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  • Leidos to Offer IT Services Under Potential $250M GSA BPA; Angela Heise Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Offer IT Services Under Potential $250M GSA BPA; Angela Heise Comments

    Leidos has secured a position under a potential five-year, $250 million blanket purchase agreement to provide information technology services as well as related operation and maintenance to an office within the General Services Administration. The company said Monday it will compete for task orders to deliver technology, IT design, database development, application development, life-cycle system and […] More

  • Engineering Services Network to Help Develop Navy's Combat System Operational Sequencing Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Engineering Services Network to Help Develop Navy’s Combat System Operational Sequencing Tech

    Engineering Services Network has won a potential five-year, $39.5 million to help the U.S. Navy develop, modify and validate a combat systems operational sequencing system. The company said Friday it will deliver CSOSS for integration with shipboard sensors, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and weapon systems. ESN will also provide CSOSS analyses, technical and programmatic […] More

  • Thales Unveils New Bushmaster Armored Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Unveils New Bushmaster Armored Vehicle

    Thales has introduced a modernized version of its Bushmaster armored vehicle platform designed to protect crew against land mines and improvised explosive devices. The company said Friday its Australian business designed and produced the Bushmaster MR6 platform in an effort to increase the vehicle’s capacity, protection and mobility in battlefield missions. Bushmaster vehicles feature a “deep V-Hull” design and […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Ka-Band Satcom Tech Essential for Airborne ISR Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Ka-Band Satcom Tech Essential for Airborne ISR Missions

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said she believes the adoption of Ka-band satellite communications technology can help the military address interoperability requirements for airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a two-part blog post published Thursday that Ka-band’s capacity to cover frequencies that civilian and military […] More

  • Auto-ISAC, DHS Sign CRADA to Develop Cyber Threat Info Sharing Capacities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Auto-ISAC, DHS Sign CRADA to Develop Cyber Threat Info Sharing Capacities

    The Automotive Information Sharing and Analysis Center has inked a cooperative research and development agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to boost capacities for information sharing and analysis of vehicle cyber threats. Auto-ISAC said Thursday the partnership will look to provide vehicle cyber threat information access to the DHS National Cybersecurity and Communication Integration Center […] More

  • Mercury Systems to Supply Military-Grade SSDs for Airborne Mission Mgmt Application - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems to Supply Military-Grade SSDs for Airborne Mission Mgmt Application

    Mercury Systems has received a $3.9 million follow-on order from a defense company to produce solid-state drives for use in airborne mission management efforts. Andover, Massachusetts-based Mercury Systems said Thursday it booked the order during the second quarter of its 2018 fiscal year and scheduled to deliver military-grade SSDs to the customer over the next several quarters. The […] More

  • Rolls-Royce Opens Autonomous Ship Tech R&D Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce Opens Autonomous Ship Tech R&D Facility

    Rolls-Royce has opened a facility in Finland to research and develop autonomous technology for shipping operations. The company said Thursday it aims to conduct R&D projects in the areas of autonomous navigation, land-based control and artificial intelligence at the new center. The facility includes a Remote and Autonomous Experience Space designed as a venue for showcasing autonomous technology platforms […] More

  • Calibre Receives ISO IT Service Mgmt System Certification; Joe Martore Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Calibre Receives ISO IT Service Mgmt System Certification; Joe Martore Comments

    Calibre Systems has obtained certification from the International Organization for Standardization for the Alexandria, Virginia-based company’s information technology service management systems. The ISO 20000-1:2011 designation reflects Calibre’s efforts to manage delivery of IT services, implement process improvement strategies and serve clients, the company said Wednesday. Joe Martore, president and CEO of CALIBRE, said the company will work to maintain ISO […] More

  • Lockheed Helps NASA Test Solar Arrays for Mars Lander - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Helps NASA Test Solar Arrays for Mars Lander

    NASA and Lockheed Martin have evaluated the solar arrays of a future Mars robotic lander technology inside a clean room at the company’s facility in Littleton, Colorado. The space agency said Tuesday its Jet Propulsion Laboratory led the InSight evaluation process wherein the platform deployed its solar arrays while in a landed configuration to test the actual process […] More

  • BAE Turns Over Patrol Vessel to UK MoD - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Turns Over Patrol Vessel to UK MoD

    The U.K. ministry of defense has formally accepted a BAE Systems-built River-class offshore patrol vessel designed to help protect the country’s territories and interests worldwide. HMS Forth will remain at the Scotstoun yard in Glasgow, Scotland for additional work before its commissioning at the Portsmouth Naval Base later this year, BAE said Thursday. The company also started […] More

  • GE Awarded $85M USAF Aircraft Engine Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GE Awarded $85M USAF Aircraft Engine Support Contract

    A General Electric business unit has received a potential 10-year, $84.9 million contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide F118-101 aircraft engine support for the U.S. Air Force. GE Aviation will perform work under the sole-source contract’s base period Jan. 24, 2023 at facilities in Ohio and Kansas, the Defense Department said Thursday. The contract also contains […] More

  • Bloomberg: Pentagon's Fiscal 2017 Contract Spend Reached $331B - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg: Pentagon’s Fiscal 2017 Contract Spend Reached $331B

    Bloomberg‘s government arm has analyzed the Defense Department‘s unclassified contract obligations and found that DoD awarded a total of $331 billion to contractors over the last fiscal year. Robert Levinson, a senior defense analyst at Bloomberg Government, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday that the Department of the Navy, which includes the U.S. Marine Corps, received the highest DoD […] More