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  • Mike Petters: HII Booked Q1 2018 Orders for Approximately 25 Warships - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Petters: HII Booked Q1 2018 Orders for Approximately 25 Warships

    Mike Petters, president and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has said the company had booked contracts for approximately 25 combat ships at the end of the first quarter of fiscal 2018, the National Interest reported Saturday. “By the end of 2020, if all goes as planned, we will see a significant amount of contracting activity […] More

  • Report: Northrop's H03 Firebird Intell Aircraft Flies at California-Based Space Port - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop’s H03 Firebird Intell Aircraft Flies at California-Based Space Port

    The latest version of the Firebird optionally-manned aircraft built by Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites subsidiary has been seen flying at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, the Drive reported Saturday. Northrop’s H03 Firebird intelligence gathering aircraft, which has the civil registration code N326JG, has been photographed by photojournalist David Wirth and features a large […] More

  • Raytheon to Help Build NY Airspace Corridor for Drone Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Help Build NY Airspace Corridor for Drone Test

    Raytheon has been chosen to help the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research Alliance design, develop and support an airspace corridor in New York state to facilitate testing of unmanned aircraft systems. The company said Thursday the new airspace corridor will serve as a venue for companies to test drones and platforms designed for air traffic management […] More

  • Accenture, SAP to Build Digital Platform for Defense Agencies; Drew Soltis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Accenture, SAP to Build Digital Platform for Defense Agencies; Drew Soltis Comments

    Accenture and SAP have agreed to team up to co-develop a digital platform designed to help defense agencies advance their digital transformation initiatives. The companies will develop the digital defense platform based on SAP’s S/4HANA enterprise resource planning offering built on SAP HANA in-memory platform, Accenture said Thursday. “What our co-development with SAP does is […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Aims to Fill Capability Gaps Through ‘Transformational’ M&As - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Aims to Fill Capability Gaps Through ‘Transformational’ M&As

    CACI International CEO Ken Asbury has said the company’s effort to strike a “transformational transaction” is not based on scale but on the need to address gaps in capabilities across the 12 markets it serves, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. “We are an organization that is not consumed by the notion of scale,” Asbury told […] More

  • Virtustream Launches SaaS Option for Risk Mgmt Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Virtustream Launches SaaS Option for Risk Mgmt Software

    Dell Technologies’ Virtustream business has added a software-as-a-service option to a platform that works to provide compliance monitoring and risk management support to government agencies and commercial users. The addition of the SaaS option to Virtustream Viewtrust seeks to provide clients with insights into their compliance and risk posture in both cloud and physical environments, Virtustream said Tuesday. Virtustream […] More

  • Iron Mountain Launches Data Protection, Recovery Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Launches Data Protection, Recovery Platform

    Iron Mountain has unveiled a data management platform that works to protect and recover critical information in the event of a cyber attack. The company said Wednesday its Iron Cloud Critical Protection and Recovery offering works to help organizations mitigate damage related to business disruption caused by cyber incidents through isolation of critical digital information […] More

  • SIPRI Report: Global Military Expenditure Reached $1.7T in 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SIPRI Report: Global Military Expenditure Reached $1.7T in 2017

    A new Stockholm International Peace Research Institute report says military spending worldwide hit a total of $1.7 trillion in 2017, reflecting a 1.1 percent increase from 2016. SIPRI said Wednesday U.S. military spending remained steady for two years in a row at $610 billion and the country remained the world’s largest defense spender followed by China […] More

  • 4th Lockheed-Made SBIRS GEO Satellite Transmits Initial Images Through ‘First Light’ Milestone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4th Lockheed-Made SBIRS GEO Satellite Transmits Initial Images Through ‘First Light’ Milestone

    The fourth missile warning satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the U.S. Air Force sent its initial images back to Earth as part of the “first light” milestone. Lockheed said Wednesday the Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight-4 satellite switched on its sensors in February during the vehicle checkout phase as part of the milestone. “With the […] More

  • NTT Group, Dell Technologies to Unveil Smart City Proof of Concept in Las Vegas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Group, Dell Technologies to Unveil Smart City Proof of Concept in Las Vegas

    NTT Group and Dell Technologies have teamed up to launch a smart cities program in Las Vegas in support of the city’s digital transformation effort. The companies will field a smart city platform that will integrate NTT’s Cognitive Foundation architecture with Dell EMC’s internet-of-things gateways and hyperconverged infrastructure and VMware’s vCloud network functions virtualization function, […] More