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  • Boeing Secures $61M Contract for Japanese AWACS Upgrade Installation, Checkout - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Secures $61M Contract for Japanese AWACS Upgrade Installation, Checkout

    Boeing has secured a potential $60.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to support installation and checkout of a mission computing upgrade to Japan’s airborne warning and control systems aircraft. The company will install and inspect the upgrades for four Japanese E-767 aircraft and related ground systems, the Defense Department said Monday. USAF awarded Boeing a $403 […] More

  • EWS-Ethosgen-Rockwell Collins Team to Develop Waste-to-Energy Convertor for US Military - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EWS-Ethosgen-Rockwell Collins Team to Develop Waste-to-Energy Convertor for US Military

    A team of Eco Waste Solutions, EthosGen and Rockwell Collins has received the green light from the Defense Department to develop a waste-to-energy conversion system for the U.S. military. EWS said Friday the team will proceed with the Deployable Waste-to-Energy Convertor for Expeditionary Bases with Thermal Energy to Electrical Power System development effort under DoD’s Environmental Security Technology Certification Program. “Military installations […] More

  • Northrop Managers Win Awards at 2018 Black Engineer of the Year Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Managers Win Awards at 2018 Black Engineer of the Year Conference

    Northrop Grumman‘s Kathryn Hamilton and Chandria Poole have received awards at the annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards ceremony that recognized excellence in the science, technology, engineering and math fields. The BEYA STEM Global Competitiveness Conference took place in Washington, D.C. from Feb. 8 to 10, Northrop said Monday. Hamilton, an engineering program manager within Northrop’s […] More

  • CA Technologies Appears in Ethisphere's 'Most Ethical Companies' List for 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CA Technologies Appears in Ethisphere’s ‘Most Ethical Companies’ List for 2018

    CA Technologies has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s 2018 World’s Most Ethical Companies list for the third consecutive year. The company said Monday it is among three honorees in the software and services category. Ethisphere used its Ethics Quotient framework to assess companies in the competency areas of ethics and compliance program; corporate citizenship and responsibility; culture of ethics; […] More

  • Thomas Manning Named Dun & Bradstreet Board Chairman, Interim CEO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomas Manning Named Dun & Bradstreet Board Chairman, Interim CEO

    Thomas “Tom” Manning, formerly lead director at Dun & Bradstreet, has been named chairman of the board and interim CEO of the Short Hills, New Jersey-based commercial information provider. Manning’s appointment comes after Dun & Bradstreet CEO and Board Chairman Robert Carrigan decided to step down from his roles, the company said Monday. The board’s nominating […] More

  • Leonardo DRS' William Lynn, Italian Ambassador Visit Proposed T-100 Manufacturing Site in Alabama - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo DRS’ William Lynn, Italian Ambassador Visit Proposed T-100 Manufacturing Site in Alabama

    Armando Varricchio, Italy’s ambassador to the U.S., visited Alabama with Leonardo DRS CEO William Lynn III in support of the company’s proposal to manufacture the U.S. Air Force’s new trainer aircraft in Tuskegee. Virginia-based Leonardo DRS, a subsidiary of Italian company Leonardo, said Feb. 6 the T-100 development will possibly generate 750 jobs in Tuskegee if the Air Force […] More

  • Oracle to Launch 12 Data Centers in Cloud Footprint Expansion Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle to Launch 12 Data Centers in Cloud Footprint Expansion Push

    Oracle has announced plans to open 12 new data centers across Asia, Europe and the Americas region in a push to expand the geographic reach of the technology firm’s cloud services. The company said Monday it will establish two facilities in the U.S. to serve Defense Department customers and another two in Canada. Other data center locations will […] More

  • Air Force Preps Second RFP for Follow-On GPS III Devt Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Preps Second RFP for Follow-On GPS III Devt Competition

    The U.S. Air Force is due to release a solicitation notice this week for the second phase of an industry competition to produce the service branch’s 11th and succeeding GPS III  satellites, Inside Defense reported Thursday. Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin submitted separate proposals in 2016 for the production of up to 22 space vehicles under the GPS III program. […] More

  • Deloitte to Open New Business Support Technology Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte to Open New Business Support Technology Center

    Deloitte has announced it will launch a new center for technology, media and telecommunications to assist the company’s clients in selecting appropriate technology-based business models. The company said Monday the center will use a business impact-focused approach to help firms further understand complex business matters, as well as to identify the right questions to address. The […] More

  • Air Force Research Lab, NextFlex Collaborate to Develop 'Flexible' Circuit System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Research Lab, NextFlex Collaborate to Develop ‘Flexible’ Circuit System

    The Air Force Research Laboratory has collaborated with a public-private manufacturing consortium to create operational prototypes of a circuit board system in efforts to accelerate the development of smart technologies. AFRL said Thursday it worked with NextFlex: America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Institute to develop Arduino integrated circuit systems that are designed to be programmed through open-source software. […] More

  • European Space Agency Picks 5 Firms to Conduct Satellite Microlauncher Feasibility Studies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    European Space Agency Picks 5 Firms to Conduct Satellite Microlauncher Feasibility Studies

    The European Space Agency has selected five companies to study the feasibility of using a commercial microlauncher to deploy small satellites into orbit. ArianeGroup, MT-Aerospace, ELV, Deimos and PLD Space will conduct research on their proposed concepts, ESA said Thursday. France-based ArianeGroup, a joint venture of Airbus and Safran, proposed to develop the three-stage Quick Access to Space vehicle […] More

  • KPMG Wins $58M USACE Financial Statement Audit Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KPMG Wins $58M USACE Financial Statement Audit Contract

    KPMG has won a $57.6 million contract from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to audit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ financial statement related to civil works. The company will also provide financial examination services for agencies owning the funds that have been obligated to USACE military programs for fiscal 2018 through 2022, the Defense Department said Friday. […] More