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  • DynCorp, Coulson Group Form Global Aerial Firefighting Team; Jim Myles, Wayne Coulson Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DynCorp, Coulson Group Form Global Aerial Firefighting Team; Jim Myles, Wayne Coulson Comment

    DynCorp International and British Columbia, Canada-based The Coulson Group have forged a strategic partnership to jointly offer aerial firefighting services worldwide. The aerial firefighting team will provide Type One Air Tanker and helicopter services and operations to global clients, DynCorp said Thursday. Jim Myles, senior vice president of DI’s DynAviation business group, said DynCorp intends […] More

  • Autodesk to Help Qatar Build Railway Network; Callan Carpenter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Autodesk to Help Qatar Build Railway Network; Callan Carpenter Comments

    Autodesk has been awarded a contract to provide building information modeling services for Qatar Rail’s work to construct an integrated railway network in the Middle Eastern country. The company will advise Qatar Rail on implementing BIM technologies and practices and help to train Qatar Rail’s staff for the railway project over the next three years, Autodesk […] More

  • QinetiQ to Build Space Water Treatment Prototype; Sanjay Razdan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QinetiQ to Build Space Water Treatment Prototype; Sanjay Razdan Comments

    QinetiQ’s space division has won a $1.5 million contract from the European Space Agency to develop a prototype unit for space water treatment. The prototype will be built to pioneer a system for recycling urine and waste water for future space missions, QinetiQ said March 10. Sanjay Razdan, managing director of new technologies at QinetiQ […] More

  • IBM, New York Forge Genomic Medicine Research Partnership; John Kelly III Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, New York Forge Genomic Medicine Research Partnership; John Kelly III Comments

    IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the New York Genome Center have partnered to evaluate the Watson supercomputer’s cognitive system for a genomic research project intended to help clinicians develop treatment methods for cancer patients. NYGC and its medical partners will develop a personalized care for patients with glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, by using IBM’s Watson […] More

  • Eid Passport to Help Navy Manage Site Visitor Credentials; Steve Larson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eid Passport to Help Navy Manage Site Visitor Credentials; Steve Larson Comments

    Eid Passport has been selected to continue its identity management work for the U.S. Navy’s access control system. The company’s technology will be integrated into the Navy Commercial Access Control System for verifying the identity of contractors entering the Navy’s facilities, Eid Passport said Wednesday. Steve Larson, Eid Passport chairman and CEO, said the company […] More

  • ViON, Virtustream Form Government Cloud Services Partnership; Tom Frana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON, Virtustream Form Government Cloud Services Partnership; Tom Frana Comments

    ViON Corp. and Virtustream have teamed up to jointly offer enterprise cloud services to government clients. The companies will also provide application sizing and migration technologies for customers that want to transition applications into a cloud-based information technology system, Virtustream said Wednesday. Tom Frana, ViON president and CEO, said the company intends for the partnership […] More

  • Exelis Tests Air Force GPS III Transmitter Assemblies; Mark Pisani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Exelis Tests Air Force GPS III Transmitter Assemblies; Mark Pisani Comments

    Exelis has demonstrated six transmitter assemblies that are built to function as payload components for the U.S. Air Force’s first set of GPS satellites. The transmitters were tested in a simulated space environment for random vibration, pyroshock and thermal vacuum to qualify for the GPS III’s mission requirements, Exelis said Tuesday. McLean, Va.-based Exelis built the […] More

  • L-3 Tech Built to Give Field Soldiers Internet Connectivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L-3 Tech Built to Give Field Soldiers Internet Connectivity

    L-3 Communications is working to extend mobile communications to frontline soldiers under a $15.5 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Sunday. John Keller writes the U.S. Army and Marine Corps warfighters will connect to a millimeter-wave communications backbone under the DARPA Mobile Hotspots program. The company will work to […] More

  • Robert Smith: Lockheed to Continue Reconnaissance Aircraft Sustainment Work for S. Korea - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Smith: Lockheed to Continue Reconnaissance Aircraft Sustainment Work for S. Korea

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a nearly $9 million foreign military sales contract with the U.S. Air Force to help maintain South Korea’s reconnaissance aircraft system. Lockheed will sustain the Peace Krypton system’s spare and repair components, supply test tools for South Korea’s aircraft, fixed and mobile ground stations and upgrade system software, the company said […] More

  • Sam Gordy: Leidos Backs Council on Cybersecurity’s Security Controls Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sam Gordy: Leidos Backs Council on Cybersecurity’s Security Controls Updates

    The Council on Cybersecurity, which includes Leidos, has updated its security control framework intended to help security practitioners mitigate risks within their networks. The 20 critical security controls were made to serve as guidelines for organizations to build up their security posture, Leidos said Monday. Sam Gordy, Leidos ‘integrated systems group president, said the company […] More

  • Pentek Unveils Aerospace, Defense Data Recorder Suite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentek Unveils Aerospace, Defense Data Recorder Suite

    Pentek has launched a new suite of data recorder products for aerospace and defense customers to perform field operations in harsh environments, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes the Talon RTX Rackmount data storage system is built to record up to 30 terabytes of military data at 5 gigabytes per second. The data […] More