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  • Inmarsat Designates Aero-Satcom as Ka-Band Services Reseller; Andy Start Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Designates Aero-Satcom as Ka-Band Services Reseller; Andy Start Comments

    Inmarsat’s global government business unit has designated Aero-Satcom, a joint venture of Eclipse and NSSLGlobal, as a value-added reseller of Ka-band satellite services to government customers. Aero-Satcom will provide aeronautical Global Xpress services to a fleet of head of state aircraft in Europe through an Inmarsat public sector service provider, Aero-Satcom said Tuesday. The company […] More

  • NexGen Communication to Provide Spares, Repair Supplies for Navy Emitter ID System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NexGen Communication to Provide Spares, Repair Supplies for Navy Emitter ID System

    NexGen Communication has received a five-year, $7.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide spares and repair supplies for the U.S. Navy’s AN/SSX-1 Specific Emitter Identification System. The Defense Department said Tuesday NexGen Communication will work to repair, modify, update and manage the configuration of the system to address requirements under the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program. SEWIP is the […] More

  • Unisys Unveils New Security Automation Software Offering; Peter Altabef Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys Unveils New Security Automation Software Offering; Peter Altabef Comments

    Unisys Corp. has launched a new micro-segmentation security automation offering under the company’s Unisys Stealth portfolio to help organizations combat cyber threats through enterprise-wide security deployment. The Stealth(aware) software features a graphical user interface and applications designed to create segments accessible only to authorized users within an organization, Unisys said Tuesday. Unisys designed the tool […] More

  • Northrop Gets Contract for Engineering, Logistics Services to US Navy, Intl Defense Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Gets Contract for Engineering, Logistics Services to US Navy, Intl Defense Clients

    Northrop Grumman has received a one-year, $22.8 million contract to provide engineering and logistics services to the air dominance department within the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Port Hueneme division. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract covers engineering, test and evaluation, computer programming, materials management and specified logistics support to the Aegis combat system and other weapon programs. Northrop will […] More

  • Report: UAS Satcom, Imaging Markets to Hit $19.9B & $3.7B by 2025 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: UAS Satcom, Imaging Markets to Hit $19.9B & $3.7B by 2025

    A new Northern Sky Research report predicts the unmanned aircraft system satellite communications and imaging markets will respectively reach $19.9 billion and $3.7 billion in cumulative revenues over a 10-year period ending 2025. NSR said Monday the defense and intelligence community’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance requirements for operations in hostile areas spur the demand for unmanned airborne […] More

  • iDirect Government Launches New Tactical Hub Offering; John Ratigan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    iDirect Government Launches New Tactical Hub Offering; John Ratigan Comments

    Satellite communications provider iDirect Government has rolled out a new tactical hub service offering for warfighters, first responders, disaster recovery personnel and field operators. iDirectGov said Monday its Series 11000 Tactical Hub is powered by the Evolution software and designed to operate with the Evolution Series remotes. The ruggedized platform also employs new defense line cards that support downstream rate of up […] More

  • Telos to Support DHS Info Security Policy Applications; Ben Taylor Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos to Support DHS Info Security Policy Applications; Ben Taylor Comments

    Telos Corp. has been selected to operate and maintain software applications the Department of Homeland Security procured from the company to implement information security policies and monitor security programs and compliance functions. Telos said Tuesday it will extend support for Xacta Assessment Engine and Xacta Continuum to help DHS manage the agency’s Federal Information Security […] More

  • Raytheon, DARPA Partner to Build Power Grid Cybersecurity Tech; Jason Redi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon, DARPA Partner to Build Power Grid Cybersecurity Tech; Jason Redi Comments

    Raytheon has secured $9 million in contracts to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop technologies that will work to secure the U.S. power grid system from cyber attacks. The company said Monday its BBN Technologies subsidiary will design the technologies to send alerts of an impending attack and detect spoofing attempts on grid data collection and communication systems as part of […] More

  • Purdue University Opens Global Security, Defense Innovation Institute; Mitch Daniels Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Purdue University Opens Global Security, Defense Innovation Institute; Mitch Daniels Comments

    Purdue University has launched a new hub for global security and defense innovation at the university’s Discovery Park during a symposium on global defense issues. Dan DeLaurentis, professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue and a President’s Fellow for defense initiatives, will serve as the interim director of the Institute for Global Security and Defense […] More

  • NOAA Taps McMurdo for Search & Rescue Ground Stations; Mark Cianciolo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Taps McMurdo for Search & Rescue Ground Stations; Mark Cianciolo Comments

    McMurdo has received a potential five-year, $6.67 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide fourth generation search-and-rescue ground stations for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite program. The company said Monday it will build Low Earth Orbit/Medium Earth Orbit local user terminals to help search-and-rescue teams locate distressed individuals in expanded geographic regions such as the […] More

  • PepperBall, Jordan's Special Ops Training Center Partner for Non-Lethal Course Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PepperBall, Jordan’s Special Ops Training Center Partner for Non-Lethal Course Development

    PepperBall, a division of United Tactical Systems, has entered into a partnership agreement with the King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center in Amman, Jordan, to create non-lethal training course for global police, military and security forces. The course will contain a three-day weapons, tactics and armorers’ training program as well as training on PepperBall’s […] More