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  • Rockwell Collins Marks 40K ARC-210 Radio Deliveries to US Military; Candace Chesser Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rockwell Collins Marks 40K ARC-210 Radio Deliveries to US Military; Candace Chesser Comments

    Rockwell Collins has delivered its 40,000th software-based ARC-210 radio to the U.S. military and celebrated this milestone during a ceremony at the company’s Cedar Rapids, Iowa headquarters. The ARC-210 is designed to support joint precision approach and landing system data link, satellite communications integrated waveform and combat net radio systems, Rockwell Collins said Friday. “The delivery of the 40,000th radio continues […] More

  • Microsoft Adds Booz Allen's Cloud Security Suite to Azure Govt Marketplace - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Adds Booz Allen’s Cloud Security Suite to Azure Govt Marketplace

    Microsoft will offer a suite of Booz Allen Hamilton products on the Azure Government Cloud as the companies seek to help agencies protect cloud-based workloads and comply with the Defense Department‘s security requirements. Derek Strausbaugh, a principal program manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Friday that Booz Allen’s Virtual Cloud Defense portfolio is designed to support the development […] More

  • Esri Releases Baseline Map to Support Ocean Ecosystem Research Efforts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Releases Baseline Map to Support Ocean Ecosystem Research Efforts

    Esri has released a baseline set of three-dimensional mapped Ecological Marine Units for researchers to examine the ocean’s resources and detect ecological marine changes. The company said the Group on Earth Observations, a consortium of more than 100 nations with an Earth observation-related protocol, also commissioned a global map of EMUs with the goal to help preserve ocean resources and keep […] More

  • Scalable Network Technologies to Update, Maintain Radio Emulation Platform for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Scalable Network Technologies to Update, Maintain Radio Emulation Platform for Navy

    Scalable Network Technologies has received a five-year, $13.1 million contract to help the U.S. Navy update and maintain a radio simulation and modeling platform. The Defense Department said Friday the company will provide technical support services for the Joint Network Emulator software and associated systems under the indefinite-deliver/indefinite-quantity contract. Work will occur in Culver City and San Diego in California through Nov. 3, 2021. […] More

  • Reports: NASA, Orbital ATK to Launch Next ISS Cargo Mission With ULA's Atlas V Rocket - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Reports: NASA, Orbital ATK to Launch Next ISS Cargo Mission With ULA’s Atlas V Rocket

    NASA wants to send an Orbital ATK-built Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station in spring 2017 using United Launch Alliance‘s Atlas V rocket, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Andy Pasztor writes NASA’s plan to use the Atlas V for its next ISS cargo delivery mission with Orbital ATK is part of efforts to ensure that ISS crews will have adequate […] More

  • AECOM Lands Hong Kong Airport Design Consultancy Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Lands Hong Kong Airport Design Consultancy Contract

    AECOM has received a contract to provide design consultancy services for Hong Kong International Airport’s new passenger building as part of the Three-runway System expansion project. The company said Monday it will perform research and benchmarking studies on potential information technology and airport systems, retail and advertising trends for the Third Runway Passenger Building‘s design team. “We look forward to leveraging […] More

  • Elon Musk Cites Cause of SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explosion - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Elon Musk Cites Cause of SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explosion

    Elon Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX, has said the company thinks it has “gotten to the bottom of the problem” that resulted in the explosion of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket in September. “It involves a combination of liquid helium, advanced carbon fiber composites, and solid oxygen… Oxygen so cold that it actually enters solid phase,” Musk […] More

  • Poland Mulls Naval Strike Missile Procurement from Kongsberg - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Poland Mulls Naval Strike Missile Procurement from Kongsberg

    Poland’s defense ministry is considering a purchase of more naval strike missiles from Norway-based Kongsberg Defence Systems for a planned coastal squadron along the Polish Baltic Sea, Defense News reported Friday. Polish Deputy Defense Minister Bartosz Kownacki told local daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna that the basis for considering Kongsberg’s offering is the country’s “insufficient” reconnaissance system, Jaroslaw […] More

  • Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Visits HII's Ingalls Shipyard - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Visits HII’s Ingalls Shipyard

    U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has visited Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Mississippi to address the shipyard’s leaders and staff workers. HII said Friday Mabus was accompanied by Brian Cuccias, Ingalls Shipbuilding president, and Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Mississippi) during his tour of the shipyard. Ingalls Shipbuilding-built vessels support the Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps as they conduct missions and […] More

  • BAE to Begin UK Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship Production in 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Begin UK Anti-Submarine Warfare Ship Production in 2017

    BAE Systems PLC plans to start manufacturing anti-submarine warfare ships for the U.K. navy in 2017 after the conclusion of final contract negotiations with Britain’s defense ministry. The company said Friday Britain hascommitted to eight Type 26 Global Combat Ships to replace Type 23 frigates in the “2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review” and the country has invested $2.4 billion in […] More

  • SSA Seeks Industry Info on Cyber, Risk Mgmt Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSA Seeks Industry Info on Cyber, Risk Mgmt Services

    The Social Security Administration has launched a market research initiative to gather ideas on cybersecurity and risk management services from industry in an effort to protect the agency’s programs and systems. SSA issued an amended sources sought notice on Friday in search of information on current industry cybersecurity and risk management practices and regarding the availability of […] More

  • Intel Adds 3 New Partners to Cybersecurity Tech Integration Alliance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Adds 3 New Partners to Cybersecurity Tech Integration Alliance

    Intel has added Check Point, Huawei and Hewlett Packard Enterprise‘s Aruba Networks subsidiary into an alliance wherein partner companies can integrate their technologies with Intel’s cybersecurity offerings. Check Point integrated its firewall products with Intel’s McAfee DXL and McAfee Threat Intelligence Exchange to help customers scale and automate their security environments, Intel said Thursday. Aruba’s ClearPass has been combined […] More