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  • ViON Subsidiary Launches PaaS Cloud Offering; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON Subsidiary Launches PaaS Cloud Offering; Tom Frana Comments

    ViON‘s Ascolta subsidiary has introduced a platform-as-a-service offering designed to help government contracting firms comply with federal cybersecurity standards. Greenfield is hosted on a cloud environment certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and meant to help contractors secure controlled unclassified information through a managed system, Ascolta said Tuesday. “As the federal government raises […] More

  • Gryphon Sensors, WhiteFox Form Counter-UAS Tech Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gryphon Sensors, WhiteFox Form Counter-UAS Tech Partnership

    SRC Inc.‘s Gryphon Sensors subsidiary has partnered with Whitefox Defense Technologies to integrate drone threat mitigation and analytic tools with a radio frequency-based sensor system. Gryphon Sensors said Monday it seeks to equip the company’s Skylight system WhiteFox-made technologies in a push to offer an integrated platform designed to counter small unmanned aerial systems. Skylight employs radars and multispectral sensors built to […] More

  • Harris Plans to Supply EW Systems to Asia's Air Forces; Andy Dunn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Plans to Supply EW Systems to Asia’s Air Forces; Andy Dunn Comments

    Harris will offer its electronic warfare systems to Asia’s air forces as it sees geopolitical issues as factors that will drive regional interest in EW, FlightGlobal reported Monday. The report said Harris will promote its Advanced Integrated Defensive Electronic Warfare Suite, which can be integrated with Lockheed Martin’s F-16 aircraft or kept in a pod […] More

  • Saab Highlights Features of Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Highlights Features of Swordfish Maritime Patrol Aircraft

    Saab has said its Swordfish maritime patrol aircraft is designed to feature reduced size, weight and power requirements than large “airliner-type” MPAs. The company said Monday Swordfish integrates Bombardier‘s Global 6000 long-range aircraft, General Dynamics‘ acoustics processor and Saab’s airborne surveillance systems. Swordfish works to operate for approximately 13 hours and provide a payload capacity of up to six torpedoes, […] More

  • CenturyLink to Establish Outbound Sales Center in Northeastern Louisiana - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Establish Outbound Sales Center in Northeastern Louisiana

    CenturyLink has announced it will open an outbound sales center in Monroe, Louisiana, and hire up to 150 employees to work there. The company said Thursday the new center will offer updated technology products and services to small business customers. Vernon Irvin, president of CenturyLink’s government, education, medium-and small-business groups, said the company established the outbound sales center […] More

  • Kay and Associates to Continue Kuwait F/A-18 Aircraft Maintenance Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kay and Associates to Continue Kuwait F/A-18 Aircraft Maintenance Support

    Kay and Associates has secured a $61.1 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy to continue maintenance support for Kuwait’s F/A-18 C/D aircraft fleet. The award exercises an option on a previously awarded contract and extends the company’s work under the foreign military sales transaction through January 2019, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DoD added the modification’s […] More

  • Lockheed Puts Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Through Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Puts Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Through Flight Test

    Lockheed Martin has completed a controlled flight test of its Miniature Hit-to-Kill missile at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to validate the weapon’s agility, airframe and electronics. The Lockheed-funded demonstration on Friday marked the first test for MHTK’s updated electronics and the second for the missile’s new airframe, the company said Tuesday. MHTK comes in two […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Radar Antenna Reflector for US-India Imaging Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Radar Antenna Reflector for US-India Imaging Satellite

    Northrop Grumman‘s Astro Aerospace subsidiary has performed a critical design review of the AstroMesh radar antenna reflector being developed for a joint imaging satellite of NASA and India’s space agency. AstroMesh will serve as a deployable mesh reflector for the large aperture antenna of the NASA-Indian Space Research Organization Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, Northrop said Monday. The reflector […] More

  • Saab Gets Potential $171M Swedish Gripen Operational Support Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Gets Potential $171M Swedish Gripen Operational Support Order

    Saab has received a potential $171 million order to provide operational and development services for Sweden’s fleet of Gripen fighter aircraft. The company said Monday it will help the Sweden defense materiel administration operate rigs, simulators and test aircraft as part of the agency’s efforts to verify and validate systems of Gripen C/D and E variants. Saab will also […] More

  • WidePoint Awarded USACE Telecom Expense Mgmt Service Extension - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    WidePoint Awarded USACE Telecom Expense Mgmt Service Extension

    WidePoint has received a potential three-year, $4.3 million contract to provide mobile Telecom Expense Management services to the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. The company said Monday it will continue to provide enterprise-wide wireless TEM support for more than 21,000 USACE devices as well as supply wireless equipment and accessories through the contract. Jin Kang, CEO […] More

  • Thales Unveils New Bushmaster Armored Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Unveils New Bushmaster Armored Vehicle

    Thales has introduced a modernized version of its Bushmaster armored vehicle platform designed to protect crew against land mines and improvised explosive devices. The company said Friday its Australian business designed and produced the Bushmaster MR6 platform in an effort to increase the vehicle’s capacity, protection and mobility in battlefield missions. Bushmaster vehicles feature a “deep V-Hull” design and […] More

  • Calibre Receives ISO IT Service Mgmt System Certification; Joe Martore Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Calibre Receives ISO IT Service Mgmt System Certification; Joe Martore Comments

    Calibre Systems has obtained certification from the International Organization for Standardization for the Alexandria, Virginia-based company’s information technology service management systems. The ISO 20000-1:2011 designation reflects Calibre’s efforts to manage delivery of IT services, implement process improvement strategies and serve clients, the company said Wednesday. Joe Martore, president and CEO of CALIBRE, said the company will work to maintain ISO […] More