agencies for communications, cloud, Internet of Things, mobility and networking technologies and services. “Training, […] More

  • Battelle Rolls Out Analytics-Based Market Monitoring Service; Nancy McMillan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Rolls Out Analytics-Based Market Monitoring Service; Nancy McMillan Comments

    Battelle is offering a new service that provides predictive analytics and risk mitigation functions to help companies monitor their markets and make informed business decisions amid emerging market trends. The company said Monday the SmartVision tool works to track information such as brand perception and consumer sentiment and analyze how these and emerging science can shape the marketplace and […] More

  • Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX Looks Toward Military Space Launch Certification, Reusable Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX Looks Toward Military Space Launch Certification, Reusable Tech

    SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell has told Defense News that the company continues to work with the U.S. Air Force as it seeks certification for military space launches by June. Shotwell told Aaron Mehta in an interview published Monday that SpaceX has worked to address cultural challenges during the certification process and reached a new understanding with the service on the […] More

  • IEEE Issues Security Guidelines for Medical Device Software Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IEEE Issues Security Guidelines for Medical Device Software Development

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has released new guidelines on baseline security requirements for software development and production of medical devices. IEEE said Monday the “Building Code for Medical Device Software Security” document authored by Tom Haigh and Carl Landwehr provides guidance on addressing security vulnerabilities at the point of origin. “[The] elements contained in […] More

  • Northrop to Install Voyage Management System 9.3 on Navy's Nuclear Submarines - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Install Voyage Management System 9.3 on Navy’s Nuclear Submarines

    Northrop Grumman will install version 9.3 of its Voyage Management System on the U.S. Navy‘s SSN and SSGN nuclear-powered attack submarines through the end of 2016. The company said Monday the Navy approved the VMS 9.3 installation on 55 SSNs and four SSGNs deployed around the world. Todd Leavitt, vice president of maritime systems at Northrop Grumman, […] More

  • Defense News: Navy Could Hold USS Enterprise Disposal Contract Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense News: Navy Could Hold USS Enterprise Disposal Contract Competition

    The U.S. Navy is examining the potential of a contract competition to help the branch dispose of the nuclear-powered USS Enterprise aircraft carrier, Defense News reported Sunday. Christopher Cavas writes that the Naval Sea Systems Command is considering the use of commercial services to dismantle the Enterprise due to potential capacity or cost limitations with the service’s current arrangement at […] More

  • Research and Markets: 'Smart Cities' to Help Drive Internet of Things Security Through 2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: ‘Smart Cities’ to Help Drive Internet of Things Security Through 2019

    Research and Markets predicts that the global Internet of Things security market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 54.93 percent through 2019 . The company said Friday its latest market report points to compliance with regulatory requirements among “smart cities” that use IoT technology as the main driver of growth in the market. To […] More