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  • Saab to Help Army Implement Training System Interoperability Updates - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab to Help Army Implement Training System Interoperability Updates

    Saab has secured three orders from the U.S. Army‘s program executive office for simulation, training and instrumentation to implement interoperability updates to two of the military branch’s training systems. The orders cover mid-life service upgrades to the 7th Army Training Command’s Deployable Instrumentation System-Europe and the Combat Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System in an effort to address forward […] More

  • Kratos Gets Satcom Equipment Order From US Govt Agency - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos Gets Satcom Equipment Order From US Govt Agency

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions has been awarded a $9.5 million contract to provide satellite communications signal processing, monitoring and communications equipment to an unspecified government agency. Kratos said Tuesday it will manufacture equipment and systems under the contract at a protected company facility. The company also produces command and control, signal processing, monitoring, communications, radio frequency, […] More

  • Sauer to Construct Navy Littoral Combat Ship Operational Training Facility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sauer to Construct Navy Littoral Combat Ship Operational Training Facility

    Sauer has secured a $25 million contract from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to build a Littoral Combat Ship operational training facility at Naval Station Mayport in Florida. The U.S. Navy said Monday the facility will be equipped with systems trainers, simulators, classrooms, personnel support space, a high-bay operational training area and applied instruction space to facilitate crew training for […] More

  • Deloitte's Orlando Tech Center Expansion Seeks to Add Up to 850 Jobs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte’s Orlando Tech Center Expansion Seeks to Add Up to 850 Jobs

    Deloitte plans to expand the professional services firm’s U.S. Technology Delivery Center in Orlando, Florida and hire additional software development, system analysis and information technology workers as part of the expansion initiative, the Orlando Economic Development Commission reported Thursday. Laureen Martinez writes Deloitte has partnered with the City of Lake Mary, CareerSource Central Florida and the Orlando Economic […] More

  • Fortinet Forecasts 2017 Cybersecurity Trends in Cloud, Internet of Things - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fortinet Forecasts 2017 Cybersecurity Trends in Cloud, Internet of Things

    Fortinet predicts cyber threat actors to exploit approximately 20 billion internet of things-based endpoint devices in order to perform attacks on cloud environments as well as obtain money from victims through ransomware in 2017. The threat research team under the company’s FortiGuard Labs expects consumers, vendors and industry groups to call for the implementation of security […] More

  • Iridium Secures Follow-On DoD Satellite Network Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iridium Secures Follow-On DoD Satellite Network Support Contract

    Iridium Communications has been awarded a potential five-year, $45.8 million contract by the U.S. Navy to continue to provide communication services in support of the Defense Department‘s tactical, operational and strategic operations. DoD said Tuesday the follow-on contract has a base value of $8.7 million and covers satellite-based network services in the satellite, ground node, user equipment/terminal software and hardware development, integration […] More

  • General Dynamics to Build Ship Monitoring Platforms, Processors Under Navy Contract Modification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Build Ship Monitoring Platforms, Processors Under Navy Contract Modification

    The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics a potential 20-month, $7.2 million contract modification to produce technology insertion-16 Total Ship Monitoring Systems and multipurpose processors. General Dynamics’ mission systems business will perform work in Virginia and Massachusetts through July 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded the cost-plus-incentive-fee modification to exercise […] More

  • Orbital ATK's Cygnus OA-5 Spacecraft Leaves ISS to Start Secondary Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Orbital ATK’s Cygnus OA-5 Spacecraft Leaves ISS to Start Secondary Missions

    An Orbital ATK-built Cygnus spacecraft has departed from the International Space Station after a commercial resupply mission to start two secondary mission objectives. The S.S. Alan Poindexter spacecraft will launch the Spacecraft Fire Experiment-II to help study the behavior of fires in microgravity, then deploy CubeSats into orbit to support weather forecasting, Orbital ATK said Monday. The space vehicle […] More

  • Vectrus Subsidiary to Extend Operations Support at Maxwell Air Force Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vectrus Subsidiary to Extend Operations Support at Maxwell Air Force Base

    The U.S. Air Force ‘s 42nd Contracting Squadron has awarded Vectrus a $20 million contract modification to help the service branch manage operations of the Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Vectrus said Monday its systems subsidiary will continue to provide day-to-day operations and maintenance services at the air base through May 14, 2017 under the modification. The company was awarded […] More

  • NIH Seeks Industry Input on Digital Scientific Data Sharing, Mgmt & Citation Strategies - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIH Seeks Industry Input on Digital Scientific Data Sharing, Mgmt & Citation Strategies

    The National Institutes of Health has asked industry to provide information on scientific data sharing and management methods as well as standards for software and data citation. NIH issued the request for information as part of the implementation of the agency’s Plan for Increasing Access to Scientific Publications and Digital Scientific Data from NIH Funded […] More

  • Veritas Updates Cloud-Based Data Archiving Platform for Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Veritas Updates Cloud-Based Data Archiving Platform for Govt Clients

    Veritas Technologies has launched a new version of its software-as-a-service data archiving platform for government customers to manage email records electronically. Enterprise Vault 12.1 is designed to help federal agencies comply with the Managing Government Records Directive as well as support the National Archives and Records Administration‘s Capstone approach for email management, Veritas said Wednesday. “Our federal customers […] More

  • General Atomics Lands Air Force Contract Modification for MQ-9 Reaper ER Retrofit Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lands Air Force Contract Modification for MQ-9 Reaper ER Retrofit Kits

    A General Atomics subsidiary has received a potential two-year, $39.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to produce, install and deliver retrofit kits for the extended-range variant of the MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will perform work in Poway, California, through Nov. 20, 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. The […] More