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  • Air Force Wants Industry Feedback on NORAD, Northcom IT Service Mgmt Draft RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Wants Industry Feedback on NORAD, Northcom IT Service Mgmt Draft RFP

    The U.S. Air Force has called on industry to submit comments on a draft request for proposals for information technology service management support to the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command. The future procurement is for services to manage, operate and maintain NORAD and Northcom’s classified and unclassified data, voice and video networks, the Air Force […] More

  • CAE Adds Full-Mission Simulator to Tampa C-130 Training Center; Ray Duquette Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Adds Full-Mission Simulator to Tampa C-130 Training Center; Ray Duquette Comments

    CAE has added a new full-mission simulator to its Tampa, Florida-based C-130 training center as part of an effort to help fulfill the training requirements of Hercules airlifter pilots. The C-130H/L-382 simulator incorporates the Flight2 glass cockpit avionics system from Rockwell Collins, the CAE Medallion-6000 image generator for synthetic environment on a display system driven by Sony […] More

  • Trabus Technologies Wins Potential $12.6M Navy Airborne Comms, Networking Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Trabus Technologies Wins Potential $12.6M Navy Airborne Comms, Networking Support Contract

    Trabus Technologies has won a potential $12.6 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide airborne communications and networking technical services to the U.S. Navy. The company will also perform engineering, programmatic services and related certification and information assurance for new, existing and future developments to communication and networking systems, the Defense Department said Monday. Trabus Technologies is one […] More

  • DARPA Launches New Social Science Program; Adam Russell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Launches New Social Science Program; Adam Russell Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started to accept industry proposals for a program in search of new technologies and methods to use in social science studies. DARPA’s Next Generation Social Science program aims to evaluate causal models of human social behaviors through several disciplines such as sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, psychology, computer sciences, physics, biology and math, […] More

  • Lockheed Wins Navy EO/IR Surveillance, Response System Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Wins Navy EO/IR Surveillance, Response System Contract

    Lockheed Martin has won a potential $10.6 million contract to manufacture multispectral electro-optic infrared countermeasures to be installed on the U.S. Navy’s combined EO/IR surveillance and response system. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will perform work in Bothell, Washington through March 1, 2020. The Office of Naval Research said in a FedBizOps notice […] More

  • Fiji Applies DigitalGlobe Tech to Assess Cyclone Damage; Caitlyn Milton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fiji Applies DigitalGlobe Tech to Assess Cyclone Damage; Caitlyn Milton Comments

    DigitalGlobe has deployed the company’s public crowd sourcing platform to Fiji in an effort to help the government assess damage that resulted from a cyclone that struck the country Feb. 20. DigitalGlobe captured the first images of Cyclone Winston’s impact with its FirstLook service and the company’s high-resolution satellite constellation gathered the images within 24 hours of the landfall, the […] More

  • Tiffany Goddard: Citizen Engagement Key to Cities' Public Works, Safety Goals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tiffany Goddard: Citizen Engagement Key to Cities’ Public Works, Safety Goals

    Tiffany Goddard, a citizen engagement specialist at Carahsoft, has outlined how government organizations and citizens can work together to aid in public safety functions. Goddard wrote in a blog post published Friday that both public works and public safety organizations believe they need to change how they interact with citizens and information sharing. She cited Accela as one such company […] More

  • Research and Markets: Global Small Drones Market to Reach $10B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: Global Small Drones Market to Reach $10B by 2020

    A new Research and Markets report has predicted the global small drones market to hit $10.04 billion in value by 2020 as demand for commercial application increases. Research and Markets said Wednesday defense and commercial sector operations and tasks that use small drones increase over the past 10 years following the advancements in payloads technology. […] More

  • ICF Receives $35M CDC Award for HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Receives $35M CDC Award for HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Support

    ICF International has received a five-year, $34.6 million task order to perform analytic, financial and communications services for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s HIV/AIDS prevention program. The company will assist in CDC’s work to gather, analyze and report HIV prevention data, conduct research and literature reviews as well as provide program and grants […] More

  • CSC to Refresh London Police’s Digital Policing Workplace; Damien Venkatasamy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSC to Refresh London Police’s Digital Policing Workplace; Damien Venkatasamy Comments

    Computer Sciences Corp. has received a five-year contract to refresh a digital policing workplace used by London’s police department. CSC will implement its MyWorkstyle end-user service in order to update the Metropolitan Police Service’s information technology environment under the agreement, the company said Tuesday. “We are delighted to have the opportunity to transform how the police force uses IT […] More

  • Ntrepid Opens Free Browser Preregistration for OPM Breach Victims; Richard Helms Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ntrepid Opens Free Browser Preregistration for OPM Breach Victims; Richard Helms Comments

    Ntrepid has kicked off the preregistration process for its Passages Consumer browser for the victims of the data breach that hit the Office of Personnel Management in 2015. The cybersecurity firm has opened the free preregistration for 60 days before it rolls out the consumer version of the browser to OPM users in late 2016 with a free […] More