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  • General Dynamics Shipyard to Deliver USS Rafael Peralta to Navy in February - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Shipyard to Deliver USS Rafael Peralta to Navy in February

    The U.S. Navy‘s Board of Inspection and Survey has recommended the General Dynamics-built USS Rafael Peralta guided missile destroyer to join the Navy fleet after the ship completed its acceptance trials. USS Rafael Peralta will be delivered to the Navy in February and will depart from the company’s Bath Iron Works shipyard in the spring to join 34 other Arleigh Burke-class […] More

  • Kratos Lands $17.75M Umanned Aerial Target Drone Contract; Eric DeMarco Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Lands $17.75M Umanned Aerial Target Drone Contract; Eric DeMarco Comments

    Kratos‘ subsidiary Composite Engineering Inc. has been awarded a $17.75 million contract to supply a high performance unmanned aerial target drone system for two separate sites of an international client. CEI, a business unit of Kratos’ unmanned systems division, will also provide BQM-167i unmanned aerial target drone aircraft, support and command and control equipment, spares […] More

  • Diligent Consulting Receives Navy IT Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Diligent Consulting Receives Navy IT Support IDIQ

    Diligent Consulting has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide information technology support to the U.S. Navy and other agencies. Diligent Consulting said Tuesday it will compete on task orders under the SeaPort-e IDIQ contract alongside partner CACI International in support of the Navy’s engineering, financial management, information technology, information assurance, cybersecurity and program management areas. Diligent will […] More

  • Drone Aviation, Infor Launch UAS-Based Asset Mgmt Tech Offering; Wayne Bobby Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Drone Aviation, Infor Launch UAS-Based Asset Mgmt Tech Offering; Wayne Bobby Comments

    Infor has partnered with Drone Aviation to develop an unmanned aerial system-based enterprise platform designed to help public and private sector customers manage assets. The Drone Enterprise Asset Management Solution integrates Drone Aviation’s tethered drone technologies with Infor’s enterprise asset management system for organizations to inspect buildings, power stations, railways and other assets, Drone Aviation said Tuesday. Drone Aviation’s tethered drones […] More

  • Boeing's Insitu Demos ScanEagle Maritime Surface Search Tech for UK Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Insitu Demos ScanEagle Maritime Surface Search Tech for UK Navy

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has demonstrated the new wide-area maritime surface search and identification feature of its unmanned aerial vehicle to the U.K. navy, military officials and industry representatives. Insitu said Tuesday it installed the ViDAR payload in a ScanEagle UAV that was used to conduct various maritime missions during the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior demonstration held in Benbecula, Scotland. […] More

  • DoD Taps Parabon NanoLabs for Forensic DNA Analysis Software Devt Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Taps Parabon NanoLabs for Forensic DNA Analysis Software Devt Contract

    Parabon NanoLabs will develop a DNA analysis platform under a two-year contract with the Defense Department in an effort to help DoD analyze forensic data through open architecture. The company said Wednesday it will build the Keystone platform software plugins that combine analytical tools and methods to examine bioinformatic evidence from forensic science instruments, Parabon said Wednesday. Keystone […] More

  • Boeing Taps BAE to Support F-15 Electronic Warfare Tech Upgrade Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Taps BAE to Support F-15 Electronic Warfare Tech Upgrade Program

    Boeing has awarded BAE Systems a multi-year, $140 million contract to develop an electronic warfare system for the U.S. Air Force’s F-15 modernization program. BAE said Monday it will equip the Boeing-built fighter aircraft with a digital EW system designed to help operators detect and defend against current and emerging threats as part of the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System program. […] More

  • Rockwell Collins to Repair Army CH-47F Helicopter Avionics System; Thierry Tosi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins to Repair Army CH-47F Helicopter Avionics System; Thierry Tosi Comments

    Rockwell Collins has secured a five-year contract to repair up to 1,910 common avionics architecture system units currently installed in the U.S. Army’s CH-47F helicopters. The company’s cockpit equipment features the Flight2 system comprised of various  communications, navigation and mission subsystems, Rockwell Collins said Wednesday. Thierry Tosi, vice president and general manager of service solutions at Rockwell Collins, said the company will sustain and […] More

  • Boundless Unveils New Open GIS Platform Offering for Enterprise Clients; Andy Dearing Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boundless Unveils New Open GIS Platform Offering for Enterprise Clients; Andy Dearing Comments

    Boundless has introduced a new open GIS ecosystem offering designed to help customers gain intelligence from geospatial data. Boundless Connect is a subscription-based extension of its that contains a repository of GIS data and Boundless Desktop is a professional tool designed to provide geospatial knowledge and resources to customers, Boundless said Monday. Boundless will offer the […] More

  • General Atomics Gets NOAA Tornado Detection Research Grant; Nick Bucci Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Gets NOAA Tornado Detection Research Grant; Nick Bucci Comments

    General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business has secured a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to research a method for direct tornado detection. The company said Wednesday it will form a collaborative research team with the University of Alabama in Huntsville, which also received a separate NOAA grant, to study the use of infrasound technology as a way […] More

  • Serco to Maintain Dubai Airport Buildings, Infrastructure; Joe Boyle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Serco to Maintain Dubai Airport Buildings, Infrastructure; Joe Boyle Comments

    Serco has secured a six-year facilities management contract with Dubai Airports to maintain a large portion of Dubai International Airport’s buildings and infrastructure. Serco said Monday its Middle East subsidiary will manage facilities at terminals 1 and 2 and maintain other cargo and ancillary buildings at the airport. Joe Boyle, managing director of Serco Middle East’s integrated facilities services sector, […] More

  • NASA Taps Science Systems and Applications for Atmospheric Science, Data Assimilation Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Taps Science Systems and Applications for Atmospheric Science, Data Assimilation Support Contract

    Science Systems and Applications Inc. has been awarded a potential $10 million contract to provide support for NASA’s atmospheric science and data assimilation research efforts. NASA said Tuesday the company will support various activities of the Earth Science Division’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Global Modeling […] More