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  • CACI Gets $55M Army R&D, Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Gets $55M Army R&D, Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a potential $54.5 million task order to deliver research and development and systems engineering services in support of a U.S. Army division. The task order was issued through the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – 2 Services contract vehicle and includes support for the the Systems Engineering, Architecture, Modeling and Simulation Division of the […] More

  • Report: Orbital ATK Develops Medium-Calibre Munition for Bushmaster Chain Guns - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Orbital ATK Develops Medium-Calibre Munition for Bushmaster Chain Guns

    Orbital ATK has begun to create a line of medium-caliber ammunition for MK44 XM813 and XM914 Bushmaster Chain Guns, Jane’s 360 reported Friday. The new ammunition variants are designed to feature command-guided, proximity fuze and air burst functions as well as deliver support for various land and air combat platforms, the report noted. Orbital ATK is producing new munition types […] More

  • Army Posts UAS Electronic Warfare Tech RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Posts UAS Electronic Warfare Tech RFI

    The U.S. Army has released a request for information to gather input on potential electronic warfare technology for unmanned aircraft systems. A FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 3 stated the military branch seeks a Multi-Function Electronic Warfare system that can be mounted on the wing pylon of Class IV UAS such as the Gray Eagle platform. The Army aims to […] More

  • Lockheed Reports $100M in Navy Super Hornet Sensor Upgrade Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Reports $100M in Navy Super Hornet Sensor Upgrade Contracts

    Boeing has awarded Lockheed Martin a pair of contracts worth up to $100 million combined to update an infrared search-and-track sensor technology used on the U.S. Navy‘s fleet of F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. Lockheed said Thursday it will develop software, update hardware and deliver prototypes in an effort to optimize the detection, tracking and ranging capacity of […] More

  • Report: Air Force Eyes Increased Use of 'Other Transaction Authority' Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Air Force Eyes Increased Use of ‘Other Transaction Authority’ Contracts

    Maj. Gen. Sarah Zabel, U.S. Air Force director of information technology acquisition process development, has said the military branch is interested in using more “other transaction authority” contracts to speed up procurement especially in IT acquisitions, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. OTAs permit the Defense Department and military services to award contracts outside the traditional acquisition process, and […] More

  • Keoki Jackson Outlines Lockheed's Tech Investment Plans - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Keoki Jackson Outlines Lockheed’s Tech Investment Plans

    Keoki Jackson, chief technology officer at Lockheed Martin, has outlined technology areas where Lockheed plans to invest over the next two to three decades during an Oct. 11 roundtable, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Jackson said the technologies are classified into three categories, including the strategic technology thread areas that cover “anything Lockheed Martin will do… whether from undersea […] More

  • Avaya, collab9 Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Unified Comms Products; Jerry Dotson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya, collab9 Partner to Offer FedRAMP-Compliant Unified Comms Products; Jerry Dotson Comments

    Avaya‘s government solutions business has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its unified communications product line through a partnership with collab9. The Avaya Aura Communication Manager product portfolio is now available to government agencies as a FedRAMP-compliant offering with an authority to operate at the moderate level, Avaya said Thursday. Jerry Dotson, vice president of Avaya […] More

  • Capt. Emily Grabowski: Raytheon Works to Meet USAF Small Diameter Bomb Delivery Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capt. Emily Grabowski: Raytheon Works to Meet USAF Small Diameter Bomb Delivery Schedule

    Capt. Emily Grabowski, a U.S. Air Force spokeswoman, has said the service branch believes Raytheon could supply enough Small Diameter Bomb II units for initial deployment on the F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft by 2019, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Grabowski told Bloomberg in an email the company “has worked diligently to address technical discoveries and is implementing the necessary factory infrastructure improvements […] More

  • Leonardo Completes Cyber Service Delivery to NATO Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Completes Cyber Service Delivery to NATO Facilities

    Leonardo has wrapped up the delivery of a cyber monitoring and response service to multiple NATO locations under an expanded contract. The company said Wednesday it worked with the NATO Communications and Information Agency to deploy the NATO Cyber Incident Response Capability – Full Operational Capability service to approximately 70,000 NATO users. In August 2015, Leonardo received an expansion contract to […] More

  • NIST to Demo CyberX Industrial Cybersecurity Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST to Demo CyberX Industrial Cybersecurity Platform

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with cybersecurity startup CyberX to demonstrate the company’s industrial cybersecurity platform. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will demonstrate the CyberX ICS tool in simulated manufacturing environments with human-machine interfaces, programmable logic controllers and operational technology protocols, the company said Thursday. The effort seeks to create an NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide on how […] More

  • Lockheed Supports NATO Ballistic Missile Defense Tests in Atlantic Ocean - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Supports NATO Ballistic Missile Defense Tests in Atlantic Ocean

    Lockheed Martin has assisted the U.S. Navy and the Missile Defense Agency in a series of ballistic missile defense tests in the Atlantic Ocean during the Formidable Shield 2017 naval exercise that involved eight NATO member nations. Formidable Shield aimed to showcase interoperability between NATO allies using the organization’s command-and-control reporting structures and datalink architecture, Lockheed said […] More

  • Microsoft Unveils New Azure Govt Cloud Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Unveils New Azure Govt Cloud Offerings

    Microsoft has introduced a range of new offerings on the Azure Government cloud platform for public sector customers. Tom Keane, global infrastructure lead at Microsoft’s Azure segment, wrote in an article published Tuesday that the company will launch the Azure Government Secret service for government clients that handle secret-level classified data. Azure Government Secret is designed to […] More