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  • Deborah Lee James Joins Noblis Board of Trustees - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deborah Lee James Joins Noblis Board of Trustees

    Former U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has joined the board of trustees at the Falls Church, Virginia-based nonprofit science and technology organization Noblis. Noblis said Thursday James’ public and private sector has spanned more than 30 years and included legislative, international affairs, programmatic and leadership positions. She managed the welfare of active-duty, guard, reserve and civilian airmen […] More

  • Raytheon Unveils National Apprenticeship Center in England - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Unveils National Apprenticeship Center in England

    Raytheon has inaugurated a national apprenticeship center in Doncaster, England, to primarily offer training programs for automotive technicians. The company said Friday its professional services subsidiary will use the center to provide learning services to employers and apprentices through classroom discussions, virtual training and site visits. “With a capacity of about 70 students, the new center will deliver […] More

  • Vencore Labs, Irby Sign Grid Monitoring Tech Distribution Pact - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Labs, Irby Sign Grid Monitoring Tech Distribution Pact

    Vencore‘s research arm has selected electrical supplies and services company Irby as the exclusive distributor of a power grid infrastructure monitoring technology to customers across the U.S. utility sector. Irby agreed to market and sell Vencore Labs-developed SecureSmart platform along with planning, security and operations consulting services under the distribution agreement, Vencore said Wednesday. SecureSmart […] More

  • Nigel Whitehead: BAE Sees Near-Future Fighter Aircraft Deployment of Directed Energy Weapons - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Nigel Whitehead: BAE Sees Near-Future Fighter Aircraft Deployment of Directed Energy Weapons

    Nigel Whitehead, BAE Systems chief technologist, has said he believes that directed energy weapons can be deployed aboard fighter aircraft in the not-too distant future, FlightGlobal reported Wednesday. Whitehead told reporters during his visit to Singapore that directed energy weapons should be able to beam energy precisely on one spot to disrupt targets such as aircraft, munitions […] More

  • UK Air Force Gets Third L3-Built SIGINT Aircraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UK Air Force Gets Third L3-Built SIGINT Aircraft

    L3 Technologies has transferred the third and last RC-135V/W Rivet Joint signals intelligence aircraft to the U.K. air force. The RJ aircraft is designed to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support for global security missions as part of the U.S.-U.K. Airseeker program, L3 said said Wednesday. U.K. procured three KC-135R tankers for conversion by L3 to RC-135V/W aircraft […] More

  • Dtex to Help DISA Automate Insider Threat Detection With Behavioral Analytics Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dtex to Help DISA Automate Insider Threat Detection With Behavioral Analytics Tech

    Dtex has secured a two-year contract to help the Defense Information Systems Agency  implement a behavioral analytics-based platform to automatically identify misuse of DISA credentials and insider threats. Dtex said Wednesday it will integrate the company’s Advanced User Behavior Intelligence Platform within DISA’s Cyber Situation Awareness Analytics Capabilities technology on a big data platform to support endpoint monitoring. The automated system […] More

  • Jacobs to Develop Air Traffic Mgmt Software Under USAF Contract; Darren Kraabel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs to Develop Air Traffic Mgmt Software Under USAF Contract; Darren Kraabel Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group has received a potential five-year, $34.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue to develop a communication, navigation, surveillance/air traffic management software platform. The company said Thursday the CNS/ATM software will work to support various aircraft of the Air Mobility and Air Combat Command, including the C-5, C-17, KC-10, KC-135, E-3 DRAGON […] More

  • ESA Taps Leonardo to Study Data Security Mgmt for European Navigation Satellite System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ESA Taps Leonardo to Study Data Security Mgmt for European Navigation Satellite System

    The European Space Agency has selected Leonardo to study ways to manage the cybersecurity of a European navigation satellite system. Leonardo said Wednesday it will create a benchmark architecture and establish requirements and processes for the information security management of the Galileo satellite program. The company aims to help the ESA build a security monitoring system for […] More

  • Report: Industry Backs US Military’s Software Sustainment Capability Devt Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Industry Backs US Military’s Software Sustainment Capability Devt Efforts

    Defense contractors such as Harris, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have integrated software sustainment into their practices as they work to support U.S. service branches’ efforts to build organic capabilities to sustain software on military systems, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. “The way the Air Force and the way Harris is teaming with the Air Force is to […] More

  • Raytheon's Coyote UAV Supports NOAA Hurricane Monitoring Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon’s Coyote UAV Supports NOAA Hurricane Monitoring Mission

    Raytheon-built unmanned aerial vehicles have helped the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration monitor Hurricane Maria and gather data for storm researchers. NOAA launched six Coyote UAV units from the agency’s WP-3D Orion aircraft as part of efforts to track and model the hurricane, Raytheon said Wednesday. “The Coyotes collected critical, continuous observations in the lower part of the hurricane, an area impossible to […] More

  • Iron Mountain Unveils New Data Mgmt Facility in Arkansas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iron Mountain Unveils New Data Mgmt Facility in Arkansas

    Iron Mountain has opened an information management facility in Arkansas that is built to store up to 200,000 cubic feet of records and 260,000 data tapes for enterprise customers. The 23,000-square-foot building joins other local and regional Iron Mountain facilities that support data management, imaging and secure shredding operations, the company said Thursday. “We chose Little […] More

  • MapR, C3 IoT Forge Internet of Things, AI-Based App Development Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MapR, C3 IoT Forge Internet of Things, AI-Based App Development Partnership

    MapR Technologies and C3 IoT have formed an alliance to build an end-to-end platform designed to facilitate the development and deployment of applications based on internet of things and artificial intelligence. The companies will collaborate on go-to-market programs and technology development efforts to accelerate the roll out of applications that work to leverage the cloud, […] More