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  • DeEtte Gray: BAE Extends AF Life-Cycle Planning Support With Obsolescence Mgmt Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DeEtte Gray: BAE Extends AF Life-Cycle Planning Support With Obsolescence Mgmt Tool

    The U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems will continue to help the U.S. Air Force manage the service life cycle of aircraft, vehicles, machines and other systems and platforms under a three-year contract worth up to $37 million. BAE Systems Inc. said Wednesday it will provide its Web-enabled Advanced Component Obsolescence Management tool to predict the potential obsolescence of parts and identify where replacements […] More

  • Lockheed to Use Spirent GPS/INS Simulators for F-35 Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Use Spirent GPS/INS Simulators for F-35 Tests

    Lockheed Martin‘s aeronautics business has tapped Spirent Federal Systems to support hardware-in-the-loop tests of F-35 mission systems and sensors, where Spirent will provide GPS/INS simulation systems to the Joint Strike Fighter Mission Systems Integration Lab. Lockheed said Tuesday it will also use Spirent’s simulators for aiding procedures at the JSF Vehicle Systems Integration Facility. The simulators work to help supplement instrumented […] More

  • Bechtel to Place 700 Workers in Expanded Fairfax County Hub; Bill Dudley Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel to Place 700 Workers in Expanded Fairfax County Hub; Bill Dudley Comments

    Bechtel will put a new $10 million investment into its office location in Virginia’s Fairfax County to accommodate 700 relocated jobs as part of the company’s corporate restructuring and business expansion effort in the region. The company said Wednesday it will lease 175,000 square feet of space to add to its global operations headquarters in Reston as […] More

  • Sotera to Continue Support for Apache NiFi Open Source Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sotera to Continue Support for Apache NiFi Open Source Project

    Sotera Defense Solutions has helped the Apache Software Foundation in the development, maintenance and documentation of the Apache NiFi Open Source Project as part of the Apache Incubator program. Sotera said Wednesday it has also provided project management, systems engineering and training support since the project was still in the initial closed-source stage. The Apache NiFi system manages data flows with a Web-based user interface […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Eyes Continued Mission Support as High-Res Satellite Images Go Global - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Eyes Continued Mission Support as High-Res Satellite Images Go Global

    Military and intelligence organizations are poised to leverage higher-resolution satellite images to drive innovation following the full implementation of the Commerce Department‘s new rule on the images’ global availability, C4ISR & Networks reported Tuesday. Adam Stone writes that as of last month, higher-resolution images can be sold globally to support various missions, including those of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in the U.S. […] More

  • Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stewart Ewing: CenturyLink Explores M&A Opportunities for Portfolio Expansion

    Stewart Ewing, executive vice president and chief financial officer at CenturyLink, said the company continues to consider potential mergers and acquisitions that would grow its business services portfolio, FierceTelecom reported Tuesday. “We’re trying to build out the portfolio for the cloud platform and for the IT services platform that we hope to grow so I think you’ll see […] More

  • Lockheed, H. N. Burns Engineering Partner on Flight Visibility Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, H. N. Burns Engineering Partner on Flight Visibility Tech Development

    Lockheed Martin is collaborating with H. N. Burns Engineering Corp. to develop technology that works to improve flight visibility in degraded visual environments and help prevent military helicopter pilot accidents. Lockheed said Monday that it will combine its pilotage and sensor systems with H. N. Burns’ imaging laser radar technology to boost situational awareness and spatial orientation even in low-visibility conditions such as bad […] More

  • Research and Markets: UAS, Asymmetric Warfare to Drive C4ISR Market Trajectory Through 2024 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: UAS, Asymmetric Warfare to Drive C4ISR Market Trajectory Through 2024

    A new Research and Markets report states that the global market for C4ISR systems is worth $121.5 billion as of 2014 and will see nominal growth through the forecast period ending in 2024. The use of unmanned systems and active electronically scanned array technology, border and coastal surveillance operations in Latin America and the rise of asymmetric warfare are among […] More

  • Army Issues RFI on Multimodal Fusion for Intelligence Processing Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Issues RFI on Multimodal Fusion for Intelligence Processing Operations

    The U.S. Army is seeking information on multimodal signal and fusion processor technology to support intelligence operations and boost the processing, exploitation and dissemination of intelligence data collected across different platforms. The Army Contracting Command said in a FedBizOpps notice published Feb. 18 that the technology will help the service’s Communications-Electronic Research, Development and Engineering Center develop an architecture that aligns […] More

  • Smartvue to Use Microsoft Azure Government for Cloud Video Surveillance Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smartvue to Use Microsoft Azure Government for Cloud Video Surveillance Services

    Smartvue will deploy Microsoft‘s Azure Government platform to support cloud-based video surveillance services for government and military agencies in the U.S. The companies will combine cloud and video surveillance technology to provide agencies with scalability and data storage functions designed to secure sensitive data, Smartvue said Monday. “Smartvue is the first U.S. company authorized to offer enterprise […] More

  • Iridium CEO Matt Desch: SpaceX, Kosmotras Ready for Rescheduled Iridium NEXT Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium CEO Matt Desch: SpaceX, Kosmotras Ready for Rescheduled Iridium NEXT Launch

    Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch announced that the company has rescheduled the launch of the first two Iridium NEXT satellites to October to give an additional four months for payload-software validation, SpaceNews reported Monday. Peter de Selding writes Iridium has confirmed with launch providers SpaceX and Russia’s Kosmotras their readiness for an accelerated launch schedule between October 2015 and late […] More

  • SAP HANA Cloud Platform Mobile Services to Support App Dev't to Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP HANA Cloud Platform Mobile Services to Support App Dev’t to Deployment

    SAP has unveiled a SAP HANA Cloud Platform offering that provides enterprise mobile services through mobile application development, staging and deployment support. The company said Monday the platform-as-a-service product also facilitates connectivity between devices, people and networks through the Internet of Things. “It’s critical for our broad ecosystem of customers and partners to simplify their mobile business and easily create omnichannel, […] More