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  • VA Posts Enterprise Mobile Mgmt System RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Posts Enterprise Mobile Mgmt System RFI

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun to explore potential industry sources of a managed system to facilitate management of authorized mobile phones and tablets across the VA enterprise. VA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday it looks to migrate approximately 38,000 devices from its current cloud hosting environment and mobile device management software to another private cloud hosted and […] More

  • Dennis Muilenburg: Boeing Aims to Build Next Air Force One Fleet for Less Than $4B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dennis Muilenburg: Boeing Aims to Build Next Air Force One Fleet for Less Than $4B

    Dennis Muilenburg, chairman, president and CEO of Boeing, has said the company aims to work with the incoming administration to ensure that the production cost for the next pair of presidential aircraft will not exceed $4 billion, The Hill newspaper reported Wednesday. Jessie Hillman writes Muilenberg made the remarks after he met with President-elect Donald Trump at the latter’s Mar-a-Lago […] More

  • Navy Eyes F-35 Block 4 Update Contract Award to Lockheed's Aeronautics Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Eyes F-35 Block 4 Update Contract Award to Lockheed’s Aeronautics Business

    The U.S. Navy looks to award Lockheed Martin an initial contract for the Block 4 configuration of the F-35 fighter aircraft in the fourth quarter of the government’s 2018 fiscal year. The service branch said in Dec. 13 in a FedBizOpps notice that the F-35 Lightning II Program Office will solicit proposals for “multiple contract actions” from Lockheed’s aerospace business […] More

  • FireEye, NATO Forge Cyber Threat Info Sharing Partnership; Tony Cole Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye, NATO Forge Cyber Threat Info Sharing Partnership; Tony Cole Comments

    FireEye and NATO have agreed to exchange cyber information in a move to help protect the international alliance’s networks and systems with a company-built threat intelligence platform. Both parties signed an industry partnership agreement with the goal to facilitate bilateral sharing of non-classified technical data related to vulnerabilities and threats in cyberspace, FireEye said Friday. NATO will also integrate the company’s iSIGHT […] More

  • Deltek Report: IT Policies, Infrastructure Upgrade Efforts to Drive Federal Data Security Spend - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Report: IT Policies, Infrastructure Upgrade Efforts to Drive Federal Data Security Spend

    A new Deltek report predicts that federal spending on information security will reach $12.0 billion in fiscal 2021, up from $9.3 billion during fiscal 2016, as cybersecurity continues to be a priority for many agencies. The federal information security spend projection represents a 5.3 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, Deltek said Thursday. […] More

  • Army Engineers Seek Waterborne Commerce Data Collection Support Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Engineers Seek Waterborne Commerce Data Collection Support Sources

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants information on small businesses that can assist USACE’s Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center in U.S. foreign transportation data collection efforts. USACE is interested in working with a contractor to collect and deliver comprehensive information  similar to manifest data gathered by the Customs Border and Protection or the bills of lading filed by shipping companies to CBP, the […] More

  • Boeing Hands NATO First Updated E-3 AWACS Aircraft; Wendy Atkinson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Hands NATO First Updated E-3 AWACS Aircraft; Wendy Atkinson Comments

    Boeing has handed over NATO’s updated E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, the first of 14 the company is contracted to modernize for the intergovernmental military organization through a $257 million modernization effort. The company updated the communication navigation surveillance/air traffic management digital flight deck and avionics systems of the E-3A to help NATO comply with air […] More

  • Verisign to Help GSA Manage DotGov Domain Registration System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verisign to Help GSA Manage DotGov Domain Registration System

    The General Services Administration has awarded Verisign a contract of an undisclosed value to run an internet domain registry designed for federal, state, local and tribal government organizations. GSA said Monday the company will provide a secure infrastructure for the agency to implement domain registration and analytical reporting services via the DotGov Registry site. DotGov Registry is designed to help government entities register […] More

  • NASA Postpones Hurricane Data Collection Satellite Launch to Wednesday - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Postpones Hurricane Data Collection Satellite Launch to Wednesday

    NASA has postponed the launch of a satellite system that will collect weather data to aid hurricane forecasting due to a glitch on the L-1011 Stargazer carrier aircraft’s component that was designed to release Orbital ATK‘s Pegasus XL rocket for the mission. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System‘s launch was originally scheduled to occur Monday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in […] More

  • Air Force Selects Orbital ATK-Built Rocket to Launch New NRO Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Selects Orbital ATK-Built Rocket to Launch New NRO Satellite

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Orbital ATK a potential $29.2 million contract to send a new satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office into space with the company’s Minotaur I launch vehicle. The Air Force said Thursday it expects the company to launch the NRO Launch-111 payload within a 24-month period. The firm-fixed-price contract represents the first awarded under […] More

  • BAE Adds 6 Equipment Suppliers to UK Global Combat Ship Production Team; Geoff Searle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Adds 6 Equipment Suppliers to UK Global Combat Ship Production Team; Geoff Searle Comments

    BAE Systems has chosen an additional six companies to manufacture equipment for the U.K. navy’s first three Type 26 Global Combat Ships. BAE said Tuesday it currently works with 33 other firms that include 15 maritime equipment suppliers on the shipbuilding program. Rolls-Royce, Johnsons Controls, Marine Systems Technology, Salt Separation Services, Detegasa and MEP–Pellegrini Marine […] More

  • Northrop to Support Navy Triton UAV Mgmt Software, Airborne Collision Avoidance Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Support Navy Triton UAV Mgmt Software, Airborne Collision Avoidance Tech

    Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has received a one-year, $9.6 million order to design, develop, analyze, integrate and test software for the U.S. Navy‘s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system. The Defense Department said Monday that Northrop will support the vehicle management software correction of deficiencies and integration of configuration updates into the MQ-4C under the cost-plus-fixed-fee order. DoD added the company will analyze and […] More