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  • LAC Federal to Provide Cataloging Support Services to the Smithsonian Libraries - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LAC Federal to Provide Cataloging Support Services to the Smithsonian Libraries

    LAC Federal has secured a five-year contract to provide cataloging and cataloging support services to the Smithsonian Libraries that include maintenance work on bibliographic records within online systems. The company said Monday it will offer original and copy cataloging of books, CDs, microfilm, electronic journals, magazines and other printed material on various western European and Asian languages. […] More

  • GE-Hitachi to Establish New Facility for DOE Depleted Uranium Enrichment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE-Hitachi to Establish New Facility for DOE Depleted Uranium Enrichment

    GE-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment has proposed to establish a facility near the Energy Department‘s Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky to produce natural uranium that will be used as fuel for civil nuclear reactors. DOE said Thursday it agreed to sell depleted uranium to GLE over a 40-year period and the company will enrich the metal at the future Paducah Laser […] More

  • BAE to Repair, Maintain Navy's USS New Orleans Transport Dock Ship - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Repair, Maintain Navy’s USS New Orleans Transport Dock Ship

    The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a potential $51.5 million contract to perform repair and maintenance work on the USS New Orleans amphibious transport dock ship. BAE said Thursday it will repair the USS New Orleans’ structural, tank, ventilation and auxiliary systems as well as preserve crew habitability systems and spaces of the vessel at the company’s dry dock facility in San Diego, […] More

  • India Eyes $1B Fast-Track Ammunition and Equipment Procurement - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    India Eyes $1B Fast-Track Ammunition and Equipment Procurement

    India looks to purchase $1 billion worth of weapons and equipment from readily available vendors through a fast track purchase process that will bypass prescribed routine acquisition procedures, Defense News reported Thursday. Vivek Raghuvanshi writes an Indian ministry of defense official told Defense News the country aims to procure various ammunition, assault rifles, thermal-imaging equipment, light machine guns, rocket launchers […] More

  • FBI Eyes Dataminr Tool to Increase Bureau's Social Media Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FBI Eyes Dataminr Tool to Increase Bureau’s Social Media Awareness

    The FBI wants to license Dataminr‘s alerting tool that can provide the bureau access to the company’s indicators and warnings service as well as customizable filters to search the entire Twitter database. A notice posted Tuesday on the FedBizOpps website says the FBI plans to enter into a sole-source agreement to use the company’s technology and receive comprehensive technical support services. The […] More

  • Inmarsat Introduces Updated Aeronautical Services in Support of Govt C4ISR Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Introduces Updated Aeronautical Services in Support of Govt C4ISR Operations

    Inmarsat has started to offer updated aeronautical services meant to support command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions of government clients. Inmarsat said Tuesday some government entities use the company’s globally available L-band space and ground network to manage multiple platforms and missions. The company added its aeronautical services allow partners to offer data transmission rates of up to 10 megabits […] More

  • NASA Taps Near Earth Autonomy to Build, Demo UAS Flight Safety Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Near Earth Autonomy to Build, Demo UAS Flight Safety Tech

    Near Earth Autonomy has secured a contract under NASA’s Small Business Innovation Research initiative to help the space agency integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the national airspace. Near Earth said Wednesday that it will develop and demonstrate technologies to facilitate safe unmanned aircraft operations in case of emergency situations. The company will also build an autonomous contingency system that can help unmanned aircraft […] More

  • Singapore Taps Airbus, Boeing for Military Transport Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Singapore Taps Airbus, Boeing for Military Transport Helicopters

    Airbus and Boeing have received separate contracts from Singapore’s ministry of defense to provide helicopters to support transport activities of the country’s armed forces. The ministry said Monday it chose Airbus’ H225M medium lift helicopter and Boeing’s CH-47F heavy lift helicopter to replace the Singaporean air force’s Super Pumas and Chinook platforms following a rigorous evaluation process. The military branch will use H225M and […] More

  • CH2M to Help Nevada Establish New Autonomous Vehicle Policy Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M to Help Nevada Establish New Autonomous Vehicle Policy Framework

    CH2M has been selected to help Nevada’s Transportation Department develop a vision and policy framework for autonomous vehicle and connected vehicle programs in the state. CH2M said Tuesday the new framework will work to establish policy, standards and legislation to be integrated with the state’s political environment in a push to establish the state of Nevada’s capacity […] More

  • Brazil Eyes Microsoft Product Buy for IT Standardization Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brazil Eyes Microsoft Product Buy for IT Standardization Efforts

    Brazil’s government plans to commence a large procurement of Microsoft products in the next few months in a push to standardize the country’s information technology applications portfolio across government, ZDnet reported Tuesday. Angelica Mari writes that products most likely to be purchased include Windows 10, Windows Server and the Office suite. The report noted that the joint Microsoft […] More

  • Leidos to Build, Implement Army's Common Driver Trainer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Build, Implement Army’s Common Driver Trainer Systems

    Leidos has received a potential $10 million prime contract to develop and deploy 14 common driver trainer systems for the U.S. Army‘s program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation. Leidos said Tuesday it will produce the CDTs at the company’s Lee Vista Integration Facility in Orlando, Florida, and deliver the systems to Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri. The contract has a […] More

  • Allied Associates International Wins MDA Advisory & Assistance Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Allied Associates International Wins MDA Advisory & Assistance Services Contract

    Allied Associates International has secured a $23.4 million contract to advise and assist the Missile Defense Agency on the technical, engineering, advisory and management aspects of MDA’s international affairs and foreign military sales. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract covers studies, analyses, evaluations, management and professional services to support the Aegis, Sensors and Terminal High Altitude ballistic missile defense […] More