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  • Patriot Group International to Assist Northcom With Aerial ISR Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Patriot Group International to Assist Northcom With Aerial ISR Platforms

    Patriot Group International has secured potential five-year, $26.5 million contract to support intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aerial detection and monitoring operations of the U.S. Northern Command. The company said Tuesday it will provide manned ISR aircraft platforms to Northcom as well as perform flight operations, maintenance, contractor logistics support and intelligence analysis at various domestic and international locations. “Since 2009, PGI […] More

  • Summit Consulting to Provide Financial Mgmt Services to Treasury Dept - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Summit Consulting to Provide Financial Mgmt Services to Treasury Dept

    Summit Consulting has received a contract of an undisclosed value to provide financial management services to a federal credit program run by the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. The analytics advisory firm said Thursday it will collaborate with CoMetrics and Bryant Miller Olive to conduct portfolio monitoring and credit risk management activities for the CDFI Fund’s Bond Guarantee Program. Summit […] More

  • Vormetric Launches Thales Orchestration Tool to Manage Encryption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vormetric Launches Thales Orchestration Tool to Manage Encryption

    Thales‘ Vormetric company has unveiled a tool that works to provide security orchestration for the Vormetric Data Security Platform of products with encryption across data centers and cloud environments. Vormetric said Thursday the Thales Orchestrator is comprised of a patented system that helps deploy encryption and rotate encryption keys without taking applications offline as well as a cloud-based service to manage Salesforce Platform Encryption key […] More

  • Symantec: Cybercriminals Use Consumer IoT Devices to Launch Attacks Against Companies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Symantec: Cybercriminals Use Consumer IoT Devices to Launch Attacks Against Companies

    Symantec has published new research that indicates cybercriminals work to hijack home networks and consumer Internet of Things devices to launch distributed denial of service attacks against large companies. The company said Thursday its security response team has found that cybercriminals gain cheap bandwidth through a web of consumer devices to spread malware and create zombie networks or botnets without the knowledge […] More

  • MediaValet to Help Store US Naval Institute's Archive for Digitization Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MediaValet to Help Store US Naval Institute’s Archive for Digitization Project

    MediaValet has received a contract to help store, secure and manage the U.S. Naval Institute’s library of historic assets as part of the nonprofit professional military association’s long-term digitization project. The cloud software maker and service provider said Thursday the USNI team wants a digital management system that will consolidate the non-profit military association’s historical assets, educational material and marketing collateral into […] More

  • Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bell Helicopter Unveils UAS Platform for Maritime Environments

    Bell Helicopter, a subsidiary of Textron, has introduced a shipborne unmanned aerial system designed to combine helicopters’ vertical lift function with the speed and range of fixed-wing aircraft. Textron said Thursday it expects production of the Bell V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor UAS to  begin in 2023 to support operations in maritime environments and locations without runways. Bell developed the UAS platform to help military customers […] More

  • Sikorsky to Open New S-92 Helicopter Forward Stocking Location in Scotland - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky to Open New S-92 Helicopter Forward Stocking Location in Scotland

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary will open a new forward stocking location for the S-92 helicopter at the Aberdeen International Airport in Scotland as part of efforts to position inventory closer to commercial helicopter operators. Lockheed said Tuesday Sikorsky will begin operations on the new FSL by the close of the third quarter and also expand an existing S-92 FSL […] More

  • Poland Taps CH2M to Develop National Road Reconstruction Design Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Poland Taps CH2M to Develop National Road Reconstruction Design Options

    Poland’s national roads and highways authority has selected CH2M to create at least five reconstruction design options for a 31-mile section of National Road No. 75 that runs between the cities of Brzesko and Nowy Sacz. CH2M said Wednesday its Halcrow company will conduct a corridor, technical-economic-environmental study in efforts to secure an environmental decision on the planned reconstruction of National Road No. 75. The […] More

  • Leidos to Help Build Defense Security Service's Integrated Info System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Help Build Defense Security Service’s Integrated Info System

    Leidos has secured a four-year, $40 million contract modification from the Defense Security Service to develop an integrated technology platform that will replace DSS’ Industrial Security Facilities Database and Electronic Facility Clearance System. The Defense Department said Wednesday the company will build an automated National Industrial Security System for DSS under the modification. Work will occur at Leidos’ facility in Columbia, Maryland through […] More

  • NASA Seeks Tech Ideas for Future Mars Exploration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Seeks Tech Ideas for Future Mars Exploration

    NASA has called on government agencies, aerospace companies, universities and the general public to suggest new technology that could support the agency’s program to explore Mars and other components of the solar system. The iTech initiative seeks white papers that address challenges in space technology areas such as radiation protection, life support systems, astronaut crew health, in-space propulsion […] More

  • BAE Launches Reconfigurable Chip for Adaptive Radio Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Launches Reconfigurable Chip for Adaptive Radio Systems

    BAE Systems has developed a reconfigurable chip that is designed to help radio systems adapt to changing environments in the field. The company said Tuesday the Microwave Array Technology for Reconfigurable Integrated Circuits chip was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of the Adaptive RF Technology program. DARPA’s ART program aims to develop communication […] More

  • NASA, Orbital ATK Target October 9-13 Launch Window for 6th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA, Orbital ATK Target October 9-13 Launch Window for 6th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    NASA and Orbital ATK plan to launch a Cygnus spacecraft for its sixth cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station between October 9 and October 13 as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The space agency said Wednesday Cygnus will lift off aboard an Orbital ATK-built Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. Orbital […] More