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  • General Dynamics Awarded $643M for Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Awarded $643M for Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer

    A General Dynamics segment has won a $642.5 million U.S. Navy contract to build an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer which adds to a multi-year deal that includes two other DDG 51 destroyers and three Zumwalt-class destroyers already in production. This new ship order brings the total General Dynamics Bath Iron Works contract value to an estimated $3.4 billion, the company said Monday. The all-steel DDG […] More

  • Dell, ikaSystems to Help Washington State Org Refresh Health Plan Services; Sid Nair Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell, ikaSystems to Help Washington State Org Refresh Health Plan Services; Sid Nair Comments

    Dell Services and  ikaSystems will work with the nonprofit Community Health Plan of Washington to update health services for Washington state residents with the goal of complying with federal healthcare reform laws. Dell said Tuesday it will provide information technology and business process outsourcing services to the nonprofit, as well as deploy ikaSystems’ health IT claims and billing tools on a software-as-a-service model. […] More

  • Ball Aerospace's Joint Polar Satellite System Bus Goes Live; Cary Ludtke Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ball Aerospace’s Joint Polar Satellite System Bus Goes Live; Cary Ludtke Comments

    Ball Aerospace & Technologies has started to power the Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft bus, kicking off a nine-month integration and testing phase as the company prepares to deliver the spacecraft to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The company said Monday the continuous power on-off cycle involves operating the satellite system with the electrical power and distribution and command and data handling subsystems. “Following […] More

  • Citrix Releases Update to XenMobile Enterprise Mobility Tool; Tom Simmons Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Citrix Releases Update to XenMobile Enterprise Mobility Tool; Tom Simmons Comments

    Citrix has updated its XenMobile enterprise mobility management tool with the goal of helping businesses and agencies manage diverse sets of devices, workforce productivity, security and compliance. The company said Wednesday that XenMobile 8.7 includes FIPS 140-2 compliant encryption for mobile apps, one-click access to communication and collaboration apps such as WorxMail, support for email and collaboration products and operating […] More

  • Lockheed to Continue NASA ISS Cargo Mission Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Continue NASA ISS Cargo Mission Support

    Lockheed Martin‘s Integrated Systems division will continue providing analytical, physical and equipment processing services to support International Space Station activities at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as part of a $22 million, one-year contract option with NASA. Lockheed will extend its cargo mission planning, coordination and processing, and other services for pressurized and unpressurized cargo transportation of vehicle flights visiting ISS, NASA said […] More

  • Exelis Awarded $92M for Anti-Missile Electronic Jammer Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Awarded $92M for Anti-Missile Electronic Jammer Systems

    The electronic systems unit of Exelis has been awarded a $91.7 million contract to deliver 42 electronic jammer systems to the U.S. Navy for protecting aircraft from radar-guided missiles, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes the Naval Air Systems Command at Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Md. contracted Exelis to build the AN/ALQ-214(V)4 set for the F/A-18C/D and F/A-18E/F Hornet and Super Hornet combat […] More

  • Praescient Analytics Team Uses Analytics For Anti-Healthcare Fraud Work - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Praescient Analytics Team Uses Analytics For Anti-Healthcare Fraud Work

    Praescient Analytics has assembled a new analytics-as-a-service team to track suspicious patterns in the healthcare system that could indicate fraudulent activity. The company said Thursday that its A3S team looks at services provided at hospitals, individual practices and other aspects such as specialist referrals to detect potential issues such as duplicate and unnecessary lab work. Analysts will work to sort […] More

  • FireEye Paper for NATO Seeks to Connect Network Security, National Securiy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Paper for NATO Seeks to Connect Network Security, National Securiy

    A paper by FireEye‘s senior global threat analyst has been published by NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence as the first volume of “The Tallinn Papers,” a cybersecurity research series. Kenneth Geers sought to highlight how international cyber attacks within a geopolitical context shows the relation between network and national security in his paper entitled “Pandemonium: Nation States, National Security, and […] More

  • Lockheed to Test Navy Aircraft Radar Warning Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Test Navy Aircraft Radar Warning Systems

    Lockheed Martin will perform technical work and module testing on early-warning radar systems used on U.S. Navy aircraft under a $16.2 million contract, Syracuse.com reported Thursday. Mark Weiner writes the Lockheed-built AN/APY-9 radar systems will be integrated into the 75 planned E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft with the goal of detecting hostile airborne and cruise missiles. Work will occur at […] More

  • BAE Shipyard to Get $500M UK Gov't Investment; Tony Johns Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Shipyard to Get $500M UK Gov’t Investment; Tony Johns Comments

    BAE Systems plc has partnered with the U.K. government for an eight-year, $500 million project to upgrade a shipyard in northwest England that is home to construction of nuclear submarines, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Thomas Penny writes the project involves extending the Devonshire Dock Hall facility, construction two new buildings and refurbishing other buildings such as a […] More

  • Ciber to Update Denver Public Schools' Business Info Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ciber to Update Denver Public Schools’ Business Info Systems

    Ciber will work with the Denver public school district to update the district’s financial, procurement and business information systems. Infor’s Financial Suite is intended to give the schools visibility into business data and help produce financial and operational reports, Ciber announced Thursday. The Financial Suite includes general ledger, grant management, procurement suite, strategic sourcing, contract […] More

  • Andy Start: NSSLGlobal Joins Inmarsat SATCOM Net's Reseller Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andy Start: NSSLGlobal Joins Inmarsat SATCOM Net’s Reseller Network

    NSSLGlobal a has agreed to work as value-added reseller of Inmarsat‘s Global Xpress satellite constellation for military and government customers in the European market, extending the companies’ existing GX VAR partnership for maritime services. Inmarsat said Tuesday it intends for NSSLGlobal to help address bandwidth, mobility, coverage and service availability needs for European government customers. “We are very pleased […] More