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  • Lockheed Starts to Build 8th Comms Satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Starts to Build 8th Comms Satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT

    Lockheed Martin has begun to assemble an eighth communications satellite for Japan-based operator SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. inside a clean room near Denver, Colorado. JCSAT-17 is based on Lockheed’s LM2100 bus and the satellite’s payload is designed to incorporate S-band transponders, a processor and an 18-meter mesh reflector, the company said Wednesday. The satellite will offer high-bandwidth communications during high-volume events, such […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Intros Maritime Situational Awareness System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Intros Maritime Situational Awareness System

    Rolls-Royce has unveiled a situational awareness system meant to aid ship navigators who operate vessels at night and in adverse weather or congested waterways. The company said Tuesday its Intelligent Awareness system works to collect data from multiple sensors to offer users a comprehensive view of a ship’s external surroundings through four user interface modes, augmented and virtual reality and […] More

  • Security Devices International Releases 40 Ammo Product - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Security Devices International Releases 40 Ammo Product

    Security Devices International has released a new 40mm ammunition round offering that employs a company-made collapsible head technology. The Collapsible Head Impact Projectile is based on a blunt impact projectile and designed for law enforcement use, SDI said Wednesday. CHIP completed third-party tests in accordance with NATO’s AEP-99 Thorax Injury Risk Assessment of Less-Lethal Projectiles. Evaluators found that SDI’s […] More

  • Capco Lands Navy Impulse Cartridge Production IDIQ Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Capco Lands Navy Impulse Cartridge Production IDIQ Contract

    Capco has received a potential five-year, $39.8 million contract from the U.S. Navy to produce two impulse cartridge variants and test aircraft ejection devices. Work covers the production of WA83, CCU-136A/A; WB24, CCU-145A cartridges; and/or production lot testing of ejection devices from aircraft, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The U.S. Air Force and foreign military sales customers […] More

  • Motorola Solutions Unveils 3 First Responder Comms Products - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Motorola Solutions Unveils 3 First Responder Comms Products

    Motorola Solutions has rolled out three products the company designed to help first responders communicate via land-mobile radio and long-term evolution networks. LEX L11 is designed to support global broadband networks such as the country’s future emergency broadband network FirstNet, Motorola said Wednesday. The LTE device works in conjunction with the APX 8500HP portable radio technology and Capture Mobile […] More

  • Raytheon to Update Navy Missile Defense Radar, Jammer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Update Navy Missile Defense Radar, Jammer Systems

    Raytheon‘s integrated defense systems business has won a potential $19.9 million contract to update the service branch’s Air and Missile Defense Radar and the Next Generation Jammer systems. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract also covers the development of an X-band radar technology, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Navy will obligate $1.1 million in fiscal 2018 research, development, test and evaluation […] More

  • Sikorsky Concludes CH-53K Envelope Expansion Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Concludes CH-53K Envelope Expansion Tests

    Lockheed Martin has announced the completion of envelope expansion flight tests of the Sikorsky-built CH-53K King Stallion helicopter at a facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. The CH-53K aircraft lifted a 36,000-pound external payload during a flight demonstration held Feb. 10 at Sikorsky’s facility in Florida, Lockheed said Wednesday. Sikorsky conducted the external lift flight test as it prepares to […] More

  • Dun & Bradstreet Included in 2018 List of World’s Most Ethical Companies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dun & Bradstreet Included in 2018 List of World’s Most Ethical Companies

    Arizona-based organization Ethisphere Institute has selected Dun & Bradstreet as one of the 135 most ethical companies around the world in 2018. D&B said March 1 this is its 10th consecutive year in the 2018 World’s Most Ethical Companies list. Louis Sapirman, chief compliance officer of Dun & Bradstreet, stated that the company recognizes its responsibility to […] More

  • Leidos, New Zealand-Based Company Develop Air Traffic Mgmt System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, New Zealand-Based Company Develop Air Traffic Mgmt System

    Leidos has collaborated with Airways New Zealand to develop an air traffic management system designed to facilitate exchange of information between airports, airlines and an air navigation service provider. SkyLine-X works to help ATC personnel monitor aircraft and airspace, manage trajectory-based operations, secure communications and coordinate weather planning activities, Leidos said Tuesday. The system employs a human machine […] More

  • Octo Consulting Part of DMI-Led Army HR System Support Contract Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting Part of DMI-Led Army HR System Support Contract Team

    Octo Consulting Group will participate in a DMI-led industry team that secured a potential five-year, $20 million contract to provide engineering and programmatic services for the U.S. Army‘s automated human resource systems. Octo said Tuesday it will help the service branch’s program executive office for enterprise information systems to design, build, implement and sustain AHRS software and hardware under […] More

  • Oracle's Cloud Service Gets DISA Impact Level 5 Authorization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle’s Cloud Service Gets DISA Impact Level 5 Authorization

    Oracle‘s federal managed cloud services business has received an 18-month provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s risk assessment and certification office. DISA said Tuesday it granted the conditional approval to the company’s cloud service offering for impact-level 5 data workloads. Oracle CSO is platform-as-a-service delivery model that employs shared service zones intended for a […] More

  • Inmarsat to Develop 4D Air Traffic Management SATCOM Service for ESA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat to Develop 4D Air Traffic Management SATCOM Service for ESA

    Inmarsat has received a European Space Agency contract to develop satellite communication technologies that provide 4D trajectory air traffic management. The Iris program entails technologies that will be used to support European airspace traffic management beginning 2020, the company said Tuesday. Developed technologies will compose the Iris system that will make use of Inmarsat’s SB-S platform for increased internet protocol-based […] More