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  • Lockheed-Developed Air Force GPS Security Upgrades Enter Full Operations; Vinny Sica Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Developed Air Force GPS Security Upgrades Enter Full Operations; Vinny Sica Comments

    The U.S. Air Force has kicked off full operations for its updated global positioning system security developed by Lockheed Martin in an effort to help protect data and keep satellites available to users. The GPS Intrusion Protection Reinforcement technology has been integrated into the GPS master control station and the alternate master control station following […] More

  • Lockheed Awarded Contract to Complete DARPA RF Mapping Program; John Chapin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awarded Contract to Complete DARPA RF Mapping Program; John Chapin Comments

    Lockheed Martin has received an $11.8 million contract to execute the final phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s radio frequency mapping program intended to help operators view real-time spectrum use. The RadioMap tool will work to overlay radio spectrum data on a map in order to prevent frequency conflict and schedule the use of […] More

  • General Atomics Opens Abu Dhabi Office; Frank Pace Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Opens Abu Dhabi Office; Frank Pace Comments

    General Atomics has moved to expand the company’s presence in the Middle East and North Africa region with a newly opened office in Abu Dhabi. Frank Pace, president of aircraft systems at General Atomics aeronautical systems, said Sunday the company intends for the new office to support the MENA markets with the Predator remotely piloted […] More

  • Raytheon to Update Army Patriot Defense System; Ralph Acaba Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Update Army Patriot Defense System; Ralph Acaba Comments

    Raytheon has received an $86.2 million contract modification to update the Patriot integrated air and missile defense system designed for the U.S. Army. Raytheon will produce kits to complete the upgrade process for the Army’s Patriot systems that began in 2013, the company said Monday. The Patriot system is designed to detect and identify targets. “When […] More

  • Northrop Links 2 Aircraft via Freedom 550 Radio Terminal; Jeannie Hilger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Links 2 Aircraft via Freedom 550 Radio Terminal; Jeannie Hilger Comments

    Northrop Grumman has connected a fifth-generation F-22 Raptor to a fourth-generation F-18 Hornet through the company’s gateway radio terminal during a Lockheed Martin-led flight test. Northrop used the Freedom 550 terminal as a communication gateway between the F-22 and F-18, both of which use disparate data link platforms, the company said Wednesday. On board the Lockheed Martin U-2 Dragon […] More

  • Raytheon Receives Clearance for FAB-T Low-Rate Initial Production; Scott Whatmough Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Receives Clearance for FAB-T Low-Rate Initial Production; Scott Whatmough Comments

    Raytheon will kick off the low-rate initial production of communications terminals under the U.S. Air Force’s Family of Advanced Beyond Line of Sight Terminal program after obtaining clearance from the service branch. The company will manufacture airborne and ground terminal variants and spares, and perform training, installation and logistics support, Raytheon said Thursday. The production of the […] More

  • Kuwait Orders Lockheed-Built Targeting Pods in $115M Weapons Sale - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kuwait Orders Lockheed-Built Targeting Pods in $115M Weapons Sale

    Kuwait will purchase $115 million in Sniper Advanced Targeting Pods and other tools built by Lockheed Martin under a foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency said Thursday the State Department has approved the sale of 14 AN/AAQ-33 targeting pods, spares and accessories to Kuwait The sale also includes systems integration, tests, software development, maintenance, pilot training […] More

  • CACI Receives Defense Health Readiness Support Extension; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Receives Defense Health Readiness Support Extension; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a three-year, $38.5 million task order from the U.S. Navy to extend the company’s defense health readiness support for the U.S. armed forces’ medical information systems. The company will perform engineering, development, testing, training, implementation and help desk support for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic’s Theater Medical Information […] More

  • LCG Lands NIH IT Support Contract; Matthew Briddell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LCG Lands NIH IT Support Contract; Matthew Briddell Comments

    The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Strategic Coordination has selected LCG to manage the main IT systems of NIH’s Common Fund in an effort to help the agency meet its collaboration and content management needs. LCG will handle the SharePoint Common Fund site and the Strategic Initiatives Database of the NIH Common Fund under […] More

  • Lenovo, Nutanix Forge Hyperconvergence Infrastructure Alliance for Clients; Yang Yuanqing Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lenovo, Nutanix Forge Hyperconvergence Infrastructure Alliance for Clients; Yang Yuanqing Comments

    Lenovo and Nutanix have partnered to jointly develop and offer new hyperconverged appliances to customers through Lenovo’s global channel partners. The Lenovo hyperconverged appliances will feature Nutanix’s software and incorporate Intel technologies to run enterprise applications, databases, virtualized desktops and big data analytics, Lenovo said Wednesday. Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo, said the […] More

  • Lockheed Develops Reconfigurable Small UAS for Maritime Users; Jay McConville Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Develops Reconfigurable Small UAS for Maritime Users; Jay McConville Comments

    Lockheed Martin will continue to develop a small unmanned aircraft system that works to adapt to various maritime operations under a $4.6 million contract. The company has begun to build a Vector Hawk drone with fixed-wing, collapsible-wing and tilt-rotor configurations, Lockheed Martin said Tuesday. Jay McConville, Lockheed Martin director of business development for unmanned solutions, said Vector Hawk’s canister deployment and launch functions work […] More