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  • AF Upgrades C-5 System Integration Lab to Support Lockheed's Weather Radar Workload - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AF Upgrades C-5 System Integration Lab to Support Lockheed’s Weather Radar Workload

    The U.S. Air Force‘s upgraded hardware at the Robins Air Force Base C-5 System Integration Lab works to accommodate Lockheed Martin‘s own upgrades to the C-5 Galaxy‘s color weather radar and core mission computer. Jenny Gordon reports Wednesday on the Air Force website that the service designed, installed or modified hardware such as the lab’s electronics enclosure, antenna fixture […] More

  • RSA, Gigamon to Jointly Offer Network Security Tools for Traffic Visibility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RSA, Gigamon to Jointly Offer Network Security Tools for Traffic Visibility

    RSA and Gigamon have partnered to offer the GigaSECURE security delivery platform and RSA Security Analytics product to customers that seek visibility into software-defined data centers and other virtual network environments. Gigamon said Monday visibility into network traffic helps generate actionable intelligence to support network protection measures. “Customers need pervasive visibility into virtual East-West traffic in order to […] More

  • AECOM Gets Navy Electromagnetic Compatibility Task Order; Randy Wotring Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Gets Navy Electromagnetic Compatibility Task Order; Randy Wotring Comments

    AECOM has received a five-year, $43 million task order under the U.S. Navy‘s SeaPort-e vehicle to provide electromagnetic compatibility and engineering support services to the Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren Division. The company said Monday the task order covers continued support for the environmental effects test, evaluation and integration activities of the NSWCDD Electromagnetic Effects Division Electromagnetic Assurance Center. […] More

  • Matt Desch: Iridium Put $3B Toward 66-Satellite Constellation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Put $3B Toward 66-Satellite Constellation

    Iridium Communications has spent $3 billion on its program to launch 66 satellites that will work to offer airline companies satellite-based air traffic surveillance services, CEO Matt Desch told The Globe and Mail for an article published Sunday. Eric Atkins writes those satellites will carry instruments to collect information such as aircraft speed and location in an effort to help airlines manage fuel usage and flight […] More

  • DARPA to Host Proposers' Day for 'Gremlins' UAS Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Host Proposers’ Day for ‘Gremlins’ UAS Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Tactical Technology Office plans to unveil information on its Gremlins program during a Proposers’ Day from Sept. 24 to 25. A notice posted Friday on FedBizOpps said registration is open through Sept. 18. According to DARPA, the Gremlins program aims to utilize small unmanned aircraft systems for coordinated support during distributed U.S. military […] More

  • DoD Picks FlexTech Alliance to Build New Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD Picks FlexTech Alliance to Build New Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Innovation Institute

    The FlexTech Alliance consortium will create and manage the seventh Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid Electronics under a cooperative agreement with the Defense Department as part of the government’s National Network for Manufacturing Innovation. DoD said Friday the institute will bring together government, industry and academic professionals to help bolster U.S. manufacturing capabilities in flexible hybrid electronics. The Air […] More

  • US Agency Purchases $49M in Kratos Subsidiary SATCOM Hardware - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Agency Purchases $49M in Kratos Subsidiary SATCOM Hardware

    A subsidiary of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions will provide satellite and communications system hardware, equipment and other products to a U.S. government agency under a five-year, $49 million contract. The company said Friday RT Logic, which is part of Kratos’ technology and training solutions division, has already received $8 million in delivery orders under the contract. RT Logic will […] More

  • Shana Simmons: Engility Seeks to Help NGA Build 'One-Stop' GEOINT Shop - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Shana Simmons: Engility Seeks to Help NGA Build ‘One-Stop’ GEOINT Shop

    Engility is acting as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s broker for the development and approval of mobile applications as NGA pushes to make geospatial data more widely available, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Jason Miller writes Engility’s contract – awarded to its TASC subsidiary in September 2014 — is part of the Innovative GEOINT Application Provider Program that seeks t0 make a “one-stop shop” for GEOINT applications that utilize […] More

  • SAP NS2 Vet Training Program Shifts Focus to Analytics; Mark Testoni Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP NS2 Vet Training Program Shifts Focus to Analytics; Mark Testoni Comments

    The SAP National Security Services training program for veterans is moving forward to its fourth session with an analytics-focused curriculum in response to feedback from prospective employers, FCW reported Thursday. Sean Lyngaas writes that the NS2 Serves-run program has shifted from enterprise resource planning courses to analytics in efforts to meet the growing demand for analytical skills. […] More

  • Ernst & Young to Offer LANL's Behavioral Cyber Tools in Commercial Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ernst & Young to Offer LANL’s Behavioral Cyber Tools in Commercial Market

    Ernst & Young and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have entered into a strategic alliance to bring the lab’s behavioral cybersecurity tools to the commercial marketplace amid a growing sophistication of attacks. “Defensive cybersecurity is an area that requires strong public-private partnerships to shift the balance,” Duncan McBranch, chief technology officer at LANL, said Tuesday. EY will exclusively offer technologies […] More

  • General Dynamics' Tony Cothron, Lynn Schnurr Eye Continued IC-Industry Cyber Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics’ Tony Cothron, Lynn Schnurr Eye Continued IC-Industry Cyber Collaboration

    Tony Cothron and Lynn Schnurr of General Dynamics believe that the growing number of cybersecurity threats has driven collaboration between industry and the intelligence community, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Meredith Somers writes that Schnurr, vice president for defense intelligence at the company, told the station that the two sectors have collaborated together on areas such as biometrics and geospatial technology […] More

  • DARPA Solicits Proposals for DDoS Defense Research - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Solicits Proposals for DDoS Defense Research

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking proposals for research on cyber defenses against distributed denial of service as part of the Extreme DDoS Defense or XD3 program. In a notice posted Aug. 14 on FedBizOpps, DARPA said the program aims to focus on technologies that physically or logically disperse cyber assets, disguise their characteristics or behaviors, […] More