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  • DLA Orders Additional PCX Connecting Links for Army Apache Weapon System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLA Orders Additional PCX Connecting Links for Army Apache Weapon System

    PCX Aerostructures has received a five-year, $7.8 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide additional right connecting links for the U.S. Army‘s Apache AH-64 weapon systems. The Defense Department said Friday that DLA will use fiscal 2017 through fiscal 2022 Army working capital funds to procure the equipment. DLA also awarded PCX a […] More

  • Technavio Forecasts 15% Annual Growth for Low-Light-Level Imaging Sensor Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technavio Forecasts 15% Annual Growth for Low-Light-Level Imaging Sensor Market

    A Technavio report predicts that the global market for low-light-level imaging sensors will experience a 15-percent compound annual growth rate from 2017 through 2021. Technavio reported Thursday it found that night-vision devices accounted for nearly 55 percent of the total market revenue last year, driven by defense organizations’ increased adoption of low-light-level imaging sensors. The research company added that […] More

  • Telos Offers Automated Risk Mgmt Software to AWS Govt Cloud Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Telos Offers Automated Risk Mgmt Software to AWS Govt Cloud Users

    Telos has begun to offer its automated risk management platform to government users of Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud isolated cloud region. Xacta 360 is now available in the AWS GovCloud Marketplace and the AWS Marketplace for commercial buyers, Telos said Friday. Richard Johnson, manager of cloud information system security at the Department of Homeland Security, said DHS […] More

  • Lockheed Completes Arabsat Comms Satellite Integration; Rick Ambrose Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes Arabsat Comms Satellite Integration; Rick Ambrose Comments

    A group of Lockheed Martin engineers and technicians has integrated a modernized A2100 communications satellite built for Arabsat and the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia ahead of a scheduled launch in the second quarter of 2018. Lockheed said Thursday Hellas-Sat/SaudiGeosat-1 is designed to provide telecommunications services for Arabsat customers across the Middle East, Africa […] More

  • State Dept OKs Sale of Harpoon Block II Missiles to Thailand - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Dept OKs Sale of Harpoon Block II Missiles to Thailand

    The State Department has cleared Thailand’s request to buy RGM-84L Harpoon Block II surface-launched missiles and related support services from the U.S. under a potential $24.9 million foreign military sales agreement. Thailand also asked to purchase training support, repair and spare parts, technical documentation, containers, logistics, program assistance and engineering support services, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency said […] More

  • DARPA Seeks Automated Methods, Tools to Neutralize Cyberadversary Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Seeks Automated Methods, Tools to Neutralize Cyberadversary Infrastructure

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to suggest research concepts for techniques and software tools to neutralize cyberadversary infrastructure. DARPA said in a presolicitation notice posted Aug. 3 on FedBizOpps it seeks to create technologies to determine malicious cyberadversary infiltrated networks as part of the agency’s Harnessing Autonomy for Countering Cyberadversary Systems program. The HACCS effort […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests 4th RS-25 Engine Controller for NASA Space Launch System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests 4th RS-25 Engine Controller for NASA Space Launch System

    Aerojet Rocketdyne tested the fourth and final RS-25 engine controller needed for NASA’s Space Launch System. The company said Wednesday the testing for the fourth RS-25 controller was done at Stennis Space Center, which follows the third controller test done in July to check engine thrust and mixture ratio precision. The four RS-25 engines are designed to provide above […] More

  • Cybercom to Host Inaugural Industry Day in October - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cybercom to Host Inaugural Industry Day in October

    The U.S. Cyber Command will hold its first industry day on Oct. 27 in Springfield, Virginia, in an effort to exercise its congressional authority to procure cybersecurity technology platforms, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. George “Dennis” Bartko, chief information officer and director of capabilities development group at Cybercom, said the command is interested in integrated technology platforms designed […] More

  • IBM to Help Arizona Implement Cloud Managed Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM to Help Arizona Implement Cloud Managed Services

    IBM has been chosen by the state of Arizona to help its government agencies manage information technology operations with cloud technology. The Arizona Strategic Enterprise Technology organization will deploy IBM cloud services in an effort to establish a statewide IT strategy and offer services and infrastructure to other local agencies, the company said Thursday. ASET will oversee […] More

  • Insitu FireWhat, Esri Form Aerial Reconnaissance for Firefighting Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Insitu FireWhat, Esri Form Aerial Reconnaissance for Firefighting Alliance

    Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary, FireWhat and Esri have partnered with the goal to help firefighters put out wildfires through aerial reconnaissance support. The alliance seeks to integrate Insitu’s INEXA Solutions aerial remote sensing services with FireWhat’s geographic information system hosted on Esri’s ArcGIS mapping platform, Insitu said Thursday. The integrated system will work to deliver near-real time, web-based video feed of […] More

  • Charles River Analytics-Led Team to Help DARPA Build Virtual Data Scientist Assistant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Charles River Analytics-Led Team to Help DARPA Build Virtual Data Scientist Assistant

    Charles River Analytics will lead a team comprised of Win-Vector and Oregon State University to develop a virtual data scientist assistant that will help users answer real-world analytical questions under a four-year, $2.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The team will build the Eve virtual assistant through DARPA’s Data-Driven Discovery of Models program, Charles River said Tuesday. Mukesh Dalal, […] More