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  • BAE Lands $68M Contract to Supply Vehicle Mounted Mortar Systems for Swedish Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Lands $68M Contract to Supply Vehicle Mounted Mortar Systems for Swedish Army

    BAE Systems has secured a $68 million contract from Sweden’s defense materiel administration to install vehicle-mounted mortar systems on the Swedish army’s CV90 infantry fighting vehicles. The company said Friday it will deliver Mjolner mortar systems for 40 CV90 IFVs of the Swedish army beginning the first quarter of 2019. Tommy Gustafsson-Rask, managing director of BAE’s Hagglunds business, said Mjolner will work to boost […] More

  • Hughes Unveils Wide Area Network Optimization Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes Unveils Wide Area Network Optimization Tech

    Hughes Network Systems has unveiled a Wide Area Network optimization technology that works to automatically analyze traffic flows in real time and help prioritize “business critical” applications. Hughes ActiveClassifier is the newest addition to the HughesON ActiveTechnologies suite of broadband connectivity offerings and is designed to help multi-branch organizations deliver network support to branch locations, Hughes said Dec. 15. […] More

  • Report: India to Receive BAE-Built Artillery Guns for Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: India to Receive BAE-Built Artillery Guns for Tests

    India will receive two BAE Systems-made artillery guns within six months to perform tests and start the integration of the weapons into the country’s arsenal, The Hindu reported Monday. Dinakar Peri writes India signed a $737 million contract in November to acquire 145 M777A2 LW155 ultralight howitzers through the U.S. government’s foreign military sales program. A source said the […] More

  • Avaya Completes Contact Center Project for Indian Police Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Avaya Completes Contact Center Project for Indian Police Force

    Avaya has completed a project that is designed to help manage emergency calls, connectivity technologies and responses for the police force of Uttar Pradesh, India. The company said Thursday its team launched a centralized contact center in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh that works to support approximately 600 calls at a time as part of the UP 100 project. Avaya added the contact center is designed to […] More

  • CrowdStrike Report: Russian Group Used Malware Implant in Cyber Attacks Against Ukraine, Democrats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CrowdStrike Report: Russian Group Used Malware Implant in Cyber Attacks Against Ukraine, Democrats

    A new CrowdStrike report has found that a Russian group called Fancy Bear likely used a malware implant on Android platforms to monitor Ukraine’s artillery units and launch cyber attacks against the Democratic National Committee, Reuters reported Thursday. CrowdStrike co-founder Dmitri Alperovitch said the hacking group used a variant of the malware that targeted DNC to track Ukrainian artillery units […] More

  • AT Kearney's Jeff Sorenson: Trump Administration Plans Could Boost Shipbuilding & Research Employment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT Kearney’s Jeff Sorenson: Trump Administration Plans Could Boost Shipbuilding & Research Employment

    Jeff Sorenson, AT Kearney president of the public sector and defense services segment, has said President-elect Donald Trump’s proposals could lead to an increase in ship construction and research employment, SAT PR News reported Friday. Monika Donimirska writes Sorenson said there will be a rise in demand for shipbuilding and that ships and aircraft will serve as […] More

  • ULA Sets Jan. 19 Launch Date for Air Force's 3rd SBIRS GEO Satellite - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Sets Jan. 19 Launch Date for Air Force’s 3rd SBIRS GEO Satellite

    United Launch Alliance aims to launch a missile warning satellite for the U.S. Air Force in Cape Canaveral, Florida with the company’s Atlas V rocket on Jan. 19, 2017. ULA said the Lockheed Martin-built Space-Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Flight 3 satellite will work to provide global infrared surveillance support to missile warning, missile defense, technical intelligence and battlespace awareness efforts. Lockheed delivered SBIRS […] More

  • Technica Lands Task Order for Air Force Operation & Security Sustainment Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technica Lands Task Order for Air Force Operation & Security Sustainment Services

    Technica has secured an $8 million task order through the U.S. Air Force‘s Network-Centric Solutions-2 contract vehicle to help the service branch manage and sustain current operations. The Defense Department said Wednesday that Technica will also support the transition of the Air Force Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System Enterprise into a secure regionalized network under the task order. The […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Potential Voice Comm System Sources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Potential Voice Comm System Sources

    The U.S. Air Force has begun to search for potential sources of a voice communication system for the military branch’s test center at Edwards AF Base in California. The service branch seeks to replace Edwards AFB’s Federated Edwards Digital Switch with a voice over internet protocol system, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday. A selected contractor will acquire, test, integrate and install […] More

  • Orbital ATK's New Utah Office to Support Air Force Minuteman III Booster Sustainment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s New Utah Office to Support Air Force Minuteman III Booster Sustainment

    Orbital ATK has opened a new office at Hill Air Force Base in Utah in a move to help the military branch collaborate directly with the company to sustain Minuteman III boosters. The company said Tuesday the 7,000-square-foot office space it leased at Falcon Hill Research Park will accommodate employees that work under the company’s propulsion subsystem support contract with the Air Force […] More

  • Cloudera, Docker Form Data Security Tech Partnership for Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cloudera, Docker Form Data Security Tech Partnership for Govt Clients

    Cloudera and Docker have partnered to develop and offer an integrated platform for government customers to share data through cryptographically secure containers. Palo Alto, California-based Cloudera said Monday the joint offering will work to protect code and data in containerized workloads while in transit, at rest and at runtime. The platform is based on Cloudera’s Navigator Encrypt data encryption tool that runs on […] More