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  • Airbus to Provide Multimode Radar System for Huntington Ingalls-Built National Security Cutter - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Provide Multimode Radar System for Huntington Ingalls-Built National Security Cutter

    Airbus‘ defense and space business will produce a multi-mode radar platform for integration into the U.S. Coast Guard‘s ninth National Security Cutter as part of a contract awarded to Airbus DS Electronics and Border Security GmbH. The company said Monday its TRS-3D Baseline D MMR, also called AN/SPS-75, uses gallium nitride technology and offers traditional radar functions as well as other options for future […] More

  • Report: Navy Explores Flight III Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Contract Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy Explores Flight III Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Contract Options

    The U.S. Navy has begun to consider whether to switch to Huntington Ingalls Industries to build the Flight III version of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer due to a disagreement between the service branch and a General Dynamics subsidiary over a fixed-price contract, Defense News reported Sunday. Christopher P. Cavas writes General Dynamics’ Bath […] More

  • Leidos Subsidiary, Quorum Enter Reseller Agreement for Legislative Data Tracking Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Subsidiary, Quorum Enter Reseller Agreement for Legislative Data Tracking Tool

    A Leidos subsidiary and Quorum Analytics have partnered to offer the latter’s legislative and dialogue tracking software to elected government officials at the federal, state and local levels. The companies seek to expand Leidos Digital Solutions‘ technology portfolio and increase the exposure of Quorum’s platform among elected U.S. officials through an  exclusive reseller agreement, Leidos said Monday. Angie Heise, president […] More

  • PaxVax to Collaborate With NIH, DoD on Chikungunya Vaccine Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PaxVax to Collaborate With NIH, DoD on Chikungunya Vaccine Development

    PaxVax has teamed up with the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department to produce a commercial vaccine for the chikungunya virus. The company said Thursday it licensed NIH’s virus-like particle vaccine technology for chikungunya and aims to fully commercialize the vaccine through the collaborative effort. NIH currently evaluates the vaccine under a second-phase trial and PaxVax noted it plans […] More

  • Orbit International Receives Navy Electronics Purchase Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbit International Receives Navy Electronics Purchase Order

    Orbit International‘s electronics business group has received a $1.1 million purchase order from the U.S. Navy for unindentified products. The company said Thursday it will deliver the completed units to the military service  in  during second and third quarters of 2017. “This is the second of the two large awards that we were expecting prior to year-end,” […] More

  • L3 Technologies Plans Aircraft Simulator Production, Training Hubs in London - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    L3 Technologies Plans Aircraft Simulator Production, Training Hubs in London

    L3 Technologies‘ commercial training solutions business will collaborate with the Surrey County Council in England to establish a London-based airline training center and a production facility for aircraft simulators. The company said Monday it plans to open the L3 London Training Center in the second quarter of 2018. L3 added the other facility will be built to produce 30 simulators annually and feature eight RealitySeven […] More

  • Gemalto to Provide Uganda Visa Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto to Provide Uganda Visa Mgmt Platform

    Gemalto has been selected to help Uganda’s directorate of citizenship and immigration control deploy, integrate, maintain and train the country’s immigration officers to operate  a new visa management system. The company said Thursday its Coesys Visa Management platform is designed to integrate the visa and permit issuance process with biometric enrollment and works to help authorities manage the visa life cycle. […] More

  • Marine Corps OKs Magpul's Polymer-Based Magazine for Combat & Training - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marine Corps OKs Magpul’s Polymer-Based Magazine for Combat & Training

    The U.S. Marine Corps has cleared Magpul Industries‘ polymer-based magazine for combat and training applications, Military Times reported Sunday. Shawn Snow writes the Marine Corps Systems Command said Magpul’s GenM3 PMAG was the only magazine that met performance requirements across all combinations of the service branch’s 5.56mm rifles and ammunition during tests. “The specification to use ‘only tested, approved, and […] More

  • Salient CRGT Secures DoD Engineering, O&M Support BPA; Brad Antle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Salient CRGT Secures DoD Engineering, O&M Support BPA; Brad Antle Comments

    Salient CRGT has received a potential $45 million blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service to provide integration, engineering, operations and maintenance support for the Defense Department. The company said Monday it will work to integrate and modify commercial off-the-shelf non-developmental items, perform integrated technology services, manage projects, install hardware and software, update […] More

  • Boeing Delivers 50th Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft to Navy; Tony Rossi Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Delivers 50th Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft to Navy; Tony Rossi Comments

    Boeing has built and delivered its 50th P-8A Poseidon aircraft for the U.S. Navy‘s anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Navy said Thursday it accepted the new unit at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida, and expects to complete the branch’s fleet transition from P-3C to P-8A by fiscal year 2019. “This is the first time a […] More

  • FedRAMP Board Approves 3 New AWS GovCloud Services; Teresa Carlson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FedRAMP Board Approves 3 New AWS GovCloud Services; Teresa Carlson Comments

    Amazon Web Services has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program‘s joint authorization board for three of the company’s GovCloud service offerings for U.S. government clients. The board issued high baseline certifications for AWS’ Relational Database Service for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgresSQL; Amazon CloudWatch Logs; and AWS CloudTrail, the company said Friday. “We are […] More

  • HPE's Rob Roy Lists 2017 Federal Cyber Priorities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HPE’s Rob Roy Lists 2017 Federal Cyber Priorities

    Rob Roy, chief technology officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s U.S. federal cybersecurity team, has listed what he sees as the top five cyber priorities across the federal government for 2017. The priorities include cyber workforce, industry partnerships, information technology acquisition and modernization, data protection and Internet of Things security, according to a company blog post published Thursday. […] More