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  • Carahsoft Adds Pindrop's Call Authentication, Fraud Detection Products to GSA Schedule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Pindrop’s Call Authentication, Fraud Detection Products to GSA Schedule

    Carahsoft will offer government customers access to Pindrop-developed voice call  authentication and fraud detection systems via the former’s General Services Administration schedule contract. Carahsoft said Tuesday it will serve as the master government aggregator of Pindrop’s Phoneprinting and Phoneprint platforms that work to help operators assess the identity of callers. “By detecting threats sooner and with more accuracy, government agencies are able to reduce fraud losses […] More

  • DLT Solutions Gets Amazon Web Services Government Competency Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT Solutions Gets Amazon Web Services Government Competency Certification

    DLT Solutions has earned Amazon Web Services‘ Government Competency certification for DLT’s work to support government customer readiness for cloud migration. DLT said Tuesday it will build on its earlier certification as an AWS Managed Service Provider to help customers establish their “cloud readiness factor” and provide them support for AWS cloud services. AWS Government Competency recognizes AWS Partner Network members […] More

  • Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Radar Antenna Reflector for Joint NASA-India Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Subsidiary Reviews Design of Radar Antenna Reflector for Joint NASA-India Satellite

    Northrop Grumman‘s Astro Aerospace subsidiary has completed the preliminary design review of a radar antenna reflector technology the business developed for a joint satellite project between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization. Northrop said Tuesday the AstroMesh reflector will be integrated onto the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite that will operate at L-band and S-band frequencies to offer scientists a detailed view of […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Opens Advanced T-50A Pilot Training Facility in South Carolina - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Opens Advanced T-50A Pilot Training Facility in South Carolina

    Lockheed Martin has launched its new Advanced Pilot Training facility in South Carolina that will house a Ground-Based Training System and tooling equipment to support the final assembly of the T-50A trainer aircraft. The company said Tuesday the Ground-Based Training System serves to provide a training platform for T-50A pilots. Orlando Carvalho, Lockheed’s executive vice president for the aeronautics business, said the company will work […] More

  • Raytheon's Anti-Ship Defense System on USS Carney Completes 1st Navy Fire Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Anti-Ship Defense System on USS Carney Completes 1st Navy Fire Test

    Raytheon‘s SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system aboard USS Carney completed an initial live fire test that the U.S. Navy facilitated in Rota, Spain. The company said Wednesday the system identified, tracked and intercepted a BQM-74E target with a RAM Block II missile during the test. Rick Nelson, Raytheon vice president for the naval area and mission defense product line, […] More

  • Versar to Extend Army Corps of Engineers Support in Iraq - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Versar to Extend Army Corps of Engineers Support in Iraq

    Versar has been awarded a $2.5 million contract modification by the U.S. Army to extend the company’s support services for the Army Corps of Engineers-Middle East District in Iraq through August 2017. The company said Monday its personnel will continue to help USACE-MED facilitate  quality assurance, warranty, material and equipment inspections as well as on-site monitoring of construction sites that require Iraqi […] More

  • McMurdo Receives Coast Guard Personal Locator Beacons Order; Mark Cianciolo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McMurdo Receives Coast Guard Personal Locator Beacons Order; Mark Cianciolo Comments

    McMurdo Inc. has received a potential five-year, $3 million contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to provide 16,000 FastFind 220 personal locator beacons for crews to use during emergencies. FastFind 220 works to notify emergency personnel during a land, air or water emergency through the 406-megahertz frequency to send a distress signal that contains beacon identification information […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Ships Another MC-130J Combat Transport Aircraft to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Martin Ships Another MC-130J Combat Transport Aircraft to Air Force

    Lockheed Martin has delivered an additional MC-130J Commando II combat transport and special operations tanker to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Monday the Air Force has assigned the aircraft to the Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field in Florida The Lockheed-built MC-130J will succeed the legacy MC-130P Combat Shadow aircraft. The MC-130J is designed to support […] More

  • LMI-Led Team to Provide Environmental Remediation Support to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI-Led Team to Provide Environmental Remediation Support to Air Force

    The U.S. Air Force civil engineer center’s environmental restoration division has awarded an LMI-led team a one-year, $500,000 task order to provide systems engineering and other services to address program requirements. The consulting firm said Monday it will utilize its previous experience with similar U.S. Army environmental restoration programs, as well as the company’s environmental remediation services […] More

  • Lockheed-Led Team Dispatches 7th LCS to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Led Team Dispatches 7th LCS to Navy

    Lockheed Martin and its team of industry partners have delivered the seventh littoral combat ship and future USS Detroit to the U.S. Navy. The company said Monday the ship features a modular design, plug-and-play architecture and 40-percent reconfigurable shipboard space designed to support requirement updates. USS Detroit is the fourth Freedom-class LCS that Lockheed has delivered to the Navy, which will commission […] More

  • Lockheed PAC-3 Missile Interceptor Reaches IOC Status; Scott Arnold Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed PAC-3 Missile Interceptor Reaches IOC Status; Scott Arnold Comments

    The Lockheed Martin-built PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor has received initial operational capability designation from the U.S. Army. The company’s PAC-3 MSE achieved the IOC status two years after Lockheed obtained  milestone C approval for the missile interception system and received its initial contract for the technology from the service branch in 2014, Lockheed said Tuesday. Scott […] More

  • NASA, Mobile Antenna Platform Systems Inc. to Launch UAV Tracking Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Mobile Antenna Platform Systems Inc. to Launch UAV Tracking Platform

    NASA has signed a license agreement with Mobile Antenna Platform Systems Inc. to commercialize a portable antenna platform the company designed to provide users satellite-based tracking functions for unmanned aerial vehicles. The space agency said Friday the platform is built to constantly rotate approximately 60 pounds of antennas, transmitters and receivers and eliminate the need for additional load-balancing hardware. The […] More