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  • Jacobs Wraps Up Redeemable Biomass Electricity Credit Study - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Wraps Up Redeemable Biomass Electricity Credit Study

    Jacobs Engineering Group has completed a study on how redeemable biomass electricity credits for usage in Riau, Indonesia. The project is a collaboration with Universitas Muhammadiyah in Riau, Sumatra with financial backing provided by the Energy and Environment Partnership Indonesia (EEP) and additional efforts supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. “Jacobs is pleased […] More

  • BAE, Lockheed Chase $10B in Global F-16 Upgrade Work; John Bean, Bill McHenry Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, Lockheed Chase $10B in Global F-16 Upgrade Work; John Bean, Bill McHenry Comment

    BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin are bidding to secure F-16 modernization contracts with international customers as U.S. and European military organizations turn to upgrade work instead of new orders amid decreased funding, Reuters reported Monday. Sarah Young and Andrea Shalal report that the global market for F-16 upgrades is worth $10 billion over the next decade. John […] More

  • Kratos Lands Unmanned Aerial Drone systems Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Lands Unmanned Aerial Drone systems Contract

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc., recently announced that its Advanced Drones and Target Systems division has received a new $4.2 million contract to provide customers in the National Security sector with unmanned aerial drones and related aircraft, command and flight control systems. According to the company information related to the contract has been limited, […] More

  • Emirates Inks $13B GE9X Services Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Emirates Inks $13B GE9X Services Deal

    Emirates Airlines announced Tuesday that it has signed a $13 billion, 12-year OnPoint solution agreement with GE for the maintenance and complete overhaul of the new line of GE9X engines powering its 150 Boeing 777X aircraft. The OnPoint solution contract is part of a larger arrangement announced at the 2013 Dubai Air Show, providing Emirates with 300 […] More

  • Hughes Updates Social Media Platform for Gov't Clients; Tony Bardo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes Updates Social Media Platform for Gov’t Clients; Tony Bardo Comments

    Hughes Network Systems has released a series of updates to its HughesON Digital Media Solutions offering for the government market by adding features for social media integration, emergency notification and cloud-based content storage. Tony Bardo, assistant vice president of government solutions at Hughes, said Monday that the updated social media platform is designed to deliver information to the public. “When urgent situations […] More

  • NASA Extends Engineering Services Contract with Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Extends Engineering Services Contract with Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies

    NASA has awarded a potential $145 million contract extension to Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies for continued support of the agency’s engineering work on hardware and software for spaceflights and ground systems. The Mechanical Systems Engineering Services II/A Bridge contract extension includes $110 million in base funds and a $35 million option that covers four months of work. SGT […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls' 'America' Ship Sets Sail for Commissioning Ceremony - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls’ ‘America’ Ship Sets Sail for Commissioning Ceremony

    The Huntington Ingalls-built amphibious assault ship “America” left the company’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi on its maiden voyage ahead of the scheduled Oct. 11 commissioning in San Francisco. “America” is built for a crew of between 1,200 and 1,900 sailors including space for Marine helicopters, F-35 jets and other aircraft, Huntington Ingalls said Friday. “The sailors and Marines serving aboard […] More

  • General Dynamics Fidelis Joins Microsoft's Active Protections Program; Peter George Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Fidelis Joins Microsoft’s Active Protections Program; Peter George Comments

    General Dynamics‘ Fidelis Cybersecurity Solutions business has entered into Microsoft‘s Active Protections Program to get information on emerging cyber threats ahead of Microsoft’s monthly security bulletins to provide up-to-date protection to Fidelis XPS customers. Fidelis said Monday that joining the Microsoft program is intended to bolster mitigation of cyber attacks and system vulnerabilities during the entire threat life cycle. […] More

  • Verizon, Renfinity Forge Alliance to Help Users in Cloud Security; Renee McCown Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon, Renfinity Forge Alliance to Help Users in Cloud Security; Renee McCown Comments

    Verizon has partnered with Renfinity to offer Terremark enterprise cloud products with Renfinity’s Secure Grid service in a combined package in order to help businesses, utilities and federal agencies secure their cloud infrastructures. The companies said Sunday that they aim to help users adopt both infrastructure-as-a-service software-as-a-service platforms. “With Verizon we can deliver a much more robust security […] More

  • Rick Yuse: Raytheon's 'Next-Gen' Jammer to Undergo Initial Flight Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Yuse: Raytheon’s ‘Next-Gen’ Jammer to Undergo Initial Flight Tests

    Raytheon‘s Next-Generation Jammer has completed a system readiness review, with most of the component technologies at Technology Readiness Level 6 or above, and is preparing for initial flight testing in September, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Rick Yuse, program manager for the electronic warfare system at Raytheon, has confirmed the program’s status as the company aims […] More

  • Raytheon to Add Software-Defined Radio on Army Helicopters; Scott Whatmough Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Add Software-Defined Radio on Army Helicopters; Scott Whatmough Comments

    Raytheon will update radio systems on U.S. Army helicopters with the RT-1987, a software-defined radio that is part of the company’s SkyFire product line and features both cryptography tools and Mobile User Objective System support. Raytheon said Sunday that it demonstrated the features of what the company says would be the first major upgrade of a radio system in nine years. Scott Whatmough, vice president […] More

  • Thomas Bussing: Raytheon Designs SeaGriffin Missile for Littoral Waters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomas Bussing: Raytheon Designs SeaGriffin Missile for Littoral Waters

    Raytheon has completed a guided flight test of its SeaGriffin missile to demonstrate the weapon’s semi-active laser guidance system and newly-added imaging infrared seeker. The SeaGriffin missile took flight from an integrated surface launch system in London and provided command and control operators for target verification before homing in on a strike, the company said Monday. The company said […] More