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  • Leonardo Tests Naval Gun System Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo Tests Naval Gun System Security

    Leonardo has tested the resilience of its naval gun weapon system to cyber attacks as part of an extensive vulnerability assessment effort. The company said Tuesday it evaluated the OTO 76/62 Super Rapid gun to identify potential system weaknesses and implement measures to address identified cybersecurity risks. During the evaluation, Leonardo explored attack scenarios that involved voluntary […] More

  • Honeywell Supplies Material for Safariland Group's New Ballistic Shields - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Honeywell Supplies Material for Safariland Group’s New Ballistic Shields

    Safariland Group has produced a new lightweight ballistic shield using Honeywell‘s  Spectra Shield ballistic-resistant composite material. Honeywell said Tuesday the newest product in Safariland’s X Series line of ballistic shields is designed to weigh up to 20 percent less than traditional ballistic handheld shields, which usually weigh more than 20 pounds. The X Series shield works to integrate the […] More

  • Rick Wagner: ManTech to Back Army INSCOM Through Insider Threat, Forensic Capabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rick Wagner: ManTech to Back Army INSCOM Through Insider Threat, Forensic Capabilities

    Rick Wagner, president of ManTech International’s mission, cyber and intelligence solutions group, has said the company will leverage its cyber forensic and insider threat capabilities to support the mission of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command and the 902nd military intelligence group through a potential $133 million contract. “INSCOM, like many government partners, faces an […] More

  • ACT I Gets Task Order to Support USAF Exercise Program; Claudio Monticelli Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I Gets Task Order to Support USAF Exercise Program; Claudio Monticelli Comments

    Advanced Concepts and Technologies International has secured a three-year task order to provide exercise program support to the U.S. Air Force‘s Eighth Air Force organization headquartered at Barksdale AF Base in Louisiana. ACT I said the order covers planning, scheduling, tasking and monitoring the participation of Eighth Air Force in the chairman of the joint chiefs […] More

  • Leidos Awarded NASA Glenn Research Center Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Awarded NASA Glenn Research Center Support IDIQ

    Leidos has received a potential five-year, $35.3 million contract to provide operational safety, occupational health, mission assurance services at NASA‘s Glenn Research Center. The company will also help manage the center’s safety and mission assurance directorate manage aeronautics and space flight systems and ground support equipment programs. NASA said Wednesday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract contains a 45-day […] More

  • Orbital ATK Unveils In-Space Robotic Vehicle, Mission Extension Pods - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK Unveils In-Space Robotic Vehicle, Mission Extension Pods

    Orbital ATK unveiled two in-orbit satellite servicing platforms at the Satellite 2018 conference and exhibition. The company said Tuesday the Mission Robotic Vehicle and Mission Extension Pods comprise a system designed to facilitate repairs and extend the life of satellite assets. MRV works to carry out space robotic functions and install MEPs and other payloads on […] More

  • TeraThink Adds Deborah Lee James to Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TeraThink Adds Deborah Lee James to Board of Directors

    TeraThink has appointed Deborah Lee James, a 35-year public and private sector veteran, to the federal technology and management consulting firm’s board of directors. The company said Monday James joins the board four months after the Reston, Virginia-based company merged with Dominion Consulting. James said she aims to help government clients improve their operations and business processes as part of a […] More

  • TTEC Holdings' Regina Paolillo Elected to Unisys Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TTEC Holdings’ Regina Paolillo Elected to Unisys Board

    Regina Paolillo, an executive vice president and chief financial and administrative officer at TTEC Holdings, has been elected to join Unisys‘ board of directors. Paolillo brings finance, operations, investments, acquisitions and digital technology experience to Unisys as a board member, the company said Tuesday. She has served as TTEC’s CFAO since 2011 and oversees finance, treasury, accounting, enterprise […] More

  • ManTech CEO Kevin Phillips Appointed to NVTC Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech CEO Kevin Phillips Appointed to NVTC Board

    Kevin Phillips, president and CEO of ManTech International, has been named to the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors. He assumed the CEO role in January and has held other senior leadership roles at ManTech since 2002 such as chief operating officer, chief financial officer and corporate vice president, NVTC said Tuesday. Phillips, a […] More

  • Iridium NEXT Satellites Arrive in California for 5th Launch; Matt Desch Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium NEXT Satellites Arrive in California for 5th Launch; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications has announced the arrival of the fifth batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California in preparation for the launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket that is set to take off on March 29. Iridium said Monday each satellite will go through encapsulation, fueling and other pre-launch processing […] More

  • NICE, AGENT511 to Integrate Public Safety Multimedia Recording, Messaging Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NICE, AGENT511 to Integrate Public Safety Multimedia Recording, Messaging Platforms

    NICE has partnered with AGENT511 to integrate a text-to-911 recording technology with a multimedia messaging platform to help customers manage public safety communications. The partnership seeks to combine NICE Inform and AGENT511’s TEXTBLUE for public safety answering points to record text messages from the latter platform and produce an incident report by gathering data from 911 calls, radio transmissions, operator screens, […] More

  • Air Force Prepares for B-21 Bomber Critical Design Review - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Prepares for B-21 Bomber Critical Design Review

    The U.S. Air Force plans to conduct a critical design review of its B-21 Raider bomber to facilitate evaluation of technology plans, weapons integration, computing power and design specifications for the aircraft program, Warrior Maven reported Friday. Anne Stefanek, senior public affairs director at the Air Force, said the B-21 program has concluded the preliminary […] More