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  • USAF Undersecretary Matthew Donovan Visits Boeing's KC-46A Tanker Production Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USAF Undersecretary Matthew Donovan Visits Boeing’s KC-46A Tanker Production Facility

    Matthew Donovan, undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force, toured Boeing‘s KC-46A Pegasus production and modification facility in Everett, Washington, on Wednesday. Boeing designed the aircraft to help increase the Air Force tanker fleet’s capacities and operational performance, the military branch said Wednesday. “Air refueling is a no-fail mission,” Donovan said. He added that the company should accelerate […] More

  • KBR to Build, Maintain UK Combat Water Supply System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    KBR to Build, Maintain UK Combat Water Supply System

    KBR has received a potential seven-year, $42 million contract from the U.K. ministry of defense to build a potable water supply system for the British military’s combat missions. The company said Wednesday it will design, manufacture, test and deliver the Combat Water Supply System and CWSS variants to the ministry. Work will also include maintenance, repair and operations […] More

  • Northrop to Engineer, Sustain Navy LCS Mission Modules - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Engineer, Sustain Navy LCS Mission Modules

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a one-year, $46.8 million contract modification to support mission modules of the service branch’s Littoral Combat Ships. Northrop will engineer, sustain and provide technical services for LCS mission modules through March 2019, the Defense Department said Wednesday. DoD noted the modification exercises options under a previously awarded contract. The Naval […] More

  • ManTech Attains CMMI Level 4 Rating; Bonnie Cook Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Attains CMMI Level 4 Rating; Bonnie Cook Comments

    ManTech has received Capability Maturity Model Integration Level 4 for Development appraisal from a CMMI Institute partner organization for the company’s quantitative project management efforts. Cyber Solutions assessed ManTech’s work to analyze statistical data and predict key performance goals for two U.S. military projects, ManTech said Wednesday. The evaluation involved the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise Accelerator and Defense Medical information […] More

  • NASA Extends Teledyne's ISS Ground Operations Center Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Extends Teledyne’s ISS Ground Operations Center Support Contract

    A Teledyne Technologies subsidiary has received a contract extension to provide ground operations support for the International Space Station through NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center and Johnson Space Center. The company said Tuesday Teledyne Brown Engineering will continue to help the agency prepare missions, train crew and flight controllers crew and manage spaceflight operations requirements under the extended Mission Operations […] More

  • DISA OKs Security Technical Implementation Guide for ForeScout’s Device Discovery Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA OKs Security Technical Implementation Guide for ForeScout’s Device Discovery Tech

    ForeScout Technologies has received Security Technical Implementation Guide validation from the Defense Information Systems Agency for a technology product designed to help government customers discover, manage and classify multiple devices and applications. The STIG validation for CounterACT follows an agreement signed between ForeScout and the Defense Department through Enterprise Software Initiative program, the company said Monday. DoD’s EIS program helps defense organizations […] More

  • Leonardo Tests Naval Gun System Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Tests Naval Gun System Security

    Leonardo has tested the resilience of its naval gun weapon system to cyber attacks as part of an extensive vulnerability assessment effort. The company said Tuesday it evaluated the OTO 76/62 Super Rapid gun to identify potential system weaknesses and implement measures to address identified cybersecurity risks. During the evaluation, Leonardo explored attack scenarios that involved voluntary […] More

  • Leidos Awarded NASA Glenn Research Center Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Awarded NASA Glenn Research Center Support IDIQ

    Leidos has received a potential five-year, $35.3 million contract to provide operational safety, occupational health, mission assurance services at NASA‘s Glenn Research Center. The company will also help manage the center’s safety and mission assurance directorate manage aeronautics and space flight systems and ground support equipment programs. NASA said Wednesday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains a 45-day […] More

  • NICE, AGENT511 to Integrate Public Safety Multimedia Recording, Messaging Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NICE, AGENT511 to Integrate Public Safety Multimedia Recording, Messaging Platforms

    NICE has partnered with AGENT511 to integrate a text-to-911 recording technology with a multimedia messaging platform to help customers manage public safety communications. The partnership seeks to combine NICE Inform and AGENT511’s TEXTBLUE for public safety answering points to record text messages from the latter platform and produce an incident report by gathering data from 911 calls, radio transmissions, operator screens, […] More

  • Viasat Debuts Satcom System for Government, Military Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viasat Debuts Satcom System for Government, Military Operations

    Viasat introduced its satellite communications system and ground networking technologies for military and government applications at the 2018 Satellite Show that kicked off Monday in Washington, D.C. The company said Monday it showcased the ViaSat-2 platform to U.S. military representatives and the technology’s cloud-based government applications earlier this month. The speed of broadband connection with ViaSat-2 exceeded 100 […] More

  • Leonardo Showcases Naval Gun Mount at Doha Maritime Exhibition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Showcases Naval Gun Mount at Doha Maritime Exhibition

    Leonardo has unveiled a naval gun mount system designed to integrate with small and fast vessels built for patrol operations. The company said Monday it showcased the OTO Marlin 40 system for the first time at the ongoing Doha International Maritime Defense Exhibition and Conference in Qatar. Marlin 40 is equipped with a 4,630-pound remotely controlled gun […] More

  • Rick Aviation to Provide Propeller Aircraft for DON Airborne Threat Simulation Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Aviation to Provide Propeller Aircraft for DON Airborne Threat Simulation Efforts

    Rick Aviation has won a potential five-year, $27.5 million contract to provide contractor owned and operated propeller aircraft to support airborne threat simulation activities of Department of the Navy fleet customers. The Defense Department said Monday Rick Aviation will support DON’s Contracted Air Services program that aims to train shipboard and aircraft squadron weapon systems operators and aircrew. The […] More