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  • Leonardo to Equip Italian Navy's NH90 Helicopters With 'Friend or Foe' Identification Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leonardo to Equip Italian Navy’s NH90 Helicopters With ‘Friend or Foe’ Identification Tech

    Leonardo has secured an $11.6 million contract from a NATO agency to supply friend-or-foe identification systems for the Italian navy’s NH90 frigate helicopters. The company said Tuesday it will equip the NH90 fleet with the Mode 5 SIT434/5 IFF platform to help Italy’s naval personnel distinguish between potential threats and friendly forces. NATO member countries are required to install Mode […] More

  • Meggitt Unit Completes Final Inspections on Marine Corps' Small-Arms Training System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Meggitt Unit Completes Final Inspections on Marine Corps’ Small-Arms Training System

    Meggitt‘s training systems business has conducted a joint final inspection and physical configuration audit of an indoor small arms trainer developed for the U.S. Marine Corps. The Indoor Simulated Marksmanship Trainer was built as part of a $39 million indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract awarded to Meggitt in 2014 and designed to train Marines in marksmanship, collective and judgemental video scenarios, […] More

  • 6 Companies Secure DHS Funds for Internet-of-Things Security R&D - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    6 Companies Secure DHS Funds for Internet-of-Things Security R&D

    Six companies have secured $1.2 million in total funds from the Department of Homeland Security to research and develop platforms that would help address security issues  associated with internet of things. DHS said Tuesday Factom, Ionic Security, Machine-to-Machine Intelligence Corp., Pulzze Systems and Whitescope will build and demonstrate pilot-ready prototypes under the the second phase of the Silicon Valley Innovation Program. Factom will work […] More

  • Linear Particle Accelerator Installed at Lockheed's Silicon Valley-Based Tech Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Linear Particle Accelerator Installed at Lockheed’s Silicon Valley-Based Tech Center

    Lockheed Martin has implemented a new linear particle accelerator at its Advanced Technology Center in Silicon Valley to aid the company’s space instrument tests. Lockheed said Tuesday the 1,800-square-foot center houses the SPARC accelerator along with new hardware designed to test instruments such as space-based imaging and communications satellites for deep space navigation. The company noted that technicians from Denmark installed […] More

  • IHS Markit: Military Procurement Efforts to Drive Defense Spending in Middle East - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IHS Markit: Military Procurement Efforts to Drive Defense Spending in Middle East

    A new report by IHS Markit says defense budgets in the Middle East will start to increase in 2017 driven by the region’s plans to ramp up acquisition of new military platforms and capabilities in support of regional operations. IHS Jane’s predicts a 2 to 3 percent rise in Middle East defense budget by 2018 and expects […] More

  • 7 Mitre Employees Receive Awards at 31st BEYA STEM Conference; Julie Gravallese Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    7 Mitre Employees Receive Awards at 31st BEYA STEM Conference; Julie Gravallese Comments

    Seven Mitre employees received recognition at the 2017 Becoming Everything You Are Awards’ science, technology, engineering and math conference in Washington, D.C, for their professional achievements. Mitre said Wednesday the Career Communications Group-sponsored BEYA STEM conference brought together engineering and information technology professionals to promote opportunities for “underrepresented” groups and women in the U.S. technology sector. “As we […] More

  • Kacific, SKY Perfect JSAT Order Boeing Satellite to Expand APAC Broadband Access - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kacific, SKY Perfect JSAT Order Boeing Satellite to Expand APAC Broadband Access

    SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. and Kacific Broadband Satellites have selected Boeing to build a satellite that will work to facilitate mobile communication and internet connectivity for customers in the Asia-Pacific region. Boeing said Monday its 702 satellite will carry two payloads and is slated for a 2019 launch. SKY Perfect JSAT’s JCSAT-18 payload is designed to expand mobile and broadband […] More

  • CAE's KC-135 Simulator Certified for Air Force Training Center Network Deployment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CAE’s KC-135 Simulator Certified for Air Force Training Center Network Deployment

    CAE‘s U.S. subsidiary has obtained authorization to operate the KC-135 Stratotanker‘s operational flight trainer on the U.S. Air Force‘s Distributed Training Center Network. The company said Tuesday the ATO permits the KC-135 Aircrew Training System to connect with other Mobility Air Force platforms to help the service branch perform live-virtual-constructive training on a secure and classified network. CAE USA is the prime […] More

  • Boeing Awarded UAE C-17 Logistics Support, Simulator Maintenance Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Awarded UAE C-17 Logistics Support, Simulator Maintenance Contract

    Boeing has secured a two-year, $18.7 million contract from the government of the United Arab Emirates to logistics support and training simulator maintenance services for UAE’s C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft. The company said Tuesday the C-17 Globemaster III will support the country’s inventory of motion-based devices built for airlifter crew and personnel training. “With this new […] More

  • NTT Data-Oracle Partnership to Integrate Cloud Into Healthcare Analytics Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NTT Data-Oracle Partnership to Integrate Cloud Into Healthcare Analytics Platform

    NTT Data and Oracle have expanded a partnership with the intent to incorporate end-to-end cloud computing features into the latter’s unified healthcare analytics platform. Both companies aim to help healthcare organizations merge, expand or replace data warehouse and data aggregation tools with Oracle’s Healthcare Foundation platform, NTT Data said Monday. Healthcare Foundation is designed to support warehousing of administrative, clinical, financial and -omics modules […] More

  • Lockheed Tests Second Trainer Aircraft for Air Force T-X Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Tests Second Trainer Aircraft for Air Force T-X Competition

    Lockheed Martin has conducted the first flight test of a second trainer aircraft that the company plans to offer in the U.S. Air Force‘s T-X trainer competition. The company said Monday the demonstration of its second production-ready T-50A  aircraft occurred in Greenville, South Carolina, where Lockheed’s final assembly and checkout facility is located. T-50A is designed to train pilots of F-22 […] More

  • Harris Releases New Falcon Manpack Radio Tech for High-Frequency Tactical Comms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Releases New Falcon Manpack Radio Tech for High-Frequency Tactical Comms

    Harris has unveiled a lightweight wideband manpack radio system the company designed to help military customers transmit data beyond line of sight via high-frequency communication networks. The Falcon III RF-300H system is built to replace the US Type 1 AN/PRC-150(C)  multiband radio technology and increase data transfer rate tenfold, Harris said Tuesday. The company developed RF-300H in an effort to offer military […] More