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  • Bloomberg: Lockheed Looks to Build F-16 Manufacturing Base in India - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bloomberg: Lockheed Looks to Build F-16 Manufacturing Base in India

    Lockheed Martin Corp. is in talks with India to transfer the manufacturing base for the F-16 fighter jet to the country, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Nc Bipindra and Iain Marlow write the deal could authorize India along with the U.S. to approve which countries may buy an F-16 and related components. “Some components may be produced only […] More

  • MIL to Provide Service Desk Support for Library of Congress Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MIL to Provide Service Desk Support for Library of Congress Users

    MIL Corp. has received a contract from the Congressional Research Service to provide service desk support for more than 800 Library of Congress users. Under the contract, MIL’s information technology team will work to operate call centers, repair hardware, configure operating systems and application images, set up audio and video conference room and manage assets, the company said Monday. Work […] More

  • Mordor: Global Critical Infrastructure Protection Market to Hit $131.33B by 2020 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mordor: Global Critical Infrastructure Protection Market to Hit $131.33B by 2020

    A new Mordor Intelligence report has projected the global critical infrastructure protection market to reach $131.33 billion by 2020 from $87.34 billion in 2015 at a compound annual growth rate of 8.50 percent. The report forecasts North America will dominate the market as regulatory standards and high levels of market penetration spurred the growth of CIP services […] More

  • Textron to Provide Army Electronic Attack Universal Test Sets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Textron to Provide Army Electronic Attack Universal Test Sets

    Textron Systems has received a five-year, $9.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to produce hardware and provide sustainment services for the military branch’s product director electronic attack universal test sets. The Defense Department said Monday the Army will obligate funds and provide the performance location upon award of each task order and expects contract work to complete on […] More

  • Carahsoft’s Jenna Hafey: 'Data-Centric Security' Approach Can Help Public Sector Protect Sensitive Content - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s Jenna Hafey: ‘Data-Centric Security’ Approach Can Help Public Sector Protect Sensitive Content

    Jenna Hafey, sales manager of the Adobe team at Carahsoft, wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that she believes public sector organizations should incorporate security into their content creation, collaboration and consumption processes. “Data-centric security should be the default approach in the public sector, especially to protect personally identifiable or classified data that will inevitably be […] More

  • Irving Burton Associates Receives Marketing Strategy Contract from US Army; Julie Olson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Irving Burton Associates Receives Marketing Strategy Contract from US Army; Julie Olson Comments

    The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity has selected Irving Burton Associates to develop and perform marketing strategies to assist in the migration of a skin treatment product to a commercial partner. IBA will work to design brand and message elements, develop marketing products and implement communication strategy to support the Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Topical Cream’s transition, […] More

  • Marine Corps Commandant Robert Neller Tours Huntington Ingalls' Mississippi Shipyard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps Commandant Robert Neller Tours Huntington Ingalls’ Mississippi Shipyard

    Gen. Robert Neller, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, has visited a shipyard run by Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Ingalls executives briefed Neller on the four classes of military ships the division is currently building for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, HII said Wednesday. Neller also toured the amphibious assault ship Tripoli (LHA 7) and […] More

  • Saab to Refresh Australian Army’s Air Defense Weapon, Radar Systems; Dean Rosenfield Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Refresh Australian Army’s Air Defense Weapon, Radar Systems; Dean Rosenfield Comments

    Saab has received a potential $25 million contract to update the Australian army’s ground-based air defense weapon and radar platforms with new modulation, coding and cryptographic techniques. The company said Monday it will incorporate Mode 5 functionality into the identification friend or foe technology of the RBS 70 air defense weapon and Giraffe AMB radar systems under the […] More

  • Dell-Backed Survey Finds 70% of Agencies Remain Dependent on Legacy IT Systems; Steve Harris Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell-Backed Survey Finds 70% of Agencies Remain Dependent on Legacy IT Systems; Steve Harris Comments

    A study sponsored by Dell and conducted by PSB has shown that 70 percent of 100 federal information technology and business decision makers surveyed said their agencies run IT applications on outdated computer systems. The State of IT Trends 2016 study also found that more than 50 percent of respondents admitted to the fact that their agency operates expired computer operating […] More

  • McMurdo Receives Coast Guard Personal Locator Beacons Order; Mark Cianciolo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    McMurdo Receives Coast Guard Personal Locator Beacons Order; Mark Cianciolo Comments

    McMurdo Inc. has received a potential five-year, $3 million contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to provide 16,000 FastFind 220 personal locator beacons for crews to use during emergencies. FastFind 220 works to notify emergency personnel during a land, air or water emergency through the 406-megahertz frequency to send a distress signal that contains beacon identification information […] More

  • Lockheed to Equip US, Japan, South Korea Destroyers with New Aegis Baseline; Jim Sheridan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Equip US, Japan, South Korea Destroyers with New Aegis Baseline; Jim Sheridan Comments

    Lockheed Martin will integrate a new Aegis baseline system onto the destroyers ships operated by the U.S. Navy, Japan and South Korea under a $490 million contract awarded on Friday. The company said Monday it will equip the ships with the latest version of the combat system called Aegis Baseline 9 as well as the SPY-1 radar technology. “We will […] More

  • Army Looks for Wireless Network Support Provider - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Looks for Wireless Network Support Provider

    The U.S. Army has begun to look for potential vendors that could help administer the military service’s wireless network system. A presolicitation notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps stated the Army Contracting Command-New Jersey-Warfighter Support seeks an industry partner to provide personnel, equipment and knowledge for the continuous operation of the network. The Army plans to award a small business set-aside contract […] More