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  • SuperCom to Help South American Country Implement Land & Geographic Info System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SuperCom to Help South American Country Implement Land & Geographic Info System

    SuperCom has won an 18-month, $9 million contract to provide a web-based land and geographical information system to a government customer in South America. The company said Friday it will help the client migrate and implement SuperCom’s cloud-based Land and Geographical Registration and Information Management System. Arie Trabelsi, SuperCom’s president and CEO, said the customer will company will adopt  […] More

  • Airbus to Supply H145M Helicopters to Serbia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus to Supply H145M Helicopters to Serbia

    Airbus will produce and deliver nine H145M helicopters and associated logistics support to Serbia’s government under a contract signed with the country’s interior and defense ministries. The defense ministry said Wednesday the helicopters will help the Serbian air force and police conduct transport, search and rescue, combat, medical evacuation, surveillance and security missions. Airbus will also provide spare parts, tools […] More

  • SpaceX Sets Jan. 8 Launch for Iridium NEXT Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Sets Jan. 8 Launch for Iridium NEXT Satellites

    SpaceX has said it plans to launch on Jan. 8 the first batch of satellites for Iridium Communications’ NEXT constellation after it determined the cause of the Sept. 1 explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket, the Washington Post reported Monday. Christian Davenport writes the Elon Musk-owned company found that the explosion was caused by a pressure vessel in the […] More

  • Microsoft Receives Air Force Enterprise IT Consulting Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Receives Air Force Enterprise IT Consulting Contract

    Microsoft has secured a $34.4 million firm-fixed-price contract to provide consulting support services for the U.S. Air Force‘s information technology network. The Defense Department said Friday that Microsoft will help the Air Force mature the company-designed technologies the military branch purchased under the a joint enterprise license agreement. Work will occur at Maxwell Air Force Base-Gunter Annex in Alabama through Dec. 31, 2020. […] More

  • Lockheed to Continue Air Force F-22 Sustainment Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Continue Air Force F-22 Sustainment Support

    Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $61 million contract modification to continue to help the U.S. Air Force sustain the military branch’s F-22 air vehicles. The Defense Department said Friday that Lockheed’s aeronautics business will provide depot throughput, assess analytical conditions, repair inlet coating and support radar cross section Marietta turntable under the modification. Work will take […] More

  • ICF Secures CDC Public Health Communication Support Contracts; Kris Tremaine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Secures CDC Public Health Communication Support Contracts; Kris Tremaine Comments

    ICF has secured nine contracts worth a combined $34.4 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to support CDC’s public health campaigns. CDC will use the company’s campaign development, creative, digital advertising, social marketing and media, stakeholder and traditional engagement expertise to facilitate  multiple projects such as the National Diabetes Prevention Program, ICF said Friday. The first task order covers support for tobacco […] More

  • Boeing, SpaceX, OneWeb Seek to Provide Broadband Access Via Satellite Constellations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, SpaceX, OneWeb Seek to Provide Broadband Access Via Satellite Constellations

    SpaceX, Boeing and OneWeb have announced plans to launch satellite constellations that will work to operate in low-Earth orbit and offer high-speed broadband service worldwide, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Samantha Masunaga writes the $224.6-billion broadband industry dominated by cable and telecommunications firms is likely to face a challenge with the potential launch of such […] More

  • Carahsoft to Help Army Obtain VMware Product Licenses for WIN-T Server Infrastructure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Help Army Obtain VMware Product Licenses for WIN-T Server Infrastructure

    Carahsoft Technology has received a two-year, $23.9 million contract to help the U.S. Army license multiple VMware products to support the management and virtualization of the military branch’s Warfighter Information Network-Tactical server infrastructure. The Defense Department said Friday that Carahsoft will assist the Army in the acquisition of proprietary brand name, commercial off-the-shelf VMware vSphere  Enterprise Plus server virtualization platform, vCenter server for […] More

  • Sonoran Technology to Provide Air Force E-3 Mission Crew Training Supplies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sonoran Technology to Provide Air Force E-3 Mission Crew Training Supplies

    Sonoran Technology and Professional Services has secured a $7.2 million contract option to provide equipment, tools and materials to U.S. Air Force personnel in support of the E-3 Mission Crew Training program. The Defense Department said Friday the exercised option also includes support for courseware development, academic instruction, aircrew training device instruction, simulator operator support, scenario development, mission […] More

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Ron Epstein on Defense-Related Investment Accounts, Navy Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Ron Epstein on Defense-Related Investment Accounts, Navy Programs

    Ron Epstein, senior equity analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has said he expects defense-related investment accounts valued at approximately $179 billion to grow at a rate of 10 percent “depending on the year.” “Fiscal ’17 is where we are today, ’18 is transition, and then I expect to see acceleration going to fiscal […] More

  • Leidos to Update Army Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Update Army Field Artillery Tactical Data Systems

    Leidos has won a potential five-year, $98.1 million contract to provide updated field artillery tactical data systems to support mission requirements of the Army’s program executive office for command, control, communication-tactical. The contract, awarded by the Defense Information Systems Agency, contains a three-year base term valued at $58.1 million and one two-year option, the Defense Department said Thursday. Work is […] More