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  • Ryan Hartman: Boeing's Insitu Subsidiary Adding Weight for 'Integrator' UAS Variant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ryan Hartman: Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary Adding Weight for ‘Integrator’ UAS Variant

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary is building a heavier variant of its Integrator unmanned aerial vehicle platform to accommodate additional payloads and capabilities, Defense News reported Saturday. Aaron Mehta writes the variant will be at 165 pounds, compared to the current 135 pounds of the Marine Corps‘ Integrator-based RQ-21A Blackjack. “One of the things we know for a fact is when you start adding […] More

  • Boeing to Compete in South Korea Tanker Competition; Eric John Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing to Compete in South Korea Tanker Competition; Eric John Comments

    Boeing has formally offered the company’s KC-46 tanker to South Korea as the country prepares to acquire four aircraft for its first tanker squadron. South Korea’s defense acquisition agency received the offer after it issued a request for proposals for aerial refueling tankers and the agency aims to finish the competition later this year, Boeing said […] More

  • BAE Systems Partners with Riyadh Wings to Create Saudi Holding Company - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Partners with Riyadh Wings to Create Saudi Holding Company

    BAE Systems announced plans to bring together shareholdings of BAE Systems group and Riyadh Wings for Saudi companies specializing in training, electronics and IT systems engineering under a single holding company, OMC. Riyadh Wings will acquire a 49% stake in the holding company with BAE Systems continuing to hold a majority stake, BAE Systems said […] More

  • Cisco Deploys 'Internet of Everything' Tech at Transwestern's Pennzoil Plaza; Ben Quinton Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco Deploys ‘Internet of Everything’ Tech at Transwestern’s Pennzoil Plaza; Ben Quinton Comments

    Cisco has deployed technology at Transwestern Property Management‘s Pennzoil Plaza in Houston to help turn the 39-year-old building into an “infrastructure of the future” with a centralized management system that includes energy consumption controls. According to a video posted Thursday on the Cisco website, the “Internet of Everything” applied to infrastructure management systems has brought efficiency in operations. […] More

  • Thales-Siemens JV to Install Signalling, Security Tech on Spanish Rail Line - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales-Siemens JV to Install Signalling, Security Tech on Spanish Rail Line

    A Thales–Siemens joint venture will implement signalling, telecommunications and security technologies for a rail line in southern Spain under a $284.9 million contract with ADIF Alta Velocidad. The companies said Thursday the contract covers Thales’ project management services and electronic interlocking product and Siemens Rail Automation’s European Rail Traffic Management System level 2 with automatic braking and signal announcement systems. ADIF Alta […] More

  • Constellation West Opens New Fairfax County, Va. HQ; Lisa Wolford Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Constellation West Opens New Fairfax County, Va. HQ; Lisa Wolford Comments

    Constellation West has opened its new 5,460-square-foot headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia that includes a proposal development center, an operations center, hotel offices for the company’s mobile employees and space for potential office expansion. “It provides a central location that is easy to access for employees, customers and partners,” Lisa Wolford, the company’s president and CEO said Friday. Constellation […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: Defense Equipment Demand, Spending to Grow $60B Through 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan: Defense Equipment Demand, Spending to Grow $60B Through 2018

    Frost & Sullivan‘s newest Global Defense Outlook study projects defense procurement activities to grow by $60 billion between 2013 and 2018 due to equipment nearing end-of-life and requiring maintenance, repair and similar work. The business consulting firm said Thursday most spending and demand in 2013 were on C4ISR equipment such as radars and sensors, although recent economic […] More

  • Ken Asbury: M&A a Top Priority at CACI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: M&A a Top Priority at CACI

    CACI International CEO Ken Asbury has said the company is regularly looking at opportunities for mergers and acquisitions nearly seven months after its $820 million acquisition of Six3 Systems, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. “We’re continuing to look at companies in the M&A space to add a new customer, a new set of techniques, particularly as we see the […] More

  • Philips, Salesforce.com Alliance to Offer Healthcare Tech Platform; Marc Benioff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Philips, Salesforce.com Alliance to Offer Healthcare Tech Platform; Marc Benioff Comments

    Royal Philips and salesforce.com have formed a partnership to combine their respective medical technology, clinical informatics, cloud computing and customer engagement offerings to develop an open source, cloud-based healthcare IT platform. The parties said Thursday the platform will be designed to enable personal health management and remote health monitoring and support the Philips Hospital to Home programs. “We have entered […] More

  • Lockheed-Sandpit Team Aims to Take Stockpile Monitoring to Space - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed-Sandpit Team Aims to Take Stockpile Monitoring to Space

    Lockheed Martin and Australian company Sandpit have partnered to offer a system to mining companies for monitoring stockpiles from space, the Australian Journal of Mining reported Thursday. Oliver Probert writes that MineRECON is built to to see a satellite take two photos, roughly a minute apart, of a specific area of land at a minesite, port facility, or any other site requiring […] More

  • Lockheed Deploys Solar Array for NOAA Weather Satellite; Pam Sullivan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Deploys Solar Array for NOAA Weather Satellite; Pam Sullivan Comments

    The solar panels built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R series have been tested, approved and sent to Lockheed Martin‘s facility in Denver to be incorporated onto the spacecraft. NASA said Tuesday that the solar array, which contains five sections that come together to resemble a black wing, was deployed […] More