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  • Sierra Nevada Corp. Completes Risk Reduction, Tech Readiness Level Tests on 'Dream Chaser' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Corp. Completes Risk Reduction, Tech Readiness Level Tests on ‘Dream Chaser’

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has completed two NASA milestone tests on the Dream Chaser spacecraft’s flight hardware systems, moving the program closer to the critical design review phase and first flight, Phys.org reported Thursday. Ken Kremer reports that the Milestone 9 and Milestone 9a tests cover design risk reduction and technology readiness level assessments. “These crucial validations are vital […] More

  • Dell's Tim Sedlack on Fed IT GRC Software Implementation and Continuous Compliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell’s Tim Sedlack on Fed IT GRC Software Implementation and Continuous Compliance

    Tim Sedlack, senior product manager at Dell‘s software division, has urged federal agencies to implement governance, risk and compliance software to keep pace with changing compliance requirements for information technology controls across government. Sedlack, in a Q&A with FedConnects published Wednesday, noted that 54 percent of government IT organizations are either reactive instead of proactive in addressing network issues or do not […] More

  • API Technologies inks $2M deal for Next-gen Radar Warning Solution - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    API Technologies inks $2M deal for Next-gen Radar Warning Solution

    API Technologies Corporation today announced it has won a new, $2 million task order to produce its radar warning receiver indicator solution. The power and security solution provider will assume production to be used for integration into an Electronic Warfare Management System, said API. No additional information is available due to security concerns. More

  • DHS Awards Level 3 LAN Managed Services contract for End-to-End solutions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Awards Level 3 LAN Managed Services contract for End-to-End solutions

    Level 3 Communications Inc., today announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has selected the company to deliver local area network managed services for the agency within the National Capital Region through the Washington Interagency Telecommunications System (WTIS) 3 contract. The global telecommunications carrier will provide end-to-end solutions–cable installation, network design, engineering, monitoring and […] More

  • Red Hat, Cisco Establish Center of Excellence in India - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Cisco Establish Center of Excellence in India

    Red Hat and Cisco have opened a new Center of Excellence in India that offers their combined open source and enterprise cloud technologies to clients, PCQuest reported Wednesday. Included in the center’s offerings are OpenShift by Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Red Hat CloudForms, Adeesh Sharma writes. According to the report, the new center is […] More

  • Kevin Peppe: Raytheon Moves to Next Phase of Navy AMDR Program After Design, Integrated Baseline Reviews - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kevin Peppe: Raytheon Moves to Next Phase of Navy AMDR Program After Design, Integrated Baseline Reviews

    Raytheon has completed its preliminary design and integrated baseline reviews for the U.S. Navy‘s Air and Missile Defense Radar to establish design maturity, alignment of requirements and program execution plan validity. The company said Wednesday the Missile Defense Agency joined other program stakeholders and partners for the reviews, determining a low-risk design and on-schedule preparations for AMDR’s integration into […] More

  • Siemens Orlando Office Buildings to Sell for $14M - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Orlando Office Buildings to Sell for $14M

    The Siemens Orlando office buildings in Florida will be bought by Owens Realty Capital for $14.3 million through Wells Real Estate Fund‘s Fund XIII and Fund XIV Associates, the Orlando Business Journal reported Tuesday. Anjali Fluker writes that the two buildings in Quadrangle Corporate Park were built 12 years ago and cover 82,560 square feet of space. The sale is expected […] More

  • Bill Lynn: Gov't, Defense Industry Should Turn to Acquisition Reform, Globalization, Consolidation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bill Lynn: Gov’t, Defense Industry Should Turn to Acquisition Reform, Globalization, Consolidation

    Bill Lynn, DRS Technologies and Finmeccanica North America chief executive officer, urges the U.S. government and the defense industry to collaborate on establishing acquisition reform, fostering globalization and consolidating industry operations. Lynn, who is a former deputy secretary of the Defense Department, wrote Tuesday in Breaking Defense that the above actions are expected to ensure that the […] More

  • General Dynamics Provides Ohio County With NextGen-911 Emergency System; Charlie Plummer Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Provides Ohio County With NextGen-911 Emergency System; Charlie Plummer Comments

    General Dynamics‘ information technology business has provided Ohio’s Morgan County with an IP-based NextGen-911 emergency system to boost communications and information dissemination among first responders. The company said Tuesday NextGen-911, as a replacement to the legacy Enhanced 911 system, uses a geographic information system to locate emergency services callers and can route calls to the corresponding response units. According to Charlie […] More

  • RMF Names Vince Jarrett to Lead Ohio Civil Engineering Team; Duane Pinnix Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RMF Names Vince Jarrett to Lead Ohio Civil Engineering Team; Duane Pinnix Comments

    RMF Engineering has appointed Vince Jarrett, an engineering design professional for 17 years, as division manager of its new civil engineering team at the company’s office in Columbus, Ohio. Jarrett will lead Gregory Albrecht, Matt Burgdorf and Stephen Whalen in providing civil, electrical and mechanical engineering and other services to RMF clients in Ohio, the company said. “RMF has […] More

  • Northrop to Provide Engineering Support for Navy Combat System Upgrade; Mike Barrett Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Provide Engineering Support for Navy Combat System Upgrade; Mike Barrett Comments

    Northrop Grumman has received a $12 million task order from the U.S. Navy to support the Combat Direction Systems Activity at Dam Neck in upgrading the Ship Self-Defense System Mark 2 combat system. The company said Tuesday it will develop new hardware prototypes to replace old components and provide systems engineering and integration as well as lifecycle engineering services. […] More

  • Denmark Receives Bids From Lockheed, Boeing and Airbus for Fighter Jet Tender - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Denmark Receives Bids From Lockheed, Boeing and Airbus for Fighter Jet Tender

    Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Airbus are bidding on a tender offer worth an estimated $5.5 billion to provide Denmark’s military with as many as 30 fighter jets, Reuters reported Monday. Teis Jensen and Ole Mikkelsen report that Danish officials will deliberate on the bids ahead of the award in mid-2015. The report said Saab was also qualified to bid on the […] More