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  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Mobile Warfighter Health Analytics Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Day for Mobile Warfighter Health Analytics Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on May 16 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that aims to develop mobile technology to assess warfighters’ health condition and combat readiness. DARPA said May 2 the Warfighter Analytics using Smartphones for Health program seeks to use data from cellphone sensors to develop algorithms that can run passive, […] More

  • Lockheed Integrates TrellisWare Embedded Software Into Quadrotor UAS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Integrates TrellisWare Embedded Software Into Quadrotor UAS

    Lockheed Martin has integrated a TrellisWare Technologies-made software platform into a quadrotor unmanned aerial system designed for military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Indago 3 UAS is equipped with TrellisWare’s TW-600 Ocelot module as well as an updated propulsion technology, a military-grade data link, a mechanism for video dissemination and an extended-range radio system, Lockheed said Monday. “We are […] More

  • Air Force Taps BAE Unit to Develop Space Testbed Architecture - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Taps BAE Unit to Develop Space Testbed Architecture

    A business unit of BAE Systems has won a potential $12.8 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop a knowledge-based space testbed architecture. The Defense Department said Monday that BAE’s information and electronic systems integration business will create a testbed for the military branch to evaluate space enterprise command-and-control tools and technologies. DoD noted that the Air Force Research […] More

  • CNAS Names Andrew Krepinevich, James Townsend New Adjunct Senior Fellows - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CNAS Names Andrew Krepinevich, James Townsend New Adjunct Senior Fellows

    The Center for a New American Security has named two national security policy leaders as adjunct senior fellows who will support the organization’s research programs and provide expertise on policy matters. CNAS said Friday the new adjunct senior fellows are Andrew Krepinevich, former president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and James Townsend Jr., former deputy […] More

  • DARPA Eyes June Release of Draft RFP for $850M Technical, Analytical Support IDIQ - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes June Release of Draft RFP for $850M Technical, Analytical Support IDIQ

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aims to release a draft request for proposals on a potential five-year, $850 million contract for analytical and technical support services by early June. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it also plans to conduct one-on-one meetings with potential vendors in mid-June before it issues the final RFP for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

  • Raytheon to Incorporate Unisys Software Into Patriot Missile Defense Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon to Incorporate Unisys Software Into Patriot Missile Defense Systems

    Raytheon has purchased an enterprise computing platform from Unisys to develop new software for use in the former’s Patriot air and missile defense system. Unisys said Monday its ClearPath Forward technology will be integrated into the Global Patriot Solutions program as Raytheon aims to increase the performance of its weapons system offerings. “We are excited to continue supporting a program that is […] More

  • Analysts Rank Top 3 Most Disruptive Technologies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Analysts Rank Top 3 Most Disruptive Technologies

    Asked to gauge the impact disruptive technologies will have, industry experts attending KPMG’s 2017 Global Analyst Day in Boston ranked cognitive technology, robotic process automation and the Internet of Things as the top technologies that will have the greatest impact over the next three years, reported PR NewsWire. “Disruption knows no boundaries and, like us, […] More

  • Ensco Demos Virtual Phased Array, Software-Based Radio Projects at INSA Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ensco Demos Virtual Phased Array, Software-Based Radio Projects at INSA Event

    The Intelligence and National Security Alliance has selected Ensco to present two independent research and development projects in front of a government intelligence community audience at the INSA Innovators Showcase forum. Ensco said Thursday it showcased the Virtual Phased Array and Low SWaP Software Defined Environments projects to a large group of program managers, engineers and scientists from the U.S. government […] More

  • Report: Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium Signs MoU with Joint DoD Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium Signs MoU with Joint DoD Agency

    A joint Defense Department agency and a government-industry consortium inked a memorandum of understanding to help define open avionics standards for military aircraft. The Future Airborne Capability Environment Consortium (FACE,) a coalition of government and industry organizations which aims to determine open avionics standards for military aircraft, issued the memo with the DoD agency, Defense Systems reported Thursday. The memorandum will […] More

  • ThreatMetrix: 130M Fraud Attacks Detected in Q1 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ThreatMetrix: 130M Fraud Attacks Detected in Q1 2017

    A new ThreatMetrix report says the security company has uncovered 130 million fraudulent attacks from January to March and found that the volume of digital wallet transactions increased 80 percent on a year-over-year basis. ThreatMetrix said Thursday it evaluated cyber crimes that the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network detected during the first quarter of 2017 and found that the number […] More

  • Kratos-Robonic Team Delivers Pneumatic Launchers to US Army - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos-Robonic Team Delivers Pneumatic Launchers to US Army

    A team composed of Safran Electronics & Defense‘s Robonic subsidiary and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions have delivered two pneumatic launchers to the targets management office of the U.S. Army’s program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation. Safran said Wednesday the military branch will use Kontio to deploy Firejet aerial targets from Kratos subsidiary Composite Engineering Inc. The Kontio system supports the […] More