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  • NIC’s Pete Eichorn: Agencies Should Apply Microservices in Govt Digital Services Devt - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIC’s Pete Eichorn: Agencies Should Apply Microservices in Govt Digital Services Devt

    Pete Eichorn, director of technology at Kansas-based government information services provider NIC, has said agencies should work to adopt microservices to develop and build up government digital services and keep up with citizens’ expectations. Eichorn wrote in a GCN article published Monday that microservices work to operate independently and communicate via an application programming interface […] More

  • Lockheed, Northrop Conclude Soft-Kill Demonstrator Integration for Army Modular Active Protection Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Northrop Conclude Soft-Kill Demonstrator Integration for Army Modular Active Protection Platform

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Northrop Grumman to complete initial integration work on a soft-kill demonstrator platform for the U.S. Army’s Modular Active Protection System. Lockheed said Tuesday it combined its Open Architecture Processor with Northrop’s Multifunction Electro-Optic System countermeasure equipment and Passive Infrared Cueing Sensor to develop an open-architecture soft-kill platform for MAPS. Both companies performed the […] More

  • VA Issues Cyber Operations Center Support RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    VA Issues Cyber Operations Center Support RFI

    The Department of Veterans Affairs has issued a request for information on potential small businesses that could support VA’s Network Security Operations Center. VA said Wednesday in a FedBizOpps notice it looks for a veteran-owned company to help NSOC develop and provide enterprise-wide information security and network defense services. Scope of work will include project management, reporting, data calls, threat intelligence, security […] More

  • Reports: NATO to Award $3B in Satcom, IT Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: NATO to Award $3B in Satcom, IT Contracts

    NATO plans to award up to $3.2 billion in contracts for satellite communications, air and missile defense, cybersecurity and software support services, Bloomberg reported Monday. Jonathan Stearns writes NATO officials will discuss the planned contracts at an industry conference to be held in Ottawa, Canada on April 24 to 26. The international alliance aims to gain approval from member countries on specific […] More

  • Bloomberg: DoD to Decide on $29B King Stallion Helicopter Procurement Program With Lockheed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg: DoD to Decide on $29B King Stallion Helicopter Procurement Program With Lockheed

    The Defense Department is set to assess whether to approve a $29 billion program to buy 200 heavy-lift cargo helicopters from Lockheed Martin for use by the U.S. Marine Corps, Bloomberg reported Monday. Anthony Capaccio and Julie Johnsson write the defense acquisition board will meet Thursday to decide on the proposed low-rate production of 24 Sikorsky-built […] More

  • Bryan McVeigh: Army to Seek Industry Input on Robotic Mule Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bryan McVeigh: Army to Seek Industry Input on Robotic Mule Development

    The U.S. Army looks to procure as many as 20 robotic mules from industry for operational test and evaluation by the military service’s brigade combat teams, National Defense Magazine reported Friday. Stew Magnuson writes Bryan McVeigh, project manager for force protection at the Army, said the service branch will publish a request for information soon to seek input from interested manufacturers […] More

  • DARPA Eyes New Concept for Undersea Payload Delivery Using Extra Large UUVs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes New Concept for Undersea Payload Delivery Using Extra Large UUVs

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a presolicitation notice on a program that aims to create a new strategy for the delivery of undersea payloads via extra-large unmanned underwater vehicles. DARPA said in the notice posted March 20 at the FedBizOpps website the 45-month Hunter program will be executed in three parts for the […] More

  • Boeing Secures $59M Air Force KC-46 Support Contract Option - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Secures $59M Air Force KC-46 Support Contract Option

    Boeing has secured a one-year, $59.2 million contract option for interim contracting support to the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of KC-46 military aerial refueling and transport aircraft. The Defense Department said Monday the company will perform work under the exercised option through March 24, 2018. DoD noted that the service branch will use fiscal 2016 aircraft procurement funds to cover […] More

  • Smiths Detection to Supply Airport Security Platforms to UK Defense Ministry - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection to Supply Airport Security Platforms to UK Defense Ministry

    Smiths Detection has secured a multimillion-dollar contract to deploy a range of aviation security products at the U.K. defense ministry’s airports worldwide. The ministry ordered ScanTrailer 100100V-2is mobile x-ray inspection systems; HI-SCAN 145180-2is x-ray equipment for air cargo; IONSCAN 600 trace detectors; CEIA PMD2PLUS walkthrough metal detectors; and millimeter-wave eqo scanners designed for screening people, Smiths Detection said Monday. The […] More

  • Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Modernizing Govt Tech Act Seeks to Help Agencies Fund IT Upgrades - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Modernizing Govt Tech Act Seeks to Help Agencies Fund IT Upgrades

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said he would support the Modernizing Government Technology Act introduced by Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) because the bill aims to provide agency executives access to capital needed to fund information technology modernization efforts. Chehreh told MeriTalk in a Data Center Brainstorm interview held Thursday in […] More

  • Kongsberg Subsidiary Built Geospatial Tool for New Zealand's Combat System Trainer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kongsberg Subsidiary Built Geospatial Tool for New Zealand’s Combat System Trainer

    A Kongsberg subsidiary produced the geospatial and display components of a combat management system that Lockheed Martin built and delivered to New Zealand’s navy. Lockheed’s Canadian arm deployed the CMS 330 Combat Management System to a maritime warfare training center in Devonport, New Zealand, as part of the country’s Anzac frigate system modernization effort, Kongsberg said Monday. Kongsberg noted the CMS 330 was originally developed to support Canada’s Halifax-class frigates and modified later […] More

  • General Atomics to Build UAS Ground Control Station for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Build UAS Ground Control Station for Air Force

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has secured a $39.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to build a ground control station for the company-built Predator unmanned aircraft system. GA-ASI is scheduled to complete work by March 25, 2019, the Defense Department said Monday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will obligate the full amount of the modification at the […] More