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  • AT Kearney's Howard Steinman: Federal Govt Should Consider Outcome-Based Contracting Model - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AT Kearney’s Howard Steinman: Federal Govt Should Consider Outcome-Based Contracting Model

    Howard Steinman, a partner and leader for the Americas region public sector practice at A.T. Kearney, has said the Trump administration should revisit the idea of a results-based contracting approach as part of the government’s efforts to mitigate risks and meet project goals. Steinman wrote in a guest piece published Friday on Government Executive that the share-in-savings method would require […] More

  • Onvia Forecasts GovCon's Top 10 Growth Areas for 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Onvia Forecasts GovCon’s Top 10 Growth Areas for 2017

    A new study by Onvia lists the top 10 fastest-growing areas in government contracting for 2017 that include technology, telecommunications, healthcare and construction. The report titled “10 Hotspots in Government Contracting” released Thursday says growth areas include school bus services, services for persons with disabilities, and disaster response services. Information technology, connectivity, education and medical equipment are other areas Onvia […] More

  • Masten-Built Rocket Flies With Johns Hopkins APL's Environmental Monitoring Experiment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Masten-Built Rocket Flies With Johns Hopkins APL’s Environmental Monitoring Experiment

    Masten Space Systems has completed an environmental monitoring experiment that carried multiple technologies onboard a company-built reusable rocket. NASA said Thursday Masten Space Systems’ Xodiac rocket contained an electromagnetic field measurement experiment, called JANUS, from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. The company is one of six firms that provide suborbital reusable launch vehicle flight and payload integration services […] More

  • SunLink to Supply Fixed Tilt Ground Mount Platform for DoD Solar Energy Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SunLink to Supply Fixed Tilt Ground Mount Platform for DoD Solar Energy Projects

    SunLink Corp. has received a contract from Swinerton Renewable Energy to deliver fixed tilt ground mount systems to three solar energy projects located at Defense Department sites in Florida. Mill Valley, California-based SunLink said Wednesday it will provide the company’s GeoPro fixed tilt platform for three ongoing construction projects in Valparaiso, Navarre and Pensacola. SunLink collaborated with Swinerton to modify the GeoPro […] More

  • Leonardo to Equip Italian Navy's NH90 Helicopters With 'Friend or Foe' Identification Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo to Equip Italian Navy’s NH90 Helicopters With ‘Friend or Foe’ Identification Tech

    Leonardo has secured an $11.6 million contract from a NATO agency to supply friend-or-foe identification systems for the Italian navy’s NH90 frigate helicopters. The company said Tuesday it will equip the NH90 fleet with the Mode 5 SIT434/5 IFF platform to help Italy’s naval personnel distinguish between potential threats and friendly forces. NATO member countries are required to install Mode […] More

  • Meggitt Unit Completes Final Inspections on Marine Corps' Small-Arms Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Meggitt Unit Completes Final Inspections on Marine Corps’ Small-Arms Training System

    Meggitt‘s training systems business has conducted a joint final inspection and physical configuration audit of an indoor small arms trainer developed for the U.S. Marine Corps. The Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer was built as part of a $39 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract awarded to Meggitt in 2014 and designed to train Marines in marksmanship, collective and judgemental video scenarios, […] More

  • 6 Companies Secure DHS Funds for Internet-of-Things Security R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    6 Companies Secure DHS Funds for Internet-of-Things Security R&D

    Six companies have secured $1.2 million in total funds from the Department of Homeland Security to research and develop platforms that would help address security issues  associated with internet of things. DHS said Tuesday Factom, Ionic Security, Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corp., Pulzze Systems and Whitescope will build and demonstrate pilot-ready prototypes under the the second phase of the Silicon Valley Innovation Program. Factom will work […] More

  • Linear Particle Accelerator Installed at Lockheed's Silicon Valley-Based Tech Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Linear Particle Accelerator Installed at Lockheed’s Silicon Valley-Based Tech Center

    Lockheed Martin has implemented a new linear particle accelerator at its Advanced Technology Center in Silicon Valley to aid the company’s space instrument tests. Lockheed said Tuesday the 1,800-square-foot center houses the SPARC accelerator along with new hardware designed to test instruments such as space-based imaging and communications satellites for deep space navigation. The company noted that technicians from Denmark installed […] More

  • IHS Markit: Military Procurement Efforts to Drive Defense Spending in Middle East - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IHS Markit: Military Procurement Efforts to Drive Defense Spending in Middle East

    A new report by IHS Markit says defense budgets in the Middle East will start to increase in 2017 driven by the region’s plans to ramp up acquisition of new military platforms and capabilities in support of regional operations. IHS Jane’s predicts a 2 to 3 percent rise in Middle East defense budget by 2018 and expects […] More

  • Kacific, SKY Perfect JSAT Order Boeing Satellite to Expand APAC Broadband Access - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kacific, SKY Perfect JSAT Order Boeing Satellite to Expand APAC Broadband Access

    SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. and Kacific Broadband Satellites have selected Boeing to build a satellite that will work to facilitate mobile communication and internet connectivity for customers in the Asia-Pacific region. Boeing said Monday its 702 satellite will carry two payloads and is slated for a 2019 launch. SKY Perfect JSAT’s JCSAT-18 payload is designed to expand mobile and broadband […] More

  • CAE's KC-135 Simulator Certified for Air Force Training Center Network Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE’s KC-135 Simulator Certified for Air Force Training Center Network Deployment

    CAE‘s U.S. subsidiary has obtained authorization to operate the KC-135 Stratotanker‘s operational flight trainer on the U.S. Air Force‘s Distributed Training Center Network. The company said Tuesday the ATO permits the KC-135 Aircrew Training System to connect with other Mobility Air Force platforms to help the service branch perform live-virtual-constructive training on a secure and classified network. CAE USA is the prime […] More

  • Boeing Awarded UAE C-17 Logistics Support, Simulator Maintenance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Awarded UAE C-17 Logistics Support, Simulator Maintenance Contract

    Boeing has secured a two-year, $18.7 million contract from the government of the United Arab Emirates to logistics support and training simulator maintenance services for UAE’s C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft. The company said Tuesday the C-17 Globemaster III will support the country’s inventory of motion-based devices built for airlifter crew and personnel training. “With this new […] More