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  • Raytheon to Install Sensors on US Sikorsky Helicopters, Turboprop Airplanes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Install Sensors on US Sikorsky Helicopters, Turboprop Airplanes

    Raytheon‘s space and airborne systems unit has been awarded $22.9 million in contracts to help install multispectral sensor systems on U.S. military helicopters and airplanes, Avionics Intelligence reported Sunday. John Keller writes the company will fit the Multispectral Targeting System on U.S. Navy Sikorsky MH-60 helicopter and on the U.S. Air Force HC/MC-130J turboprop fixed-wing aircraft. MTS has cameras […] More

  • Unisys Extends IT Services Contract With Australian Audit Agency; Scott Whyman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Extends IT Services Contract With Australian Audit Agency; Scott Whyman Comments

    Unisys‘ subsidiary in Australia has been awarded a contract to continue providing information technology managed services to the country’s national auditing agency. The company said Monday it will extend its service desk hours the office’s mobile workforce and continue to help with services integration work and other IT activities. Scott Whyman, vice president and general […] More

  • Steve Sieke: Serco to Offer Clients End-to-End Services Under Contract With SIRVA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Steve Sieke: Serco to Offer Clients End-to-End Services Under Contract With SIRVA

    Serco will work with SIRVA to manage query resolution, lead generation and customer service activities as Serco seeks to grow its business process outsourcing business in the U.S. logistics market. Serco said Friday it will establish a contact center for SIRVA’s moving business and a Customer Experience & Innovation Center for its services demonstration at a SIRVA facility […] More

  • Northrop Grumman's IT Arm to Support DOD's Automated Biometric Identification System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Grumman’s IT Arm to Support DOD’s Automated Biometric Identification System

    Northrop Grumman’s information technology unit in McLean, Va. will support the development, maintenance and sustainment of the Defense Department’s automated biometric identification system. The more than $15.9 million modification is funded in part by fiscal 2014 research, development, testing and evaluation funds and provides for contractor support for biometric enabling capabilities of a program management […] More

  • Report: Australia to Buy 8 Boeing Poseidon Spy Planes - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Australia to Buy 8 Boeing Poseidon Spy Planes

    Australia plans to buy eight P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance planes built by Boeing for approximately $4 billion, the Herald Sun reported Friday.  Jennifer Rajca writes that the first of the Poseidon aircraft will bee delivered by 2017 and the fleet could be fully-operational by 2021. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the purchase is part […] More

  • The Complicated and Expensive World of Aviation Safety Meets International Scale as SkyLink Launches Compliance and Auditing Business - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    The Complicated and Expensive World of Aviation Safety Meets International Scale as SkyLink Launches Compliance and Auditing Business

    As an aviation services provider that rapidly deploys to austere and remote locations and operates under tight deadlines and great duress, SkyLink Aviation needs to stay at the forefront of aviation safety. “Aviation is an exacting science,” SkyLink CEO Dave Dacquino told ExecutiveBiz. “We fly in very unforgiving environments, so it is critical that we […] More

  • Airbus, A*STAR Form Data Analytics Team; Axel Krein Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus, A*STAR Form Data Analytics Team; Axel Krein Comments

    Airbus and a Singapore-based research agency have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore areas of mutual interest such as data analytics.  The partnership with Singapore’s agency for science, technology and research is intended to help customers manage fuel efficiency through new methods of operational data analysis, Airbus said Feb. 10. Asia-Pacific region business accounts […] More

  • Brazil's National Police Dept Deploys Teradata Data Analytics Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brazil’s National Police Dept Deploys Teradata Data Analytics Platform

    Teradata has worked with Brazil’s national police agency to deploy a new analytics platform for border security operations. The platform is based on the Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse tool and the agency aims to use the platform to manage traffic on federal highways, the company announced Monday. Brazil President Dilma Rousseff has made it a […] More

  • BAE, L-3 Conclude Int'l F-18 Maintenance Work; Steve Drury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE, L-3 Conclude Int’l F-18 Maintenance Work; Steve Drury Comments

    BAE Systems and engineering partner L-3 MAS Canada have completed a maintenance contract intended to support a fleet of the Royal Australian Air Force, Australian Defence Magazine reported Friday. The companies worked to maintain and add structural refurbishments to the F/A-18 Classic Hornet fleet to keep the planes combat ready before the Joint Strike Fighter […] More

  • RNCOS: US Healthcare IT Market to Grow 20% By 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RNCOS: US Healthcare IT Market to Grow 20% By 2018

    A new study from RNCOS predicts the healthcare information technology segment in the U.S. will see a 20-percent compounded annual growth rate between 2014 and 2018. The “US Healthcare IT Market Outlook 2018” study cites increased support from government and new products as main reasons for the market’s growth, Reportlinker said Thursday. RNCOS analysts also […] More

  • Judy Marks: Siemens, GSA Target Carbon Emission Cuts at Federal Buildings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Judy Marks: Siemens, GSA Target Carbon Emission Cuts at Federal Buildings

    Siemens Government Technologies will work to install new heating and cooling plants at three federal buildings under a $37.2 million General Services Administration contract, Federal Times reported Wednesday. Andy Medici writes that Siemens will pay upfront costs of energy-savings retrofits for 13 projects spread across the Anthony J. Celebrezze Federal Building, Howard M. Metzenbaum U.S. […] More

  • QinetiQ NA to Help GSA Buildings Service Refresh IT Setup - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ NA to Help GSA Buildings Service Refresh IT Setup

    QinetiQ North America has been awarded two task orders worth $15 million combined from the General Services Administration for information technology and software development services. The agency’s Public Buildings Service issued the orders through GSA’s Information Technology and Development Services blanket purchase agreement, QNA said Tuesday. For the Enterprise Data Repository Management task order, the […] More