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  • Logos Tests Wide-Area Motion Imagery Tech Aboard Insitu-Built Small UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Logos Tests Wide-Area Motion Imagery Tech Aboard Insitu-Built Small UAS

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary and Logos Technologies have conducted an initial flight test of a small tactical unmanned aircraft system equipped with a wide-area motion imagery technology Logos said Wednesday its Redkite sensor was tested aboard an Integrator UAS in Boardman, Oregon, and the demonstration marked the first WAMI integration into a drone’s internal payload bay. Redkite is designed to help operators detect, track and record movement […] More

  • FLIR Lands $50M IDIQ to Produce Marine Electronic Systems for Coast Guard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FLIR Lands $50M IDIQ to Produce Marine Electronic Systems for Coast Guard

    FLIR Systems has secured a potential $50 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to supply marine electronic systems to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Command, Control and Communications Engineering Center. The company said Wednesday the Scalable Integrated Navigation Systems 2 contract covers the delivery of electronic systems such as Raymarine multifunction navigation displays, autopilots, radars, remote instrument displays and sonars […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Launches Web-Based Imagery Access Service; Dan Jablonsky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe Launches Web-Based Imagery Access Service; Dan Jablonsky Comments

    DigitalGlobe has launched a new web-based subscription service for international defense and intelligence customers to access the satellite operator’s library of more than 2.7 billion square miles of imagery. SecureWatch is designed to combine multisource geospatial intelligence content such as satellite imagery with different refresh intervals and resolutions, geographic information system layers, news stories and social media […] More

  • Orbital ATK's Abu Dhabi-Based Defense Venture to Co-Locate With Al Tuff International; Mike Kahn Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Abu Dhabi-Based Defense Venture to Co-Locate With Al Tuff International; Mike Kahn Comments

    Orbital ATK will co-locate its joint venture with Al Tuff International at the Addax Commercial Tower in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as part of the rocket manufacturer’s regional defense market push. Both companies organized the Orbital ATK Middle East business to offer defense products and services to clients across UAE in the areas of ammunition production, precision and strike munitions, Bushmaster cannons and special […] More

  • ACT I to Provide Advisory and Assistance Services to PACAF's Command Surgeon General - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I to Provide Advisory and Assistance Services to PACAF’s Command Surgeon General

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured a task order to provide advisory and assistance services to the Office of the Command Surgeon General at Headquarters Pacific Air Forces. ACT I said Tuesday the order was awarded under the pool 1 category of the General Services Administration‘s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business contract and covers […] More

  • BAE Seeks to Build Up Workforce as UK Launches Cybersecurity Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Seeks to Build Up Workforce as UK Launches Cybersecurity Hub

    BAE Systems plans to add 80 additional cyber graduates to its workforce this year and collaborate with CyLon in a push to develop cyber capabilities in the British aerospace and defense company’s supply chain. BAE said Tuesday the move seeks to address future demand in cyber skills with the launch of the U.K. government’s National Cyber Security Center. The center […] More

  • DigitalGlobe, NTT Data Partner to Add Elevation Data for Imagery Product Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe, NTT Data Partner to Add Elevation Data for Imagery Product Users

    DigitalGlobe and NTT Data have partnered to include elevation data availability in both companies’ products as part of efforts to grow in the imagery information market. DigitalGlobe will offer NTT Data’s 5-meter digital elevation model called AW3D Standard to help broaden the latter’s global sales network, NTT Data said Tuesday. James Rogers, vice president of product marketing and management at DigitalGlobe, said […] More

  • Seagate, Fornetix Integrate Hard Drive, Data Encryption Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Seagate, Fornetix Integrate Hard Drive, Data Encryption Offerings

    Seagate Technology has integrated its hard disk and solid state drive products with Fornetix‘s encryption key management software and service offerings in an effort to help federal customers secure data against cyber threats. The integrated offering combines Seagate-built drives that comply with Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 and the Key Orchestration platform Fornetix designed to help users manage the digital keys […] More

  • DHS S&T Opens Tech Testing Opportunity for GPS Equipment Manufacturers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS S&T Opens Tech Testing Opportunity for GPS Equipment Manufacturers

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has issued a request for information participation for global positioning system equipment manufacturers to offer an opportunity for product testing against jamming and spoofing threats. DHS said Monday it will host a GPS Testing for Critical Infrastructure event April 17-April 21 at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in […] More

  • Grant Thornton Unveils New Office in Arlington County, VA; Mike McGuire Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Grant Thornton Unveils New Office in Arlington County, VA; Mike McGuire Comments

    Grant Thornton has opened a new office in Arlington County, Virginia, that works to consolidate staff from across the Washington metropolitan area and facilitate increased collaboration and engagement. The company said Thursday the office can accommodate up to 1,500 people and includes a multipurpose space, modern conference and team rooms as well as audiovisual and collaborative […] More

  • DigitalGlobe-Harris-Esri Alliance to Offer ArcGIS Users Satellite Imagery, Analytics Tech Access - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DigitalGlobe-Harris-Esri Alliance to Offer ArcGIS Users Satellite Imagery, Analytics Tech Access

    DigitalGlobe, Esri and Harris have formed a partnership to offer ArcGIS customers access to a library of satellite imagery along with analytical and deep learning tools designed to help users gain insights from imagery at scale. The AllAccess+Analytics service combines DigitalGlobe’s Geospatial Big Data platform, Harris’ ENVI remote sensing analytics portfolio and Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise 10.5 platform, DigitalGlobe said Monday. The […] More

  • Black Box to Help Update, Sustain Navy Voice Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Black Box to Help Update, Sustain Navy Voice Systems

    Black Box has secured a $15 million contract from the Naval Supply Systems Command to provide consolidated area telephone systems support to the U.S. Navy. The company said Thursday it will help NAVSUP to modernize and sustain the service branch’s telephone systems within San Diego as well as assist in efforts to increase naval communications capacity in the region. “We […] More