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  • Thales-Finmeccanica JV-Led Team Gets French Govt Support on Stratobus Airship Development Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales-Finmeccanica JV-Led Team Gets French Govt Support on Stratobus Airship Development Project

    A team led by a joint venture of Thales Group and Finmeccanica has received approximately $19.2 million in funds from the French government to conduct research and development work over two years on an autonomous airship. Thales Alenia Space will collaborate with French companies CNIM, Solutions F, Airstar Aerospace and Tronico-Alcen on the structure, electric propulsion system […] More

  • Mitre-ASPI Partnership to Focus on Defense, Security, Cyber Research; Jason Bruzdzinski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre-ASPI Partnership to Focus on Defense, Security, Cyber Research; Jason Bruzdzinski Comments

    Mitre and the Australian Strategic Policy Institute have formed an alliance as part of their efforts to help address national security, defense and cyber challenges of their U.S. and Australian government clients. The partnership allows the two nonprofit organizations to exchange subject matter expertise in the research and strategic assessment, systems engineering and integration and scientific and technology areas, Mitre said Monday. “Australia […] More

  • NASA Signs 1st Startup License Agreement With AirFlare for Health-Monitoring Headgear - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Signs 1st Startup License Agreement With AirFlare for Health-Monitoring Headgear

    NASA‘s Glenn Research Center has awarded its first commercial license to AirFlare under the space agency’s startup support initiative, allowing the company to sell a Glenn-patented health monitoring headgear. NASA said Tuesday Glenn originally developed the Portable Unit for Metabolic Analysis technology to track astronauts’ oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide production rates during exercise. Under Startup NASA, Tennessee-based startup AirFlare will work to further […] More

  • Ericsson, Brazilian Agency to Collaborate on Internet of Things Projects; Ulf Ewaldsson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ericsson, Brazilian Agency to Collaborate on Internet of Things Projects; Ulf Ewaldsson Comments

    Ericsson and the Brazilian communications ministry have partnered to establish a laboratory to explore the potential applications of Internet of Things technology in agriculture, rainforest protection, disaster monitoring and prevention and energy production. The company said Monday the Networked Security Lab will be part of the Ericsson Innovation Center that aims to drive IoT innovation across Brazil and other Latin American […] More

  • General Dynamics NASSCO, APT Christen 2nd ECO-Class Tanker - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics NASSCO, APT Christen 2nd ECO-Class Tanker

    General Dynamics subsidiary NASSCO has christened the second of five ECO-class tankers it builds for American Petroleum Tankers in the former’s San Diego shipyard. The Magnolia State is one of five 610-foot tankers that are designed to feature a 330,000-barrel cargo capacity and support future LNG fuel-gas system installation, General Dynamics said Monday. The company added that the five-tanker […] More

  • Andy Teich: FLIR Launches Thermal Imaging Product Line for Firefighters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andy Teich: FLIR Launches Thermal Imaging Product Line for Firefighters

    FLIR Systems has unveiled a new thermal imaging product line that works to aid firefighters and first responders in carrying out missions. The product line includes K33 and K53 handheld cameras, KF6 cameras for fire engine ladders and two Aerial First Responder Kits with the DJI Zenmuse XT camera, FLIR said Thursday. The company launched the thermal imaging […] More

  • Inmarsat's Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Commercial-Military Satcom Integration Key to National Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Commercial-Military Satcom Integration Key to National Security

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, Inmarsat senior vice president for U.S. government strategy and policy, has said the integration of commercial and military satellite communications systems will provide ubiquity of access to warfighters. Cowen-Hirsch writes in a blog post published Monday that industry seeks to support military operations through the Satcom as a Service model, which works to provide global connectivity and eliminate challenges associated with varied networks. “Warfighters […] More

  • DCNS Awarded Potential $39B Australian Navy Sub Design Contract; Herve Guillou Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DCNS Awarded Potential $39B Australian Navy Sub Design Contract; Herve Guillou Comments

    Australia has selected France-based naval defense company DCNS to provide design services for the former country’s estimated $38.7 billion SEA 1000 Future Submarine Program. DCNS said Tuesday it will help the Australian navy design 12 submarines to replace the service branch’s fleet of Collins-class submarines. “France and Australia have been allies for more than 100 years and we look forward to further strengthening this time […] More

  • MIL Corp Eyes IT Sector Opportunities Through Salesforce Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIL Corp Eyes IT Sector Opportunities Through Salesforce Alliance

    MIL Corp. has teamed up with customer relationship management services firm Salesforce in an effort to continue the former company’s push to expand its information technology business. MIL’s partnership with the CRM company has facilitated an increase in the number of workers on Salesforce-based projects and in its customer base, MIL said Monday. The company added it […] More

  • Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Seeks Commercial, Defense Systems Convergence for Govt Space Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Seeks Commercial, Defense Systems Convergence for Govt Space Efforts

    Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space systems division, considers the convergence of commercial and defense systems as a necessary step in fulfilling the future needs of government for space systems, Space News reported Monday. Ambrose told Space News’ Mike Gruss that the company currently develops high-throughput satellites and payloads, which he says are “the same as some […] More

  • Fluor-Led JV Completes Work on Denver Eagle P3 Project’s Downtown-Airport Commuter Rail Line - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fluor-Led JV Completes Work on Denver Eagle P3 Project’s Downtown-Airport Commuter Rail Line

    A Fluor-led joint venture has completed and unveiled a 23-mile commuter rail line of the Denver Eagle P3 Commuter Rail Project. Denver Transit Partners opened Friday the University of Colorado A Line that connects the downtown Denver Union Station to Denver International Airport, Fluor said Monday. The new electric commuter rail line consists of eight stations […] More

  • Comtech to Continue Army Blue Force Tracking Program Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech to Continue Army Blue Force Tracking Program Support

    Comtech Telecommunications has been awarded a $20 million contract option from the U.S. Army to provide sustainment support for the Blue-Force Tracking program and continue associated intellectual property licenses. The company said Monday it received the second option year for engineering services and satellite network operations support to the BFT-1 mission through March 31, 2017. Comtech added it expects to receive additional funds under the option. The original three-year […] More