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  • ViON to Help DHS Directorate Implement Data Storage & Disaster Recovery Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON to Help DHS Directorate Implement Data Storage & Disaster Recovery Tech

    The Department of Homeland Security has selected ViON to deploy a data storage and disaster recovery platform to DHS’ National Protection and Programs Directorate. ViON said Thursday it will supply the company-built DataAdapt platform to add compute and processing power to systems that support NPPD data analytics tools. DataAdapt will work to help NPPD move its existing data […] More

  • Report: Lockheed to Unveil New CH-53K Helicopter at Berlin Air Show - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed to Unveil New CH-53K Helicopter at Berlin Air Show

    Lockheed Martin has obtained approval from the U.S. military to demonstrate its new CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter at an April 2018 air show in Berlin, Germany, Reuters reported Thursday. Anonymous sources told Reuters that the event will mark the international debut of the Sikorsky-built helicopter, which will compete with Boeing‘s CH-47 Chinook twin-rotor platform for a potential $4.7 billion […] More

  • Navy Orders Additional Aegis Ship Comms Systems From Leonardo DRS Subsidiary - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Orders Additional Aegis Ship Comms Systems From Leonardo DRS Subsidiary

    A subsidiary of Leonardo DRS has secured a contract from the U.S. Navy to supply four Integrated Voice Communications Systems for the military branch’s Aegis cruisers and destroyers. DRS Technologies Canada received the award through a larger IVCS contract with the Navy and will perform delivery in September 2018, Leonardo DRS said Wednesday. The IVCS, also called the Shipboard […] More

  • QGC Selects Boeing's Insitu Subsidiary for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QGC Selects Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Services

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary has secured a contract from Shell‘s QGC natural gas business to perform automated infrastructure inspection using remotely piloted aircraft systems. Insitu said Wednesday it will carry out beyond-visual-line of-sight RPA operations over the Surat Basin in Queensland, Australia as part of the contract. Insitu RPAs will inspect wells and other infrastructure components such […] More

  • CSRA to Help Modernize Seahawk Helicopters of Navy, Foreign Military Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA to Help Modernize Seahawk Helicopters of Navy, Foreign Military Clients

    CSRA has received a $38.5 million task order from the U.S. Navy to help update various models of the H-60 Seahawk multimission helicopter. The company said Wednesday the order was issued under the Rapid Response–Third Generation contract vehicle and includes support for Seahawk helicopters of the Navy and foreign military sales customers. CSRA will work to design, fabricate, […] More

  • DJI Unveils Drone Operations Mgmt Software for Enterprises - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DJI Unveils Drone Operations Mgmt Software for Enterprises

    DJI has introduced a web-based service designed to help companies manage the operations of their unmanned aircraft systems using a single platform. The FlightHub software is a monthly subscription service that works to support the management of real-time UAS operations, flight data, drone fleets and pilot teams, DJI said Nov. 7. The service offers a live, map-based […] More

  • Report: Raytheon's Patriot Defense Systems Intercepted Over 100 Missiles in Saudi Arabia Since 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Raytheon’s Patriot Defense Systems Intercepted Over 100 Missiles in Saudi Arabia Since 2015

    Raytheon-built Patriot missile defense systems based in Saudi Arabia have intercepted more than 100 tactical ballistic missiles since the conflict with Yemen’s Houthi group began in 2015, Defense News reported Tuesday. Raytheon executives said at the Dubai Air Show that more than 90 intercepts of Yemen-launched missiles were carried out using the company’s PAC-2 Guided Enhanced […] More

  • FYBR-Mars Institute-SETI Team to Work With NASA on Mars Drone R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FYBR-Mars Institute-SETI Team to Work With NASA on Mars Drone R&D

    A partnership of geospatial data company FYBR Solutions and non-profit organizations The Mars Institute and the SETI Institute will work with NASA on the research and development of unmanned aerial vehicle technologies for future Mars missions. The team will collaborate with NASA’s Haughton-Mars Project to study the potential uses of UAV platforms on Mars, the SETI Institute said Monday. […] More

  • BAE to Help DARPA Build Space Tech Evaluation, Analysis Testbed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Help DARPA Build Space Tech Evaluation, Analysis Testbed

    BAE Systems has secured a potential $12.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build a testbed for space command-and-control technologies. The company said Tuesday it will develop a space evaluation and analysis testbed under DARPA’s Hallmark program to support the development, integration, evaluation and analysis of space enterprise C2 platforms. “The Hallmark testbed […] More

  • Orbital ATK's OA-8 Cargo Resupply Spacecraft Arrives at Space Station - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s OA-8 Cargo Resupply Spacecraft Arrives at Space Station

    An Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft reached the International Space Station Tuesday to unload 7,400 pounds of cargo, supplies and scientific experiments. The OA-8 cargo delivery vehicle, nicknamed S.S. Gene Cernan, is the eighth spacecraft to deliver cargo to ISS as part of Orbital ATK’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA, the company said Tuesday. The spacecraft was […] More

  • Gene Colabatistto: CAE to Serve as UAE's Unmanned Aircraft Training Systems Integrator - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gene Colabatistto: CAE to Serve as UAE’s Unmanned Aircraft Training Systems Integrator

    CAE will assume the role of training systems integrator under a contract to deliver an unmanned aerial vehicle training system to the United Arab Emirates, Aviation Week reported Monday. Gene Colabatistto, president of CAE’s defense and security group, said the company will provide a UAV training center and perform program management, obsolescence management and sustainment services […] More

  • DEA Seeks Info on Potential Lab Info Mgmt Tech Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DEA Seeks Info on Potential Lab Info Mgmt Tech Sources

    The Drug Enforcement Administration wants information on potential vendors that can provide a laboratory information management system. DEA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday it seeks an LIMS platform to modernize, streamline and manage all processes related to the handling of drug evidence at DEA laboratories. The agency wants a commercial off-the-shelf software product that can […] More