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  • COMSAT Lands Contract to Deliver Inmarsat Global Xpress Satcom Service to DoD Users in Africa - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    COMSAT Lands Contract to Deliver Inmarsat Global Xpress Satcom Service to DoD Users in Africa

    COMSAT has received a contract to provide Inmarsat’s Global Xpress satellite communication services to Defense Department personnel in Africa. COMSAT runs a Multiprotocol Label Switching network that uses Global Xpress to support Non-classified Internet Protocol Router/Secret Internet Protocol Router services, Inmarsat said Monday. Inmarsat partners with COMSAT and other value-added resellers to deliver Global Xpress as a […] More

  • NIST Seeks Info on Virtual Electrode Sources for Human Body Comms-Based Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Seeks Info on Virtual Electrode Sources for Human Body Comms-Based Systems

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun its search for potential industry sources of virtual electrodes that will work to facilitate the development of technology platforms designed to use the human body as a means to establish communications among wireless devices. NIST said in a FedBizOpps notice published Tuesday the electrodes will work […] More

  • Eagle Hill to Offer Human Capital Services via GSA Schedule 738X - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Eagle Hill to Offer Human Capital Services via GSA Schedule 738X

    Eagle Hill Consulting has been awarded a spot on the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 738X contract vehicle to offer human resources support services to federal agencies. The company said Monday it will provide organizational development, workforce planning, human capital strategy, organizational design, position classification, diversity and inclusion and employee engagement and communications services through Schedule 738X. GSA created the schedule as […] More

  • L3 Subsidiary to Produce Mortar Fuzes for Saudi Arabia Under Army FMS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Subsidiary to Produce Mortar Fuzes for Saudi Arabia Under Army FMS Contract

    An L3 Technologies subsidiary has secured a $37.3 million contract from the U.S. Army to deliver multioption and point detonating/delay fuzes to Saudi Arabia. The Defense Department said Tuesday L3’s fuzing and ordnance systems business will supply 38,284 M734A1 and 165,426 M783 mortar fuzes under the foreign military sales contract. Work will occur in Cincinnati, Ohio, through May 31, 2019. The Army Contracting Command received […] More

  • Paul Wooster: SpaceX, NASA Identify 4 Potential Mars Landing Sites for Red Dragon - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paul Wooster: SpaceX, NASA Identify 4 Potential Mars Landing Sites for Red Dragon

    SpaceX has started to collaborate with NASA to determine potential landing sites for the firm’s Red Dragon space vehicle and future manned missions on Mars, Space News reported Monday. Jeff Foust writes Paul Wooster, spacecraft guidance, navigation and control systems manager at SpaceX, said at a symposium held Saturday in Texas that SpaceX and NASA’s […] More

  • Frost & Sullivan: Defense Tech Modernization Programs Spur US Foreign Military Sales - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Frost & Sullivan: Defense Tech Modernization Programs Spur US Foreign Military Sales

    A Frost & Sullivan report predicts the Defense Department‘s foreign military sales program will experience a compound annual growth rate of 3.4 percent through 2021 as international government customers move to increase defense spending, update military equipment and respond to regional tensions. The research firm said Monday it found that ground-based air defense, fighter aircraft and tactical vehicle systems are the most requested and delivered […] More

  • Naval War College Team Wins Top Prize in Cyber Policy Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Naval War College Team Wins Top Prize in Cyber Policy Competition

    A team of U.S. Naval War College students has won first place at the Atlantic Council-sponsored Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge in Washington. The U.S. Navy said Monday the three-day contest was held at the American University’s Washington College of Law and drew 48 college teams from 32 schools across the world. Participants were required to write a policy brief in […] More

  • Former US CIO Tony Scott to Serve as Board Member at Baldrige Foundation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former US CIO Tony Scott to Serve as Board Member at Baldrige Foundation

    Tony Scott, former federal chief information officer and administrator of the Office of Management and Budget‘s e-government and information technology unit. is set to join Washington-based Baldrige Foundation in April as a member of the board of directors. Al Faber, president and CEO of the Baldrige Foundation, said in a statement released Tuesday that Scott played a key role […] More

  • Mike Twyman: Cubic to Integrate Common Data Link, FMV, Networking Hardware for SPAWAR Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Twyman: Cubic to Integrate Common Data Link, FMV, Networking Hardware for SPAWAR Contract

    Cubic‘s mission solutions business will supply man-portable Common Data Link systems to the U.S. Navy under an estimated $20 million contract in support of the Carrier and Air Integration Program Office’s Tactical Mobile program. The company said Wednesday the award from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command covers development, tests, documentation and delivery of PCDL systems in efforts to provide expeditionary […] More

  • BlackBerry's Crisis Comm Platform Gets FedRAMP Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry’s Crisis Comm Platform Gets FedRAMP Certification

    BlackBerry has obtained certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide its cloud-based crisis communication service to federal agencies. The company said Tuesday its AtHoc software-as-a-service offering received FedRAMP authorization through the sponsorship of the Federal Aviation Administration. The U.S. Army also granted AtHoc a certificate of networthiness and authority to operate  in August 2016 to support the […] More

  • NASA Surveys Potential Opto-Mechanical Assembly Sources for Wide Field Imaging Telescope - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Surveys Potential Opto-Mechanical Assembly Sources for Wide Field Imaging Telescope

    NASA seeks information on potential industry sources that can help design and develop an opto-mechanical assembly for the space agency’s future wide field imaging telescope. The agency said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice it looks to identify providers of services, materials, equipment and facilities to support the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope‘s opto-mechanical structure. Responses to the sources sought notice will also help […] More

  • General Dynamics, Navy Put Surface Mine Countermeasure UUV Through At-Sea Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics, Navy Put Surface Mine Countermeasure UUV Through At-Sea Test

    The U.S. Navy and General Dynamics‘ mission systems unit have evaluated a company-built autonomous surface mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle during a series of tests held off the coast of Boston. General Dynamics said Monday the tests aimed to determine if the Knifefish UUV could detect and classify mines that pose potential threats to naval vessels at different depths of  water. […] More