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  • BAE Wins Potential $69M Navy C5ISR Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Wins Potential $69M Navy C5ISR Support IDIQ

    BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services business has won a potential five-year, $68.9 million contract to provide support services for the U.S. Navy’s command, control, communications, computers, combat, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division received two offers for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive acquisition process, the Defense Department said Tuesday. […] More

  • Nicholas Tomlin Joins Apprio as Information Security VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nicholas Tomlin Joins Apprio as Information Security VP

    Nicholas Tomlin, former senior manager at General Dynamics‘ information technology business and a more than two-decade industry veteran, has joined technology firm Apprio as vice president of information security. Apprio said Monday Tomlin will lead the Washington, D.C.-based company’s work with government customers in the areas of enterprise information assurance, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, security risk assessment, continuous monitoring and […] More

  • Unisys' Mark Forman: Employee Skills Can Help Drive Government IT Transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ Mark Forman: Employee Skills Can Help Drive Government IT Transformation

    Mark Forman, global public sector head at Unisys, has said government agencies should hone employees’ information technology skills to carry out IT modernization efforts. He wrote in a Nextgov opinion piece published Monday that IT professionals can serve as potential agents of change as agencies increasingly move toward “server-less” and “cloud native” computing systems. Instead of […] More

  • EY Plans $1B Tech Investment for Innovation Push; Mark Weinberger Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EY Plans $1B Tech Investment for Innovation Push; Mark Weinberger Comments

    Global professional services company EY has announced plans to spend $1 billion to develop cloud-based platforms and managed service offerings intended for both the public and private sectors. EY said Sunday the two-year investment effort will support the creation of technology products, client services, innovation programs and the company’s ecosystem across the software, audit, cyber, digital tax, financial and […] More

  • Northrop Unveils New Aerospace Tech Manufacturing Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Unveils New Aerospace Tech Manufacturing Center

    Northrop Grumman has opened a facility in Ventura County, Calif., for the company’s Astro Aerospace business to produce satellite structures and other space-based hardware. The unit will use the 140,000-square-foot center located in Oxnard to build deployable technology such as boom and mast subsystems, mesh reflectors, solar arrays, antennas and planar systems, Northrop said Friday. Rep. […] More

  • Tim Creighton Promoted to VATC VP Post - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tim Creighton Promoted to VATC VP Post

    Tim Creighton, formerly a program manager at Visual Awareness and Technologies Consulting and a 28-year U.S. Army veteran, has been promoted to vice president of operations at the military training contractor. VATC said Thursday Creighton will oversee operational activities and corporate functions as well as help maintain the company’s team functionality, customer service and growth efforts. […] More

  • AT&T, RapidDeploy Partner on Cloud-Based Emergency Response Comms Offering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T, RapidDeploy Partner on Cloud-Based Emergency Response Comms Offering

    AT&T and RapidDeploy have partnered to offer a cloud-based technology platform for  public-safety answering points obtain information in real time in the event of a critical situation. The partnership seeks to connect PSAPs to RapidDeploy’s computer-aided dispatch platform through a virtual private network in an effort to help dispatchers receive data from multiple connected devices […] More

  • Raytheon Opens Radar Development Hub in Massachusetts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Opens Radar Development Hub in Massachusetts

    Raytheon has invested $72 million to establish a facility in Andover, Mass., for the company’s radar development, integration and testing efforts. The 30,000-square-foot facility features two near-field radar test ranges, a 1.5-megawatt substation, a “dual robotic” system for array assembly and automated guided vehicles to facilitate movement of materials, Raytheon said Monday. The company intends to work on the U.S. […] More

  • AT&T's Mike Leff: US Military Needs ‘Robust’ IoT Network - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT&T’s Mike Leff: US Military Needs ‘Robust’ IoT Network

    U.S. military leaders have said that service branches need a modernized information technology network that can help troops collect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data from internet-of-things platforms, C4ISRNET reported Saturday. Mike Leff, vice president for global defense at AT&T‘s public sector business, said military personnel need a “robust” network in order to secure and connect to ISR […] More

  • Jon Rambeau: Lockheed Expands Cyber Workforce, Product Security Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jon Rambeau: Lockheed Expands Cyber Workforce, Product Security Effort

    Jon Rambeau, vice president and general manager for Lockheed Martin‘s C6ISR line of business, has said the company has increased the number of its cybersecurity employees within the Orlando, Fla., area by 400 percent over the past five years, the Orlando Business Journal reported Friday. He told the publication in an interview the defense contractor aims to […] More

  • DOE Requests Info on Offshore Wind Energy Test Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE Requests Info on Offshore Wind Energy Test Systems

    The Energy Department seeks input from industry and the general public on how to build testing platforms that can support national-level offshore wind energy research and development activities. DOE wants to know about U.S.-based facilities that research and develop wind power generation systems, as well as modernization requirements of such facilities through a request for information notice […] More

  • Northrop, RapidSOS to Integrate Emergency Tech Platforms for First Responders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop, RapidSOS to Integrate Emergency Tech Platforms for First Responders

    Northrop Grumman and RapidSOS have partnered to integrate the companies’ emergency technology platforms in an effort to help first responders determine the location of distressed callers who use smartphones and other connected devices. The partnership seeks to combine RapidSOS’ Next-Generation 911 Clearinghouse system with Northrop’s suite of computer-aided dispatch products that include CommandPoint CAD, Northrop said Thursday. NG911 Clearinghouse offers public-safety […] More