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  • ULA Launches Secondary Payload on Delta IV Rocket; Jim Sponnick Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches Secondary Payload on Delta IV Rocket; Jim Sponnick Comments

    United Launch Alliance has launched the AFSPC-4 mission aboard a Delta IV rocket as part of the U.S. Air Force‘s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program to deliver military and government payloads to space. ULA said Tuesday that the launch, its 85th since December 2006, was supported by an Aerojet Rocketdyne engine and ATK rocket motors. “The ULA […] More

  • Lockheed Awards General Dynamics $25M for GPS III Satellite Components - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Awards General Dynamics $25M for GPS III Satellite Components

    General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems will build components for the network communications element on GPS III space vehicles seven and eight under a $25 million full-production contract awarded by Lockheed Martin. The NCE components are built to help the satellites carry out communications functions and include the ground-to-space command and control channel, space-to-space inter-satellites and other communication […] More

  • Microsoft, Akamai to Back Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, Akamai to Back Israeli Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator

    Microsoft and Akamai Technologies will work with venture capital firm Jerusalem Venture Partners to construct an accelerator in Israel that will focus on helping startup cybersecurity firms in the country. Participants will receive professional sessions and active mentoring from JVP, who will invest in $1 million in one of the cybersecurity startups at the program’s end, Microsoft said Tuesday. “Tech […] More

  • Leidos to Help DLA's Energy Office Analyze Leak Detection Systems; Larry Hill Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Help DLA’s Energy Office Analyze Leak Detection Systems; Larry Hill Comments

    Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $25 million prime contract from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to provide the Defense Logistics Agency – Energy with technical, systems engineering and management support. The company said Tuesday it will perform engineering analysis and advisory services on the Fuels Manager Defense leak detection systems of its […] More

  • Cubic to Upgrade Fare System in Washington D.C.; Matt Newsome Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic to Upgrade Fare System in Washington D.C.; Matt Newsome Comments

    Cubic‘s transportation systems business has won an $8 million contract from the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to replace its paper magnetic farecard vending machines with SmarTrip sales and reload devices. The company said Monday it will convert at least 500 machines as WMATA seeks to completely modernize its fare system to the contactless smart card […] More

  • Future Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski to Focus on Asia, Firm's 'Vision 2020' Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Future Booz Allen CEO Horacio Rozanski to Focus on Asia, Firm’s ‘Vision 2020’ Strategy

    Horacio Rozanski, successor to Ralph Shrader as CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton, plans to focus his efforts on helping the firm navigate the current budget environment and a potential expansion into Asia, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Rozanski told Post reporter Amrita Jayakumar that the firm’s Vision 2020 strategy aims to leverage Booz Allen’s new technology and engineering offerings as its government client base […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Developmental, Operational Flight Tests for Alternative Warhead Program; Ken Musculus Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Developmental, Operational Flight Tests for Alternative Warhead Program; Ken Musculus Comments

    Lockheed Martin has completed a set of developmental and operational flight tests on the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System as part of the engineering, manufacturing and development phase of the Defense Department‘s Alternative Warhead Program. The company said Monday that the tests held at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico included rockets fired from mid- and long-range at simulated […] More

  • Deltek's Kyra Fussell: Strategic Sourcing to Change Federal IT Spending Landscape - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Kyra Fussell: Strategic Sourcing to Change Federal IT Spending Landscape

    Strategic sourcing is changing the federal acquisitions process as government agencies turn to such practices amid declining budgets, according to Kyra Fussell, a senior research analyst at Deltek. Fussell wrote Sunday in The Washington Post that Deltek sees a $7 billion decline in the government IT market from 2014 to 2019 with agencies adopting strategic sourcing initiatives […] More

  • Skyhigh Networks, SafeNet Form Data Security Systems Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Skyhigh Networks, SafeNet Form Data Security Systems Partnership

    Skyhigh Networks will collaborate with SafeNet to deliver key management tools for corporate customers to secure their data in cloud computing environments. The companies said Monday that they will work to help enterprises balance cloud-based models for data encryption and related encryption keys in order to meet the requirements needed for use. “More and more organizations are asking to encrypt their […] More

  • Iridium to Offer Satellite-Based Wi-Fi Hotspot Platform; Bryan Hartin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium to Offer Satellite-Based Wi-Fi Hotspot Platform; Bryan Hartin Comments

    Iridium Communications has unveiled a global satellite-based Wi-Fi hotspot service to provide mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets with voice and data connectivity beyond the coverage of terrestrial networks. The company said Monday the Iridium GO! offering includes free applications for voice calls and texting and access to email, Web, weather and social media. Bryan Hartin, executive vice president for […] More

  • CACI Hands xG Technology 2nd Subcontract for $497M Army Network Support Program; John Coleman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Hands xG Technology 2nd Subcontract for $497M Army Network Support Program; John Coleman Comments

    CACI International has awarded a second subcontract to xG Technology under a potential five-year, $497 million U.S. Army communications services contract that CACI holds a prime position on. xG said Monday that it will provide communications and network systems research, development and evaluation on antennas, satellite communications, systems engineering, cybersecurity and communication networks. John Coleman, xG CEO, said the company aims […] More