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  • Lockheed Renews Partnership With Spain-Based Shipbuilder Navantia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Renews Partnership With Spain-Based Shipbuilder Navantia

    Lockheed Martin and Spain-based shipbuilding company Navantia have agreed to extend their partnership and jointly explore potential business opportunities in the surface ship and naval combat technology markets. The alliance commemorates the 20th anniversary of a collaborative effort to integrate the Aegis Combat System onto the Spanish navy’s F-100 frigates, Lockheed said Thursday. F-100 is the first frigate to […] More

  • Northrop Deploys Sunshield Subsystem for NASA James Webb Space Telescope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Deploys Sunshield Subsystem for NASA James Webb Space Telescope

    Northrop Grumman has deployed a sunshield subsystem and tensioned five sunshield layers for the NASA James Webb Space Telescope at the company’s highbay facilities in Redondo Beach, California. The company said Thursday the sunshield subsystem will work to divide the JWST observatory into a warm sun-facing side and a cold space-facing side that features optics and […] More

  • Report: DIUx, Tanium Transition Cyber Pilot Program Into $750M Army Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: DIUx, Tanium Transition Cyber Pilot Program Into $750M Army Contract

    The Defense Department‘s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental and cybersecurity firm Tanium have transitioned a pilot project into a potential five-year, $750 million contract with the U.S. Army, Defense News reported Thursday. The contract signed on Sept. 26 calls for Tanium to provide cyber monitoring support to up to 1 million Army endpoint devices such as desktop […] More

  • Air Force Taps Charles River Analytics to Build Satellite Probabilistic Reasoning Tools - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps Charles River Analytics to Build Satellite Probabilistic Reasoning Tools

    Charles River Analytics has received a $750,000 contract to develop probabilistic reasoning tools for U.S. Air Force satellites over a 27-month period. The company said Tuesday it will use the Figaro open source probabilistic programming language as part of the Probabilistic Reasoning for Enhanced Course of Action Generation program. The project seeks to create algorithms designed to help a satellite autonomously […] More

  • Black Box to Update Marine Base Telecom Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Black Box to Update Marine Base Telecom Architecture

    The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded Black Box a potential $4.8 million contract to modernize a telecommunication network architecture at the service branch’s air station in North Carolina. Black Box said Wednesday it will update the architecture at MCAS Cherry Point into a unified communications platform as part of the Marine Corps’ efforts to modernize its command, control, communications, computing and […] More

  • USDA Taps Attain for Agricultural System Modernization Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USDA Taps Attain for Agricultural System Modernization Support Contract

    Attain has secured a contract to help the Agriculture Department‘s Farm Service Agency develop enterprise system applications for the agency to manage agricultural programs in the country. The company said Wednesday it will implement an SAP platform in efforts to help optimize FSA business operations and apply agile methodology to develop applications under the Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agriculture […] More

  • Thales Extends Encryption Tool Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Extends Encryption Tool Support for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

    Thales has extended the capability of its encryption tool in an effort to support secure deployments of Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform. Thales said Thursday its Vormetric Transparent Encryption is designed to provide access control, encryption and data access logging support to help users comply with best practices and regulatory requirements for data protection. The encryption […] More

  • Army Invites Firms, Agencies to Participate in C4ISR/EW Interoperatbility Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Invites Firms, Agencies to Participate in C4ISR/EW Interoperatbility Initiative

    The U.S. Army has issued a special notice inviting non-members to join the Vehicular Integration for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance/Electronic Warfare interoperability program. According to a notice published Tuesday on the FedBizOpps website, the initial set of VICTORY standard specifications have started to be implemented on commercial vendors, U.S. Army and Marine […] More

  • CAE Extends UK Military Helicopter Aircrew Training Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE Extends UK Military Helicopter Aircrew Training Support

    CAE has received an eight-year contract modification from the U.K. ministry of defense to continue the provision of aircrew training services for the British air force at the company’s Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility. The modification extends a partnership between CAE and MOD that commenced in 1997 as part of a private finance initiative […] More

  • Comtech Lands Maryland HR IT Support Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Lands Maryland HR IT Support Order

    Comtech Telecommunications‘ command and control technologies group has received a $2.1 million order to provide information technology support services to the state of Maryland’s human resources department. It represents the third option under Comtech’s multiyear contract with Maryland government, with two option years remain unexercised, the company said Thursday. The C2 technologies unit will support the state’s […] More

  • General Dynamics Concludes Navy Mine Countermeasure UUV Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics Concludes Navy Mine Countermeasure UUV Tests

    General Dynamics‘ mission systems unit has tested a mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle for the U.S. Navy during a round of contractor trials that occurred off the coast of Boston. The Knifefish UUV trials aimed to evaluate if the system could detect, classify and locate potential buried, bottom and volume type mine-test targets at various depths, General […] More

  • A-Tek to Provide IT Support Services to Commerce Dept's ITA Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    A-Tek to Provide IT Support Services to Commerce Dept’s ITA Agency

    A-Tek has received a contract of an undisclosed value to provide information technology architecture, strategy and design services to the U.S. Department of Commerce‘s  International Trade Administration. The company said Thursday it will support ITA in efforts to design, build and update services that support the agency’s missions and business lines. ITA aims to increase global competitiveness of U.S. […] More