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  • Lockheed, ADSB Sign MoU to Offer Maritime Sustainment Support for UAE Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, ADSB Sign MoU to Offer Maritime Sustainment Support for UAE Military

    Lockheed Martin and Abu Dhabi Ship Building Company have entered into a memorandum of understanding to cooperate and offer sustainment support services for the maritime assets of the United Arab Emirates military. Both companies aim to jointly provide maintenance, repair and overhaul services to UAE’s navy and explore new business opportunities in the regional naval market, Lockheed said […] More

  • IBC to Manufacture Housing Units for F-35 Targeting System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBC to Manufacture Housing Units for F-35 Targeting System

    IBC Advanced Alloys has received a $2.6 million contract from Lockheed Martin to manufacture a beryllium-aluminum alloy component for a targeting system used on F-35  aircraft. IBC said Thursday it will produce azimuth gimbal housing units for the F-35’s Electro-Optical Targeting System using the Beralcast beryllium-aluminum precision cast alloy. Lockheed made the order as part of its F-35 lot 11 low-rate […] More

  • Northrop, Marine Corps Demo G/ATOR Radar's Weapon Tracking Function - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, Marine Corps Demo G/ATOR Radar’s Weapon Tracking Function

    Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Marine Corps have tested the AN/TPS-80 ground/air task-oriented radar system’s capacity to detect and track various types of rocket, artillery and mortar rounds. The company said Thursday the three-week demonstration involved 40 different weapon scenarios and 700 live shots. The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop a potential four-year, $376 million contract in September 2016  to produce […] More

  • IARPA Seeks Ideas to Detect Gene-Edited Organisms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Seeks Ideas to Detect Gene-Edited Organisms

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has issued a request for information on methods and tools to detect genetically altered biological organisms, Nextgov reported Thursday. Mohana Ravindranath writes IARPA aims to prevent the misuse of genome editing techniques that may have adverse impact on the country’s economy, public health and national security. The IARPA RFI states “detection capabilities will help […] More

  • Mercury Systems Unveils Mission Computing Tech Portfolio for Defense and Aerospace Markets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Unveils Mission Computing Tech Portfolio for Defense and Aerospace Markets

    Mercury Systems has introduced a set of products designed to help address mission computing, avionics and platform management requirements of defense and commercial aerospace organizations. The Mercury Mission Systems product line is comprised of avionics-certified Ethernet and input/output systems, command and control processors, flight test computers, graphics and video processing, mission computers and primary flight control units, the company said Thursday. The portfolio […] More

  • Lockheed to Move Fleet Ballistic Missile Program to Florida, Colorado Facilities; Rick Ambrose Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Move Fleet Ballistic Missile Program to Florida, Colorado Facilities; Rick Ambrose Comments

    Lockheed Martin plans to transfer the Fleet Ballistic Missile program from its space systems business’ facility in California to its other offices in Colorado and Florida in the next eight years. The company plans to relocate approximately 650 FBM positions by 2024 in order to leverage employee skillsets, infrastructure and other resources in Lockheed’s Florida […] More

  • Envistacom Helps Deploy Comm Networks at DISA Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Envistacom Helps Deploy Comm Networks at DISA Facility

    Envistacom has supported the deployment of communications networks and supporting infrastructure to the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s facility at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. The company said Thursday it led the design, installation, configuration and testing of three communications networks at DISA’s 164,000-square-foot complex. Tom Proctor, vice president of operations at Envistacom, said the company also applied its network […] More

  • Atlantis Resources Deploys Lockheed-Designed Turbine for Scotland’s Tidal Energy Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Atlantis Resources Deploys Lockheed-Designed Turbine for Scotland’s Tidal Energy Project

    Atlantis Resources has installed off the coast of Scotland its first 1.5 megawatt turbine with the Lockheed Martin-built subsystems designed to generate tidal energy. The deployment is part of the MeyGen project that seeks to produce approximately 400 MW of tidal energy to provide electricity to up to 175,000 households in Scotland, Lockheed said Thursday. […] More

  • EY Report: Digital Transformation Drove $467B Tech M&A Deal Value in 2016 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EY Report: Digital Transformation Drove $467B Tech M&A Deal Value in 2016

    A new report from EY says that the deal value of global technology mergers and acquisitions reached an all-time high of $466.6 billion due to digital transformation trends. EY said Thursday its “Global technology M&A report: October-December 2016 and year in review” study found that disruptive cloud, mobile, social and big data analytics technologies drove the 2016 […] More

  • UK Space Agency Taps Inmarsat to Create Emerging-Market Satellite Application Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Space Agency Taps Inmarsat to Create Emerging-Market Satellite Application Programs

    Inmarsat has secured grant funds from the U.K.’s space agency to develop satellite application programs that will help to address disaster relief, healthcare and sustainable fishing challenges in three emerging markets. The company said Wednesday that it applied lessons learned from UKSA International Partnership Space Program projects to identify opportunities for potential use of satellites to help […] More

  • L3 to Produce Military Vehicle Transmission System for South Korea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 to Produce Military Vehicle Transmission System for South Korea

    L3 Technologies has secured a potential two-year, $17.3 million contract to supply 800-horsepower transmission systems to the South Korean army’s infantry fighting and light-recovery vehicles. The company expects product deliveries to start in the third quarter of 2017 and conclude by 2019, L3 said Thursday. Michael Strianese, L3 chairman and CEO, said the contract seeks […] More

  • AT Kearney's Howard Steinman: Federal Govt Should Consider Outcome-Based Contracting Model - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT Kearney’s Howard Steinman: Federal Govt Should Consider Outcome-Based Contracting Model

    Howard Steinman, a partner and leader for the Americas region public sector practice at A.T. Kearney, has said the Trump administration should revisit the idea of a results-based contracting approach as part of the government’s efforts to mitigate risks and meet project goals. Steinman wrote in a guest piece published Friday on Government Executive that the share-in-savings method would require […] More