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  • Deltek Includes Potential State, Local & Education Market Opportunities in GovWin IQ Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek Includes Potential State, Local & Education Market Opportunities in GovWin IQ Platform

    Deltek has added profiles of state, local and education organizations to the company’s market intelligence platform in a push to help government contractors identify  new business opportunities. GovWin IQ now offers data-based comparisons of more than 100,000 SLED organizations based on population, employment, expenditures and procurement activity, Deltek said Thursday. Kevin Plexico, vice president of Deltek’s information solutions business, said the company designed […] More

  • IBM, Rice University Collaborate to Develop Eldercare Robot Assistant; Arvind Krishna Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Rice University Collaborate to Develop Eldercare Robot Assistant; Arvind Krishna Comments

    IBM’s research business and Rice University have developed a robot assistant that uses Watson-based cognitive computing application to help manage care for elderly people. The prototype IBM Multi-Purpose Eldercare Robot Assistant is designed to measure an individual’s heart rate, heart rate variability and respiratory rate and provide answers to health-related queries as part of a study that aims to improve eldercare, IBM said […] More

  • General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Starts Extended-Range Gray Eagle UAS Flight Test

    General Atomics‘ aeronautical systems business has begun flight testing an extended-range variant of the MQ-1C unmanned aircraft system at the company’s El Mirage flight operations facility in California. The company said Thursday the MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range series is designed to increase endurance and payload capacity of the Gray Eagle UAS platform, which has recorded more than 300,000 flight […] More

  • Report: Talks Continue on Potential Boeing, Lockheed Fighter Aircraft Production Facilities in India - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Talks Continue on Potential Boeing, Lockheed Fighter Aircraft Production Facilities in India

    The U.S. and Indian governments look to close a deal that will potentially bring the production of fighter aircraft from Lockheed Martin and Boeing to India, the Washington Post reported Monday. Annie Gowen writes Lockheed has proposed to move its Texas-based F-16 assembly line to India, which will make the country the sole producer of the single-engine aircraft that […] More

  • BAE Receives New Dry Dock at San Diego Shipyard; Joe Campbell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Receives New Dry Dock at San Diego Shipyard; Joe Campbell Comments

    BAE Systems has transported a new dry dock to the company’s San Diego shipyard as part of its $100 million investment to support the U.S. Navy’s fleet repair efforts on the West Coast. The Posh Terasea Eagle ship towed the 55,000-lifting-ton floating dry dock to the shipyard, where it will undergo testing, installation, final assembly and certification, BAE said Thursday. Joe […] More

  • Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA's App Store - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Prescient Debuts Traveler Safety Tool in NGA’s App Store

    Prescient has released its mobile application for traveler safety on the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s GEOINT app store. The company said Wednesday Defense Department and Intelligence Community personnel with common access cards can now download the Prescient Traveler app directly to approved mobile devices for free use across the globe. Prescient Traveler offers cultural information and visuals for more than 650 […] More

  • BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Supply Retrofit Systems for USAF Countermeasure Dispenser Platform

    BAE Systems has received a $15.3 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply 242 retrofit systems for the U.S. Air Force‘s (AN/ALE)-58A countermeasure dispenser platform. The Defense Department said Thursday the (AN/ALE)-58A platform is designed to dispense countermeasure decoys such as chaffs and flares in order to disrupt radar and infrared homing threats and increase aircraft survivability. BAE’s electronic systems […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls Hands USS Finn Missile Destroyer Ship to Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Huntington Ingalls Hands USS Finn Missile Destroyer Ship to Navy

    Huntington Ingalls Industries turned over the USS John Finn guided missile destroyer to the U.S. Navy during a ceremony held on the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division signed the DD 250 document that represents the  official transfer of the ship’s custody to the military service, the company said Wednesday. “Years of working with the DDG 51 program has created a team […] More

  • Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection Opens New Threat Sensor Manufacturing Facility in England

    Smiths Detection has opened a Hemel Hempstead, England-based facility for engineering, research and production of chemical and explosive detection technologies. The company said Thursday it will develop security products for the aviation, military and emergency response sectors at the new 67,000-square-foot center of excellence for trace detection. The facility is located nearly 11 miles from Smiths Detection’s previous manufacturing hub […] More

  • eGlobalTech to Deploy EPA’s Data Collection System on AWS Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    eGlobalTech to Deploy EPA’s Data Collection System on AWS Cloud

    The Environmental Protection Agency has selected consulting firm eGlobalTech to deploy the agency’s information collection system on Amazon Web Services’ cloud platform. EGlobalTech said Wednesday it will work to update, restore, operate and maintain EPA’s Information Collection Request, Review and Approval System under a new task order. The electronic system is used to prepare, monitor, report […] More

  • Pelatron Technologies to Support Air Force F-16 Program Office - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pelatron Technologies to Support Air Force F-16 Program Office

    The U.S Air Force has awarded Pelatron Technologies a potential five-year, $22 million contract to support the military branch’s F-16 aircraft-related programs. Pelatron will provide software, systems and interface design, sustainment and intelligence analyst engineering services for the F-16 systems program office, the Defense Department said Friday. The company will also conduct ground test and flight test, information assurance and cybersecurity […] More

  • Sikorsky Inaugurates Combat Rescue Helicopter Testing Facility in Connecticut - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sikorsky Inaugurates Combat Rescue Helicopter Testing Facility in Connecticut

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has opened a system testing facility for the Combat Rescue Helicopter program that aims to replace the U.S. Air Force‘s HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters. The Systems Integration Lab is located within Sikorsky’s Stratford, Connecticut-based manufacturing facility and has four laboratories that will be used to test avionics, electrical power, electronic flight controls and integrated vehicle diagnostics, […] More