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  • Sikorsky Inaugurates Combat Rescue Helicopter Testing Facility in Connecticut - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Inaugurates Combat Rescue Helicopter Testing Facility in Connecticut

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has opened a system testing facility for the Combat Rescue Helicopter program that aims to replace the U.S. Air Force‘s HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters. The Systems Integration Lab is located within Sikorsky’s Stratford, Connecticut-based manufacturing facility and has four laboratories that will be used to test avionics, electrical power, electronic flight controls and integrated vehicle diagnostics, […] More

  • ULA's Delta IV Rocket Sends 8th Boeing-Built WGS Military Comms Satellite Into Orbit - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA’s Delta IV Rocket Sends 8th Boeing-Built WGS Military Comms Satellite Into Orbit

    The Boeing-built Wideband Global SATCOM 8 satellite launched aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Delta IV rocket Wednesday to support global military communications. WGS-8 is equipped with a digital payload technology designed to offer almost twice as much bandwidth capacity as previous WGS satellites, Boeing said Wednesday. ULA said the satellite lifted off Wednesday from Space Launch Complex-37 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at […] More

  • BT Global Services Deploys BMC's IT Service Mgmt Platform to Support Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BT Global Services Deploys BMC’s IT Service Mgmt Platform to Support Customers

    BT Global Services has deployed a BMC-built information technology service management suite to support customers such as a police force in England. BMC said Wednesday its Remedy 9 platform is designed to support the management of incidents, problems, service requests and changes through a mobile-first user experience. The Houston-based software provider added BT expects Remedy 9 to […] More

  • DARPA, Australian National University Discuss Night-Vision Tech Devt Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA, Australian National University Discuss Night-Vision Tech Devt Project

    A team of Australian National University researchers and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have begun to discuss efforts to develop night vision glasses that could provide a direct view into infrared, The Sydney Morning Herald reported Wednesday. Marcus Strom writes Dragomir Neshev, an ANU professor and lead researcher of the project, said nano crystals […] More

  • General Dynamics Offers Direct Fiber Optic Network Connection for Secure Phones - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Offers Direct Fiber Optic Network Connection for Secure Phones

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems business unit has started to offer direct fiber optic network connections for the company’s universal secure phones. Users of the new Sectera vIPer phone can plug into the fiber network without the need for converters, General Dynamics said Tuesday. Mike Tweed-Kent, vice president and general manager of General Dynamics’ cyber and electronic warfare […] More

  • IST Research to Provide DoD Data Collection, Analysis Platform; Ryan Paterson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IST Research to Provide DoD Data Collection, Analysis Platform; Ryan Paterson Comments

    IST Research has received a potential $4.8 million contract to provide a data collection and analysis platform to Defense Department combatant commands and partner organizations that support human security efforts. The company said Tuesday it will initially provide its Pulse Platform to the U.S. Central Command under the Phase III Small Business Innovative Research contract from the General Services Administration. “We’re very enthusiastic […] More

  • Northrop Taps Saab for Marine Corps G/ATOR Radar Components, Subsystems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Taps Saab for Marine Corps G/ATOR Radar Components, Subsystems

    A U.S.-based subsidiary of Saab has received a potential $18.6 million subcontract from Northrop Grumman to provide components and subsystems in support of a U.S. Marine Corps radar production program. Saab Defense and Security will provide software, subsystems and assemblies for the next nine AN/TPS-80 ground/air task oriented radar low-rate initial production units under the contract, Saab said Monday. Northrop secured a potential […] More

  • Independent Review Provides Recommendations for UK Naval Shipbuilding Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Independent Review Provides Recommendations for UK Naval Shipbuilding Growth

    The U.K. government has published an independent report by businessman and Anglo American Chair John Parker that provides recommendations to boost the country’s naval shipbuilding industry. Parker’s report includes a reappraisal of the U.K.’s shipbuilding efforts and will inform the country’s National Shipbuilding Strategy that will be released in 2017, the U.K. defense ministry said Tuesday. The […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Unveils First Public Image From WorldView-4 Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Unveils First Public Image From WorldView-4 Satellite

    DigitalGlobe has unveiled the first public image from the Lockheed Martin-built WorldView-4 satellite that carries a Harris-made imaging payload. The image was taken on Nov. 26 and features the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Shibuya, Tokyo which will host Olympic events in 2020, DigitalGlobe said Friday. Lockheed’s commercial launch services segment provided a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket to […] More

  • Thales to Provide Navy Helmet Mounted Sight & Display System Test Equipment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales to Provide Navy Helmet Mounted Sight & Display System Test Equipment

    Thales‘ defense and security business unit has secured a $14.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide helmet mounted sight and display system depot-level specialized test equipment in support of the U.S. Marine Corps. The Defense Department said Friday the contract covers support for the Optimized TopOwl helmet mounted sight and display system of the […] More

  • Lockheed Updates Air Force GPS Satellite Ground Control System; Vinny Sica Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Updates Air Force GPS Satellite Ground Control System; Vinny Sica Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed its work to update a ground control system that supports the U.S. Air Force‘s Global Positioning System satellite constellation. Lockheed said Thursday the Commercial Off-the-Shelf Upgrade #2 project is part of the Air Force’s multi-year plan to modernize the GPS constellation’s legacy Operational Control Segment. CUP2 became fully operational on Oct. 15 and began […] More

  • Engility to Update, Maintain VA Budget Tracking Tool; Lynn Dugle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engility to Update, Maintain VA Budget Tracking Tool; Lynn Dugle Comments

    Engility has secured a potential $16.8 million contract from the Department of Veterans Affairs to operate, update and maintain a government-owned off-the-shelf application that works to help VA manage programs and operations. The company said Friday the contract contains four 12-month option periods with optional tasks for software upgrades in support of VA’s Budget Tracking Tool. “We value the […] More