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  • BAE Starts Work to Refresh South Korea's F-16 Fleet; John Bean Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Starts Work to Refresh South Korea’s F-16 Fleet; John Bean Comments

    BAE Systems has started work to add new weapons and avionics systems to South Korea’s fleet of F-16 fighter jets under a two-phase foreign military sales contract awarded by the U.S. Air Force. The company said Wednesday it will supply equipment and parts such as mission computers, cockpit displays, radars and sensors for 134 KF-16C/D Block 52 aircraft, as well […] More

  • South Korea's Space Agency Picks Northrop Navigation Tech for Weather Monitoring Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    South Korea’s Space Agency Picks Northrop Navigation Tech for Weather Monitoring Satellite

    Northrop Grumman has won a potential $9 million contract to supply a navigation sensor technology to South Korea’s national space agency for geostationary satellites built to monitor space weather, ocean and atmospheric conditions. The company’s Scalable Space Inertial Reference Units will work to deliver continuous rotational data on South Korea’s GEO‑KOMPSAT-2A and 2B environmental satellites, […] More

  • IBM to Build Cloud Platform for South Korea's Anti-Corruption Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Build Cloud Platform for South Korea’s Anti-Corruption Agency

    IBM will build an open-source hybrid cloud infrastructure for South Korea’s anti-corruption and civil rights commission to centralize operations and consolidate public service phone numbers into one communications channel. The company said Friday that the agency has adopted the IBM zCloud platform for electronic services such as e-People and The 110 Government Call Center, which processes complaints, civil petitions and administrative appeals. […] More

  • SafeNet: Global Data Breaches Up 200% in Q1 2014 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SafeNet: Global Data Breaches Up 200% in Q1 2014

    SafeNet‘s Breach Level Index report indicates that hackers stole more than 200 million records in the first quarter of 2014, a 233 percent increase as compared to the same period last year. Only one percent of the 254 security incidents reported during Q1 were “secure breaches,” where encryption or authentication systems prevented hackers from using […] More

  • Michael Menking: Airbus Seeks to Extend Radar Exports with Korea Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Menking: Airbus Seeks to Extend Radar Exports with Korea Contract

    Airbus Defence and Space has secured a contract to supply radar antenna and electronics for a new South Korean satellite, a deal  Michael Menking, earth observation, navigation and science head, expects will boost the company’s radar exports in the region. The instruments will be installed aboard the Kompsat-6 Earth observation satellite, Airbus said Wednesday. “The Kompsat-6 […] More