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  • CGI to Develop Cloud-Based Flood Forecasting System for England's Environment Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI to Develop Cloud-Based Flood Forecasting System for England’s Environment Agency

    CGI has secured a three-year, $6.1 million contract to design and operate a cloud-based system for England’s environment agency to generate and disseminate flood forecasts. The company said Tuesday that EA’s Future Flood Forecasting System will be designed to run on Microsoft‘s Azure Cloud platform and employ rich data analysis and visualization technologies. CGI will base FFFS on the company’s Digital Insight Platform to support data analytics and […] More

  • Textron Releases New Data Integration, Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron Releases New Data Integration, Mgmt Platform

    Textron‘s systems advanced information solutions unit has updated a technology platform that works to integrate and manage data from multiple remote platforms such as sensors and information feeds. The company said Tuesday the iCommand 2.5 is designed to help users obtain a single pane view of previously disparate data and attach critical information to raw data necessary for mission planning activities. […] More

  • NetCentrics to Offer Agencies Cybersecurity Services Under GSA's New Special Item Numbers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetCentrics to Offer Agencies Cybersecurity Services Under GSA’s New Special Item Numbers

    The General Services Administration has included NetCentrics‘ cybersecurity services under four new special item numbers of GSA’s Schedule 70 contract vehicle in an effort to help federal agencies address security challenges in cyberspace. NetCentrics said Monday it is one of 20 vendors eligible to deploy offerings through the existing “highly adaptive” cybersecurity service SINs. HACS SINs were introduced by GSA in September 2016 and cover […] More

  • US Combat Support Agency Orders Norsat-Built Portable Satellite Terminals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Combat Support Agency Orders Norsat-Built Portable Satellite Terminals

    A U.S. combat support agency has awarded Norsat International a $3.3 million order for the company’s GLOBETrekker 2.0 portable satellite terminals. GLOBETrekker is designed with a one-touch interface and LinkControl control interface software that works to facilitate automatic satellite acquisition and X-band and Ku-band connectivity worldwide, Norsat said Monday. The company added its terminal offering allows for […] More

  • Orbit International Receives Navy Electronics Purchase Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbit International Receives Navy Electronics Purchase Order

    Orbit International‘s electronics business group has received a $1.1 million purchase order from the U.S. Navy for unindentified products. The company said Thursday it will deliver the completed units to the military service  in  during second and third quarters of 2017. “This is the second of the two large awards that we were expecting prior to year-end,” […] More

  • Report: Northrop Reschedules Global Hawk Flight Test With UTC-Built Sensor - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop Reschedules Global Hawk Flight Test With UTC-Built Sensor

    Northrop Grumman has pushed back the test flight of its RQ-4 Global Hawk  unmanned surveillance aircraft equipped with a United Technologies Corp.-built multispectral imaging sensor technology to late January, Inside Defense reported Wednesday. Rachel Karas writes testing of the MS-177 sensor-equipped Global Hawk was originally scheduled to occur in late December. The report said Northrop postponed all the company’s test […] More

  • John Chen: BlackBerry-Giuliani Partners Alliance to Offer Cybersecurity Products, Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Chen: BlackBerry-Giuliani Partners Alliance to Offer Cybersecurity Products, Services

    BlackBerry has partnered with Giuliani Partners to offer technology platforms and services that will work to help government and enterprise clients protect data and infrastructure against security breaches. BlackBerry said Thursday its Secure mobile security platform will be the underlying software for Giuliani Partners’ cybersecurity consulting services as part of the partnership. Giuliani Partners seeks to help customers evaluate infrastructure assets, identify potential cybersecurity […] More

  • General Atomics Gets Phase 1 MQ-9 UAV Logistics Support Order Under France FMS Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Gets Phase 1 MQ-9 UAV Logistics Support Order Under France FMS Deal

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business will provide Phase 1 logistics support for MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles to France under a one-year, $24 million delivery order from the U.S. Air Force. The order comes under a foreign military sales contract and work will occur in Poway, California, through Dec. 31, 2017, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force Life Cycle Management […] More

  • Jacobs Secures New Jersey Transit Microgrid Design, Engineering Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Secures New Jersey Transit Microgrid Design, Engineering Support Contract

    Jacobs Engineering Group has secured a contract to deliver design and engineering services to a New Jersey Transit project that aims to establish a microgrid to help power rail system transit infrastructures in the event of power outages. The company said Wednesday it will help design a central, natural gas-fired power plant, connections to the PJM commercial grid and substations and […] More

  • DJI, Seagate Partner to Help Address UAV Data Demand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DJI, Seagate Partner to Help Address UAV Data Demand

    DJI and Seagate have partnered to develop technologies for unmanned aerial vehicle operators to store, download, manage and share large amounts of data from UAV missions. Both companies aim to help address the data requirements of UAV users as drone camera systems gain resolution and flight times increase, Seagate said Wednesday. Michael Perry, director of strategic partnerships at DJI, said the […] More

  • General Dynamics Shipyard to Deliver USS Rafael Peralta to Navy in February - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Shipyard to Deliver USS Rafael Peralta to Navy in February

    The U.S. Navy‘s Board of Inspection and Survey has recommended the General Dynamics-built USS Rafael Peralta guided missile destroyer to join the Navy fleet after the ship completed its acceptance trials. USS Rafael Peralta will be delivered to the Navy in February and will depart from the company’s Bath Iron Works shipyard in the spring to join 34 other Arleigh Burke-class […] More

  • Iron Bow Technologies Opens New Tampa, Fla. Office; Rene LaVigne Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Bow Technologies Opens New Tampa, Fla. Office; Rene LaVigne Comments

    Iron Bow Technologies has opened a new facility in Tampa, Florida, in effort to support the growth of the company’s Service Select offering and provide client services. The company said Wednesday the 24,000-square-foot office is located at Woodland Corporate Center and features office spaces, training facilities and new technology infrastructure. Iron Bow has employed 130 locals for […] More