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  • Lockheed Team Delivers Infrared Camera System to NASA; Jeff Vanden Beukel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Team Delivers Infrared Camera System to NASA; Jeff Vanden Beukel Comments

    Lockheed Martin and the University of Arizona have delivered an infrared camera to NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center, where that technology will be installed on the James Webb Space Telescope. The near infrared camera joins three other instruments at the Goddard center and that camera is intended to serve as JWST’s central imaging system, Lockheed said Monday. […] More

  • John Harris II: Defense Firms Must Bolster Transatlantic Industrial Cooperation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    John Harris II: Defense Firms Must Bolster Transatlantic Industrial Cooperation

    John Harris II, Raytheon International CEO, has asked industry and government leaders to build up defense technologies through transatlantic industrial cooperation. Harris addressed his statement to participants of a panel discussion on the future of European defense during the 50th Munich Security Conference, Raytheon said Friday. “We need to pursue initiatives that deliver greater cost efficiencies in […] More

  • HP Examines Enterprise Security Risks, Threat Landscape; Jacob West Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Examines Enterprise Security Risks, Threat Landscape; Jacob West Comments

    Hewlett-Packard has released the results of a research report that sought to identify enterprise security risks and analyze the threat landscape. HP Security Research’s cyber risk report cited mobile device usage, insecure software and Java applications as among the main contributors to the growing attacks in 2013, HP said Monday. “Adversaries today are more adept than ever […] More

  • DLF to Analyze Customer Behavior With IBM Mobile App; Ramesh Gopinath Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLF to Analyze Customer Behavior With IBM Mobile App; Ramesh Gopinath Comments

    IBM has partnered with India-based real estate company DLF to analyze the shopping behavior of customers at DLF’s malls through an IBM mobile phone application, Business Standard reported Monday. The app will be designed to gather data from shoppers’ movements inside the DLF Promenade mall in New Delhi City and convert that information into insights for […] More

  • Report: Lockheed Supplier Uses Robotics to Build F-35 Tail - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed Supplier Uses Robotics to Build F-35 Tail

    A Lockheed Martin partner has been applying robotics in manufacturing work on components for the F-35 fighter jet, Popular Science reported Thursday. Kelsey Atherton writes Magellan Aerospace, a Toronto-based supplier for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, uses a robotic arm to build tails for the aircraft. The mechanical arm features a milling tool that works […] More

  • Raytheon to Build Army Focal Plane Array Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Build Army Focal Plane Array Tech

    Raytheon’s vision systems business unit will develop infrared sensor technologies for the U.S. Army’s night vision and electronic sensors directorate, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Friday. John Keller writes scientists at Raytheon will work to research and build III-V infrared focal plane array systems under a two-year contract with the Army Contracting Command‘s Aberdeen Proving […] More

  • Elbit Systems Highlights 2013 UAS Orders; Elad Aharonson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elbit Systems Highlights 2013 UAS Orders; Elad Aharonson Comments

    Elbit Systems Ltd. is highlighting its sales within the unmanned aerial systems sector in 2013, UPI reported Thursday. The Israel-based defense company built one Hermes 900 system every week and completed deliveries to customers in Israel and worldwide last year, according to the report. Elad Aharonson, general manager of Elbit System’s UAS division, told the […] More

  • CH2M HILL Restructures Market Focus; Jacqueline Hinman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CH2M HILL Restructures Market Focus; Jacqueline Hinman Comments

    CH2M HILL has moved to realign its business to focus on five markets and six regions as part of a strategy to work with customers on fulfilling infrastructure requirements. The company will transition its business to energy, environment and nuclear; facilities and urban environments; transportation; and water market services, CH2M HILL said Thursday. Mike McKelvy […] More

  • Lockheed, Army Demo Autonomous Convoy; David Simon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Army Demo Autonomous Convoy; David Simon Comments

    Lockheed Martin Corp. and the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center have tested autonomous convoys with various vehicles in urban settings. Unmanned vehicles navigated road intersections, counterflows, stalled and moving vehicles, pedestrian lanes and traffic circles in urban and rural areas as part of the Army and Marine Corps’ Autonomous Mobility Appliqué System […] More

  • Edward Morche of Level 3 Communications Forecasts 2014 Gov't Tech Trends - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Edward Morche of Level 3 Communications Forecasts 2014 Gov’t Tech Trends

    Level 3 Communications has predicted the technology trends the federal government will likely face in 2014 amid growing requirements for data and communications information management. Government technology leaders will need to take into consideration the demands for security, collaboration, mobility and business continuity when making decisions, Level 3 said Thursday in a blog post. Edward Morche, senior […] More