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  • Booz Allen's Steve Senterfit: Energy Production 'To Get More Complex' With Growing Demand, Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Steve Senterfit: Energy Production ‘To Get More Complex’ With Growing Demand, Competition

    Steve Senterfit, vice president of commercial energy sector at Booz Allen Hamilton, believes energy production would become “more complex” amid increasing demand, competition and risks. Senterfit said Wednesday companies should consolidate strategies “to capitalize on new techniques, better insights and more innovative ways of approaching their business, suppliers, and employees.” He called on energy firms to […] More

  • Dell Unveils Results of Global Tech Adoption Survey; Karen Quintos Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell Unveils Results of Global Tech Adoption Survey; Karen Quintos Comments

    Dell has released the findings of a survey that evaluates how organizations adopt security, cloud, mobility and big data technologies. The survey indicates that 44 percent of information technology leaders consider security a challenge for growing mobile technologies, 52 percent for cloud computing and 35 percent for big data, Dell said Tuesday. “We know that security, cloud, mobility and […] More

  • Raytheon Test Flies DARPA's Close Air Support System; Tom Bussing Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Test Flies DARPA’s Close Air Support System; Tom Bussing Comments

    Raytheon has been awarded an 18-month, $25.5 million contract to demonstrate Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s close-air support system in flight. The company has kicked off flight testing for DARPA’s Persistent Close Air Support program on an A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft and connectivity tests with Joint Terminal Attack Controllers, Raytheon said Wednesday. “PCAS will help reduce close air support response times from as […] More

  • Northrop Taps CPI Wing Panel Kits for Hawkeye, Greyhound Aircraft; Bart LaGrone Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Taps CPI Wing Panel Kits for Hawkeye, Greyhound Aircraft; Bart LaGrone Comments

    Northrop Grumman has ordered $86.1 million in outer wing panel kits from CPI Aerostructures for Northrop-built Hawkeye and Greyhound aircraft. Northrop will use the kits to build wings for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and the C-2A Greyhound planes under a contract the company holds with the U.S. Navy, CPI said Monday. Twenty-five E-2D Hawkeyes are due to the Navy by […] More

  • IDC: Public IT Cloud Spending to Hit $127B in 2018 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IDC: Public IT Cloud Spending to Hit $127B in 2018

    A new forecast from International Data Corp. predicts public information technology cloud services spending will grow to more than $127 billion in 2018 from the $56.6 billion projected for 2014. That IT cloud spending growth represents more than 50 percent of software, server and storage spending worldwide in 2018, IDC said Monday. “Over the next four to five years, IDC expects the […] More

  • Northrop Tapped to Supply Attitude, Heading Reference System for Airbus Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Tapped to Supply Attitude, Heading Reference System for Airbus Helicopters

    Northrop Grumman will build attitude and heading reference systems for Airbus helicopter platforms. Northrop Grumman LITEF, a Northrop subsidiary in Germany, will work to certify and deliver its new LCR-350 reference tool to Airbus Helicopters, Northrop said Oct. 21. The company will begin the production phase in 2016. According to Eckehardt Keip, managing director of Northrop Grumman LITEF, the LCR-350 solution […] More

  • Strategic Defense Intelligence: Global Military Radar Market to Experience 1% 10-Year CAGR - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Strategic Defense Intelligence: Global Military Radar Market to Experience 1% 10-Year CAGR

    New research from Strategic Defense Intelligence has projected a 1.05 percent year-over-year growth for the global military radar market through 2024. The new report released Monday contains analysis of the market’s industry values, its challenges and major players. It identified technological innovation, particularly in radio frequency and radar, and an increased need for threat mitigation as factors […] More

  • KBR to Repair, Maintain US Navy Base in Africa; Stuart Bradie Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR to Repair, Maintain US Navy Base in Africa; Stuart Bradie Comments

    KBR Inc. has won a five-year, $50 million contract to renovate, repair and maintain the U.S. Navy‘s base in Africa. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity job order to KBR to support the Defense Department‘s activities in Djibouti, Africa, KBR said Friday. “KBR’s prior success working in Djibouti has led to the award of this contract,” said Stuart […] More

  • Research and Markets: UAV Market Worth $10.6B in 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Research and Markets: UAV Market Worth $10.6B in 2020

    Research and Markets has released a new report that projects the unmanned aerial vehicle market to reach $10.57 billion in value by 2020. The growth represents a 7.73 percent from the $6.76 billion value recorded in 2014, Research and Markets said Friday. North America represented 69 percent of the global UAV market in 2014 and production and demand of this system […] More

  • Harris to Build Wideband Tactical Radios for Central Asian Client; Brendan O'Connell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Build Wideband Tactical Radios for Central Asian Client; Brendan O’Connell Comments

    Harris Corp. has won an $18 million contract to supply Falcon III wideband tactical radios to a nation client in Central Asia. The customer plans to deploy the RF-7800H high-frequency manpack and the RF-7850M multiband handheld radios to its frontline forces through the radio systems, Harris said Thursday. “Harris radios deliver highly reliable and secure communications for critical missions on the battlefield,” said […] More

  • Northrop's Jeffrey Palombo Showcases Open-Architecture Avionics System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop’s Jeffrey Palombo Showcases Open-Architecture Avionics System

    Northrop Grumman has exhibited an integrated avionics system built to help develop configurable aircraft in the future. The company showcased its newest avionics equipment and highlighted other C4ISR initiatives during a National Press Club briefing, Northrop said Wednesday. Jeffrey Palombo, vice president and general manager of Northrop’s land and self protection systems division, said airplanes need open architecture design of sensors, surveillance equipment […] More

  • Boeing, Danish Firms Ink A&D Market Partnership; Debbie Rub Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Danish Firms Ink A&D Market Partnership; Debbie Rub Comments

    Boeing has partnered with six Danish companies to pursue business opportunities in the defense and aerospace industries. Boeing inked agreements with Danish Aerotech, Falck Schmidt Defence Systems, IFAD, Multicut, Systematic and Terma in connection with Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet offering to Denmark, Boeing said Thursday. “The areas of cooperation identified in these agreements draw upon the specialized capabilities of Danish industry to […] More